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Show Party Asked to Use Ail Influence Influ-ence to Gain Thirty-Sixth State For Suffrage. ABBY SCOTT BAKER , MAKES SOME CHARGES Says Republicans Dodged the Suffrage Issue Women Are Friends ofMcAdoo, SAN FFtA-NCTSCO, June IS, Announcement An-nouncement by William G. McAdoo ! that ho coujd not permit his name to bo put before the Democratic convention conven-tion 'divided Interest here today with the arrival of leaders of the Governor Cox faction and a declaration by Mrs. Abby Scott Baker of tho National Woman's party. "Our party will demand that the Democrats give us the ihirty-sjxth slate," Mrs. Baker said. "In other words, that they uso all their Influence Influ-ence to add the one ratification by a state legislature of the national suffrage suf-frage Rineudment to the constitution nooofsary to mnko suffrage a national law. A resolution In tho platform will help, but Instructions by the powers that be in the Democratic party to those lower down is what will count mo-U of all." Says Republicans Dodged Issue. Mrs. Bakar, who is one of the women wom-en who directed the picketing of the While House, charged the Republican convention with having dodged the suffrage issue. In Vermont and Connecticut Con-necticut there are Republican majorities majori-ties in the legislatures which would ratify the amendment on Instructions from the party loaders, she s?id. Mrs. Antoinette Funk of Washing-! ton, V. C, who has been working In behalf of Mr, McAdoo, said that his announcement was something that had boen feared for a long time. Friends of McAdoo. "We who are frcnda of .Mr. McAdoo and most anxious to bring about his nomination have known for months that ho would be apt to piakc a state- mom of this nature," she said, j 'As a matter of fact, lie prepared a 'similar siotemont before this and his friends induced him to hold it up. "He has never given any one permission per-mission to place him In nomination, and akhougn some of us have taken steps to that end, it has been with the unoerstanding it would be necessarj to get his acceptance. I Will Accept if People Call. ''However, I have heard him say i many times that (f the people through ! their delegates caljcd upon him to take ! the nomination, it would ps his patri-I patri-I otic duty to accent." I Mho first formal pieeling of the su'p-I su'p-I committee on arrangements va3 held today. Homer S. Cummings, chair-i chair-i man of the Democratic national eom-i eom-i mittee, presided. |