Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1919 — REPUBLICANS TO MEET HERE [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICANS TO MEET HERE

TENTH CONGRESSIONAL MEETING TO BE HELD HERE THURSDAY. f&litical meetings are being held by the two political parties in the congressional districts of the state. The meeting of the republicans of the tenth district will be held in Rensselaer on next Thursday, biginning at 11:00 a. m. ' This meeting will mark a new epoch in politics in that it will be the first time that women voters have been called upon to take an active part in the party organization work. The republican national committee, in announcing the adoption of the plan for the participation of the women in party affairs, issued a statement which read in part as follows: “It is the very earnest purpose of the republican national organization to do all that can possibly be done to make certain the full participation by the republican women of the country in the party’s affairs. “The republican women, coming more and more into the rights of their full citizenship, are most important factors • in the situation. They are part of the party membership, not as women, but as voters entitled to participate and participating, insofar as the' present legal limitations permit, just as other voters. Their activity is not supplementary, ancillary or secondary at all. They are not to be separated or segregated, but assimilated and amalgamated with just and full consideration due every working member of the party, and the republican national committee is sure that the republican women will come into the party’s activities with that sense of responsibility necessarily consequent upon these activities and will aid, through the party, in the solution of the problems facing the country.”