Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-22
SUFFRAGE WOES
SKATER NERVES
WORRY SENDS CITY LEADER
TO A HOSPITAL
STRIFE OVER VENICE MONEY
Two Organizations Disagree concern-
ing Use Of PsItry Fifty Dollars
Miss Anthony Receives
No Fee

Mrs. Mabel V. Osborne, president of
the Los Angeles City Equal Suffrage
association, is i'll at the California hos
pital.
"A nervous breakdown, the result of
overwork and worry on account of the
strife which has existed for some time
between certain members of the city
association and some of the officers of
the county association" say her
friends.
Mrs. Osborne is too Ill to say any
thing.
The county convention will be held
In October and 1t Is thought that each
faction will make desperate effort for
control. The officers of the county as
sociation will be elected at this time,
and there may be a difference of
opinion as to whom shall be given the
honors.
There are whisperings to the effect
that leaders of both factions are max
ing plans to strengthen their oragniza-
tions with a view to securing the
balance of power in the convention and
thus the right to name the officers for
the ensuing year.
Mrs. osborne's Grievance
Mrs. Osborne's illness will retire her
from the field of action and if she had
made plans they will probably not be
carried out. Her friends feel that she
has a grievance as the president of the
city association and declare they will
not let the subject rest
In the meantime the trouble which
has arisen and which is to some only
mole hill has become to others noun
tain almost unsurmountable.
The first hard feeling arose over a
failure of the associations to agree as
to the relative importance of each. and
at the last meeting of the city associa-
tion both sides gave opinions as to their
rights in the case in Enthusiastically
strong terms.
Since that meeting still another bone
of contention has been retained from
the suffrage symposium held at Venice
with Miss Susan B. Anthony and Rev.
Anna Shaw as star attractions.
1t is said that Miss Anthony had car
Mills, president of the Venice assembly,
and that she had refused to speak for
him for any consideration less than
$780, She did not speak on any of the
regular programs of the assembly, but
appeared at the suffrage symposium.
Trouble Over Money
Under the management of the COM
mittee of arrangements from the
crowd which up to date had been at
tracted to Venice was secured for that
meeting. The suffrage association re-
ceived $50 as it's share of the gate re-
ceipts and Miss Anthony received
nothing.
Now that the time for disposition of
the $50 has come some of the members
of the city association think that Miss
Anthony should receive it, while others
of the county association say this idea
is ridiculous and that Miss Anthony's
service was given to the association
and not to the Venice assembly.
When asked for her opinion of the
case last evening the president of the
county organization, Mrs. Bertha Hirsh
Baruch, declined to be interviewed.
st have nothing to say at the present
time and I refuse absolutely to be in
terviewed," said she.
One of the other officers Of the asso-
citation said she believed that there are
one or two who think the money should
not go into the county treasury, but
she felt there is no ground for their
opinion.
Miss Anthony's Share
1.-THE money has not been formally
turned over to the executive board and
no official disposition could be made of
it." said she. "I am sure that Miss
Anthony was entirely satisfied, and it
would be unreasonable to ask that all
the money be given her. as there were
expenses to be paid"
Still another suffrage worker was not
quite so sure about Miss Anthony think
ing her treatment fair.
ut was a burning shame" said she
with vehemence, and then she too real
lied that she did not care to be inter-
viewed.