Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-26
WOMEN WILL SEND
DELEGATES ABROAD
Voters League to Be Repre-
scented at Berlin Confer
ence in June.

The general council, National League
of Woman Voters, at the concluding
meeting of its annual conference today
voted to send delegation of "a women
to the Berlin meeting of the Interna-
tional Alliance of Women for Suffrage
and Equal Citizenship in June.
The National League of Woman Vot-
ers is the only organization in this
country affiliated with the International
Alliance. Miss Belle Sherwin of Cleve-
land, president of the council, will head
the delegation.
Plans were discussed today for cele-
bration of the leagues tenth anniver-
sary next year. The 1880 convention
city will be decided upon by the ma
tional board. The league was organized
in Chicago in 1920.
II the Nations independent voters
share the opinion of political parties
held by Donald r. Richberg OF Chicago,
who as an Independent addressed the
general council, National League OF
Woman Voters, at its annual dinner
last evening, the Democratic and Re-
publican party organizations may have
a great deal of missionary work to do.
Richberg, who Is general counsel for
the National Conference of Valuation
of Railroads, was one of Ave speakers
who discussed the future of political
parties before 800 guests of the council.
Varying shades of political thought
were represented In the addresses.
Parties Called Business Syndicates.
The Democratic and Republican or
CARNATIONS ceased to be political parties
long ago, Richberg said.
THE Republican party that rose with
Lincoln and fell with Grant, that was
auctioned off by Mark Hanna and given
away by Roosevelt, has been operated
as private enterprise for several dec
ades The Democratic party of Jeffer-
son and Jackson fell to pieces in the
Civil War, and neither the tar of pub
lie plumber nor the glue of noble words
has ever been strong enough to stick
Humpty Dumpty firmly together again.
And so today we have no political
parties of any important influence In
the United States. We have a couple
of business syndicates which buy and
sell Government In very businesslike
way. But you would not call bank
ing house a steam railroad Just be-
cause 1t dealt in railroad securities and
for the same reason 1t seems mac
curate to call these two Investment
trusts political parties Just because they
speculate in public Offices
Third Party Held Futile.
Other speakers outlined analyses of
the past performances of party organi-
cations as rejecting the future. Ray
mond Robbins of Chicago and New
York, active in the progressive wing of
the Republican party, said:
Folks looking around for q liberal
third party will look In vain. All that
we Progressives sought to accomplish
under the leadership of Theodore Roose-
yelt can be accomplished under
the leadership of Herbert Hoover"
Interpreting the future of the Demo-
cratic party in the South, Prof. J. C.
de Roulhac Hamilton, of the Univer-
sity OF North Carolina, said:
The changing opinion In the South
toward the Republican party is q ire
mendously important factor In the
problem. No longer--not even In
Texas-does a Republican need the
protection Of the game laws. Republic
canism, even outside Virginia, North
Carolina and Tennessee States that
gave their electoral vote to Hooyer-is