The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-25
WOMEN HUSTLING FOR VOTES.
TWO WAYS OF WINNING THEM
AND OPINIONS on EACH.
The Republican Women Believe in Club
Organizing. Campaign Literature
and speeches-MOre Practical Meth.
ods Of the Democratic women


organizing, Campaign Literature
and speeches-More Practical Meth.
DDS Of the Democratic Women.
There is more enthusiasm Just now
In the ranks Of New York's women cam
paigners than has ever been known
before. One reason is that they have never
been so many nor represented 30 man y
circles in society. Hundreds OF new re-
crrts have stepped up recently; most Of
them from the poorer classes and out to root
TO- votes for the Democratic party.
This is the newest phase Of the women's
political movement. In some respects 1t Is
the most interesting, for when it comes
to successful campaign work women Of
little leisure and less education may ac-
complish a. much, even more, than Weather
and more accomplished workers. As hard
working woman who lives in tenement
district on the East Side remarked the
other day in favor of the vote getting
methods practised by herself and her
frienGs: I'VE deliver the goods every time
Ever since the Woman's Republican
Association of the State Of New York was
organized by a handful Of women who
met at Delmonico's, about a dozen years
ago, Republican women of this city have
been heard from at every election, and the
year around they haye busted themselves
in organizing local political clubs and
bringing in new members.
The Woman's West End Political Club
with a membership of 200 and the Woman's
Republican Club, which has 1875 names on
the roll are among the most notable re-
suits of this activity. One is ten years old,
the other has about four years to its credit.
Besides these there are several smaller Re-
publican clubs and from time to time other
organi atoms not strictly political, like
the Womans Municipal League, for ex-
q ample. have come to the front to lend
hand in Republican politics.
But all this time, or at least until quite
recently, Democratic women have been
surprisingly apathetic. Republican fem
ininity in the latest thing in picture hats
held caucuses innumerable, fired of no end
of verbal ammunition, distributed tons OF
literature, without eliciting the slightest
opposition--that is organized opposition
from the enemy.
That time, however, has gone by. Demo-
cratic women have caught the political
fever or that phase Of it which runs to Or
ganization, and to up-and-be-doing meth
DDS for the capture OF votes. Hence the
UNUSUAL eubnuSldStu IleHtiohcd'
This year women on both sides mean to
do their level best to get votes for their
respective candidates, though they mean
TO do it in quite different ways.
The Democratic woman's strong card Is
heuse-to-house visitation. The Republic
cans, on the other hand, expect their public
to come TO them. to attend their meetings,
listen, to speeches and read literature which
il distributed from the various headquar-
tiers or sent through the mails. The women
Of one party are out for votes. new votes.
They want 70 make converts to the party.
On the other side. say the women. the chief
aim Il not so much to make new Republic
e~ns, but TO inoite voters to do their duty
to register and to vote-by melting their
women folks to egg them on.
Il have discovered, said Mrs. Clarence
Burns, 1that lots OF men will go to any
place on earth to get out Of voting"
Mrs. Burns is treasurer Of the Woman's
Republican Association OF New York State,
representatives Of which last Tuesday
held what was really the initial meeting
Of the woman's campaign. They opened
headquarters last spring. The meeting
was called to hear reports on a suitable
place for a larger and more central head
quarters to be used during the next six
weeks.
sWe have not made a choice yet. said
bGSs Burns, 4but the place will probably
be In Broadway, somewhere between
Twenty-third and Forty second streets.
At that room, and also at our place in Fast
Eighteenth street, there will he plenty OF
literature for free distribution. We will
have speeches from time to time by men,
bers OF the local clubs. and a committee OF
club members Will always be present to
give information.
NO, we do not expect to do anything
In the way of a house-to-house canvass,
nor do we mix up charitable and political
work. By advertising and sending out
plenty Of circulars we are always sure of
having large audience Of women at every
meeting we hold. 1t is the women we are
after. Once awaken a woman to the i'm
portance OF the ballot and she is bound to
try and make her husband and the men Of
her acquaintance feel the Importance OF it,
too. The chief aim O. our work is not to
win voters, but to get men out to register
and to vote.
A new and think a very important
feature of our campaign work this year is
a series OF parlor meetings for women, to
which admission will be free and which will
be addressed by well known women speak
ers like Miss Helen Narick Boswell and
men speakers, all Of whom have promised
10 give their services. OF course. we will
have one or two mass meetings, too, in
hall, with speeches by several distinguished
men and women. We pay all our own ex-
pcnses-pay for everything, except the
literature That is sent to us free.
Mrs Wilson, president OF the West End
Club. saws that there are now twice as
many women willing to take up work in the
campaign as there were two years ago.