The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-02-06
TAMMANY NOT IN
t WITH WOMEN'S
CLUB POLITICIANS
"Fed" Managers Play Game
3 to Limit in Meeting That
Defeats Suffragists.
GOLD" FACTION WINS.
Mrs. de Rivera Again Presi-
dent, but Part Of Her
r. Ticket Is Beaten.
"OLD" FACTION WINS.

Every club woman In New Work hon
esty believed until yesterday that wo-
men should vote. Now It's all different.
About three hundred OF them straggle ed
: home between the hours OF and
o'clock last night most disappointed
wretched bunch OF politicians. And the
Idea! Any number OF the delegates
scorned petition 10 Congress begging
chance for women voters. 1t was the
shock Of the convention. The suffragist
, wing Of the Federation almost COL
. lapsed. Remarks-and remarks by wo-
b men voters are generally pertinent or
appertaining to-were freely passed
about the election methods.
Talk about Tammany prmaries-they
don't class with real w0man's con-
, vention where two representative club
women are set up as targets for the
, feminine partisans. Mrs. Belle de RI
vera, leader OF "rhe Odds" defeated
Mrs. William Grant Brown. standard
bearer Of THE News" for Presidency,
but at frightful loss. Five Of the
eight candidates OF her ticket were en-
quilted Her campaign manager. Mrs. 8.
Dickinson Lewis, was forced 10 play
politics from the time the first ballot
was cast, to pull her candidate over a
winner
Husbands as Advisers.
And such politics. From A. NJ. until
after P. NJ. the eighth floor Of the As
tor was damned by jostlhg. humming
crowd Of lobbying, cauctisng women,
vino husgod, kissed. fiattered and often
dropped to their knees in supplication
for votes. And squabbles on the Con-
vention floor were turning up every min
ute.
1t was early evident that Mrs. Browns
lid for the Fed" presidency was to be
live one Her managers, Mrs. James
a. Allen and Mrs. Frank P. Adams, had
conferred for weeks on the best cam
paigr tactics. even getting wholesome
advice from smiling husbands.
For sidelishts on the convention e1-
actly slshtesa tuning spouses sat in tho
corridors smoking long black cigars all
evening and not even speaking to one
another. Probably all Of them ate
alone. They didn't look like happy club
women's bubbles. Once In a while soma
one would bring word from the eighth
floor, where they dared not venture,
about the returns. and then all would
lapse into a soliloquy, probably on
women's ways.
The voters were faultlessly gownsd
for the clash Any owning Daughters
Of the Revolution, Mexican. Civil, Span
hh or other war buttons. pins, brooches
or ribbons or decorations for honors as
suffraglsts were fully equipped. Sousa
has some decorations, but his medal,
don't show how his grandfathers great
erandparent died. Tammany Hall might
improve In this respect.
What tho Man Thought
Then the campaign managers-Mrs
Allen and Mrs. Lewls-tall, handsome,
otately club leaders, were attired In a
mournful black. Not like Murphy and
McCarren they were observed speaking
once Incidentally. Mrs Lewis was
described as the best looking woman
there by rude man who squrmsd
into the sanctum. Mrs. Lewis's rivals
likely admitted this. but not out loud.
Mrs. William Cummings Story, the
chairman, welded the big, stick" with
indifferent success. The only difference
between her and President RooseveIt
was that she was present and he was
absent and he won and she lost. Mrs.
De Rivera's friends plainly stated that
Mrs, story fattered Mrs. Brown when
her years activities were rehearse on
the convention floor and maintained
discreet silence after Mrs. De Rlvera's
report was read. This, they held, indi-
Gated the administrative backing II
also showed that canned conventions
won't go with women.
OF course, some mem Asphalt
Hodge, H. l.. j. Porter Donald Chal-
mers and Robert watchorn-spoke.
He said:
Fellow citizens Gaughter) you are
now active politicians (cries OF good,
good. You II soon be in public life
lcheers) and your husbands will know
II, too, 'tfou, betH from wzened
holders you'll be called grafters
tfneD, boodlers tgoodD and the
papers will roast you Ihurrah, that's
u.s., and maybe your husbands won't
speak to you won't that be great ~
In all there were forty-six speakers.
one delegate addressing the chair
twenty-nine times IN twcnty-nne
ways
BY o'c'ock-aftcr the legal hour when