Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1920 — LADIES NOT TO BE DENIED [ARTICLE]

LADIES NOT TO BE DENIED

TO FORM EXCLUSIVE PARTY AND MERE MAN WILL HAVE NO VOICE IN IT. New York, July 30—A woman’s political party will be launched as soon as the campaign for the ratification of the suffrage amendment, is ended, Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, society woman and militant suffrage leader announced here today. Plans for calling a convention to organize it are now under way. If there is not sufficient time to get into action for the November election, a woman’s strike against voting will be urged. The new feminist party will enter the political field with its own candidates. No man will have a voice in it; no ‘boss’ will indicate its policies, Said Mrs. Belmont. The purpose of forming a separate party for women, she said, “is to put before the voters a new political program with the fresh touch and serious point of view of women.” No money will be lacking to carry out its aims, according to Mrs. Belmont who is one of the wealthiest Women in America, and has been one of the largest contributors to the suffrage cause. She said of the women of independent fortunes, who have financially supported the fight for suffrage will contribute geherously to the new party. There is a nation-wide demand among the ' women for a party of their own, she declared. Her recent appeal to the women voters to stay out of the oML parties and refrain from voting until they are “free from man domination in politics, has brought hundreds of letters from all parts of the country pledging support to her movement. “Any logical woman knows that if she joins a man’s party she becomes nothing but a subordinate, Mrs. Belmont. “She is never placed in positions of intelligence. Her political power is used, but she has no voice. “There need be no fear the new party will precipitate a sex war. It will not oppose man s interests. Un the contrary its program will appeal to the best type of men as well as to the best type of woman. “There is no sex antagonism between broad-minded men an<? women, but it is a fact that men and women cannot work together in the same organization. This is because it is the male’s instinct to dominate. Women of dignity and selfrespect will not tolerate this. In organizations in which men and women work together the men play the game of arousing jealousy

among the women. “The men have run the world for centuries and have made a mess of it It i» now time for thewomen the conservative element of the race, to take a hand. In tins country we have now only the lowest type of the male voice will be barred from its councils men may sometimes- be nominated for office by the new party, Mrs. Belmont may be offices which a woman is not fit to fill as a man because of tack of might add, however, that I could name any number ofwomen more . fit to be president of the U. 3., than i either the present democratic or re- । publican candidates.” r Miss Marie Nevill, of • Mr. and Mrs. Henry Nevill, who has been located at Colorado - Springs, Colo., since last February - teaching school, was operated on r last Monday for appendicitis. She is reported as getting along nicely.