New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-05
|MRS. BLATCH HURLS
DEFIANCE At MURPHY
Women Applaud Her Attack on
Tammany Boss at Carnegie
Hall Gathering.

What a JOY 10 see none but the elect
from floor to ceiling No one TO convert !
At last women know what IT Is to feel the
solidarity of womanhood."
With these words Of triumph and relief
Mrs Harriet stanton Blatch greeted more
than five thousand of her sister suffragists
Who had paraded into Carnegie Hall. filled
every seat and box up to the roof and
crowded every inch OF standing room
Hardly A male dotted that vast expsnse.
One however, a champion OF Charles r.
Murphy impressed his presence very wildly
upon the female sea.
Mrs BIatch had just defed Mr.. Murphy
in most vehement soprano. linking him with
the white slave" traffic. IF it comes 70
question" she had cried. between the
women Of New York and Mr.. Murphy MT
Murphy will go down"
And the women had risen in their seats
and cheered like mad, so that Carnegie Hail
re-ecnoed with the falsetto volume ana
shuddered with waving banners.
'Why don't YOU send the same message
10 Cardinal Gibbons, DR.. Parkhurst Mrs.
Humphry Ward doomed forth the male
person from some box aloft on the left. He
was cut short Immediately with cries OF
put him out - shut up" and misses.
But when the lull came and before Mrs.
Batch could resume her Grafton, he repeat
ed it
Meeting in an Uproar.
"Uhv don't you send the same mes
saee 10 DR.. Parkhurst. Cardinal Glib
butting in"
Let me answer my friend in the GAL
lery," shouted Mrs. Batch Wait MIN
ute: be quiet. / am not aware. my
friend that Dr. Parkhurst is in politics
I am striking at politicians"
Again the male:
"Why single out Charles F. Murphy
rather than any other politician
Because he's no good" yelled another
man clear across the arena, and all the
women laughed Historically.
Let me manage my friend In the gal
Iery." began Mrs Batch
put him out" Throw him OUT
"Eat him alive from the floor.
"Wc found persisted the chairman
we found fault with Mr.. Murphy be-
cause he injured us in the New York SEN
ate. But YOU want some victim from the
other side. We'll, now for the Assembly.
"Hooray"
The Committee on Rules Of the Assem-
bly, had our equal suffrage bill under con-
sideration. II is one of the most difficult
committees in the Assembly 10 deal with
So one or two of US went TO Speaker Mer'
rift and asked him. il We got the names
Of seventy-six men on petition to take
the bill out of committee. would he do 1t
and he said he would be bound to respect
such a request
I'VE got enty-eight names. The com
mittee reported the bill. We got seventy
six votes for IT, Then came the motion tc
Law il on the table, and that's "hert
Speaker Merritt comes in. (Hissesp We
recognize Speaker Merritt as one OF ON
enemies as well as Mr.. Murphy, and We
defy him.
Greut applause.
Thus ended what for moment or two
threatened to develop into a sex riot.
At exactly 6 o'clock the vanguard OF wo
mans greatest procession began streaming
down the centre aisle Of Carnegie Hall
Most OF them wore Nnlle uitSo'0' - W"
the procession began to take on the ton'
Of a high school or commencement gather
ing lacking the mon.
Finally. however everybody entitled 10
nIace in that selected assemhlage hac
found one; Mrs. Batch. the Rev. Anna
Gsrlin Spencer and the Rev. Anna HoWarc
Shaw. the three speakers. had been ap
plaudad to their seats at the front OF thu
platform: the different banners had beer
drsped in their proper places. Then I'M
hand hurst into The Star Spangled Ban
ner"
rbera we're several very Interesting OLE
Ladies' in the front row on the platform
suffrage pioneers. One was Mrs. Adelaide
" Smith. who was an army nurse In th'
Civil War. Another was Miss Emily How
land. a California pioneer. and still an
other was the Rev. Antonette Brown Black
ueU II was while the ushers were busy
circulating the cards on which all true sur
frsgists pledged their money to the cause
tina, Mrs Rlatch introduced the Rev. An
,oine,te Blackwell. She had just pledged $40
1T is sixty-six years since 7 first took
my place on a public platform whispered
,he erect little old lady, in her little black
bonnet. TO her exuberant sisters IN the vast
audience.
Every one clapped as she subsidized into
her seat. but a man down front yelled:
Where does she come from?'
"She came fom New England then. SAID