New-York tribune., 1910-12-02
WOMEN SOCIALISTS BUSY
Hold a Meeting and Get Rid OF a
Male Humorist.
KNOW HOW TO GET VOTES
And Mean to Have Them-In-
side of Three Years, Per
haps, Says One.

The Women Socialists had q party at
Cooper Union last night and got away
With it in quite an orderly fashion Only
one man had to be put out He was a
person who had had drop too much
before coming to the melting. and after
paying twenty-five cents for seat on the
platform seemed to think he had just
grievance in not seeing a scrap between
the speakers and the audience He early
displayed his sense of humor when baby
began to cry while the chairman. Miss
Anita s. Block, was trying to introduce
Mrs Lena Morrow Lewis, the first speak
or
If the speaker does not cease immedi-
ateIy.'' the humorist said, the baby can't
have a chance
THE chairman doesn't need any help,
Miss Block told him
Excuse me-" the funny man explained,
that was a pun"
That not his only effort. however
When Mrs Lewis defed the ''cappillis'
class he wanted 10 defy her, but was
detained in his chair and kept go busy
explaining to those about him that she
passed successfully by the point where
@'the cappilIis class will not feed the
slaves that feed it, and got TO the 'bllits'
workingmen which she brought out in
rapid succession and all of which in the
end seemed 10 serve about the same pur
pose as the common or garden variety Of
ballot
The humorisJ was hustled out OF the hall
when he wanted to offer some amendments
to Job Harris's description of II. E. Hunt
ngton home at Los Angeles, which Har-
ris said was "a marble palace hung with
golden tapestries and with nine miles Of
driveways in the dOOryard." " The comedian
passed out with a strange handkerchief in
his mouth. through which he tried TO cheer
for ''Pierpont Morgan and H. E. Hunt
fngtOn" On the way up the stairs he got
the handkerchief out of his mouth and
laughed with all the energy of John McCul-
Tough the phonograph.
In accordance with the principles of the
Socialist party as they were told, the
women got three chances TO vote last
night in which they were informed they
were ahead of any Democrat or Repub-
Iican who cast a ballet at the last election
They adopted resolutions praislng the So
cialists of Washington and Oregon for
advocating suffrage for women. and they
condemned the Governor of New Jersey
and the Mayor of Newark for not letting
women vote. and thus preventing the fire
in which so many working women lost
their lives in Newark
Miss Block presented a plan for getting
the vote for women. She said that 1t was
TO be done by organizing socialist CLUBS
among the working women and having
them meet every two weeks, while at long
er periods they would be banded together
as unit by holding a general meeting
where thev would drink tea and settle
things generally. The trouble with the
woman suffrage movement, she said was
that the leaders were the women or the
middle and upper classes. known 10 the
socialists as the bourgeois leaders. ana
thev had never been able TO strike respon-
sive chord in the breasts of the working
women But now the movement was TO
come out of the salon and the clubroom TO
the street corner and some Of the leaders
were sure that women would be voting
three wears hence.
With the exception of not arousnS any
visible signs of enthusiasm, it was nice
little speech. Mrs Lewis was hobbled too
high for the latest mode, but she made
very manly address
Mrs. Meta L. Stern delivered prose
poem with a good deal Of high shoulder
action