New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-23
SUJFFRAGISTS DISCUSS
PRESIDENTIAL BOOMS
East Wins Battle from West and National
Headquarters Will Be Retained
in New York.

! Taylor Upton. for fifteen or twenty years
the national treasurer. Others think IL
would be a good thing to have million
aire at the head of the association. II
certainly would be good thing TO have
a million at the head OF It.
No boom Is sounding for DR.. Anna
Shaw. no canvass Is being made for her.
for the reason that among the expert
enced there is no doubt that she Will ne
reelected by the usual large majority.
Most of the amendments TO the consul
tuition relate to increase Of representa-
ton, which heretofore has been conhneo
to delegates from a state association III
each state, but now IN many Of them are
number of such large organizations that
they want a direct afiliation with the
national body, This has now been grant
ed to the extent that II they are COM
posed Of more than one society they may
form a second or third state association
Another struggle has been to repeal inc
law which allows the delegates present 10
cast all the votes the state Is entitled TO-
and here again was the jealousy OF the
large delegations by the states with small
membership. After hours OF fruitless de-
bate President Shaw left the chair ana
gave the convention a talking 10 Which
the delegates will not soon forget. she
asked IL those states which have worked
up an immense membership and which
have practically the whole financial bur
den Of the association should not have
some additional advantages, and whether
they wanted minority to controi the
majority? The answer was a majority
against repeating the law.
A whole day consumed in the discus
sion of three amendments Is the mad
dening situation which confronts the
newspaper representatives who are eX-
pected TO make interesting copy and SEND
1t off early. The suspense Of waiting
chance TO fight for or against the non
partisan amendment is dreadful. and q
whole night must now pass before the
officers shall know whether they are at
liberty to put the interests Of political
parties ahead of those Of woman suf-
frage. Messrs. Penrose and Finn must
be laughing in their sleeves.
The men are holding the boards to-
night. and the women are in their natural
position or adorlnB the superior sex lHiS
Mems League for Woman Suffrage is
pretty nice organization, however-the
only one which is standing by the women
without intending 10 exploit them; In
other words, the only one which really
wants 10 help the women. instead OF hav-
Ing the women help them. They deserve
all the bouquets they can get II they have
any use for bouquets. A resolution was
presented begging the delegates not 10
descend like a flock Of locusts on all the
seats In the house, as, while this was not
a meeting for men only. II was very de-
sirable to reach a large number Of men.
but the women couldn't be generous
enough to adopt II.
The delegates are INDUCING In shrieks
OF irreverent laughter. at the request OF
Edward Box, editor of The Ladies' Home
Journal" for a seat on tho platform at
the Sunday mass meeting He'll get It all
right-an armchair in the middle of the
platform, with the spotlight turned on
full.