New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-02-09

Story ticket is said to have been the defeat Of
Miss Hay, the Hastings party feel in a measure
triumphant Another holly contested Office was
that OF first Vice-president and the Story party
is rejoicing over having carried it for Mrs Fred
erick Nathan, against Mrs. A. N. Palmer, who
is very popular. The ticket is said to be backed
by Mrs. Dore Lyon although she dsclaims any
connection with it, and in any case it intro
duces an entirely new element into federation
affairs neither Mrs. Story nor Mrs. Nathan
having been as prominent in its councils hereto
fore as the defeated candidates for the same
offices.
The complete ticket elected IS as follows:
President, Mrs. William Cumming Story; first
vice president. Mrs. Frederick Nathan; second
vice president, Mrs. Charles ". Fisk; third
ice-president, Miss Mary Garrett Hay; record
ing secretary, Mrs. John Francis Yawger; cor
responding secretary. Miss Meta Maynard:
treasurer. Mrs J. Ella Rood and historian, Mrs
Howard McNutt.
The election was perhaps the most stormy
that has been known in recent club politics
There were no heads broken, as Mrs. Lille
Devereux Blake remarked afterward, adding
that if they had been men that is what would
probably have happened. But the women init
mated in many words that they did not trust
either their fellow voters or the inspectors Of
vera, after appealing in vain for order and a
cessation Of electoneering, twice resigned the
chair into what she considered to be more COM
petent hands.
The trouble all arose CUT Of the informal bal
lot. Most clubs take this by mail before
the election, the result constituting the official
ticket, but the City Federation decided this
year to make up its own official ticket after
the delegates assembled. Many Of the women
objected TO this the ground that it gave an
undue advantage 20 people who wanted to cleo
tioneer for their candidates by showing them
how the wind was blowing, and confusion worse
COMPOUNDED the result
While the blank ballots which We're distrib-
uted TO the delegates as they sat in their seats
were being made out the supporters of both
parties electioneered industriously for their re-
spective tickets, although the president alter
nately besoUght them and ordered them to de-
sist, her voice, which had not been very strong
TO start with, growing hcarser and hoarser as
she strove to make herself heard above the din.
There is something more valuable than your
ticket at stake" she said i mean the repu-
tation of this body
Her words fell upon deaf ears, and as her
voice was rapidly failing, she asked Mrs Angus
tine Wilson, the first vice-president. to take
the chair. Mrs. Wilson said:
Your president has appealed to you in vain
and has asked me TO see if can restore order"
There was a temporary hush, but it did not
last long. Meantime, the blank ballots had been
filed out, and Mrs. De Rivera ordered the in
spectors Of election 10 collect them They began
10 do so. but the work brought to sudden
standstill. Some one had seen an inspector mt
a handful OF ballots all at once into the box It
looked like stuffing and was certainly Irregular
Inquiry developed the fact that the inspeotor
had made the mistake of collecting the ballots
OF the officers in her hand and then nuttins
them into the box. In order to save time Mig
DE Rivera appealed 10 the house to accent Tho
ballots. but this the body refused 10 do tn
box was accordingly brought up before the
presidents table and opened in the presence of
all the inspectors. The ballots were handed 70
the president one by one. and she counted m 70
thirteen. Then she tore the troublesome bits oS
paper into small pieces. again the officers cast
their ballots. But even now the coIlectfon oS
the ballots was not allowed to proceed E,rol
all over the room came complaints that nAonIa
were voting who had right TO do so ana H.
chairman OF inspectors, Mrs. Priscilla HacL
stan. said that il was absolutely Impossible 60
the inspectors TO tell who were duly accre5,ted