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Show WOMEN ASK VOICE ' I IN PARTY AFFAIRS CHICAGO, May 27. Women leaders here are conferring with committee- jH men in an effort to draft a plan for participation of the newly enfranchised IH voters in the direction of the Repub,-lican Repub,-lican party. The plan will be pr-j-sented to the convention, it Is under.-stood, under.-stood, with the recommendation of Chairman Hayes and the national com-mittec com-mittec that it be adopted. borne of the women are asking for a "fifty-fifty" voice in party affairs, and at the other extreme, some are IH said to be content with the present arrangement whereby an advisory committee of one representative from IH each state, with no voting power, sits with the national committee. ' IH Captain Victor Heintz, regional xil- j rector with headquarters here, baa been selected by Chairman Hays, to 1 sound out the sentiment of the worn- jH on and ask them to draft-a proopsal agreeable to the suffragists. IH A requost that a plank endorsing IH Independence for the Philippines be incorporated In the Republican plat-form plat-form will be made to the platform and policies committee by a special commission of Filipinos, Jose P. M!el-eneio M!el-eneio announced today. Melenelo, Jaime C. do Veyra, resident Philip-pine Philip-pine commissioner at Washington, and Felipe Buencamlno, representing Man-uel Man-uel Quezon, president of the Philip- JM pine senate, are members of the com-mission. com-mission. They wero appointed, Mr. Melcneio said, because tho Filipinos have no direct representation in the convention, both dolegate3 from the Philippines being Americans. "The principle of freedom for na-tolnal na-tolnal groups as soon as they establish a stable government is a republican policy." Mr. Melenelo said. "It was laid down by President Grant in his dealings with the South, American countries and' re-asserted by President McKinley in Cuba. Wo ask that the "Republican party now endorse free-dom free-dom for the Philippines, as we have es-tablished es-tablished a stable government." |