New-York tribune., 1910-03-09
OFF THE WOMEN GO
WITH Il NAN OR TWO
IN TOW.
Albany Goal of Al, Whether
Seeking Votes or No, SUI
fragette and Dearest Foe.

Suffragists anti -suffragists, suffragettes
and suffering gents arc TO consider in
Albany this afternoon the vexe1 ques-
tior of whether woman shall vote. Like
a flock of doves, with few blackbirds,
there will descend upon the state Capitol
abous noon some hundreds Of women
and a male champion or two to argue
for and against universal suffrage be-
fore the Judiciary committees of the
Senate and Assembly. in joint session
met and assembled
Hitherto the suffragettes. under the
name of the National Progressive Wom-
an Suffrage Union. the militant contin-
sent of those who ask votes for womeE,
have not appeared in force at Albany to
pl ess their cause This was at the eX-
press request of the Legislators, They
were not exactly invited this Il hne, But
they are going up with their ntlder sis
ters, the suffra gists, on a special train
which will leave the Grand Central Sta
ton at $50 a. m. This train. which will
be in charge Of Miss Mary Garret Hays.
will pick up on its way delegations from
Poughkeepse. Newburg and other places
and is expected to land three hundred
volubIe advocates of the cause in the
capital city.
Somewhere about the same time an
other special train. with its very ownty
own little dining car, will also leave the
Grand Central Station, with a hundred or
more anti-suffragista aboard. The exact
time of it's departure Is a dark secret.
Aha, no. no! that I can't tell YOU"
said Mrs George Phillips with an ex-
cited laugh last night. But I think it
will leave in time to reach Albany at >
O'Clock all right. when the hearing be-
gins"
The train of the antis will pick up
large delegation in Yonkers, but even
then the full strength of those who de-
test the ballot among the fair sex will
not be represented on board, fer many
anti-suffragistS went to Albany yester-
cay to attend a mass meeting there last
night of the State Association Opposed
to Woman Suffrage.
But the state association only rep
resents a fraction of the antis. The
National League for the Civic Education
of Women. which is a rival organization
in the field and therefore will not pro-
ceed to Albany in the same train. Will
send a delegation in q private car. Ieav-
ing the Grand Central Station at $50
o'clock.
Ants the Jubiant Ones.
The ants are perhaps the more
jubiIant OF the opposing regiments on
the eve Of the battle The suffragist
cause will suffer the absence of Mrs.
O. H ?. Belmont, president of the Po-
Iitical Equality Society; of Mrs. Clar-
ence NJ. Mackay. president of the Equal
Franchise Society, and of Mrs Sofia NJ.
Loebinger, president of the National
Progressive Woman Suffrage Union.
Mrs Belmont is worn out with her
work for the cause, she says, and will
rest at home Mrs. Mackay has sought
the secluson of her country home IN
Roslyn, Long Island. and Mrs. Loebin-
ger is i'll in bed But the suffragists and
suffragettes hope to make up in num-
bers and enthusiasm what they lack in
leadership, for even Mrs. Ida Hustled
Harper, Mrs. Bclmont's chief aid, is To
be absent in Washington
Every Assembly district in the city IS
TO be represented. with the exception of
one or two districts abutting on the
Bowery Whether the Bowery is Zoo
..cagey'' where more votes are con-
cerned or whether the women resident
therein are not SO anxious for political
power as their mates. helpmates.
brothers. fathers and swcethearts OF the
Timothy D. sullivan Association could
not be lear~ed definitely. The EQUAL
Suffrage League, Of which Miss Mary G.
HAYS is president is paying the way to
{. ntinued on second mage