The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-06-27
POLITICIANS WIVES
IN SUFFRAGE PARADE
Mrs. La Toilette and iIrs. Win.
lock 10 March in BaIfi.
more This Evcn,n~.
ANTS SEND IN PROTEST
Women Who DO No, Want
Votes Ask Platform Makers
Not to Insert Plank.

BALTIMORE. June 90 Tho woman 90
this and other cities no only are %, fr.,
Importance. so far as the social s,La ,f
the convention is concerned hut ,ho,
also are playing n part in the potic,i
camps. especially whenever Platform
planks and tho sufTragcttcs get within
arms length of each other. which i.
frequently.
Not all the prominent women vlsitors
here are as silent about their suffrage
or other political views rs Mrs. Oscar
Underwood. who is the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Moseley Walker. MIR. Under
wood and the Congressman, whose frs,
wife died ten years ago. were married
five years ago at the then Miss Bertha
Woodward's home in Birmingham. Ala
Mrs. Underwood as Miss Woodward
was ambitious to sing in opera. She
studied singing in Cincinnati. New York
Boston and Paris before her marriage
but when the great day happened along
on which she was offered a professional
stage engagement her parents success.
fully opposed the plan.
Mrs. q. II. y Belmont will come from
New York to spend tomorrow. Friday
and Saturday. Baltimore has fond eS.
pectations that Mrs. Belmont will take
an active part in the suffrage parade
to be held here tomorrow night
Mrs. William II. Taft is expected to
come over from Washington TO attend
the Thursday afternoon session Of the
convention. She will be tho guest q.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh c. Wallace Of Wash.
ington. Mrs. Taft will return home
in the evening.
Mrs. Brand Whitlock. wife ~ Toledos
mayor, who had a seat with Mrs BRYAN
at the convention. has her own views ahou,
tn" opponents of woman suffrage. espe.
clally of the woman among the opponent,
Somebody quoted TO Mrs. Whitlock tn,
statement of another Ohio woman VIII
says thEt 50 per cent. Of the women o
Ohio are opposed to giving women tn"
ba Hot.
| "No ono has right to make so absurd
statement cried Mrs. Whit lock h1i,v
/ There is no data 70 Justify any on" cly.n.
/ hapha2ard ;gures like that \ statoil,n.
like that. and by u woman too. ,.yo-.
too much of tn. kind o; political tr, ~
tIl' illft. : ti SNli.itE XIV. itt
to carry any weight. Tn" wa p, u.l
out how Ohio women stand uu TIE q.
ton - to make a real test ~ 'n f,'...'
Among tho women Who a.'' ,>f'a..-'
to help out III the d"mon>tr.f .'H ....
e,iifra gette- tomorrow are NI.'.. ,, o..
La Toilette. wife of the Wisconsin s'......
/ who j. expected To com. g., or irD.,. v ..
mgton: Senator Hitchcock q .u -s ..
Miss Eliaah.th llfchcoc' @ri ST..
Mabel Foster. daughter of tn" \,g'...
Congress man.
The fnarchors eNIec. also - i,."c
their ranks Mr.. Ellen Spencer u.
Dean Of the Washington Schorl nf T..
and Mrs. Nellie y. Van SlinsaIt. g..
organizer of the Joan of Arc Soci"iv no
New York. who came here early - l.,.
plea for IL suffrage plank III the D,m
cratic platform.
The anti-suffrag gists have sent to 'a.
committee ON resolutions a protest sign.
by the presidents of all the as-ocl&tIoi.,
opposed to votes for women, asking tud,
no notice of the sufIragists' demands .e
taken hy the Democratic party. fc
every hearing that the resolutions com
mltt.c gives to the suffrage enthusiasts
the antis say. they will demand "A hk
hearing. but that if the suffragettes stay
away from the committee, they will stay
away also.
Among the women here who do moi
want TO see their sisters get the baloi
and are not afraid to say so. are Mir
Virginia Thurman Cole OF the executive
committee of the Ohio Association op.
posed to Suffrage and Mrs. Herman VI
Hubbard, president of the association
who are visiting Mrs Oscar Webb.
Gov. and Mrs Dix were among III
guests at dinner which Rear Admird.
Cameron NOR. Winslow gave tonight Of.
board the flagship Louisiana in honor Of
Mayor and Mrs, J. II. Preston. The lis.
of guests also included Mrs William
Randolph Hearst. Mr. and Mrs. William
Jennings Bryan. Lieut.. Gov. and Mr,.
Nichols of Ohio. MIR. and Mrs Perry Be
mont o New York, Mrs. Norris : BarrG'.
of Philadelphia. who is a gues, of Mayor
and Mrs. Preston: Judge and Mrs. JOHN
Gill Jr., Mr.. ana Mrs. Bruce Cotton, Mi:'
Mary j. Smith and MIR and Mrs. Aexander
Brown.
In the afternoon there was lunCheor
and dance aboard the Louisiana III homo
Of Miss Alice Wilkes Preston. daughter Of
the Mayor.
II. Lancaster Williams OF Baltimore ha'
as his guest during the convention Jue'
Spcyer of New York. During the lun.h-
con hour at the Emerson at August Bel
mont's table were Congressman Rnd'icld
OF Brooklyn. Mrs. Belmont and Mrs, John
Corhin of New York VI
Arthur brisbane was a visitor at the J
Sergeant Cram table for some time
With Mr.. Cram at luncheon were M'
Cram and her sister. Miss Clarico Bryce
DR.. and Mrs. W. r. l.. Wyse had a, 'hei'
guest ex-Gov. John Crepps WIrk'hf'
Beckham of Kentucky, Mrs, Ny.e
mother, Mrs Beckham: Mr and MIS-
Warren b. kniskern of Chicago. NJ
and Mrs. W. B. Pritlott of Kentucky anc
capt. ID. fules Beckham. L. ). \.