New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-08
SUFFRAGE IN THE AIR.
COOPER UNION COMPLETELY FILLED BY
REPRESENTATIVE AUDIENCE.
THE REV. H. ". SANDERS HENRY GEORGE.
MRS. STANTON FATHER DUcEY AND
OTHERS SAY THAT WOMEN SHOULD
VoTE-oUIET WORK OF THE
OPPOSITION.


Cooper Union was crowded to the doors last even
Ing by excellent representative audience OF good
citizens to hear eloquent advocates Of woman SUI
frage speak for the The proportion Of women
was about that to be found at the usual church
service. two-thrds or three-quarters OF the whole
assembly. and they enthusiastically applauded the
sentiments expressed.
John Milton Cornell presided. Among others on
the platform were Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Able. Mr.
and Mrs. Place, Mrs. Henry Day. Mr. and Mrs.
Russell Sage Isaac Townsend Smith. Mrs. Lille
Devereux Blake. Miss Harr!ctte Keyser. Mr.. and
Mrs Bolton Hall. Mrs l.. Tiffany Dyer, Mrs. Will
lam y. Perry. Miss Kate Field. Miss Margaret
Chaner Miss a. NJ Fiede. Mrs. George Haven
Putnam. Mr.. and Mrs. Dunbar. Miss Isabel Harris
Mrs. c. A. Runkle. DR.. Mary Putnam jacob. Mrs
Theron Butler. Mrs. Henry NJ. Sanders. Mrs. Goss
Miss Isabel Hapsood, Miss Requa, DR.. and Mrs
Frank Bosworth, Mrs. George r. Bishop. the Misses
Nevns Mrs. J. Collins Pumpelly, Mrs. Hester, DR..
Leighton Williams. Or. s. l.. Baldwin Dr. and
Mrs. G. II. Fox. Mrs Charles Duggin. Mrs Henry
VI. Day, Mrs. Sarah Cowell lie Moyne, Mrs John
Dickinson and Miss Kate Bond.
TIE VOICE OF ORGANIZED LABOR.
The Rev Henry NJ Sanders was the first speaker.
After him came Samuel Gompers. president OF the
American Federation Of Labor Mr.. Gompers said
that the labor organizations stood for justice. and
that organized labor desired equal justice for all and
equal wages for equal work without regard TO sex.
w omen at the DalOl-DuN WOuIu raise pOilA!tS 10
higher level If had the ballot the cries
from the swea shops would be heard. and the cry
OF organized labor for schooroom would not 90 un-
needed.
is fighting the ideal life of the protesters?" he
asked G.augher) loan of Arc was the equal
Of any man, and who has forgotten Mollie Pitcher
and Barbara Freitchie9'
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton sat In an armchair
at the right Of the chairman. a beautiful picture
of fine old age. She rose to speak with difficulty
and was obliged to support herself with n cane but
the reception she received worth the effort
she made. Nearly the whole audience stood up
and cheered and waved handkerchiefs. Mrs. Stanton
said in part:
II woman can endure persecution and ridicule for
fifty years, she has done the best kind of lighting.
take the ground that the suffrage Is natural
right. We have given to women school suffrage
and sidewalk suffrage. and ! have not seen that
they transformed.
Those professors who say that everything would
have been done for women II they had not
exerted themselves remind M OF tn. clown In the
marked: Tic might have saved himself the trouble
Of shooting his arrow. The bird would have been
We are ready to vote We ready TO hold
Office. We need women. the great reserve power to
help carry out the idcns OF our fathers.
Mrs. stanton's daughter Mrs Stanton Rlatch. OF
England was the next speaker. Among other
things she said:
Woman is no; protected through chivalry, but
because the mon know that to pat the women 20
tne front is National suicide. W omen g part IN
war is not 10 VIII and weep. bat 20 furnish the
army for the failure. At last the opponents OF
woman suffrage are beginning 90 speak out The
their reasons simmer down to challenge Of
Cheers.
FATHER prCET KISSED
The Rev. John y. Peters was followed boy Father
Duccy. who said that woman suffrage was
catholic question aud be was tn A. HIS statement
that the people al not want professors from Tam
many Hail % teach the people how 10 vote. hut
public schools instead. greeted with applause
but there were many Kisses when he said that IN.
Catholic Church had put the Virgin Mary on ~
equality with her reIccm!ng son Jesus Christ lie
lenled the allegation that ia" vote 81 the women
Henry George was the last speaker. II was an
,ounced that the "yOiUnteers' hal Decided 60 krep
heir headquarters at Sherry's cTcn until May D. |
Resolutions were plssed favorng the cause OF
woman suffrage
The women who are interested IN getting sigma
lures for the protest" against woman suffrage |
which will be presented % %. Constitutional CON
ycnton in behalf of many women ~ thc STATE have |
not called ordtory 90 their ala held any public
neotnCs hut Do q quiet way they doing effective
work An average 90 more than nitv names Bag !
has been signed o. DE Cppy n the petition AZ tne
general hCldquarter, ~ tie Hotel Waldorf and this
IS only small part or The total number ~ sigma
ures WHICH a:e being daily added 10 tho MY |
.Jfirs OF tho petition which are In circulation iln
headquarters of me work IN Harlem j. ~ No. 10
West Oue-huu Ire Land nty-nfih-sf The down
own headquartcr+ is ar Cooper Union. Reports % |
steady progress have been received from both places