The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-08
BUSY REPUBLICAN WOMEN.
CAMPAIGNING CONGRATULATIONS
THE WIVES OF HoRKERS.

Tho HetterinE OF tho CitJ-uta clean streets.
New schools, New Parks. New water Mains.
and New Recreation Piers Their Arguments
And They Don't Forget National Issues.
The Republican women have jumped into the
campaign with both feet this week. They
started out bright and carly Monday morning
to work for the regular Republican ticket, and
they have been going it ever since. and declare
that they willincrease their gait every day until
the election is over.
They have opened headquarters at 1873
Broadway, where they will I've glad to sec
friends and to give out literature after next
Saturday. The work to be done this year,
however, is all district work.
When n Sun reporter called yesterday Miss
Helen varick Boswell, Chairman of the State
Committee, and Mrs. Clarence Burns, Prcsi-
dentof the West End Club and chief director
of the tenement house work, were in charge. In
speaking of the work Mrs. Burns said:
For tho first time the Republican women Of
New York are working under the County
Committee. This week we have twenty trained
district workers in the field; next week we shall
have forty, and the week after, eighty. These
women work from . o'clock every day until .
and visit hundreds of families. We will work
in all of the districts where there is the slightest
doubt Of Republican success.
For six weeks We have been training our
workers and laying out our plan of action, and
we have got things down finer than silk. In
addition to our trained district workers we
have the usual number Of club women in the
field, who talk in shops and factories and among
their friends. They hold parlor meetings and
club meetings, also, and reach an entirely diff.
ferent class from that which the tenement
house workers reach. Next week | shall go
myself right down into the tenement districts
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easier for us to work than it is for either the
Tammany women or the Low women, for we
keep organized all the while and have really
been preparing for this campaign ever since
our work in the national campaign proved so
effective. We were ignorant then compared
with what We arc now when 1t came to knowing
how to do real practical work"
And that's all the kind OF work that we are
going TO do put in Miss Boswell. when do
ing missionary work among the poorer people
many changes have been effected for the gen:
cral welfare and bctterment of the condition of
the working people since Tammany Hall was
driven from the control OF the city, and we
prove to them that these changes are directly
the result of Republican legislation at Albany
and the carrying out of such changes by the
officials of the present administration. We
tell them that schoolhouscs have been built,
children can be taught, and that, additional
ones are being established. We tell them how
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parts OF the city has been carried out, giving
hundreds of thousands of children Fairgrounds
and breathing spots, and how recreation piers
have been built along the river front, where
women and children who cannot 20 to Concy
Island or other Out-of-town resorts may enjoy
the cool breeZes in summer.
I'VE remind them that the streets in the
thickly- settled downtown neiRhbOrhoOd have
been kept just as clean as those in the fash
ionable parts Of the city, and that free public
water front which all may use. We explain
TO them that more skilful treatment and better
serviCe,have been supplied in our city hospitals
and charitable institutions, and that the water
supply of the city has been increased 800, OO0,-
600 gallons a day, and that this. with the sys-
the downtown districts safer from fire and has
already lowered the rates Of insurance. These
are only a few instances of the innumcrahle
improvements projected and completed since
Tammany Hall lost control of. the city govern
ment, which our Republican women are sub
tricts in which they are working, and before
leaving We always clinch our arguments with
national issues. We never forget that
The Womans West End Republican Club
meets at the Hotel Endicott this afternoon at
$3.50 o'clock. The Hon. George G. Austin. Chair
man. Of the Cities of the Assembly,
will address the members on campaign issues.
The West End Club is the central club of all
and has more than 300 active members All
are very much stirred up. and when Lemuel +.
many non-members. who were completely con
verted to the regular Republican ticket by his
From this time on some promi-
nent politician will address the club at each Of
its regular meetings. 1t Is a notable fact that
every man that has spoken to the women
politicians recently has brought his wife along.
This proves that men see the value of woman's
influence and work in politics.