The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-12-05
Women for and Against
Votes Have a Stormy
Day in New York.
BUNCH OF TOADIES,
SAYS MRS. WELLS
English Crusader Raps Those Who
Oppose Equal Suffrage-Mrs.
Snowden Speaks.

NEW YORK. Dec. 5.-It was a hard
day for the women who are struggling
for and against the ballot for
their sex In the forty years his
tory Of woman movement sO-called New
York has seen no such display or the
grandes danes of society mingling with
those Of lesser glory IN aggressive loyal
" TO both standards.
Under the National League for civic
Education, which Is headed by Mrs.
Richard Watson Glider, Mrs. Ressiter
johnson, Mrs. Albert Jones and others.
an afternoon meeting was held at the
Berkeley Theater which brought the
batteries Of President Roosevelt. Score
tarv OF state Root, DIT. Lyman Abbott
Richard Watson Glider and President
Nicholas Murray Butler, Of Columbia,
20 bear upon the iniquity OF giving
woman the vote
This was attended by two suhragettes,
one OF whom has recently come from
Imprisonment IN England, the other
having hailed an inspector OF elections
10 court on the charge Of Illegal voting.
In fear Of trouble. Captain LanJry ana
tive policemen were on duty out beyond
reprfmanding the suffragettes for inter
ruptiOns, no excitement arose 10 can
their authority into action.
Speak in Open Air.
The suffragettes. with Mrs. Wells, Of
England, and Mrs. Soma Loebinger as
chief speakers, contented themselves
with an open-air protest on the street
corner afterward.
In the evening Carnegie Hall was
damned with the sympathizers OF
v-oman's fight for the ballot. Mrs Car
II IL
ternationaI Suffrage League, was IN the
chair and opened and closed the aTgu-
rnent The affair was given IN the IN
rerest of InJerurbau Woman Suffrage
Council, and the speakers included Mrs.
Philip SuOWden, an English suUraSlsI
and orator OF beauty and eloqueHce; the
Rev. Charles Aked and Rabbi Wise
The boxes We're filled with society
women and the house rang with enthu-
In the center sat Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait, the president OF the inter
national Suffrage League with the Rev
Anna Shaw, the head of the national
body, on her right, and Mrs. Phlllp
Snowden, the wife OF the English NJ
p whose appearances on the LABOR
platform and in pulpits has, al twenty
seven, made her a remarkable ngure.
Beyond her was Mrs. Ellen Crussett,
president of the New York state sur
rage forces, and at either end sat
William NJ. Wins and Rev. DIT. Charles
Aked.
Women of the 400"
Facing them IN that double tier We're
Mrs. Clarence Mackay. Mrs. George
Gould, Mrs. Philip Lydig, Mrs. Egerton
Winthrop, jr., Mrs. ErnestO Fabbri.
Mrs. william X. Vanderbilt jr-, Miss
Dorothy Whitney, and Mrs Perry Bel
rnont-names that have never hereto
fore been associated with womens
rights, II Mrs. Mackays night for
position on the school board be eX-
Mrs Gait. in introducing 4Irs. Snow
den, said that the woman Question was
neither local nor national, but part OF
q larger question as wide as the
world.
Oueenly in appearance and manner
the young EnglishWOman, with a voice
OF wonderful power and a magnetic
point uncovered. related the story OF
her counryWomen's battle for the bal
lot.
A Vivid Narrative.
It was vivid narrative. tingling with
life, as IN the scene when she described
Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman, when
his government has just come into pow
er
I'VE have on a modest calculation
10000 pleged TO vote for women, The
electorate - only tO1,pO9r but II we had
the whole house Of parliament II would
mean nothing TO US so long as the cab
met is divided And you will please
take notice that all our efforts are Gi-
rected against the cabinet ministers A
modest member IS not sh for us.
The speaker said that were such
things done TO the American women s
she had seen done to the English wOm-
en-. there would be some lynChing. Liy,
mice and rats were thrown 70 them
and stones hurled that in one instance
cut open the cheek OF General FTenchs
sister. She styled these the milder IT.
suits. But there were others, impOs-
sible to repeat. Mrs. SnOwden bade
her hearers remember that these work
e-s did not get themselves jailed for
fun; that Il was no amusement to
languish In an English prison 20 be kick
ed about, II was supreme devotion.
Mrs Wells Interrupts
At the meeting OF the National
League for Civic Education in the after
noon. during DR.. AbbOtt's address. he
was frequently interrupted by Mrs B
Borrmann Wells and five or six other
members Of the National Progressive
Woman Suffrage Union. which was or
Eanized in New York last spring by Mrs.
Wells and other English "sUffUagettes."
Mrs. Wells has Just arrived from Lon
DON and spoke with great vigOr against
the New YORK women who are opposing
the movement here.
"They are a bunch Of toadies." she
shouted, who bask in the sunshine Of
wealth"