Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-06-25
DRY ISSUE AbSORBS
WOMAN DELEGATES
Enough Votes to Block Wet
Candidate CIaimed-Aid
+" to Farmers Asked.
BY MARY CAMBRIDGE HAYDEN,
/ Associated Press STAFF Writer.

Associated Press STAFF Writer.
HOUSTON. Tex. June 25.--The dry
issue is the outstanding preoccupation
of women both within and without the
official ranks of delegates.
we absolutely control over 400 votes
against wet candidate, enough to block
any nomination" Mrs. Jesse Nicholson,
president of the National Women's
Democratic Law Enforcement League,
claimed Yesterday. citing Mrs. Marvin
williams, State president, and Mrs.
Mary Harris Armour, a national organ
izer of the w. c. r. u. both delegates
from Georgia, as evidence that there
are strong dry women among the dele
gates, who will gladly speak on the floor
Of the convention If the issue is carried
there"
I'VE have the backing of at least a.
900, 900 women who have gone on record
through their delegated representatives"
continued Mrs Henry w. Peabody of
Boston, president of the national wom-
ems committee for law enforcement.
They have no right to claim millions
of women without referendum, stout
ly contradicted Miss M Louise Gros,
chairman of the national women's COM
mittee for repeal of the eighteenth
amendment who will back a repeats
plank before the resolutions committee.
Smith Women's Position.
The few Smith women who have ar
rived in advance of the Tammany con-
tingent from New York meet the pro-
tests of their dry opponents with little
or no comment Mrs. Nellie Tayloe
Ross. former governor and delegate at
large from wyoming, is on record as a
vet. and is mentioned as the probable
choice to second the Smith nomination.
The dry issue is injected even into the
discussion of candicies for the national
committee vice Craftsmanship. for
which Mrs Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs.
Florence Farley of Kansas, baby Of
the national committee" Mrs. Bernice
Pyke of Cleveland, Mrs. d. A. McDou-
gal of Oklahoma. and Mrs. Genevieve
Clark Thompson of Louisiana, daugh
ter of the late Speaker Champ Clark
arc considered favorites.
The choice of the woman who will
succeed Mrs. Blair will have a tremen-
dous influence on the women's vote in
the South in November" said Mrs.
Edgar Alexander, acting committee
woman from Georgia. The Southern
women will not follow woman they
don't admire and the dry issue is very
important to them
Farm Issue RAISED.
The agriculture issue is regarded by
the women as second only to prohibit
ton and some woman delegates are ac-
tive supporters of the farm relief plank
Among them Is Mrs. Nora Lawrence
Smith. Georgia delegate, newspaper
owner and editor.
The women of the West will insist
on some relief of the farm situation, ="
said Miss Jessie Scott, national COM
mitteewoman from Minnesota and OH
cial reporter for the convention.
Other pIanks favored by women at
Houston, as at Kansas City, are the
equal rights" constitutional amend
ment sponsored by the National Wo-
mans Party and opposed by the League
of Woman Voters, and the five plankS
proposed by the League for Renuncia-
ton of War and Adherence to the
World Court, Federal womcn's and
childrenS protective legislation, Govern
Inent ownership of Muscle Shoals and
abolition OF the lame duck sessions of
Congress.
Il think women are infinitely more
interested in how TO prevent war honor
ably than in the dry or any other ques-
ton" said Miss Adele Clark of Rich
mond. former vice president of the
league and one of its Official delegates
to appear before the resolutions COM
mfttee here. She is confident that the
Democratic party will live up to the
tradition it established for leadership
in international cooperation during the
Wilson administration"