Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-30

1t was lucky for the new temperance or
panization that Mrs. j. Ellen Foster was
not made the National President by the
Cleveland convention. Letters are being
received from all parts of the country from
individual women and from unions, stating
that they are now ready to join the non
partisan ranks, but expressing themselves
very explicitly that if Mrs. Foster had been
elected president they would have remained
where they are.
One minister wrote: ''I am glad you have
demonstrated to the public that you tell the
truth, and that when you say the Republic
an party has nothing to do with your organ
ization we can believe you"
Attorney W. NJ. Price, however, is one
that is hard to be convinced that the non
partisan people are just what they represent
themselves to be. He said yesterday: "Mrs.
Foster has always tried to get an office in
the national w. C. T. o., and when she did
not get it there she started out to be Nat
ional President of the new. She would have
been elected, too, if the women had not
been sharp enough to see that her election
would kill the organization"
"What do you think Of the new organ
ization generally?"
CANNOT LIVE.
"Why it's just like the many other non
partisan societies that have sprung up in
the midst OF an agitation, that are not
heard Of now. It cannot live; it has no
substantial backing. The Non-Partisan
Amendment Association, of Pennsylvania,
the Non-Partisan Temperance Society, of
Massachusetts,, started by Mrs. Foster her.
self, the Anti-Saloon League, of New York,
and the Nom Partisan Association Of Ohio,
were all started on the same basis. An
effort was made to make national affairs Of
them, but they all died. The Church Tenn
perance Society, so famous during the
Blaine campaign, is another. All of these
came up Just on the eve of an important
elaction, and every one, including the last
one, was organized in the interest of the
Republican party. The same sort of fight
has been gone through in the South, where
the Democrats favor local option"
The current issue of The Voice, a tenn
perance paper published in New York, has
this to say by way of a compliment to the
new organization: 1.-THE Republican women
\ \ who have decided to break away
from the National w. c. T. U. have formed
a new organization called the Women's
Christian Temperance Alliance, In which
they will have things their own way, and
will be able to oppose the only party that
stands for prohibition as vigorously as they
desire"
MAKING A SENSATION.
The circular sent out by the special sub
committee of the National Executive Com
mittee is creating quite a sensation. An
officer of the new Alliance said yesterday:
81 am surprised that those women should
waste their time at such work They are all
able women, and might employ their time
at better things. OF course, all they say
about Mrs. Foster is true. There is nothing
in Truth in the Case that she denies; but
if she worked for three years for woman's
suffrage, and then discovered that it was
wrong, it would have been a greater wrong
for her to continue in that line than to de-
nounce it. However, 1 am not fighting
Mrs. Fosters battles. I think she is able
to look out for herself; and am mistaken
il those women don't hear from her."
Mrs. II. G. Campbell, the President of
the new State organization, has received of
fetal notices from several unions in various
parts of the State, informing her that they
have indorsed the non-partisan constitution
and will hereafter work under it. Mrs.
Campbell said yesterday that the greatest
eagerness to join the new organization ex-
listed among the Y's. From all parts of the
State word is received that these societies
are ready to divide or join the new in a
body.
Should only half of the Y's in the State
join the non-partisan ranks the accession
would still be very large, and yet it is ex-
pected that even a greater percentage will
go over. There are Y unions in 81 counties.
The whole number of societies is 46O, with
an enrolled membership of 1880. Last
year 26 unions disbanded, and it is said that
many of them did so because of the policy
of the National, to which they were auxil-
iary. 1t is known that Mrs William B.
Rhoades, the State Superintendent and