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Show MANY U MUCH MYSTERY I AT DEM. MEET Few Fair Delegates But Plenty of Feminine Lobbyists and Scribes B M kBEL VBBOTT . B. . miu'i t orreapondent, I SAN FIIANCISCO, July l. The I moat exact figures obtainable today I nhow that there are 100 women delc-Katex delc-Katex and 150 women alternates In at-tenJnce at-tenJnce nt the Democratic national i-onventlon. I nofficial figures compiled by my- I self after a morning spent at the women's wo-men's fieadQUartera i the national committee, indicate that there are at least 10.000 women reporters ant j 150,000 women lobbyists. I wanted to Interview some of th I women delegates. The room w.- f ill of women, conferring earnestly .11 groups. I edged to one of them. " Is this tht.- e.inference on the women's wom-en's planks?" 1 Inquired. She turned Intelligently on me. "So. That was a closed conference " sho said, "re- 1 porters wore excluded." All Reporters. 1 "Can you tell us now what action was taken," 1 asked. "I should .y not." she sniffed. 'I'm a rvportei myself." I subsided on a sofs beside an alert looking lady. She smiled en-couarglngly en-couarglngly at me. 1 :isked her hoW women stood on a third term for il-son il-son That's Just what 1 want to f ml out," she cried. "Are you for hlr.i til against him what's your stuie -.ir? you a delegate or an alternate- -do ou think " I'm Just R reporter," managed to Insert, "if you could tell me." She caught my shoulders a-ul Mhuok rne. "So am 1," she giggled Hut the reporters are not aj numerous num-erous as the lobbyists. Then ;,re women here claiming to be "WorklUK1! for everything, from jre.-identl.i I candidates can-didates und the League of Nations (o dairymen's association. Some of themj are doins recognized and effective work, anil have made themselvuf "actors "ac-tors to be reckoned with, but ft Is rn-i possible to account tor the other Vcrj Mysterious. They fit around head"4uart"ii. wiiit-lng wiiit-lng for somebody; the snow up r.i.-.'-tertously wherever there Is a cron'dj and fade away as mys:.erious! ; thej talk about anything and everything except the thing tn.y finally toil you -they "represent'' when you plr- thoinj down to a statement of wny th urc at the convention. Any thing like confidential chat usually cnos In an Inquiry whether J oti know how they could get Into the hall for a little .while in short, it looks to me as if women have appi opriaiuu another of the ancient an-cient rlgnts of men the right to hang around a convention Just for the fun' of the thing and most anv excuse will d , |