Evening star., 1924-06-12
G. O. P. WOMEN READY
TO SHARE IN RIGHTS
Sit for First Time With Men in
National Committee Meet
+ ing Friday.
DELEGATES IRK 0RGANIST
Convention Hall Player Says Audi
ences Are Cold.
DELEGATES IRK 0RGANIsT
BY ROBERT T. SMALL.


CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 1.-THE
| iadies-God bless thenl-of the G.. o.
+. are having their very first meeting
with the man members of the Repub-
llcan national committee Friday-that
is TO say, il is the first meeting as
equals. The Democratic women have
been pounding their Republican sis
ters for the past three or four years
because they had not won this com
plete recognition from their party.
Now the q. o. P. ladies may point
with all sorts of pride and no longer
view with alarm.
Their first act will be to elect Will
liam III. Butler of Massachusetts as
chairman of the committee to conduct
the presidential campaign. This is
fitting, for it was Mr.. Butler acting
for and in behalf of President Cool
| idge, who blocked all efforts to side
track the emancipation proclamation
| for the women. No inconsiderab Bile
number of the "old timers" in the
convention and on the old national
committee were opposed to the idea
of having two representatives from
| every state. They insisted it was Jus,
rs logical to have man senator and
a woman senator, man governor
ana a woman governor, and, in the
| last analysis, a man President of the
United States and a woman President.
| Ihey argued that IL woman is en-
titled to one ONCE just because she is
a. woman, she should have an equal
claim to every office in the land.
The various state delegations al
ready had met and elected the man
mem bers OF the new national com
mfttee when the convention adopted
| the rule giving the women equal rep
resentation. Then they had to meet
~ 1.t, -
| lnasmuch as there is no color line"
| drawn in the Republican party, there
| was some speculation at first as TO
| what complications might enSue in
| the south where a state might select
coiored man as a member of the
| national committee 1t was explain
ed, however, that this bridge already
had been crossed. For number OF
by a colored man, Henry Lincoln
| Johnson When the national commit
| tee adopted the policy of permitting
| women TO become associate" mem
| bers Of the committee, without vote
the committee from Georgia named a
| coiored woman to the place This
precedent apparently will be con-
| ttnued, now that the women have
full powers on the committee.
When a brief teIegraphc dispatch
appeared in the Cleveland papers an
nouncing that President Coolidge had
been meeting with his cabinet in
| Washingt everybody in Cleveland
wondered what was meant BY "cabi-
net" There are ten mem bers of Mr..
Coolidges official family. Exhoty
eight of them have been in Cleveland
this week. So if he really wanted to
| meet his cabinet, the President should
| have come to the convention city
The cabineteers in Cleveland were:
Secretary Of the Treasury Mellon.
Postmaster General New. Secretary OF
| the Interior Work, Attorney General
| Stone, Secretary of Labor Davis,
| Secretary of War Weeks. Secretary
OF the Navy Wilbur and Secretary Of
This left only two cabinet members
| for the President to play around with
| in Washington, to wit: Secretary of
State Hughes and Secretary of Conf
merce Hoover. Even Mr.. Hoover was
present in Cleveland in spirit, for his
vice presidential boom was one of
| the very 1rst to arrive.
The new Attorney General. Mr..
Stone, was recognized by compare
| lively few of the lobby crowds, On
one occasion he shook hands warmly
| with senator. When he had turned
away the senator asked a newspaper
man who was the stranger. When
told it was Just a. cabinet member.
the senator remarked. "Oh, yes" and
nonchalanuy let it go at that
Will H Hays finally arrived at the
convention Wednesday evening, and
was among those present on the very
| front row of the stage. AS former
chairman of the national committee,
Mr.. Hays was entitled to the privi-
legeS of the convention and all the
free entertainment he desired. He
appeared happy to be just an on
locker this time. Four years ago he
was spreading the gospel of the q.
o. P. with all the vim and vlgor of
1I1rrl 1H
William Metcalf, the blind erganISt
of the convention. complained bitterly
| today that he had never played To
such unresponsive audiences in all ef
his life. NO snap to en- was the
way he expressed ii. At the first
evening session. which was decidedly
a gala occasion to the thousands of
spectators, Mr.. Metcalf strutted all of
his best stuff. He put more jazz
through the pipes than any one ever
Thought an organ capable of. He even
played ''Hal, Hail. the Gangs All
Here" which sounded awfully solemn
coming out of an organ. He also
played the Sidewalks of New York.
didn't get, hand. Dixie" found q
couple of southerners somewhere in
the galleries willing to give vent to
their appreciation, but the rest Of the
selections ran for Sweeney.
Great applause greeted the first an
nouncement by Permanent Chairman
MondeIl that President Coolidge was
listening-in at his radio set at the
White House This is the first time
in history that President or any
body else for that matter, could DO
that sort of thing. Every one won
dered if the President stuck to the
earphones all the time Representa-
tive Henry Allen Cooper of Wisconsin
was reading the La Toilette platform
to the convention and moving Its
adoption as substitute for the one
MIR. Coolidge himself had approved.
If he did continue TO listen-in, and
didn't get too much interference or
static, the President must have been
4 fairly startled by some of the radical
proposals. Perhaps he enjoyed the
/ laughter which greeted some of the
proposed planks, and perhaps he ap-
proved of the applause which was
| given for the venerable Mr. Cooper at
his conclusion.
The La Toilette party could not
have picked a better spokesman for
| Cooper arose to read the delegates OF
all the states and territories, except
Wisconsin "out of the party he i'm
mediately won the respect and sym
! pRthy of the galleries. and that was
great victroy for man ann IN ms ms dlnI. ann
plenty of calls to throw 'em cut
every time there was a reference to
the Wisconsin delegation.
There were a few cat calls at Mr..
Cooper, but he soon caught on, and
| whenever Phil Campbell of Kansas,
4 tion, tried to "shoo% AIR. Cooper
closer to the radio nnicrophones 30
his stuff would get across, the crowds
mistook the move for an attempt to