Show I NATIONAL suffrage le leader der I who praises Democrats i for re recognition o of women in r par party y affairs i il g ai n i I N BAST I l DELEGATES l AJ T S. S 1 f ARE I WOMEN 1 By Mrs George B Bass ss Chairman Woman Womans Bureau Democratic tic National Committee Written for International NewsY News Service SAN FRANCISCO FRANCISCO J June ne 22 The 22 The day day of or the Ladies Aid society Is ls passing The churches are admitting them as as delegates and vot ng n In politics politics poli poli- tics ics we wear are m more rapidly t Four Foul years after tt the e Dem Democratic cr national na- na na national convention r recommended comm the ex- ex ex extension tension of the suffrage t to women their enfranchisement is s practically a ly c om I eX-I mainly through the untiring efforts m made de by bYthe the pr president EQUALITY ON COMMITTEE Without waiting for the adoption of ot the he nineteenth h. h amendment and before it t was s submitted to the states the Democratic national committee doubled Its is membership an and ami 1 provided for the tho appointment of a woman upon the national na na- committee frOm each state Last na-I na I fall all the executive Committee voted to double its membership adding seventeen seventeen seven seven- teen een women o o 10 this directing force of ot the he national c committee Never at any anytime anytime time Ime has there be been n a disposition to kee keep the women waiting outside the committee ommittee rooms nor will there be during during dur dur- ing ng this convention It is not a a question of ot taking them Into nto the party councils They are arc the thearty party arty counselors and will have a voice in n all that Is done lone In accordance with this his the national committee has In Indorsed Indorsed In- In a a. plan of organization that calls call for or a committeewoman as well welt as a a. committeeman for each state state to to b be elected In In lathe the same manner and with and with equal power t e INSIDE AND BUSY This definite Instruction has had much nuch to do with the tho great number of women chosen to attend the conven conven- conven lon tion We have hav more than a a. hundred women delegates twenty delegates twenty five of them delegates at large large and and ISO alternates When we add to this the national com- com the members of the executive committee and my own staff we re have more than women who will take ake an active i part art In fn the coming convention convention con con- and they will not be on the outside out out- side Ide looking in but on the inside too I much nuch occupied with the great business I in n hand to have bave time to look 1001 out but i they hey know that the womanhood of ot America is wishing them god godspeed speed J JC C t |