New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-31
WOMEN VIE WITH MEN
IN CHEERING COLONEL
Catch Infection of Good Nat
ured Crowd and Stand on
Chairs to Yell.
MAUDE MALONE NOT THERE
Moosettes, However, Turned
Out Strong and Took Chances
in Scramble for Seats
in Garden.

'T do belieye," muttered the woman
with the bandanna flag In either hand ana
the wilted collar and the hat over one
ear. in a back seat Of the gallery at
Madison Square Garden, last night i
do helieye that even the non-partisan sur
fragist. Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch'
would have to cheer for Teddy II she
| were here"
And, honestly, it seems so. Or course
Mrs. Blatch's strong principles wousah
have let her, and anyhow rumors hau
(, that she was uptown with her cohorts'
firing questions at the speakers, In a
ward Democratic meeting--but It's dollars
| 10 doughnuts that she would have hao
| TO put a strong control on herself not 10
give one little feminine hurrah, or AT
least 10 wave a flag. You couldn't help H.
II was in the air. You might have had
the bitter conviction in your soul nFe
minutes before that you were merely d
voteless female, ranked with idiots ana
criminals. and IL would be perfectly SHY
for you to enthuse over any candldate'
YOU might be a convinced Republican or
an ardent Democrat; when you got IN
there and heard the yelling and saw the
hundreds and hundreds Of bandanna haes
waving above the serried ranks Of heads
you felt like yelling and waving too.
You thrilled for tho man up there WIN
the bullet In his breast and the policeman
lowering behind him, even II In the pacK
Of your mind you knew that you thought
he'd better not be President again.
Crowd Keeps Good Nature.
NV. but that was a crowd, and getting
In there was a levelling process, unless
you had a ticket that took you to the front
Toward the rear on every side of the
great circle people were packed like sar-
dimes. and they weren't sorted as to quail
ity. as sardines are And nobody minded
Prettily dressed women sat with the
elbows Of fat men from the Bowery nest
ling in their ribs, and didn't care bit.
Everybody talked 10 his or her neighbor
without an introduction. 1t was: yes
there's Teddy; see the policeman behind
him. and Amt Il a shame TO cheer so
long and keep a man with bullet in ms
breast standing there?" while women ac-
cepted a hand up from perfect strangers
when they wanted 10 stand on chairs,
which they frequently did. Judging from
what the women said and did. they were
keener on politics than many OF the men.
There was one woman in the BODY OF
the hall who held her husbands watch 10
time the cheering, announcing IN LOUD
tones whenever pause came Just now
lang tho cheering lasted in 1904 and In
1908.
When the tumult that broke out when
Roosevelt arose had continued forty min
utes she sank back in her seat with
happy smile. $500.
IT'S lasted as long as it did in 1904
7, "a sad TO relate. by the way, that
the one man there who spoke right out
for woman suffrage, oscar 5. Straus'
90, rather perfunctory applause from the
women. There wasn't nearly as much
clapping on their part when he told them
that when they got the vote they wouid
make far less OF a muddle OF II than
their husbands and brothers did-not
nearly as much clapping as there was
when Dixon and Johnson, who didn't
mention woman suffrage, spoke.
Maud Malone Not There.
Few bandanna hats were In evidence.
Miss Mary Donnelly wore one, and was
an eye-arresting figure In her white suit
and red chapeau A few other Moosettes
were courageous enough to wear the
somewhat trying headdress, but mostly
they appeared in ordinary everyday hats
One element OF excitement was lacking
from the meeting-Maud Malone didn't
come. Or II she did she failed to carry
out her announced intention to interrupt
Colonel Roosevelt. More than one suf-
fragist who had read her announcement
in the evening papers breathed a sigh OF
relief when Roosevelt sat down ana