New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-04
ABSORBED BY POLITICS
won,en of All Parties Active in
Campaign.
T RS HOLD NOT STRONG
Coast Worker Says He Causes
Lots of Excitement, but
Gets Few Votes.

Nsan NauOIa' ~o'i"''oc spent puit VI
.,-sr5ay moving into the fine new
ans provided by the American Peace
I'D Arbitration League, on the four
.,b floor of the Times Building. Up
rssterday Miss Helen Varick Boswell,
y. chairman, and her co-workers, Miss
w Wood. Miss Elizabeth Toombs, Miss
-, Francis and the others were
.,rded in one small room on the seventh
Seor.
~, when Mrs. Elmer Black, treasurer
1, the peace league, sailed for Europe
y. nther day, ii occurred to her that
Mr.. Taft is honorary president of the
,..aa il would be rather nice ana ap-
s.0nrate to offer the use Of those rooms
:, me women who are working for his
section as President of the United
s,.,,s, So there they will be until Elec-
Am Day. except Miss Francis, who re-
m.Ips on the seventh floor,
srrsn II she I'D more Miss Boswell
..,od time TO attend 10 some of the ma
,,,usl organization work which is taking
most Of her attention now.
later on" She said. I'VE shall have
..s,,ngs here in New York. but II would
5. waste Of time TO have them now. 1t
!. mo long before election. In the last
..musign we didn't even open our head
or,rters till more than week after this
dste.
The work OF organizing the Taft
xsm.n In the various states is terribly
,uportant. I'm getting in touch with
,a,n everywhere, but especially in the
ss,e, where women vote There are
more equal franchise states now than
,b,rs were in 1905. so our work is harder
han II was in the last campaign. The
number Of night letters we send and re-
e.tye would make an astonishing total
n We took time to count them. And
,,'r getting encouraging news in some
n those night letters.
Mrs. Francis King Sears. a leading
.srragist OF the State OF Washington,
,pds word that the Taft sentiment Is
strong there She is going TO have
,harge Of the women's organization in
her state, and she probably Will speak
M along the coast Mrs. Abby E. Krebs,
one OF the chief Taft workers and sur
hssIsts OF California, is coming East IN
few days TO consult and arrange the
California programme. California is our
hardest proposition among the suffrage
rstes The women show a tendency 10
socs 10 the new party. But no one can
ret around this fact: The states that
have granted the suffrage TO women were
states where the good old Republican
,srty held sway"
Mss Wood, who has been travelling In
The West recently and campaigned for
rrfrage in Oregon. laughed when she
vas asked about T. RS strength out
there.
Excitement, But Few Votes.
4 tell YOU" she said "a lot Of peo-
pie get excited about him, but when It
omes 70 voting-no, no. found very
few citizens out West who were actually
going 10 vote for Roosevelt"
Some Westerners may vote for Wood
Tow Wilson II the eloquence OF Mrs. j.
Borden Hartman. chairman OF the or
Ianlzauon committee Of the Women's
National Wilson and Marshall League,
can prevail with them. Mrs. Hartman is
scheduled 70 speak through Illinois, South
Dakota Colorado. California and other
Western states; the dates aren't settled
yet but they will probably be next month.
She goes on the invitation Of Joseph q.
Davies chairman Of the Democratic
headquarters in the West, and as he IS
anxious 10 have a branch Of the Women's
Democratic League formed in Chicago
that Will probably be one of her jobs.
Tonight Mrs. Hartman will speak by
Invitation at a dinner of the Working
mems Woodrow Wilson Club, at the
forkv!lle Casino, No. 2lO East ssth street.
hrs. John Sherwin Crosby, president OF
the Woman's National Democratic Or
ganization, will be there and probably
speak, and so will other women or the
filth. Tomorrow night the Womens
Wilson and Marshall League VIII hold
mass meeting with two OF their sex on
the list Of speakers, Mrs. Hartman and
Mss Alberta Hill. Lyman W. Reddihg-
ton, Of Vermont; Donald Cow and Andrew
Wallace are the men speakers.
Wilson's Ancestry CompIimented.
Mrs. Hartman got some Scotchmen on
the programme purposely, because Gov
sfnor Wilson's mother was a Scot. In
further compliment 70 this ancestral
strain, she is going 10 have Scotch sing
ing and dancing and piping by Willie
Cameron
The vomens headquarters on the tenth
moor Of the Fifth Avenue Building, fairly
euzled with energy yesterday, and Mrs.
hartman said that letters were coming
~ from all over thu '1ited States, many
d them containing --asfactory contribu-
tons
Al the Progressive Party headquarters,
40 - East 18th street the women were
rssy making final arrangements for the
s7racuse convention. The special train
hat leaves the Grand Central Terminal
H noon to-day. will have two cars
'pseially for the Moosettes. Counties out
zee those OF New York and Kings,
'mch weren't expected to do much In the
natter Of women delegates, are coming
'''ssrc nobly, and list OF forty-t"o
'onen delegates and alternates was
saasd yesterday TO the ones given out
ss0fe Among them are Mrs. JACOB
! qua Of Richmond Hill. Mrs. Alfred Emo,
:. Queens. Long Island, and Mrs. Ella
Asfiey Crossett, Of Warsaw.
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