Mrs.
Gellhorn and Miss Bush spoke briefly. A sub-committee of the
Resolutions Committee accepted the plank which was given out to the
press on June 10. It read:

We welcome women into full participation in the affairs of
government and the activities of the Republican party. We urge
Republican Governors whose States have not yet acted upon the
suffrage amendment to call immediately special sessions of their
Legislatures for the purpose of ratifying said amendment, to the
end that all the women of the nation of voting age may
participate in the coming election, so important to the welfare
of our country.

As soon as this appeared in the Chicago papers, members of the
Connecticut delegation rushed to leaders of the Platform Committee and
protested that it was a gross insult to their Governor, Marcus H.
Holcomb, and they wanted the wording changed. Accordingly the
offending sentence was revised and in the plank adopted by the
convention read: "We earnestly hope that Republican Legislatures in
States which have not yet acted upon the suffrage amendment will
ratify it, to the end that all the women of the nation of voting age
may participate in the election of 1920 so important to the welfare of
our country."

Republican women in attendance at the convention united in a demand
for a fifty-fifty recognition inside of the party. They asked for a
woman vice-chairman of the National Republican Committee and for men
and women to be represented on it in equal numbers. The Committee on
Rules, responding to this demand, changed the rules for representation
and provided that seven members be added to the National Executive
Committee, all to be women. With this concession the women had to be
content.

The Democratic National Convention met in San Francisco June 28-July
5. Prior to the convention the National Committee had yielded to the
pressure from the suffrage leaders and Democratic women and on May 30
sent out the following Call: "This committee calls upon the
Legislatures of the various States for special sessions, if necessary,
to ratify woman suffrage when the Constitutional Amendment is passed
by Congress, in order to enable women to vote at the Presidential
election in 1920." On June 26, after the amendment had been submitted
by Congress, the committee again gave its aid by sending the following
message to Governor Roberts of Tennessee:

We most earnestly emphasize the ext