The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-26
Low LADIES ARE TOO LATE.
CAMPAIGNING TRACT WOMEN HAVE
NETTED THE VOTES.
Psrisr Meetings and Timid Ventures In tho
Tene,nent House. Excite tho Laughter or tho
Practiced Republican Niissionnries-Nher
Arc PnirirL Il Elnnrnn,a Lndl1rlendai

Parier HrectinEa ana Tinid Vcntures In the
Tenement Houses Excite the Laughter OF tho
Practiced Republican
Are Patrick }. Gionson's Ladirriendst
Where arc the lady friends" OF the Hon.
Patrick Gleasoni Now that tho Iammany
women have organized n club, the unfortunate
Paddy seems to be tho only candidate without
the folace of a feminine side to the campaign.
Tho Republican women. the amman women,
the George women, and the Low ladies are all
at work in their own particular way.
A comparison Of thcir methods IL extremely
edifying. The Republican women were wel or
ganizcd. They wcrc experienced. Thoy mad
proved their worth last year In tho PRESIDENTIAL
campaign. Sometimes the proof OF tho pudding
Is in the fact that somebody else wants II.
That was what happened In this case. ram
many offered tho Republican women workers
So n day to labor for the Tiger. 1t was not a
question Of the lady or the tiger. but OF the lady,
and the tiger. Tammany did not get the lady
and, until Mrs. Dorothy Harrington Mason or.
ganizcd her bclated club, thcrc was no solacc
for the Tiger. except when Col. A. Bird Gardiner
wnrbled an occasional high flute note about re.
form.
The Republican women were first in the field.
They knew the ground; they had plenty of
workers.; they had excellent managers, Mrs.
Clarence Burns and Miss Helen Narick Boswell.
They got right into tho campaign Mt the point
where their efforts wero the most needed. They
are still there, and il tho womcn's work is any
reflection OF things in general, there will be a
man by the nano Of Tracy elected Mayor next
week.
But It came to tho ears of some OF the dew
otees OF tho consecrated ono that the ltepub.
lcan women wore at work, 30 tho wives OF tho
Citizens Union organized as tho Women's
Municipal Eenpne Thcn thoy wonderp1 what
to do next. Being women. they promptly do
cided to hold 'parlor meetings." Over ut the
headquarters of tho Republican women they
smile over these parlor meetings.
They Issue invitations to one another" said
a Republican woman, 'and then they meet and
convince themselves oil over again that they
really are for Low. They don't ask outsiders.
50 they don't ever have a chance to make con.
verts."
But the Low ladies (of course. they must be
distinguished from the women OF less exalted
political pretensionsl arc keeping right on with
their parlor meetings. They also have a back
room, up two flights. at the Cts headquarters,
but no man knowcth what goes on there. That
is to say. no one not certified and sworn to as
being Of tho true faith. II any one applies there
for information, he is hustled out and away to
IL Fast Twenty second street. where there is n
press bureau which never has anything for the
press.
Last week the Low ladies graspcd the fact
that their parlor meetings wcrc working in u
publican women were harvesting votes down
on the east side. The idea of going down into
the struck them with sudden force.
Some OF them had been down Ia the University
Settlement, and they assured the others that it
was really quite safe. The others didn't much
care II there was IA spice OF danger in it. The
excitement Of campaigning had made them
reckless. and then. too. they were willing to go
out like modern Joans Of Arc to fight for the
HI Anu u one.
They began last week to have meetings in tho
tcnements. but they didn't, find it dangerous or
spicy or anything except lonesome and dirty.
which was very unkind Of, people" Then the
which appalled, all but the bravcst spirits. They
found that the Republican women had been
had gone from house TO house, from room TO
room, from factory to factory. Then they shut
their teeth. put their smelling bottles in their
pockets. took UP their load OF literature, and
started out.
But there are some disadvantages in trying
tropical visitors from another CLINE do not per
haps know that in tenements different people
live in a, almost every separate room Perhaps
floor had their other apartments above. Or it
may DO that the Low ladies were afraid of the
any rate. the people down in the tenements'
ray that the Low ladies did not go upstairs.
AS for the George women. no one has heard OF
them since they were organized. They may be
doing, n good work. nut II ism an audible one
like the masculine side OF the George campaign.
And now. at the eleventh hour. the Tnnimany
women have got into the procession. The Re
publican women smiled again when asked
whether they would be obliged to fight any
harder on account OF the Tammany Woman
Club.
Whist can they do nowl' asked Mrs. Burns.
scornfully. They haven't time for anything
but a meeting; and ] guess ore meeting moro
VI The Republican, women N ar" to have a CT eat
mass meeting in Brooklyn at New Johnston
Hall. Fulton and Nevins street. Gen. Tracy
VIII speak and so viii Miss Boswell, Mrs. Jane
Pierce, Col. Archibald Baxter and Andrew J.
Perry. On Wednesday afternoon there will be
n meeting for BohemianS at the new Bohemian
hall in East Sevcnty-third. street near Second
avenue. A great many other meetings are al,
ready arranged for this week.