New-York tribune., 1911-12-19
SUFFRAGETTES ENJO|NED
Brooklyn Judge Prevents New
Election in Woman Party.
CHARGES OF CONSPIRACY
Manhattan Leaders Not Allowed
to Meet and Choose a Sue
cessor to Mrs. R. Elder.

Mrs. e. Jean Nelson Penfeld, city chair
man of the Woman Suffrage party; Mrs.
Martha Suffren. vice-chairman. and various
others of what the Mrs. Robert Cfter fac
ton of the party calls that Manhattan
group that wants 10 keep Brooklyn suffra-
gists In leading strings" FASTENED gaily and
hopefuly 10 the Lockwood Academy, No.
1873 South oxford street, Brooklyn, last
evening at o'clock. For they had called
an executive meeting to elect a new bor-
ough chairman for Brooklyn, I'm place OF
Mrs. Robert Elder. whose election of Octo-
Der IA the city committee had decided was
Illegal. and ii filled them with cheer to
think that that annoying Brooklyn fight
was going to be settled and that harmony
was to rule in that troubled borough.
As they entered the door two yelled fig
ures stepped forward and handed Mrs.
Penfleld and Mrs Suffren bulky typewrit-
ten manuscripts. The veiled hgures were
Miss Sarah Stephenson and Miss Amy
Wren, Brooklyn lawyers and sufrragettes,
and the manuscripts were injunctions,
signed by Justice Jaycox, Of the Supreme
Court. restraining them from holding the
meeting So the dove of peace didn't alight
matter will be carried into court next
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock when the
officers Of the party are summoned to show
why they "wllfully and unlawfully con-
spired to disregard" the October IA election
of Brooklyn Borough officers, and 10 ex-
plain why they "unlawfully signed to
their calls for this executive meeting, or
convention, names OF Brooklyn district
leaders who had themselves refused to call
district conventions 10 name delegates TO
this convention.
"Just think of itt Mrs Catherine
Jacobson, of No. 115 Johnson street
leader Of the 2d Assembly District, said
to a group of Elderites last night at the
convention that wasn't held Mrs. Suf-
fern 'phoned me after refused to call a
convention in my district and I told her
Don't you dare to use my name in any
way And then they signed my name 10
the cards that went out from the Tower
Well. there was just one woman at the
convention Mrs. Suffern had in my dis
trict Guess that shows what the I'd As
sembly District feels about Manhattan
trying TO run the Brooklyn suffragists."
Mrs Jacobson, DR.. Anna E. King, lead
er of the 9Th Assembly District Sarah
Meyer leader of the Sd Assembly Dis
trict, and DIR. Charlotte II. Woody, leader
of the 11th, have all signed afidavits.
which will be duly submitted in court
Thursday, that the cards with their
names on which went out from the Tower
were signed without their knowledge or
authority
It's forgery in the third degree-that's
what II Is" said the angry Elderites.
IT'S a clerical error, Mrs Penfield told
her sympathizers, who gathered about her
Il didn't direct those names TO be signed
SAne volunteer worker made the mistake.
am confident that this matter will be
settled soon, and We'll all find ourselves
and do better in Brooklyn than before"
All the same, an air OF gloom pervaded
the Tower faction, and triumph sat upon
the faces of the Elderites. The only person
who didn't appear To realize that this was
crisis in the suffrage cause was Mrs
Emma Carr, head Of the Lockwood Acad-
emy for Young Ladies. Just after the in
junction was served she mounted the plat
form.
Now that we are all gathered together"
she said 'let us open the meeting by
singing our sweet suffrage hymn, that the
Woman's party gave SlOO for"
But the meeting didn't seem to feel like
singing.