New-York tribune., 1908-01-11
SUFFRAGETTES RALLY.
Hrs. CObden-SaRderson and Others
Spar srith Madison Square CrOscd.

Sure III women must want tn vote bad. t
sphout - it on sthrate corners sich day
That was the opinion of one-half the audience at
the open air sufragette meeting at Madison Square
yesterday morning. That half was a small man
with a skeptical eye. But the other half being
woman thought differently.
.If you walked up some mornin' and found this
country bein' run by one sex. an that not
yours wouldn't YOU be after spoutn'. too?"
The audience grew larger the meeting went
on At five minutes 10 Il o'clock Il being the hour
announced. il looked If there would be no one
10 receive the bolts. TO hurl them, either Madi-
Square East empty. save for an icy blast
two policemen and shivering man with a portable
stand But precisely at i Mrs. Golden n-Sanderson
appeared. large and determined and Mrs B. Borr-
mann Wells small and equally determined. Then
came Miss Maud Malone. OF Harlem bearing aloft
a placard which said:
Votes for women, Sign the petition TO amend
the constitution. whereby women will be enfran-
chisedr'
The next arrival was Bolton Hail. in 'stove
pipe hat, conspicuously respectable that the
TWO policemen heaved sigh Of relief and dropped
back Then a small army Of photographers de
scended upon the scene and two messenger boys
stopped what was happening. Cheered by
the sight. the speakers marched across the street
10 the place where the shivering nursing
the portable stand. Miss Malone led the way with
her banner. which she planted beside the stand
with such manful energy that, II II had not been
for her saying that il did not hang right and
wouldn't somebody lend her pin the flavor of
emancipation would nave been complete.
Alexander Irvine. who volunteered to open the
bali struck one spark Of enthusiasm out Of the
crowd that began TO gather.
Il my wife TO vote he announced.
All amt he the jewel OF a husband sighed
the woman who had argued with the skeptical man
Men declare that virtue and purity reside in
woman. yet they unwilling allow this virtue
TO express itself in the Legislature" continued Mr.
Irvine Give women the vote,''
All sure. there'n niver be civilization till git
it said the woman. fervently.
Isn't il wonderful the speaker asked. ITO see
these delicate women coming out this cold January
morning TO convince the passersby, whether they
have large brains or small ones, or, and he looked
severely at the gathering crowd Of men no brains
al ALP
''Oh the suffragettes have brains. all right, all
right" opined in the rear, only they don't
use en- right"
When Mrs. Wells mounted the stand the crowd
listened attentively, whether from interest the
novelty of the situation
i met a certain self-satisfied man the other
day" she began, and he said to me. Why, what
would you do with the vote if you had il? You'd
take it home and make pie Of it, I suppose?'
And what have you done with the vote" I
asked him. You've taken it to Albany and made
hash of fl -
Bolton Hall, the next speaker. was evidently
aching TO talk about single tax, but restrained
himself and proceeded 10 demOlSh the argument
that women oughtn't to vote because they don't
fight
1t is false TO say that women don't fight" he
said ardently. False 10 say that they don't fight
with physical force They do"
'Ah. true for you. They do calculated a man
with black eye and two deep scratches on his
right check.
War said NIr. Hall. with a hasty effort to get
away from the personal flavor, is becoming more
and more matter Of brains, and / feel sure that
given the chance. women could pursue that sort
of warfare cleyerly and as inexorably as men"
Miss Harriet Keyser mounted the stand TO say
that there had been lot OF talk lately open
ar meetings not being respectable, but that she
considered the good cause insured the le-
Gosctsbility. We women tired she ended
sfter a brief argument, tired of being disfran-
chsed auxiliaries.'
Mrs. Golden Sanderson. who sails for England
to-day. made her farewell speech. Some things
said about what woman suffrage had done in
New Zealand stirred the wrath q man in t>e
fringe OF the crowd
NO petucoat government FOR me- he called
taun;ingly.
I'm sorry.' replied the speaker, ITO hear man
say that Bat vote isn't kept from Us by men
It's kept from US by the Indifference Of women Of
the upper class. They have all they want say
they. Yes, and they have than they need
they are prisoners Of luxury. l don't look TO the
rlch for help In this reform-I look the com
people"
The crowd numbered perhaps two hundred not
80 large as the crowd the first open air meet
Ing but, on the other hand a orderly and
attentive one