The Detroit times., 1909-12-25
MRS. CABOT IS
WOMAN OF HOUR
Leader of Suffrage Committee Is
Vigorous and Sensational Factor
in Fight for Votes.

NEW YORK. Dec. pa new wo-
man OF the hour has developed in the
suffrage ranks In the person of Mrs.
Francis Cabot. who while for some
time identified with the Cause, has
only recently come into prominence
as the director OF the energies Of the
votes for women committee, which, or
ganized from many differing ele-
ments. Is not only one OF the most
vigorous but a most sensational fac
tor In the work.
Mrs. Cabot has been earning her
political laurels in the pursuit OF the
candidates for Senator McCarren's
place. The Brooklyn headquarters OF
the votes for women committee at
No. 16 Grand-st., already has been the
scene OF conferences where the wo-
men have put the burning question to
the candidates and formed plans ac-
cordingly.
With Mrs. Cabot. Mrs. Harriet Stan.
ton Blatch had been the moving spirit
In this campaign, and their associates.
Mrs. John Winters Brannan, whose
husband is the president OF Bellevue
and the Allied hospitals: Miss Caro-
line Lexow. Miss Elizabeth Ellsworth
Cooke, Miss A. j. c. Perkins and Miss
Alberta Hill make up corps of work
ers pledged to the policy OF resistance
VIII Seek Defeat Of Foes.
The rallying cry Is. Fight Our
Enemy" All are agreed that those
who are friendly to the enfranchise-
ment OF woman may be safely left to
their own devices. But wherever the
enemy Is to be found and the hunt for
him is persistent. he Is to be harried
into submission or defeat.
The decision to use every possible
occasion for the political training OF
which they feel themselves In need
has resolved these women to take a
hand in the different elections
throughout tn state.
Mrs. Hettie Graham, who was the
almoner for Mrs. Russell Sage, is now
in Buffalo working quietly in the
pending election for the assembly. In
three hours after her arrival in that
city she had made arrangements to
confess" the candidates and had put
herself in touch with local suffragists
willing to carry out the necessary
chastening of the disaffected. The
women speak directly to the constitu-
ents and ask their opinion OF man
who would keep half the people
from having a voice in the govern
ment"
During the coming week Mrs. Cabot
and Mrs. Blatch will 60 to Canandai-
qua. the Raines district. to insert a
finger in the political pie. The aid OF
the Geneva Suffrage club. one OF the
largest in the state. under the leader
ship OF Miss Anne Fitzhugh Miller,
will be asked.
This phase OF the movement, while
one OF the most militant departures.
is championed by women OF unques-
toned social position and Is indicative
OF the extremes TO which the senti-
ment for suffrage has grown.
Backed BY Good Fighters.
Mrs. Cabot, the chairman OF the
is the secretary OF the Col
ony club, one which boasts an ex-
elusive membership Of New York's
wealthy women. She is likewise
member OF Mrs. Clarence Mackay's
Equal Franchise Society. and has
found her sympathies wide enough to
stand shoulder to shoulder with the
woman who works In the Equality
League for SelhSupporting Women.
Mrs. Brannan is also member Of the
Equal Franchise society. Miss LexOw
is connected with the Collegiate Equal
Suffrage association. Mrs. Blatch is
well-known as the president OF the
Equality League for Self-Supporting
Women. which she founded She Is
Inflated with Mrs. Mackay's organi-
zation and others, was one of the
at the polls. and as the
wife OF a British citizen
has filed an application for naturaliza-
ton in her own country.
While the votes for women com
mittee has these volunteer workers
at command. it has also background
of women interested in financing any
unusual departures.
Mrs. Cabot while working with the
OF which she is chairman.
is laying up a store OF knowledge for
the regular campaign under the State
Suffrage association. for which $4,000
is now being raised.