New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-10-29
WOMEN HOLD CONVENTION
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, the
"Biq Boss" Wins HurrahS.
P. SNOWDEN, M. P, SPEAKS
Mrs. Bailey, Tired of This Queen
Business" Regrets Absence of
Mrs. Moses at Sinai.

political convention sans the right 10
vote may seem like Hamlet without the mel
ancholy Dane. but the women who attended
the second annual convention of the
Woman Suffrage party, at Carnegie Hall.
last night. felt as gloriously political as if
the drama Of woman suffrage were COM
pleted
From the s91 delegates on the floor. rep
resenting the sixty-three Assembly Dis
tricts of the greater city, from the crowded
boxes and from the rows of votes for
women advocates on the stage there went
UP such waves OF enthusiasm that Mrs
Carrie Chapman Gait, Big Boss" of the
party. said. when she rose to speak, that
she felt as If she were in real politics and
had just been nominated for Alderman
Every woman there applauded. and some
achieved feminine hurrahs. and if the 1T
tie group of "antis'' in the box of Mrs. Gil
bert Jones, of the League for the Civic
Education of Women. did not share in the
general glow they politely hid the fact
No one. however, applauded with so much
apparent joy as did Senator George Agnev,
Of the 18th Senate District. whom Mrs.
Pearce Bailey lured TO the convention and
into her box and then treated to a verbal
casttgation from the platform.
L like Senator Agnew." she said. after
abiding to his anti" convictions We
used TO play tag together around Madison
Square when we were children. But what
the Senator knows about women is per
fectIy appalling man like that is wasted
at Albany. He ought TO be editing a ladies
magazine"
Mrs Bailey assured the few men in the
audience that women were tired Of the
queen business"
We have been called uncrowned queens
all our lives" she added, but, gentlemen
there's nothing in It for US. The trouble
is that we haven't taken hand in the
worlds affairs If one of the several Mrs
Mosese' had been on Mount Sinai with
Moses there would have been more about
women in the Ten Commandments.
The convention had real live English
NJ P on the platfOrm-Phihp Snowden
who is visiting America.
Mr.. Suowden said in his address that ne
came to this country under the impression
that the woman suffrage movement was
behindhand here. but he had discovered mis-
mistake.
The first American I met on reaching
these shores" he said. demanded from
me TO know all about the suffrage move
terested in me only on account Of my as
sociat ton with the movement for equal
franchise"
''SuppIiants at the feet of the tiger or
the elephant is what Mrs. Gait called New
York suffragists, when. as permanent chair
man of the convention. she rose to make
her speech. She described at length the
efforts Of herself and her coworkers TO
T1aTT n
cratic leaders.
But sooner or later" she said. "the tiger
and the elephant will take notice of the
Woman Suffrage party. In the short year
since our party was organized we have en-
rolled more than twenty thousand mem
bers. every one OF whom has left with US
a signed slip attesting her or his belief
in equal franchise.
And to secure that enrolment cost US
a little less than one-thtrd Of a cent a
name-an earnest of the economy women
will show when we take a hand in the
government of the country
Mrs. Gait said the party had collected and
expended over 5000. of which 5000 was
given by Mrs. Russell Sage.
We shall win" she concluded, and a
victory for our cause in New York viii
mean Speedy success IOL every OLHCL StotC
in the Union
The platform. which was read by Mrs
William Warner Penfield, called upon the
Legislature of New York TO grant the
voters of the state their vested prerogative
of extending or withholding the suffrage
A plank condemning Clause 70 of the Page
bin evoked hearty applause. and so did one
demanding women associate judges in the
Night Court Children's Court and DOres-
tic Relations Court.
In conclusion the platform made pa
thetic appeal to men to Join the Men :
League for Woman Suffrage. in order
that our appeals may not go forth from
women alone.
Sufragists pointed with pride" to the
democratic character of the convention
Somhre-faced Yiddish women from the East
Side sat cheek by jowI with women who
came in their own automobiles Teachers,
lawyers. physicians. housewives. working
women and women OF leisure Joined with
one voice in the one demand.
Among the suffrage leaders present were
Mrs Harriet Stanton Batch and Mrs. Fred
eric Nathan. both OF whom spoke; Miss
Helen Varick Boswell and Mrs. Henry Viii
lard Mrs o. II. 2. Belmont, who had a
box. came in late. A gap in the ranks was
caused by the absence OF Mrs Clarence
Mackay. who read the platform at the first
convention Mrs. Mackay is entertaining a
weekend aviation party at her home, on
Long Island.