New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-08
ITO REFORM SUFFRAG|STS|
CHICAGO Comes to Show New
York Way 1t Should Go.
RECEPTION FAR FROM WARM
Workers for Cause Here Don t
Take Kindly to Outside Plans
to Push Movement.

All the New York suffrage societies. the
Woman's Suffrage party and the INTERIOR
ough Suffrage Club and the Womans Po
litical Union, and all the rest of them. are
going to be amalgamated and made as one
That sounds like a hard job. but It Is
going to be done. and Chicago is going to
do It.
Chicago. in the person OF Miss Geraldine
Wingate. Wellesley graduate and until
recently reporter on The Chicago Trib-
une." stood amid disorganized piles CT
papers and two distracted women typists in
tiny Office in me Monolith Building In
West 34th street. the headquarters of the
Suffrage Literary Society and the publica-
ton office Of THE Historical Suffragette,"
and told her plans. That was yesterday,
and the society, The Suffragette" and Miss
Wingate had just barely got moved in from
Chicago. Miss Wingate is editor of THE
Sufragette" and business manager of the
society. She says that in a week or so
they will have large offices in the Marbridge
Building and leave their present campaign
quarters.
Other Chicago women interested In this
movement to reform and revolutionize New
York suffrage organizations are Miss Belle
Squire. who formed the No Vote. No Tax
League out there. and Mrs E. p. Stephens
who. Miss Wingate says, is "a leader Of
Chicago society and just like Mrs. Belmont.
only she doesn't use her money for lunch
rooms" The Suffrage Literary Society and
The Historical Sufragette"-which aims
To become the national organ Of the suf-
frage cause in America"-thats what the
~ mill he Forr al liz int m
duced to New York suffragists and their
supporters al a meeting next Friday night
at Carnegie Lyceum.
Miss Wingate said the Chicago suffragists
felt an imperative cali to come and look
after the movement I'm New York, be
cause New York was the important state
When women got the vote here IT would be
easy enough TO carry the other states. That
was why the Suffrage Literary Society
moved from Chicago to New York; besides
they could get more advertisements Cor
Tho Historical Suffragette" here than In
the Western city.
WHY is It called The Historical Suffra-
gette'?" Miss Wingate was asked.
Because It will contain the histories OF
all the New York suffrage organizations.
including the National Woman Suffrage AS
ISOLATION" she replied. II shall write
them"
do you think you can do them justice? -
"Oh. yes When / was a reporter on The
Chicago Tribune | did the Lorimer inquiry
in Washington"
Miss Wingate said she was trying to get
interviews with the heads Of the various
suffrage societies here. She had seen Dr.
Anna Shaw. president OF The National Dr
Shaw didn't seem to feel that Tine HIS
torical SunraSette" was needed for a ma
tonal organ OF the votes for women
cause. She gave Miss Wingate some moth
crIy advice. telling her that she had better
read The Life Of Susan b. Anthony ana
The History of Woman Suffrage in Amer
lea" in four volumes, before she sought TO
write suffrage history. The national or
ganiZation has an organ, The Woman
Journal" but Miss Wingate says all the
suffrage papers and magazines nave 100
many filings at men in them. and 1t alenates
No llticians. The Historical Sunragette
will not pursue that policy.
one OF Miss Wingates solicitors put ms
foot in it by telling people that MISS WIN
gate made the Woman Voter. ana ohly
left II TO assume the editorship OF 'The
Historical Suffragette'" The woman
Voter" is the organ OF the Woman Suffrage
party, and is edited and managed oy NIT
A. c. Hughstrom. Mrs. HuShsuom. larbe
and determined woman, had brief inter-
view with Miss Wingate when this came TO
her ears. and now the solicitor ism saying
that any more.