The sun., 1900-09-29
WOMEN ARE FOR M'KINLEY:
BROADWAY MEETING TOLD NOW
THEY'RE HELPING HIN, AND WHY.
It's Prosperity versus the soup Kitchen says
Mrs. MARY p. Smith Democratic and Re
publican Regard for the Black Man Com
pared-Mhat Women Can DO In Politlcs.

pared what women Can DO In Politics.
Enthusiasm at the womens meeting held
yesterday afternoon at 1877 Broadway uhder
the auspices Of the National Commercial In
dustrial League reached its height while Mrs
Mary p Smith was speaking. Mrs Smlth
name had not been announced and she came
TO the platform only when Mrs Corneha Rod
inson came forward and asked for volunteers
Mrs Smith is a mulatto She has regular AT
tractive features and Is tall and slender She
jumped into her work with fervor, and from
the first word 20 the last kept her hearers IN
terested Well" said Mrs Robinson, catch
ing her breath after Mrs Smith had finished
"the next time we want an enthusiastic meet
ing we will send around for you
Mrs. Smith walked M to the platform aiter
the request for volunteers and began In tone
audible from one end OF the long room TO the
other The noise Of the cable cars had IN
terfered with some OF the speakers. but no
body complained Of them after Mrs smith
began.
Il came down here TO tell you she said.
what we women arc doing up In Ffty-third
street where | live. We are going to watch
every black man that lives up there and see
that he votes for Mckinley and Roosevelt ana
we are going TO follow around the Democratic
leader and what he Is doing Just TO undo u al
after he IL out Of the way. don't know anything
about the platforms or trusts or sound money
or IMPERIALISM. All | know is what saw iour
years ago when there was Democrauc Preh-
dent in Office and men were being led from
soup kitchens and were getting Tree Dinners
on every corner ! know that nothing oi that
kind has happened since Mckinley has been
elected. and for that reason | want to see him
elected again. After We have crossed me
channel TO prosperity we don't want TO 20 pacK
again, and that IL what tell all the black men
know. Vote for Mckinley and Roosevelt ana
have four years more OF prospenty like the me
kind YOU have Just been through, or vote toI
William Jennings Bryan and go begging atouhu
for meal tickets again the way you hau TO 90
under Grover Cleveland in lsee ten
1n. oTsbt 'te" te stand by Mckinley II they
ever did in the world because there has never
been a President who did so much for the black
to say that perhaps the black man get nus free-
dom too soon, but President Mckinley mas
Black men. that i the difference. tel them
TO vote against Tammany Han. TOO, ior tne
Democrats never protected them mere ere, "a Lev SeW
when everybody was attacking the negroes
on the West Side They helped 70 break their
heads with clubs That Is what the Democratic
party doee fo. the black men in New York
and everywhere in the United States. That's
the reason We are trying TO sec that every placK
man III our ulsNIlNb No''o AN' s"Nh'HN' 'N
Mrs Smith brought her speech to such a
CyClonc conclusion that her hearers were
breathless for moment Then they broke
into applause and while she was shaking hands
with the President a man proposed three cheers
for her. II was plain that something was
needed 10 relieve the feelings OF the audience.
Just then II occurred 20 somebody 10 open
the piano. which had been mute all the after,
noon II provided Just the needed relief and
Mira Smith walked proudly down to her seat
to the accompaniment Of q Sousa march. IL
had been a great quarter OF an hour Tor hor. :.
Mrs Grace White opened the meeting She
had discovered in the dictionary that imperial
whereas the Democrats were trying 70 pretend
that the word meant rule OF President over
more than one country, she said. Imperialism
could not exist IN the nited States because We
had President here and not an Emperor, she
had also received letter from farmer ir1end
OF hers in Indiana, who wrote that corn was
selling for 25 cents In the field and that me
wheat brought ~ cents. This farmer had voted
cedented prosperity had decided him TO vote
for Mckinley and Roosevelt Mrs. White
wanted the women 10 tell these facts TO their
husbands, because coming from women they
would have more influence than from any
Tell them too" Mrs White said, that
had tala with friend OF mine the other day
who told he he wasn't going to vote because
was elected / asked him if he hadn't been
more prosperous under Mckinley than he ever
was under Cleveland Then he told me that
his father left him $4,000 end end he & had that ft
that those are the only sort OF men who were
Indifferent to the Presidency.
Mrs Cornela Robinson OF the West End
Wompn's Republican Club and Helen Garrett
69sSe tSem we5T wore g gTay e waists Mrs Sobnsons
was a flannel and she had taken OF her hat 10