The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-11-03

suffrage recently have besn budly engaged
In refusing their colored sisters admit'
lance into their federation.
The FEEDER alton OF Clubs has not refused
admission TO the colored women. out {
small proportion Of lis members are trylne
TO do 50, The leaders OF the forces VINO
are determined to defeat this attempt arc
the suffragists, who admit colofed women
freely into their own organizatien ano
always nave one or more colored speesers
al their national conventions. Inc reoel
ation OF Clubs Is not n suffrage GrgeniHA
O II does not allow the subject alsouss :
at Ito meetings and many OF the SteSe So
cieties will not admit suffrage cluba -
The Sioux City journal Will have to ny
again.
A great deal Of prominence mas reoently
been given to the manifesto OF Mrs, hufseii
Gage Of Syracuse, n. Y, partly because
many OF the papers credited IL TO Mrs,
Russell Sage. The last-namcd lady never
has declared herself In favor OF the ba'iot
for women. Mrs. Gage thinks. those o.
New York will be ~enfranchised IN lsls'
because there will be the usual Constitu-
tional Convention at that date and the
pressure win be 30 strong II, will have to
adopt n suffrage amendment.
Stranger things have happened, but no,
many of them. II may. be that nunsciPai
affairs viii have reachsd sich q Crisis tnd
men win be actually forced TO have me
votes Of women to redeem the cities when
all other means have failed. but they are
not going to divide their power and ther
perquisites as long as they can avoi IL
At the recent election In Mount Morris.
N. Y, when the tax-paying women voted,
Mrs. Mary Seymour Howell tells OF one
dropped into Tia. bog, the village President
said: This is you hrst vote. Mrs. HI,
YES she answered. you a waited
long" he said. Il have submitted long
she replied. Yet, eve so ardent a worker
as Mrs. Howell. In her own town, did not
And 10 all over the country are women
who have Submitted long n made. no
sign, but with many OF them submission
is ceasing to be q virtue.
A meeting Of ~anti-suffrage women was
held In Barnstable, Mass, h other day,
the printed invitations 10 which earnestly
urged the recipient 20 come 'whether or
not she was now much interested In the
matter and said that q carriage would
be at the station 70 meet her. A Few years
from now thesesame -antis' will be sending
a carriage around to take her TO the polls.
Out OF 800 PLAYS submitted to q committee
Of experts from the P~laygoers' Club OF Lon
uOIs tfldt VI a NpIldAi wan tit~f
ceiling all the others In originality and
literary finish. II will be just as well for
the women TO refer TO this when some
mediocre little fellow, who couldn't Get q
penny a line for reporting fires, assures
them that their sex is inferior to his because
il never has produced a Shakespeare.
II Is reported tina when Richard Croker
gave q hundred-dollar bill TO q delegation
from the East Side Womea'r Sewing 10
ciety last week, its leader exclaimed, That
means a thousand votes for Tammany.
Surely the needle must be mightier than
the saloon In that locality.
Mrs. Robert j. Burdette Ia reported as'
saying ia a recent address that wop1en
should give up striving for the halkT and
use all their influence TO reform slPh munic-
ipal affairs as affect the home
Mrs. Burdette seems te-Ibe as much OF
a humorist as her celebxated husband.
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Six hundred Knights OF Pythias, in full
uniform 50 thS deepatchse say. headed by
bands, marched several miles amidst
red nre End much enthusiasm, at Eliza
pethtewn, n. j., in honor Of a goat which
" Walking n journey from Oregon 10 Maine.
The goat vas accompanied by Black Prince
lodge from Newark.
Imagine the National Suffrage Associa-
ton, the Women's Christian Temperance
Union and the Daughters Of the American
Revolution, turning out In full regalia
TO greet a poodle dog that was making
a triumphal journey Wouldn't h para
graphers have a feastf
IDA Hustled HAMPER