New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-03
LONE MAN IN CAUSE AS
T.R. WOMEN FARE FORTH
Brave Mr.. Frisbie, of Queens
Village (NOte Place., Flaunts
Yellow "VOteS" Flag.
DEMONSTRATION LACKING
suffragists Speed Fair Dele
gates, but Enthusiasm Marks
Time-They'll Do Moth
ing Flamboyant."

Brave j. W Frisbie. of Queens Village.
Long Island, Chivalrous J. W. Frisbie!
We'll ne will have his reward. The
Woman Suffrage party is going TO have
his name engraved in gold letters and
wreathod with laurel leaves to hang Up
IN the front room of its headquarters, at
No 30 East 34th street. For of all the
men who left here for the Chicago con-
vention on the National Progressive party
special from the Grand Central Terminal.
al i:l5 yesterday afternoon, j. W. FriSbie
was the only one who had the courage to
carry yellow .votes-for-women fiag along
with him.
Mr Frlsbie took it openly from the
hand of Mrs. a. c. Hughston chairman
Of public demonstration for the Woman
Suffrage party. who was there TO wave
the delegates a farewell. and he promised
10 bring it back to her, autographed in
Theodore Roosevelt'S own hand.
Various suffragists saw the train off, In
honor Of the four women delegates and
alternates appointed from New York
Courty-Mrs. William Grant Brown Miss
Pauline Goldmark Miss Clara b. Morri-
son and Miss Margaret H. DAILY, and the
>.
Robert II. Elder-but the suffrage demon
stration that had been prophesied didn't
take place, unless the triumphal dance
that Mrs. Hughston executed when Mr..
Frisbie accepted her yellow flag could
be counted one.
As to the Manner Born.
The new-made women politicians ar
rived and took the train as calmly as II
they had been starting on shopping
tour. Mrs. Brown, I'm a simple dark blue
silk suit came early, accompanied by
Nj Brown. who for a deserted suffrage
husband appeared quite resigned. evident
y feeling that the honor conferred on
the family by his wifes appointment
made up for the delay I'm the motor trip
he and she were TO have started on to-
day.
some Of our acquaintance at Manhat-
tan Beach, where we've been stopping
couldn't understand why 1 was willing to
take slice out OF my summer to work
for the new party" Mrs. Brown said
There's no pie In It for you. they
told me. No, there's no pie in it for me,
and none for Mr.. Brown'S--
mo, I'm no politician. | leave all that
to my wife" interrupted Mr. Brown
hastily
But I know we need a new party"
Mrs Brown went on, and 1 feel honorcd
TO be in at the making"
Mrs Brown took one of Mrs Hugh
ston's suffrage flags, but she wouldn't
promise to wave 1t at the convention.
Il don't know what I'll do till | get
there" she said, but be sure the women
delegates aren't going to do anything alb
surd Wen do ae the men do
Well, that gives YOU quite some rope
In the absurdty line" observed a pict-
uresque old Progressive with white hair
and a bright red ct. r." flag twisted
negligently around his Panama.
Mise Morrison, in an irreproachable
serge skirt and coat and a small mai and
veil. also assured inquirers mat alth,vg
she was taking a suffrage flag along sne
didn't intend 10 do anything sensational.
Nothing Famboyant.
We don't have TO-" she said. Women
are in politics to stay. We're In politics
for serious work, which doesn't include
1amboyant methods"
Miss Morrison is Timothy L. Woodruff's
slster-in-law, and likely to be quite help
in the new party Already she can show
mastery innocence of expression in rot
knowing what II isn't well for her TO tell
you.
Lots Of women went along on the train
as mere wives or daughters or sisters or
cousins or aunts OF men delegates. but Of
course they don't count when there were
real live women delegates on board One
woman who went just as a spectator may
count as delegate before the trip is end
ed. though, and that is Miss Mary 4.
Dreier. president Of the Women's Trade
Union League. 1t Is said she will proDa-
bly, be one Of the four delegates at-large
10 be named at the state convention at
Buffalo for which the special train Will
pause in that town to-day. IL Mrs.
Dreier isn't named some other labor
woman will be-most likely Miss Frances
A Keller chief investigator for the New
York State Bureau Of immigration and
Industry.
William b. Hotchkiss said yesterday
that the third party's woman suffrage talk
was straight goods and no bluff.
I'm earnest?" he exclaimed to a Doubt
ing Thomas "Of course, we're in earnest.
I myself for instance, have believed for
long time that women should have the
vote. They should have II, without regard
TO whether a majority Of them want 1t or
not Having a suffrage plank in the ma
tional platform will exert strong infiu-
ence on the states. but the suffrage Will
hardly be conferred on women through an
amendment to the national Constitution.
1t takes years TO get the Constitution
amended. That's why we favor the grant
Ing Of suffrage 10 women through the In
dividual action of the states"
Or. Anna H. Shaw, though she was In
town yesterday. is one suffragist who did
not go to speed the parting delegates.
She spent the day working in her office at
the headquarters Of the National Woman
Suffrage Association.
No Vote, No Hoop-La.
I'll hOop-la for no party till have the
vote" she said. emphaucally. "The Ma
uonal Progressives are doing just what
any party does when it's young and
feeble. They always welcome the women.
They are delighted TO have us raise money
and drum up audiences for them, but when
We have nursed them long enough and
they can walk alone they have no more
use for US