New-York tribune., 1911-02-22
FIRST GUN
Equal Franchise Society Gives
Reception at Capital.
ANTS IN FORCE AT ALBANY
Both Sides To Pc Heard by Iegis-
lature To-day-City Labelled
with Votes for Women.

Albany. FEB I-The Equal Franchise
/ Society tonight fired The first heavy gun "
the camusfgn 10 give women the right to
vote with reception al the Ten tycS
Hotel. which WAS attended by many leg!s'
lators and their wives sufragists. anus
the curious who only wanted 10 see what
IT was like" and scores really interested in
and opposed 10 the movement
Receiving with Mrs. Harriet Stanton
Rlatch and Mrs. James Laldlaw we're many
suffragsts from all over thes state, some
belonging 10 The Equal Franchise Society
and others 10 the Woman's Political Union.
During the even ng Mss Fola La Toilette,
daughter Of the Wisconsin Senator, gave a
reading Of How the Vote Was Won ana
Mss Marjorie Benton Cook gave two suf-
frISe monologues.
those opposed to the svff age bills say
they do not care to make any preparatory
movements and VIII centre their powers
on the hearing to-morrow attelnoon. There
Mrs Arthur NJ Dodge. president CT the
New York State Association Opposed 10
Woman Suffrage, will have charge OF az
fairs and will introduce each speaker.
Among those to address the legislators for
this side will be Mrs. John Martin, OF
staten Island; Miss Margaret Doane Gard
ner. of Albany; Miss Margaret c. Cum
mines, principal OF the Recreation Centre
under the Board Ct Education OF New
York, and Miss Alice Hill Chittenden OF
Brooklyn.
The speakers for the suffrage party will
lie introduced by Miss Har "et May Mills
president Of the state Woman Suffrage As
sociation They will include Mrs. Minnie
Reynolds, Mrs. Simkhovitch. Dr. Anna
Howard Shaw. Mrs. W " Penheld Miss
Lenora o'Reilly Max Eastman and Mrs
Harriet Stanton Batch. Alss Chittenden
will sum up for the antis ani the Rev. DR..
Shaw for the suffragists.
About II o'clock tomorrow morning there
will be an open ali demenstrat ton by the
suffragists at the corner of State and
Pearl streets. at which Mrs. Brannan.
Mrs. Blatch. Mrs Rogers Mrs. Hi and
Miss O'Reilly will talk
Another woman suffrage measure in the
form OF concurrent resolution was in
troduced to-day by Assemblyman Spiel
berg providing that every person twenty
enc wears old. who has been citizen for
ninety Nd9rs may Nbte, tSNtpl l-tdL q Cltl-
zen ty marriage only shall have been a
citizen of the United States fer five years
before having the right 10 the ballot,
Albany an vicinity fairly bristle with
Votes for Women" signs The most ex-
tensiya advertising plan ever brought out
in this section has been put in operation,
ana signs have been crested on all the
roads in this vicinity trom Hudson,
twenty-seven miles south, to Schnectady.
seventeen miles west, Waterford and Troy
on the north and several miles east, by
the strenuous women bound on making
suffrage week" a success.
monster electric sign in State street
which leads to the Capitol was illuminated
for the first time last night and the word
ing on IT will be changed each evening.
Cartoons and advertising cards bearing on
the subject are TO be seen in all the street
cars. and half-page announcements for the
cause" viii he run in all tho paQers for
the rest of the week,