New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-09
WOMEN ARE GROWING Up
Republican Orator Pleased by
Treating Them as Grown.
T. RS SUFFRAGE RECORD
Failed to Aid Cause While Gov
ernor or President, Lemaire
Points Out.

Women are growing up. When James
Lemaire, of the Republican Club. got up
to address his feminine audience at the
reception given yesterday at the club
house, No. "a West 10th street, to the
officers of the department of womens
work Of the Republican National Commit
tee he called them fellow Republicans.
the "Star-Spangled Banner" gained such
applause as that.
Formerly" said Mr.. Lemaire, when
man addressed an audience Of women he
flattered them. We are now arriving at
the point where we ask for their counsel
and assistance. There never was time
when the moral influence Of women was
so strong and so much needed"
Mr.. Lemaire congratulated his hearers
on having resisted the Establishments OF
Colonel Roosevelt. cit Is gratifying" he
observed. "to see that you have kept your
sense of proportion; that you've not been
swept off your feet by that wave OF hys-
terra which seems to have had consider
able effect on a portion of the American
people.
Some women are impressed by the re-
cent conversion of the third term candi-
date to woman suffrage. Roosevelt SUI
fragistl He never did anything for that
cause when he was President Of the United
States or when he was Governor OF New
York, when he was in a position really
to do something to push It forward.
Women and tho NeQro.
And now, while with one hand he tries
TO conciliate the women in the voting
states, with the other he closes the door
Of hope to the negro"
Then Mr.. Lemaire paid lot of compli-
ments to women. beginning with Lucretia
Mott and ending with Miss Helen Yarick
Boswell, who was acting as chairman.
Her eloquence and logic and sanity and
the work she had done as head of the
woman's auxiliary to the national commit
tee. he said. had done much toward win
ming Republican victories.
Miss Boswell. who made little speeches
IN between the others, said the Bull Moose
platform made her think of what the old
negro said when he was apologizing for
ramshackle platform at railway sta
ton: platforms want made to stand on !;
they was made TO get in on
There are a great many wonderful
things in the platform Of the third term
party" she said, but how many of them
could they really carry out7"
Miss Mary Wood. secretary OF the wom-
ans department, said she felt sure that
Republican women were the only ones
who really acted from conviction.
THE women who are working for the
Progressive party and for the Demo-
cratic party get their politics. II seems
10 me. from hearsay. or from personal
preferences" she declared. "but we Re-
publican women have sound convictions.
"Why Am Republican,"
why am Republican? I am a Re-
publican by inheritance. I am a Republi-
can because I believe in the protective
tariff. And am for Mr.. Taft because
think we need sane, calm man at the
head OF the nation now"
Then Miss Wood. 10 prove that the Re-
publican platforms had always stood up
for women, read some planks from former
ones. beginning with the year 1876. when
the Republicans declared that they were
gratIfied to observe the progress that had
been made toward equal rights for
women" by the passage OF laws giving
them better property rights. etc.
Mrs. Lars Anderson. OF Massachusetts,
made little speech telling OF the work
Taft women were doing for the campaign
in that state.
Miss Boswell then introduced Mrs
james W. Wadsworth, wife OF the noml-
nee for Lieutenant Governor. and Miss
Hedges. niece OF the nominee for Gov
ernor. She apologlzed for the fact that
Mr.. Hedges had no wife TO attend the re-
ception by saying that he was such a
favorite with all the women that he had
never been able TO single out a particu-
lar one
Mrs. William Grant Brown. the en-
thusiastic worker in past Republican cam
paigns. who has now gone over to the
Bull Moose party. looked In on the re-
ception for little while. but she came
too late to hear what Mr.. Lemaire said
about tho foolish women who had sue
cumbed to the wave of hysteria that was
sweeping over the land.