New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-11-04
SUFFRAGETTES HAVE
SWEET REVENGE
CAUSE ARREST OF ONE OF
THEIR DEAREST FOES.
IVomen Totcrs' Mock BaIloting
Brings Tictory to Debs
and Taft.

L was q busy day yesterday for the women
who want 10 vote. and for that particular olaIC'
Of them known as the suhragettes ottelWlse '4le
National Progressive WoInan's Suffrage Union II
vas a day Of triumph. They were excluded IL Is
true from the polls-sham ones eXcepted-out tney
experienced the sweetness of revenge IN sHo1 =
they comprised the arrest, on the charge OF lIesd
voting % walter l. Bunnen the election inspector
who wanted TO cali the police reserves to deAl
with Mrs Sofia Loebnser the day she u'eu ~
register in a bakery Eighth avenue between
18Th and 10th streets Mr. BunneH scteo IN has'e'
presumably. and is rependng at leisure
Mrs Ioebinger was expected TO act as an cleo
ton inspector herself the Colonial Theatre
where women were invited TO vote by the man
Hgenent but she sent Mrs. D. Weledinger IN her
place, with the message that she had an inpor-
1ant business engagement She was serving as
waitress in the bakery from which ny buhhe
had been SO DESTROYS Of ejecting her. She Went
there at $50 O'Clock in the morning with Inner D
davidson one of the male sufTragettes. who aided
and abetted the women in their attempts TO reg
lister and. finding the proprietor snort OF hep' she
offered her services and was accepted. mus she
remained on guard in cap and apron until lz:l'
o'clock when M BunneIl attempted to vote Mrs
1oebiuger then directed Mr.. Davidson to challenge
the vote on the ground that Nj Bunnei was
resident Orange. n. J. The police onlcer III At
tendance refused TO arrest Mr.. Bunnen, and Mrs
IIoebinger was elected from the premises But
sic went TO the Harlem police court made com
1,sjut agaiSst Ar. Bunnen and secured his ar
rest new chairman had TO be sworn in While
Nr. Bunnen went 10 court Magistrate Breen re-
leased him parole and the case VIII come up
At o'clock this afternoon. when, the sufragettes
xaz they can produce witnesses to prove that Mr..
I2unDau is not q resident of New York He gave
his address as No. 81 West 156th street a sana-
forum
T5av,n- d5sposed< Of Mr. BunreIl, Mrs Loebinger
proceeded the Colonial Theatre 10 DO her part IN
guarding me polls there The voting had been very
lively al day and was taken with the utmost seri-
BUSINESS by the voters Some, even thought that
they were indebted 10 Uncle Sam for the oppoT-
1unity 10 exercise the franchise, instead OF the
American sufTagettes and the management or the
theatre thought 1t worth while to
dignity the ceremony by consulting her husband as
her choice, and younger woman persisted II
voting spite OF indignant protests OF her es-
Cort- Twelve negro women voted-one for Bryan
and the rest for Taft-and a wyoming woman, Mrs.
=. w Gates. came TO seek such consolation as was
open 10 her for her exclusion from the real polls
She said it the first time since she was twenty
one thai she had not cast real vote in Presiden-
fial election
st the AIhanlbra Theatre in Harlem, where the
sufragettes were also in charge. many Of the
women were instigated by their husbands At the
Gotham Theatre. in Williamsburg, a band OF fifty
OF sixty women marched to the polls in body and,
after depositing their ballots enrolled as suf-
1ragettes
The result Of the voting in all the theatres under
the management Of Percy s Williams, two in New
YORK ana nVe IN BROOKLYN was the eICCLloI VI az
by q vote Of SO out Of 1872. Bryan got 456, Debs
z26 Hughes 725 and Chanler Go,
At the polling place Of the Harlem Equal Rights
league 125th street and Seventh avenue, Mrs. Car
re Chapman Gait narrowly escaped arrest for lille
sal voting. Having properly marked her ballot ii
one Of the three booths provided, she about te
deposit it in the ballot box herself, when one OF
The officials pounced upon her and informed hel
that she was breaking the Law. Voters were re-
CURED u register here before voting, and all tht
<orr1alities we're carefully obserN ed.
The Harlem Equal Rights League Is allied with
the orthodox sJlffrag ists and has dealings with
the National Progressive Woman Suffrage Union
otherwise the sufragettes but Miss Maud Malone
president OF the league. was formerly the leader
Of the sUfragettes, and is still militant as any
81 them She went through the streets with a huge
yellow poster pinned the front Of her dress with
Eliza beth Cady Stanton buttons inviting women
IN big black letters, come and vote Small boys
with bells and horns added to the effectiveness Of
the demonstration by forming d body guard around
her.
The result Of the balloting al the booths Of tbs
Harlem Equal Rights League a Overwhelming
Socialist victory Debs getting 2l2 votes, while Tai
and Bryan got only - and IS, respectively.
The League Of Self-Supp0rting Women, Of which
Mrs Harryot Stanton Batch Is president, spent the
day distributing literature, while buffet luncheon
Mrs Batch No. JOB East 18th street. Mrs. BlatcI
and he- daughter Mrs. Lee de Forest. dispensed
leaflets from an automobile in the afternoon and II
The morning the same machine carried Mrs. Al
berta Hin. Of Australia; Miss Alberta Hill. Mrs
JIsrrie1te Johnston Wood and Miss Vida Afilhol
land. OF Barnard.