New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-16
MOOSETTES UND|SMAYED
Will Make Founders Day DEM
onstration for Stricken Leader.
TO SELL BADGES IN STREET
Workers to Travel in Squads of
Two to Prevent Unpleas-
ant Experiences.

Mrs. Amos Pinchot and Miss Clara B.
Morrison and the rest of the Moosettes
at National Progressive headquarters
were busy in their offices yesterday peg
ging away at their desks on founders
day work for greater New York
Tho work must go on even though
our candidate is laid up" Miss Morrison
said. I'm confident that he will be all
right. and anyhow the cause is here. and
October 26, the day before Colonel Roose-
velts birthday, we mean to have ten
thousand women out in the streets Of
this city asking people to buy Progressive
party badges. Mrs. Medll Mccormick. OF
Chicago, the organizer of founders day
for the country, expects US to raise zoo =
00D In greater New York alone.
I'm writing to the actresses now
she said. You know, actresses could
very we'll put I'm a couple OF hours be-
fore the matinee and an hour or so after
ward selling badges, and | hope to get
numbers OF them to do II. A couple OF
hundred actresses ought to make barrel
OF money of Broadway and 42d street In
three hours.
Then we are appealing TO clubs-oh, TO
all kinds OF women. When We have found
how many we can command, we shall
divide the city into districts, and appoint
a woman captain for each district, who
will detail the women under her to their
streets. We are promised the services
OF Mrs. Pinchot and Mrs. 2. II. Hooker
and all the other women Of the financial
committee Of fifty. who arc going right
out on the streets. Each one Of us will
wear a Founders Day bag made OF
bandanna, to drop the money In, and by
that bag we can be known"
Miss Morrison said other details would
be settled at a meeting at the Hotel Man
haitian next Friday afternoon.
Some OF the women OF the two old
parties dent think much OF the Founders
Day plan. In feet, they disapprove OF It.
They make the same criticism that some
OF the antis did OF the sufragists FOR
sending girls out to sell literature during
vaudeville week at Hammersteins'
Miss Helen Varick Boswell. chairman
Ol lHt Nbllldl hCphi NiiifhN Va NiAO ~
publican National Committee, said yes
terday she thought It was dreadful 1T
really does seem TO me very wrong TO
send young women out to tag strange
men," she said 1T is bad in every
way. Another thing, aside from the
danger TO the girls. / think It's bad
move politically. 1t is not a good way
Man don Z
like TO be tagged for money. 1t irritates
them and would drive them away from
a party, I should think. II any OF our
Republican women proposed such plan
| should veto Il Instantly"
Mrs. James b. Eustis, who has been
looking after the affairs OF the Women $
Wilson and Marshall organization dur
ing the Illness OF Mrs. J. Borden Harri-
man. its head, thinks much the same.
we certainly shall have no tag day "
rhe said We're going TO have a rally
day next Saturday. and sell tea and cake
at some place yet to be selected, but We
wouldn't dream OF going out on the
streets TO tag men"
But Miss Frances KelloT. national COM
mitteeman in the Bull Moose party. says
that nobody need worry, because Found
ers' Day is going 10 be conducted in the
most proper way
we discussed II carefully" she told
The Tribune reporter. Il. too, should feel
Il very wrong to send young women out
alone 10 sell badges or anything else to
men. But we aren't going 10 send young
women; we're going to send middle-aged
women, and. anyhow, they'll all go two
by two"