New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-08
.SUFFRAC|STS KEEP BUSY.
Put In Day Selling Copies Of
"W0man Voter"
TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS, TOO
But They Fear Buns" Will Sue
Them if Pictures Are
Published.

know whether they'll dare to use them
! What's that? Why. the photographs or
buns and drunkards that the woman SUI
| fragists took yesterday to show the sort OF
| creatures who can vote. while they can't
| Credit for the idea Of taking these pict-
ures belongs 10 a woman who insists on
working incognito. but she took the no'ion
| 70 the Woman Suffrage party for what u
was worth. and Mrs. Mary Beard. VINO
| though she is a college professor wlte'
has a keen eve for business. thought 1t
would make a perfectly corking feature TOT
the Voter"
THE idea has been worked UP before IN
cartoons. Of course -disreputaole pui''s
voting and noble. intelligent women smut OIL
from the polls; but these photographs VIII
be the real things" she said yesterday. bu'
now-dear rte.-Ive just thought that II We
publish the real thing we may get ihto
trouble with the libel laws. Some OF those
I buns will he suing us. So, MAYBE we Il"
| have TO work the pictures up into car
toons, after all
| The photographs were taken, anyhow-a
lot of them-in Madison Square ana other
| haunts of buns" So. any seedy person VINO
! caught the camera trained on MN neeui
perk up and think he's become FAMOUS
without knowing why He's merely TO De
used as a Horrible Example. The surtra-
pists plan TO get out an alphabetical album
with mixtures. accompanied by verses be
| ginning:
! "B is for bum. who 10 the polls can
come; % is for drunkard, i IL ior
! idiot" and so on. They are rather "oi
ried about how they'll fill out some OF the
letters, though.
THE only Objectionable person kho" y.
whose name begins with X is Xantippe ana
she was a woman" one Of the suHraeis's
| said Yesterday.
Believers in votes for women put in
fairly busy Election Day, even II the Le,
law did keep them from watching at the
polls. Fifty members of the Woman SUI
frage party, captained by Mrs. y. -
Hughston in Manhattan, Mrs. olive rleioe
I'm The Bronx and Mrs. Grace u. Notter-
heck I'm Brooklyn, sold copies OF the
| Woman Voter on the streets all DAY
long and far into the night. the yeilo"
Jackets" some one called them, flew about
broadway and Fourteenth street and River
side Drive with iaunty yellow bags hlieo
with Voters" None of the buyers now
ever. charged that they were stung, not
even the man who gave Mrs. SOPHIE Are
mer fifty cents and got one Voter In eH-
change.
Nothing daunted the suffrage news
women. When a man who had began ms
Election Day celebration somewhat carry
in the day said to Miss Martha klatschheh
on Broadway: Hello. mother, yr lookin
fine fr yr time O. life. Whash y want o
me-" Miss Klatschken. though she doesn't
call herself old ana really isn't smiled JOY
ously and replied. "All you've got. ne
gave her a quarter and she gave him a
Voter
In the evening the suffrage newswomen
rested their weary feet by hiring DIG
motor car and selling from that.
The Woman's Political Union kept pretty
nuiet Yesterday. Several members salu
earlv I'm the day that their campaign III
the 18th Assembly District had Louis Cu-
vulier democratic nominee for the Legs
lature. badly frightened, If not beaten.
! Mrs Harriet Stanton Blatch, head OF the
,,nion WAS at the Harlem headquarters
No 1875 Madison avenue, last night 10 re-
ceive the returns.
Tho suffraCettes have frequently re-
marked with pain that some persons per
sist in taking their cause as Joke All
New York took 1t as joke last nighN
when six members of the Woman Suffras'
Marty went out in big yellow automooile
90 sell THE Woman Voter How the
election night crowd enjoyed then'' iioN
tbev hooted at them, and footed al tne ',
lin hig tin horns, and covered theih VIII
! colored confetu - a.,
The crowd was out for lark ana th'
e,ffragettes were part Of the lark Ever
tho serious minded suffragettes were cum
neued 70 take It as lark at las'' an,
orded by hilariously tossing punches y,
Voters" into the midst Of the gangs o.
bovs who mobbed them
Ma one IN the crowd would buy ot,i'
rbov were out TO celebrate ana '"e'
,,.arcp,t going to spend good nicFeis o.
literature. AS the crowds grew eayer u"
snffraqettes grew more reckless ana 'oSSe'
owav .'Voters" without the slightest rVs'''
for the fact that paper and printing COS
money.