Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-08
CITY OFFICER TELLS COUNTY
"H0RRlD TRUTHS"
ONE FACTION FEELS sNUBRED
Rival Associations Discuss Their
Numerous Differences and Fall
to Arrive at a Peaoeable
Understanding

affairs of the local organization and
will attend to their own business there
will be enough work to keep every
body busy"
This is the way in which Mrs. Alice
E.. Broadwell expressed herself before
a meeting Of the city organization of
the Equal Suffrage association" held
yesterday afternoon at the Women's
club house on South Figueroa street,
at which the differences existing be-
tween the two associations were given
an airing.
For moment after the remark there
was a pause of amazement at the
speakers daring Then half a dozen
excited women clamored for the floor.
Chairman Mabel V. Osborne recog-
nized Rev. Eliza Tupper Wilkes.
why do not the members of the
city organization come to the meeting
of the county association to instruct
it's members?" asked Mrs. Wilkes, sar-
castically.
There are no notices of the meetings
given out" came the tart whisper
from woman behind her. Then the
MdT DeBdH III earnest.
Mrs. Osborne pounded for order and
demanded that all remarks be ad-
dressed to the chair. Two minutes lat
er, after a vain endeavor to estab-
lish peace, she announced recess.
Mrs. Wilkes little Bomb
When the meeting was called to or
der after recess and the speaker of
the afternoon had been listened to with
half-hearted attention, the lid came off
again, for Mrs. Wilkes remarked:
:Iyntil women can forget personali-
ties: and: cam be eaincatea up to the
stlafidafd' OF 'rhsn,: .theE are not fit for
the. iallo:." -. -.
T6sseuiop Mrs. &.M. :hbuser arose
in defense of %dniahhSod. She de-
clared that men were personal in their
club arguments and that if the time
came when personalities did not enter
into discussions, there would be no
need of a ballot in the hands of any
body.
The chairman adjourned the meet
ings.
Back of today's battle in the SUI
trouble has been brewing between the
city and county organizations over the
amount of glory which ought to be
the prerogative of each.
Members of the city organization
think that the lecture given by Mrs.
Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman was
made entirely too exclusive by those in
oh
ally any desire to be present they say
that there are many heartaches over
the limited number of invitations sent
out
Mrs. Bertha Hirsch Baruch, who
managed the Gilman meeting, said yes
terday:
Mrs. Giimans lecture was given
under the auspices of the county asso-
citation, but it was a parlor talk for
those who might become converts to the
movement. 1t was not intended for
suffragists. The matter of arranging
for this meeting was carried entirely
upon my own shoulders, because Rev.
Eliza Tupper Wilkes, chairman of the
county lecture committee, thought it
unwise for the association, as an asso-
citation, to take the matter up. Mrs.
Wilkes objection to the matter was
based entirely upon the time of year
and the existing prejudice against Mrs
Gilman's views. At a meeting of the
ways and means committee offered to
give a parlor meeting at which Mrs.
Gilman should speak. The Gilman
meeting arose out of this offer"
City Feels Snubbed
The city association, however, be-
ieves that the meeting should have
been under the auspices of that organ.
ization, or that the name of the Equal
Suffrage association should have been
left off the invitations. Members of the
city association also whisper that
notices of county meetings are not sent
to the president of the local association.
although she is member of the county
board. They declare that locally the
cause OF suffrage must be hampered AS
long as the friction existing between
the officers of the two associations con-
tfnues.
Mrs. Mabel " Osborne. president of
the city organization, when stating her
position at the meeting yesterday, said:
1--WE understand that the city associa-
tion is in the eyes of the county asso-
citation only one Of many locals. We do |
not desire to lower the prestige Of this
county organization or to prevent the
organization of other locals. We do.
however, maintain that the city organ
ization must be recognized, that as an
Organization only can any club become
a member of the county association,
that the officers OF the county associa-
tion must look to this organization and
not TO the members of the county asso-
citation for guidance"
BARRED FROM PICNIC,