New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-01-10
CITY FED" POLITICS
Women Improve on Tammany
Methods in Booming Candidates.

If any Tammany politician wants pointers in
the art of manipulating elections let him come to
us" This Is the substance of remarks that may
be heard among almost any group OF clubwomen
these degenerate days. each of the two presiden-
tfal parties of the City Federation. which are
headed by Mrs. Belle de Rivera and Mrs. William
Grant Brown, attributing the Tammany methods to
the other Everything do is interpreted as
politics by Our enemies each party declares but
the de Rivera party considers that 1t has the
greater to complain of these interpretations.
Because Mrs. Sarah Dickinson Lewis is man
aging the campaign Of Mrs. de Rivera and her
party, and also managed that of the present
president, Mrs William Cumming Story. the title
OF boss has been bestowed upon her by the
enemy.
Because Mrs de Rivera happens to be presi-
dent of the City Federation Hotel Company the
efforts that being made to get that 1nstitu
ton open called politics. and because some
recommendations for the safeguarding OF the
coming election, which have just been sent to
the board Of directors. are signed by the members
of this party, another shrek of campaign capt.
tal' will undoubtedly be raised.
That there is enough for these recon-
mendations nobody probably will deny. Charges
Of ballot box stuff1ng were freely made at the last
election. and the delegates stated with great
phass and lucidity the floor of the convention
that they didn't trust one another. That the COM
ing election will present less occasion for such
recrminations is not at all likely. But that the
suggestion for reform should come from the source
it does from is sure to be deeply resented by
those who did not think of. this way Of making
campaign capital"
They. with their Tammany methods. pose
purifiers of politics!'' is the Indignant comment
of those who have hedr1 OF this IntVe.
The recommendations in question suggest among
other things a bipartisan board of election IN
spectors arrangements whereby the number of
ballots counted shall correspond with the number
OF stubs detached from them and the number of
delegates voting. The signatories Mrs. William
o. Grimshaw, Mrs. Thomas ]. Vivian Cora Weles
Trow, Georgetta Rucker Airline, st. j. Alexander,
Mrs. E. Monroe Hand, Mrs. F. K. Morse. Carrie
q. Bunz. Fannie Z. Thayer Marie A. Benedict,
Imogene King, Mary J. McNutt.
Even the age of the two candidates is being
utilized for campaign purposes. Mrs. de Rvera's
supporters say that Mrs. William Grant Brown is
TOO young, and Mrs. Browns friends retort that
Mrs de Rivera Is too old. The de Rivera adherents
retort that experience counts fer something, and
protest thei, willingness submit their candidate
10 expert test of her physical and mental vSor.
The Brown followers think that the Biblical words
wisdom is gray hair to man apply equally
ell to woman
\ side issue which threatens nevertheless to
disrupt the Press Club Is the candidacy of Nine.
Evans Won Klenner and Miss Florence Guernsey
for the vice presidency, the two being president
and vice-president of the Press Club
Gin of battle there is a considerable number of
women who not satisfied with either of the two
tickets in the field