New-York tribune., 1909-05-14
NEW SUFFRAGE MOVE
MORE MILITANT TACTICS.
Mrs. Pemce Bailey and Others Go
"Sufrdgetting"

distinctly new phrase Of the woman suffrage
movement in America initiated al noon yes
terday. when a yellow banner bearing in big black
letters the familiar legend Votes for Women
let out from the back OF a big red automobile
which had stopped in front of Dr. Charles H
Parkhurst's church. In Madison Square in the
car were Mrs Pearce Bailey, Mrs Francis Cabot,
Miss Rosale Jonas, Miss Josephine Casey and
Mrs Harriet Stanton Batch and the unfurling
o. the yellow banner preliminary TO the hold
ing OF open air meeting. Open air suffrage
meetings have IL is true. become m old story
since the National Progressive Woman Suffrage
Union crossed the Rubicon which divides the suf-
fragist from the sufragette: but for members or
Mrs. Clarence H. Mackays Equal tTanchse
League. hitherto a most correct and conservative
body to take 90 ''suffragetting' is something new
and sufficiently disquietng have made the stones
@: the church cry out in protest, in the absence
os DR.. Parkhurst, whose fulminations against the
female nsurgent have attracted considerable AT
;tention Of late But the stones said nothing, and
neither did anybody else. Five pohcemeh were
there 20 keep order. under the command Of Cap
!sain Haines, but they might as well have oeen
sent for keep order st a prayer meeting so
quiet and respectful the crowd by which the
women were Immediately surrounded The park
was bright and beautiful, like the millinery OF
the insurgents. and nature well as man seemed
10 be quite unconscious OF impending revolt
tion.
Mrs Rlatch acted as chairman. with the automo-
bile as a platform. and Miss Jonas and Mrs Capot
distributed literature. which included pamphlet
entitled Some Suffrage Ideals by Edith Bailey
The audience WAS almost entirely masculine 10 the
disappointment OF Mrs. Bailey. who, not belhs
accustomed TO open air meetings. had expected 10
,alk Ia women She prefers to do that, because
she believes that women will have 10 give the
ballot to themselves and that when theE TealiS
want il no power on earth can keep thei' ION ION
getting it Mrs Batch. on the contrary nhes
hest 10 falk to men. and likes open air meetings
because men come to them
~you are SO shy and coy she said, that you
wont come into a hail he talked TO. and 50 We
have 10 come you. because when We Get 'ilo
.bsuo- II will he YOU who will give il 10 US
Before introducing Mrs. Bailey. Mrs Blatch
begged the men not tell any Of the speakers 10
go home and mind the kids
a man never tells an actress who amuses MIN
70 60 home and mind the kids " she said he
snesn-, go into the factories where women are
sweating out their lives to make clothes Tor MN
and tell them TO go home and mind the Alos- f'4I
tbe minute woman asks for vote he becomes
alarmed about the welfare Of her chldren- ne
doesn't even stop TO inquire whether she is grand
mother like myself. whose kids have grown up
and left her or an unmarried woman who hash
any kids.
r,t assured the audience that they were cared Tor
all the better because their mother was 1l'eres'ou
an something outside the four walls Of her home
Mrs Bailey who wore light gray tailor mace
Eoz-n with a becomingly howered hat, argued mat
women would have TO gain the right TO take @ cale
Of themselves before they would be properly taken
care OF.
.Mr Root thinks that women should be protected
by their husbands and brothers." she sad Dut ne
doesn't offer to provide husbands and brothers Tor
all women No one can help women but them
selves and no give them the ballot out
themselves II the Mayor were woman ule
teachers would stand a much better chance OF gel
ting their equal pay bill signed, and If there were
feu women members on the Board OF Education
there wouldn't Re so much opposition from that
quarter -.
Miss Josephine Casey. working woman whose
Main black dress in striking contrast 10 the
smart gowns around her protested against being
asked 10 give any reasons for her desire 10 vote
IF vou want 70 go out OF your house she said,
and some one tries 10 stop you You don argue
with that person about 7hy you want to go lou
simply say. I want to go out 1t is the same way
with voting I want to because am not a
child am not criminal and am not an idiot
After the addresses Mrs. Bailey volunteered 10
answer questions, but no one had any TO ask ana
when she asked
Does any one here see any reason why women
shouldn't vote:' quite a number of Nolces salo
..No"
Evidently you have all been converted" said
Mrs Blatch. Then prove il by helping US 10 carry
on the work You do that by giving US money.
Tu-o men accordingly gave up their hats as con-
tribution boxes and they were circulated on the
outskirts Of the crowd the collectors not having
courage to penetrate TO the interior. The coin thus
collected was empted the back seat Of the auto
mobile, the yellow banner was hauled IN ana the
car rolled off to the Colony Club, while the occu-
-pants waved adeu 10 the crowd At the club the
party was entertained at luncheon by Mrs. CABOT
and plots were laid for future sensations
All the women who participated in the demon
stration. with the exception of Miss Casey are
members OF the Equal Franchise League, but Mrs
Rlatch said that the meeting was entirely free
lance affair." for which the league was in no wise
responsible.