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Show I WASHINGTON, May IS. A bevy of Toman suffrage workers fresh from their unavailing attempt to secure ratification rat-ification of the national woman suffrage suf-frage amendment by the Delaware legislature, leg-islature, persistently heckled Will H. Hays, Republican national chairman, when he made a speech today at a k meeting of Republican women of the District of Columbia. The interruptions designed to make the chairman explain why. the Repub-i Repub-i lfcan majority of the Delawai-e capital '' could not force adoption of the amend ment, kept the assemblage of several : hundred women In an intermittent up-V, up-V, roar untiL he had concluded. I Mr. Hays recounted that of the 35 I slates which already had ratified, 29 I were Republican and asked bis ques-! ques-! tioners why they did not call on some: i of the Democratic states. He predicted predict-ed that If Delaware did not ratify some . ' other state would in time, to make the ! amondment effective by the November j election. :. "Why do you say that?" Interrupted one of the women, "when' you admit I ou have no influence with even Re- publican legislatures?" "I say I feel certain of it," replied the speaker, "because I believe that : some one of 'the remaining states is! j going to be intelligent enough to act: between now and election tlmo." . i t Hisses and cat-calls' drowned out v j some of the interrogators and as the ' 'heckling continued, women over tho hall greeted new interruptions with j yells of "sit down" -and "throw them 1 out." But the suffrage workers persisted per-sisted and after declaring that "this m kind of conduct on the part of women 1 makes It hard to get Republican leg- Jelatures to ratify the t amendment," I Mi. Hays ended hi3 speech while two I I women were on their feet yelling ques-' ques-' I tions at him and many others -were i j Joining in with hisses and cries of dis-approval dis-approval at the disturbance. |