The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-11
JIMMY OLIVER DENIES IT
'BCT WOMEN WILL MEET TO
PROTEST AGAINST HTN.
Fast side EaaaI nights League. 90 which
Dr. Anna Mercy d President. 60 Lead
the FIRht Woman WhO says <he Was
Insultcd win Repeat Her story.


the FIKht Woman WhO sayS She Was
InsaItcd WIN Repeat ner story.
Assemblyman James divers privileged
statement in the Legislature yesterday
afternoon denying that he had insulted
Miss Henrietta Mercy. who went To Al
bany "Wednesday 10 ask him on behalf
Of the women ~ the Third Assembly
district TO vote for the suffrage amend
ment, has NOS served - abate the indig-
nation OF the women who are leading the
eight for the ballot.
Miss Mercy reported yesterday the
story % the episode which she told to
reporters on the Franchise Special We'd
nesday night.
The East Side Equal Flights League. Of
which her sister DIR. Anna Mercy ID presi-
dent. will hold n mass meeting tonight
at Second avenue and First street to
protest.
Miss Mercy will give an account 81 the
interview with the Tammany legislator
and Maude Malone will tel the crowd
what she thinks Of man who would ait
with his hat on and advise young woman
to go up and hug and kiss a legislator in
order To get him TO do what she wanted.
Mrs. James Lees Iaidlaw. who 10 the
chief organizer Of the district work Of
the woman suffrage party headed by
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. has promised
that her organi n ton will siTt the matter
thoroughly.
James Oliver. Tammany. the Paradise
Park statesman. made a privileged state
ment in I he Legislature to-day uenyinR
a ~ 4. a
one oG the young suffrage advocates
la favor OF the EFFORT making to secure
ballots for women
Mr.. Oliver IN very earnest statement
declared that hrs talk with the young
woman was Ina the presence Of some twenty
or twenty-five other men and women
and that Il he had 30 far for gotten himself
a. ~ make tho statements which Miss
Mercy Savs he did u could not have been
possible that all the other men within
hearing would have permitted the anront
To- 90 unchsllenged
he denied that any -Ich occurrence
ever took place. and appealed to those
who knew him best To testify u 70 was
like him to have done such "A thing Mr..
Oliver declared that he had lived for
SIXTY two years on the Fast Side of New
York that he knew all the women and
most of the children In HE district and
although the young Woman had said she
was from has district he knew that that
was not 80.
Stories had been published 20 the effect
that MT Oliver had told Miss Mercy that
she should work for suffrage with a kiss
as the street girls get things
Mr.. divers stout denial Of tho charge
that he had made such a settlement 10 the
young woman was lacked up to-day bv
testimony given on the Assembly moor
by three Of his colleagues who declared
they overheard the conversation.
Asssmhlynan McCiIe. Tammany. as
serted that Mr.. Oliver spoke pleasantly
TO Miss Mercy aud at no time did he say
anything to her about girls GA the Htrests.
There was HOthng in the words that
passed hetween them. he said that any
body could cOnstTue as Icing the least
disrespectful
As@emblyman James J Walker. Tam
many. DECLARED the story affecting Mr..
Oliver was most malicious lie u
was an outrage ia his opinion that a man
with such long and honorable career.
whose life bad been ao useful. should he 80
held up To sCOrn Both Mr. Walker and
Mr.. Mctus asserted that they were - ting
by the SIDE % Mr.. Oliver When the inCid
% hts Introduction 20 the Young woman
occurred.
Ass-mblyman Graubhard. who intro
duced Miss Mercy "a As~s-tnb lyman Oliver
also aaAeT'ed tina the latter mad made no
such statements 20 her "a had been as
serted. He did not believe any such state
mentE We're made 10y any one IN the crowd.
NJ divers record Ut having voted for the
suffrage hill seven times was referred TO az
showing how Friendly he felt toward the
cause of the women s,IffragIstz