New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-04
WOODRUFF CAR IN CAUSE
| adv SpeIIbinderS Stump Long
Island with Auto.
TRY IT ON" IN BROOKLYN
All Attentive Till jug" Wagon
Goes Yelling By-Eight
Women on Whirlwind Tour.

rnron.d ir Timothy L. Woodruff's big
= car four workers of the New York
80. Woman Suffrage Association-Miss
,Torret May Mills, the president, Mrs. w.
= Morgan. Miss Cora NOLAN and Miss
ia r Morrison, who Is Mr.. Woodruff S
,,a,sr.jn-law-started from Borough Hall,
prooklyn. Yesterday at noon for whirl-
ind tour Of Long Island. Mrs. r, G. Tai
ho,.Perkins Mrs. Anna T. Merritt and a
oounle OF other Brooklyn women set out
:, the same time in another automobile.
The first party will cover the north shore
.rd central part of the island, and the
,,ber will so along the south shore.
a.fore they Jared forth, the suffragists
,1ksd 10 crowd for an hour. under con-
dlt,ons which as one admiring youth re-
,rarked, would have knocked out most male
,renbirders I'm the first round.
With the sun beating down like a fur
,sce and streetcars and wagons and even
,ome fire engines crashing and changing,
the suffragsts kept right at their job, and
,bsy did il without 'mussng" hair.
Crowd Is Game, Too.
democratic throng, with headgear ranging
from a brimless derby with the crown
smashed in to elegant Panamas. And an
attentive crowd, listening as well as II
copld with the noise of the cars in its ears.
once loud yels were heard, but they came
tran, Passing jug wagon. the property OF
,ha Department of Correction, and ore
~ N. suffragists inferred that they might
he calls of coincidence from the prisoners
Who faced Acknowledgement for their
crimes 10 their sisters, disfranchised for
their sex.
After Miss Mills, Mrs. Morgan and Mrs.
Talbot-Perkins had spoken al length, ques-
,jons we're invited. The crowd was quick
10 respond
az women voted. mayb e a woman would
h, elected Governor, and then wouldn't 1t
rs No 10 her husband to keep the house!
ssked q solemn-faced young man.
u 20 10 business every day, but my
husband doesn't keep the house He goes 10
business every day, and we hire capable
maid " retorted Mrs. Talbot-Perkins. The
solemn-faced young man was afraid the
Woman Governor couldn't afford to hire a
maid but Mrs. Talbot-Perkins thought she
could afford il out of her salary
arotber young man wanted t know
why woman couldn't be represented al
the polls BY her husband. Mrs. Talbot
Perkins. again falling back on her husband
aid that she had the best man that ever
lived but last fall, when she begged ana
prayed him not to vote for Il certain can
didate. he persisted in voting for that can
didate
I've lust been in a family where there
we're four women and one man. said Miss
Mills. jumping NJ. Maybe youn feel
sorry for the man. but what l want to
know is. how could that man represent
those four women at the polls?
Where Angels Fear.
Just in the midst of the questions org
truck driver, momentariy stuck there hy
the crush Of vehicles, commenced TO Jeer'
"Ah-h, go home and do your work. Nice
ones you'd be to rule the country. he
SCORED
look at him. Look at HIM" cried Mrs.
Morgan. Compare him to US
The crowd took in his appearance "hlch
a nice one he IS 10 help rule the deSu-
ries OF this country-and lie can vote ana
Intelligent women can't" exclaimed MIS-
Morgan.
Then the red touring car dashed away
for Flushing. where the next meeting was
10 be- held Mrs. Talbot-Pcrkins's party
made for WoOdhaven. Both cars were
adorned with yellow votes-for-women ban
hers and loaded with flags and literature
10 be- sold at tho various stops; also twenty
pounds Of votes-for-women candy which
likewise IS for sale.
Miss Morrison, by the way. Is one OF the
few suffragists who openly own to having
a. political party. TO be sure, the party
isn't formed yet, but she has been engaged
To h,lp form it. She is to act as secretary
TO Mr Woodruff when he sets to work t'
organize the National Progressive party.
Miss Morrison wasn't bit qOWncas
over Governor Wilson's nomination.
NO one counts against Teddy Roose-
Welt" she said. or Il. has both Taft ano
Wilson beaten to a finish"