New-York tribune., 1909-06-15
IN FIGHT FOR BALLOT
urs. Gait BelieUes IN Militant
Methods for Sufragists.

- rousing welcome home 10 Mrs Carrie
-.,-,an Catt az the Hotel Astor yesterday. with
- Hey York delegates 20 the recent suffrage con-
.,ton in London, including Mrs. o. H P. Bel
- and Dr. Anna Shaw the platform, Mrs
-. demonstrated that she had broJ ght home two
S.,zs from London One is a near-hyphen; every
- referred to her Mrs. Chapman Gait The
ss- is belief in more militant methods for Amer
-, s,rfragists from When the Interur-
- N-orrsn Suffrage Council gathers to-day for
- last meeting Of the season Mrs. Chapman Gait
= going 10 outline a plan OF work for which she
SHARED her hearers yesterday by a long descrfp-
on sf the situation in England and particularly OF
=. 4ehtlng sufragettes. One Of the members OF
ne council said afterward that probably nothing
,.rflins would he done until fall.
We plan have professions ending in open
~ meetings IN front of some place like Carnegie
nall then 10 adjourn to the hall. as is done in
r,slsnd. and its too warm for that sort of thing
now" she said
Mrs Chapman Gait told her hearers that II might
10 nip and tuck between the women Of England
sBd the women Of New York in the matter OF
retrog the ballot.
They have advantages over there. but we have
ssvsutases 100 she said 1t depends on you.
work and you make the Stars and Stripes
over them with a big hoop-la' before they can
vsve the Union Jack over you"
There was the speaker said. a strong anti
feminist movement in Europe. particularly on the
Continent
Z tried 70 analyze it" she said. and I decided
fbat the men who lead feel that their oldrine
domination is slipping away from them. and they
.-s making last stand for Il. They are barring
women out from state employment over there.
shutting the universities against them. taking
suav what little political influence they nave-a
good way 10 make women feel like rising against
them
Mrs Chapman Gait got applause and two lunches
of roses but It was Dr. Anna Shaw who brought
ont the .anens'' Dr. Shaw said she would be
hanged for the cause
English sQfragists,- she cried. would be burned
ST the stake + i would bring the ballot to women
Mrs. Chapman Gait plucked at her sleeve.
wouldn't you?' she said.
= would. Ia be hung for II But" DR.. Shaw
added. ! can't see. and I couldn't when I was in
England what good Il does to fight the police fo-
H. Il il would do any good I'd go out and have
fight with the frs policeman I saw II trA
works on the Hudson would advance the cause
II he in the middle Of the show, but the trouble
with these very spectacular methods is that the
pubic demands constant changes in the show"
Il was a great meeting. AL the clubs were rep
resented. Several ants including Mrs Gilbert
ard applauded politely. except when Mrs Fred
e-i.k Nathan told them that the best thing 20
help along the suffrage cause anti-suf-
traee league. Mrs Nathan made an impassioned
speecb announcing that she had just received
letter from Mrs. Clarence Mackay, who is in Paris.
sno that the letter had the suffrage stamp on Il
Mrs Belmont did not say q word. Gowned IN
hlsck she sat in corner Of the platform. almost
hidden by Mrs Eathan's blue silk and Mrs. Char
lote yVIlf51r's lavender and white lace. Others
Or the platform were Miss Ida Kraft, who pre-
s5ed; Mrs william u. WINS. Mrs Ella H. Cros-
~ state president Of the InteFurbans, and Mrs
rrran = Parsons, Of Rye. N Y