The San Francisco call., 1896-02-19
WOMEN ARE AT OUTS.
Mrs. Harland's Charge of Would
Be Boss Rule Against Mrs.
and Miss Cooper.
a FEMININE TAMMANY RING.
The Ex-State Organizer Sure That
Her Deposition Was Due to Mrs.
Cooper'S Antagonism.

The cry of "boss rule' bas been raised
in woman suffrage councils in this CITY.
There are those who have the temerity
TO insinuate that a feminine Tammany
ring as rapacIous as the Gotham society
of unenviablo fame exists in and rules the
Joint committee presenting the Woman S
Suffrage Association and the constitu-
tional amendment campaign committee OF
California.
They go farther and impeach Rev. Anna
H. Shaw as the moving spirit in game of
grab, in which Susan B. Anthony follows
a close second, and Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper
playing into their hands.
1t was at semi-business, semi-social
gathering in a pretty uptown clubroom
that the matter was freely discussed yes
terday. 1t was an assem- blage of types and
interminglings of types. The society
woman was there in ultra-fashionabie at
tire. Beside her stood woman who goes
in for dress reforms and believes in the
doctrine of one DR.. Nautilus. Their neigh
Dor is socialist in practice as well as in
theory. Somewhat in the background was
a whitehaired lady who is conservatism
personltied, except that somewhere and
somehow she was bent suffrageward
ASIS McIt OlAcIS huO S6tlHeu HI aIQdlga-
nation OF two or more of these types.
1t was representative asSemblage and
there was a practically unanimous senti-
ment in regard TO the situation, belief that
greed for power is the Scylla and greed for
money the Charybdis that threaten suf-
fragists.
Mrs. Hester a. Harland, the deposed
State organizer, was a conspicuous figure
of the group. She told the story of ner
deposition to an attentive audience.
I'VE Will lose, she said by way of pre-
face. There are seven or eight counties
in which an interest is shown in princi-
pies OF political equality. In the remain
der scarcely thought is given to it. We
have no chance except TO make this an
brace 1t we will be as far from the realiza-
ton of our hopes as we were twenty years
ago."
Mrs. Harland is a handsome woman of
winning personality. She is affable and
tactful. Her appearance won attention
and her story held it.
Yes, we will fail. ladies' she contin-
ued, because ours is a personal, not a
political. campaign. When 1 was making
my tour of the counties organizing suffrage
societies and arranging for Miss Shaw s
lectures l received notice from headquar-
tiers that l should not stick to principles so
closely. but talk more about Mrs Cooper.
campaign, and continued to stick to prin-
clples. Notwithstanding Mrs. Sargent's
and Madame Sorbier's denial, the fact re-
mains that my refusal to conduct Cooper
campaign was the cause of my requested
resignation.
THAT Is the general statement. Now,
to be more specific. As visited the coun.
ties realized that addresses, no matter
how brilliant, were ephemeral in their ef-
fects, and that matter in printed form, to
be studied and referred to, was the great
est need. L wrote the officers urging that
a systematic course of information on suf-
frage matters should be provided and that
therefore the aid OF the press, especially of
the interior, should be secured. | recon-
mended the employment OF some type
writers Tor the purpose of furnishing such
matter. l had found that the editors. al
most TO man, were willing 10 publish
such matter once week.
instead OF needing my request the pow-
ers ignored 1t, except to intimate through
the secretary that they did not want any
more suggestions. L continued to urge
that one, however, telling them that al
most daily was the recipient of such ad-
vice from business men and men of affairs
who were interested in the cause The re-
ply was that my resignation would be ac-
cepted. | rendered it. That is the story
in rough outline, but there are countless
to task by Miss Cooper for accepting the
cooperation of prominent lady in one
of the southern counties. why did YOU
do it? she asked. My mother doesn't like
her.
"I did not know that I replied ::
but still do not regard that reason as q
hnal one. l viii refer matters to your
mother as a member of the executive com
mlttee when that committee meets. In
the meantime must ask you to mind your
own business
"In short, the Coopers' motto is, Rule
or Ruin. They have never belonged to
an organization in which they did not
make trouble because OF their adherence
to that motto"
The conversation turned upon Miss
Shaw. 1T was not economy" said Mrs.
Harland, ITO permit Miss Shaw to take
Sl5OO from the State with her, leaving us
without money to carry forward the cam.
paign. My suggestion to the committee
at the outset, was to stipulate the sum
Miss Shaw asks for her lectures, SIPS a
week. Mrs. Cooper protested that the
lady should receive $50 a lecture. [ said i.
would be impossible to raise this in some
OF the country towns. She insisted that
MISS Shaw is the support of a large family.
rms large family is fiction. Miss Shaw's
father received pension. Her nephews
and nleces, who, it was claimed. were de-
pendent upon her, are all grown and self.
supporting. She got her $50 a nipbt
however
Here Mrs. Anna Smith interpolated
vehement remark
Il have spent good deal of time hating
myself Tor ever believing that Miss
Anthony and Miss Shaw were working for
the cause OF suffrage: 1t wasn't pleasant
lesson, but learned it well, that they are
working for the money there is in Il
am disillusioned. The bloom is gone from
the rose, the down from the peach. Miss
Shaw Is one of the best orators of the age
She stands second to Ingersoll. But She