New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-04-14
THEIR ANNUAL ELECTION
ANTI-sUFFRAGIsTs REJOICE OVER
VICTORY.
MASSACHUSETTS, WOMEN DO NOT WANT TO VOTE
THEY SAY. AND OTHER STATES RE
yEcr WOMAN SUFFRAGE

MASSACHUSETTS, WOMEN DO NOT WANT TO VOTE.
THEY SAY. AND OTHER STATES RE
JEcr WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
The New-York State Association Opposed 70 't'N
Extension OF the Suffrage to Women held us
s.h or,ual meeting and election yesterday
,oorn,ng az the home Of Mrs Francis Nj scott NO
a. Park-aye The following Executive committee
was chosen: Mrs. Francis NJ Scott. MIS- Ar'"u'
NJ Dodge Miss Eleanor G.. Hewitt. Mrs George
White Field Mrs Monroe Smith MIS- t'oss'e.
ro,nson Mrs George Waddington. Mrs. Rlcnafd
watson Glider Mrs. Elihu Root and Mrs GILBERT
r. Jones -.
A volunteer emergency committee compose ~.
.leven members who are each pledged 10 give g.
whenever the ordinary income OF the association
nroves insufficient for its needs. was also lore"'
III. members OF this committee are TO be KNOWN
&c "m,nuewomen" and are Mrs tao"h'aue'
Tones Mrs Gilbert F. Jones. Mrs. Selisnah' MIs'
James w. Gerard. Mrs. George WicKershdi,i' '.i7'
r V Cockcroft. Mrs. Thomas b WARD MIS-
Charles F. Barney and Mrs. W. f. Roosevelt
NJ. SCOTT the chairman OF the Executive Com
roi,tee presided and gave a report on the genera
condition Of the society. She staten 'ha' "eio
are now four State organizations the last o'e ~
IA formed being that OF Iowa Inc othele arc ~
>-.wyork Massachusetts, and Illinois. Mrs Scott
.,.o .a,d that the influence Of the Newly ork or
ran,xation was not confined 10 Its own territory
and that II was able to give a moral support 10
tho movement throughout the whole country
ROSstfer
among working girls clubs. and SAID 'ha' 'le
attitude OF these women toward suffrage was one
Of the most encouraging things she had met Win
IN this line. s
Working women not as rule interested
4, suffrage she stated. even sufragsts were
forced 10 admit Among the Socialistic and Ger
,,er element she had found a strong sentiment
for woman suffrage. she declared pu' among
Americans the contrary is the case huihoe' oi
tho climbs to which the association has sent iec'-
urers have expressed much qualification AT having
the anti-suffrage position presented 10 tem oe,,,q
About forty women were prtsen. al ~, ..'' W
ysssTGSy ra A0e Mount Vernon by Mrs Adams
and Brooklyn by MIS- William putnam, h.at,.d
rom ogpMs Mrs q George philips No s Eas, slxtleths
The following report OF ne MassachpIs snry
Wh,tney. Chairman Of The Executive Commitee
and has just been received oy the Ne" o'" o'-
ganization:
REPORT OF MASSACHUSETTS
The refusal Of the Massachusetts House OF Rep
resentatives last week. by vote OF lls 70 o. 10
substitute license suffrage bill TOT the adverse
report made by the Committee on Election LAWS
is the latest defeat when the sunragis's nave met
IN the Massachusetts Legislature OF 1898 The
Conm,ttee on Constitutional Amendments re-
ported leave withdraw on that petition mne seS
on the petition for municipal and hcense sufiass
but the House decided 10 debate the license sui
frage petition. with the outcome gwen aoo'e "
There can be no doubt that this result is partly
owing 70 the success OF the movement for organi-
cation among the women opposed 10 woman tut-
frage The fact that the Massachusetts anu
Suffrage Association. although not yet three years
old has a membership OF over hfty-fve hnhnrcu
representing Isl cities and and that 1t Is an
association representing all classes or society ana
every section % the State. is a stubborn argument
against granting the petitions Of the sunrags,s
The ant-sufrage women are thorousnlSS, 49, ~,
earnest They mean TO fight, and TO allow neither
legislators nor the public TO remain longer ~
0, their views. and OF the reasons ior tneIr
sooer dsapprova 81 The social and political change
advocated by the sufTragists. - -.
This example Of serious energy on the part OF
a large body Of thoughtful women In Massachu-
se.ts. and also in Ncw-York State. is ALREADY
bearing fruit in the West. where. In Illinois an
entf-suNrage association has been FORMALLY organ
lied within the last six months. Iowa Is the new
est feld chosen by the National Woman SunTsee
Association for attempt to take possession OF
and convert State. For months Their asents
stumped the State from end 10 end. until the
anti-suNrage women reused 10 active Oppose
ton. After Legislative hearings began IN pes
Moines. In February able speakers were hearn
or both sides with the difference that the anti
suffrage speakers all Iowa women. Ihe
vote In the House was 30 against woman sunrage
ana A. In favor OF II, significant victory IN we"
OF the immense amount OF work done by the SUI
fragists and the belated and unorganized EFFORTS
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