New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-10
WOMEN TO HAVE A SAY
This To Be a Banner Day for
Female Political 0ratory.
THE NOON HOUR THE TIME
Speakers Will Expound Repub-
ican, Democratic and Pro-
gressive Doctrines.

| II probably Isn't through any collision
| between them, but the amount Of female
| political oratory that is scheduled to be
| let loose on little old New York exactly
at noon tomorrow makes Il look as II
the Republican women, the Democratic
| women and the Moosettes had put their
heads together and laid plot to spell
bind the city once for all and be done
with It.
| You can get any kind of politics you
want tomorrow at noon served up TO you
In clear soprano tones, Just by going to
| the right place for It. Up at I'D street
and Riverside Drive, where the jackies
are, the impassioned tones of Miss Alice
| Carpenter and Miss Mary Donnelly and
| Mrs Harriet tombstone Wood will inform
you that T. r. is the one and only. and
| that unless this country climbs on the
| Progressive party platform II Is lost, ut
terly lost.
| But II perchance you want to hear how
the protective tariff has ruined this coun-
try. you have only to go to the Chamber OF
Tariff Horrors In Union Square, and listen
as Miss Alberta HILL Of the Democratic ma
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prove that point. Still farther downtown.
at the Commercial Travellers League. at
No. 434 Broadway. is the place where you
| can hear how the protective tariff has
saved the country.
Women Tariff Defenders.
There Miss Helen varick Boswell and
Miss Mary Wood, chairman and secretary
Of the woman's department Of the Repub-
lican National Committee; Mrs. William
s. Barnes and other women will spout
good Republican doctrines from II o'clock
until they grow hoarse.
| This Ladies' Day at the Commercial
Travellers League Is a time-honored In
stitution. It started away back in 1886. In
which year the drummers had the IN
| spiration of asking Miss Boswell and
| other good G.. o. P. women to come and
enlighten them on the way the country
| ought to be run. Since then II has been
regular event every campaign year.
The audience isn't limited to drunnmers.
You'll be welcome even II you never car
ried line Of samples in your life.
The political activities OF women to-
morrow won't end with the noon hour In
tho afternoon the woman's finance COM
mittee OF the National Progressive party
will hold q meeting and discuss plans for
selling more T. X. buttons and stamps
and certificates and bandannas also, other
ways OF getting money for the Bull Moose
cause And in the evening comes the
womans Political Unions campaign sup
per at the Hotel Aston. Miss Jane Adj
dams will speak there for the Progressive
party, Miss Boswell for the Republicans
and Senator Bayne 90. and Mrs Champ
Clark CD for the Democrats.
At Sea Over q Speaker.
The fact is that the union and the Wom-
ems National Wilson and Marshall League
do not at the present moment know where
they are at in the matter of. who IS to
represent the Democrats at this supper.
Mrs. ]. Borden Hartman, head of the
league, was to have spoken. When Mrs.
Harriman's illness made that impossible
the league thought II would be nice TO
get the wife OF the Speaker Of the House
Of Representatives to come instead, and
accordingly 1t set about doing so. At the
Same time the unions president, Mrs.
Harriet Stanton Blatch, supposing II
devolved upon her to I'LL Mrs. Har-
riman's place, thought OF Senator
Bayne. In fact, she wrote and asked
him, Yesterday she heard about the
Mrs Clark plan. Is It strange that
she appeared to be feeling little annoyed
as she walked over to the board meeting
OF the Equal Franchise Society. at No.
East 9th street. yesterday afternoon7
The Equal Franchise Society. which is
the high brow of New York suffrage or
CARNATIONS. planned lot Of learned lect-
ures at the board meeting The lectures
will be given by Mrs. Jessica Finch, six
teen Of them, every Wednesday, at
p. m. and the topics are-take long
breath now-economics, sociology, the
history Of democracy. and the bearing OF
these three things upon woman suffrage.
| The board decided upon October 2s as
the date Of a memorial meeting for Mrs.
Pearce Bailey. who. before her recent
death. was acting president Of the Equal
Franchise Society; Mrs Harriet Stanton
Blatch. and others Will address the meet
ing, and an original sonnet, written by
Miss Rosalie Jonas, will be read.
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