New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-18
SUFFRAGE ON EAST SIDE
Sneakers Of Both Sexes Address
Mrs, James Geer'S Meeting.
THE REV. MISS ALBACH ONE
rankin Leonard, Jr., a Law
YER, Says Mother Converted
Him to Cause.

". lanes Geer, leader Of the Woman
,rSross party Of the 18th Assembly Dis
80, held a meeting last night IN the
80 HALL Memorial Hall on East ed
,,,.st near Second avenue. There were
.,onv speakers, but only two OF them
10 Of suffrage for women.
An the first speakers were men, some
- them politicians, who started out by
s.ving that when women got their votes
.,sv would put a check on the high cost
:, living or child labor, and then the
s,ssker would talk a long time about
Ina labor or the high cost Of living, until
,orrs woman would interrupt and request
,s,t some mention be made concerning
.,o,es FOR women
That occurred so frequently that Mrs
cAsr AT length requested all the speakers
20 oonfne themselves TO the question OF
vonsn's suffrage. The very next speaker,
The Rev. Miss A. Albach. who was not
saP as austere as her title would sug-
cast delivered a pertinent speech on the
chosen subject that kept her audience
10Th interested and in good humor.
There was only small audience. there
nIng but thirty-eight persons present
and thew were strewn over rows and rows
NJ wooden chairs, but each occupied chair
fairly creaked with the restless enthusi-
ssn OF its occupant when either Mrs.
geer or the Rev. Miss Albach spoke
Above the speakers stand was a large
American flag, and below. tucked under
N. legs Of the little wooden table. was
rssplendent yellow 'woman's Suffrage"
pnnLnt.
Won to Cause by Mother.
The drst speaker was Franklin Leonard.
h.. q lawyer who entertainingly recount
"a how both his mother and his aunt had
converted him. as a very young man In
deed" to the cause OF woman suffrage.
He said that he considered women far
more competent 70 vote than men, be-
cause women had 30 much more time In
which to study and understand the situa-
ton
Three Of my sisters" he said. will
vote IN Montana pretty soon."
Mr. Leonard argued that the moment
the party became the tail of the kite of
any political party It would DO itself an
irrepsrable injury.
Mrs. Geer then introduced F. c. Leu
buscher. After thanking. first, Madame
the chairman" he said that he had taken
part In the first campaign OF the late
Henry George, who was the first to
Co.
Il believe in woman's suffrage because
am a democrat and a free trader" he
said Il mean a democrat with a small
d. / know that both Mr.. Wilson and
Mr.. Roosevelt are free traders. Way
hack in the SOS one of my associates in
the New York Free Trade Club was Mr..
Roosevelt He was the widest free
trader. When he left the club ne said
that he, the great Mooser, had but to
choose between free trade and his politi-
cal ambitions in his party. He chose 10
further his ambitions. Anyway. IL women
get the ballot there will be no more young
children working in factories"
Suffrage unsex Women7 Rot!"
AND then the Rev Miss A, Albach
syoke.
"Win the suffrage unsex women she
asked. When you eat beef do you stop
70 think whether the beef is male or fe-
male? Apparently the men think that we
women are going 10 vote each and every
day from early morning until late at
night Rot VIII men cease 10 love us?
Well I'm thirty-e!ght years old, and, az
yet, don't give whoop When we place
love and the ballot side by side stop and
think that II men love uS why don't they
give us what we want"
Mrs. Gee said that she had Just re-
turned from Europe and had somewhat
lost track OF "goings-on.' She said that
suffrage for women was not a Joke, and
each and every issue should be considered
and weighed with the most intense seri-
BUSINESS
ANY one" she said, who believes In
the rights Of men must naturally believe
in the rights Of women. They must be-
heye In the rights OF mankind"
She said that her party existed as a
Tive political party that Will not spend
Itself in crowds or conversation, as do
some Of the other parties. II has come to
stay and grow"