New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-28

against any law looking 10 the amend
rent Of the state constitution in this
respe
Don't Fear Referendum.
Yes. indeed. we are not afraid of a
referendum 10 the voters 1t is what We
have wanted all along"
The Spartan mothers. when they sent
nelr sons 10 battle. told them to return
With their shields or upon them When
Mrs. Harriet stanton Batch president OF
the Women's Political Union, dispatched
her daughter Mrs Norah Blatch de For
est. and Miss Caroline LeXow, secretary
OF the union, TO Saratoga her parting
words 10 them were: Don't dare show
YOUR faces here again II you don't get the
Republicans 10 make some declaration
about suffrage in their platform" Last
night she was killing the fatted calf for
them-not that she regarded them as
prodigals; far from It
PLEASED? Yes, indeed" she beamed
The plank as adopted embodied what we
asked for. II was with some slight
change IN the wording, the plank we sug-
ge.ted. To have the suffrage bin out OF
the Legislature and before the voters has
been our cry for years.
For our victory we are indebted 20
three things: The amount of work the
sufragists did, divine providence in the
shape Of the Bull Moose party and the
defeat Of the suffrage amendment in Ohio.
And we are grateful 10 all these agencies
even grateful for the loss OF Ohio, since
a
that there was no danger TO them in al
lowing the question TO be submitted 70 the
voters Of this state, either.
They think that as we lost there we
shall lose here. Well" observed Mrs.
Batch serenely, let them think So"
suffra gists all over the city are con-
fdent that the Democrats. who convene
al Syracuse next Tuesday. won't dare.
with the noble examples OF the Repub-
Leans and the Bull Moosers before them,
10 ignore "the cause"
Now for the Democrats.
The Democrats arc thinking hard
about us" said Mrs. Blatch, who with
Miss Lucy Burns, the young woman who
organized Scotland for Mrs. Pankhurst
will speak for tie union at Syracuse.
One OF the most important men in the
party called me up a few days ago and
inquired What we sufIragists were going
90 ask OF them. l said 10 him:
NO hifalutin nonsense about indors-
ing suffrage; Just q straight plank de-
claring for submission Of the question TO
the voters
We'll he said I have All ides knock
ing around IN my head Why not put
bill Through the Legislature TO put the
proposition before the voters next cleo
ton as 70 whether they want refer
endum on woman suffrage. Now, just
think over my idea
Il have tried 10 think IT over Mrs
Batch said. but every time 1 begin
laugh. I really can't see the sense In Two
!sferendums. But these signs show that
the politicians have us on their minds
Everything now points TO our success
IN 1915 We shall go TO Albany this VIM
ter and say: Pass our bill and be rio OF
US. It's the only way you cam Herbert
Parsons, Mrs Batch said, was the sur
fragists' hero I'm Saratoga. He helped
Us no end"
Up In the headquarters of the Woman
Suffrage party, No. 20 East oath street
eve by knocked of work and held a
5ub They sat around Oh chairs ana
Chair arms and the floor and listened
while Mrs. Martha Wentworth Surren'
who represented the party at Saratoga
told stories OF the frey.
kntis Made Nc Fight.
Miss Chittenden" she said, tried 10
secure plank calling for the submission
Of the question to the women. When sne
found she couldn't get away with that
she switched to the referendum 10 the
voterh Maybe the ants were too re
firing TO get what they wanted. They
sat away back I'm q room and lobbied'
while we went right out into the halls
Mrs. sufiren said the suffragists owed a
large part Of their victory TO the votes OF
Kings County mel. THE bosses" she
said were determined 10 defeat us. but
they weren't strong enough"
MOI cried Mrs Penned. city chair
man Of the Woman Suffrage party they
had 70 acknowledge the inevitable. And
the Democrats have got to follow suit
"S1s AhdikbIbt AuhiiSS <siN'i~''
resent the party at Syracuse. MISS Har-
net May Mills. president OF the New
York State Woman Suffrage Associatoh'
who suggested 20 the platform committee
at Saratoga plank stating that the re
publicans pledged themselves TO use every
means 10 Civ, women the vote wasn't
Dit cast down because her plank was
modified.
she has gon. straight from Saratoga 70
SYRACUSE, but her letters 20 the state
Headquarters n Madison avenue are one
ong string Of "hurrahs."
Mas Alberta nm, the pretty sunrasis'
who Is a boss al the Wilson and Marshall
headquarters to the extent OF haVins
uhirty-slx stenosraphers under her. DC
eNneo to state whether or not the Demo-