New-York tribune., 1912-01-05
SUFFRAGE LOSES WORKER
Woman Quits Court to Return to
Her "NegleCted Children"
MRS. HACKSTAFF TESTIFIES
Tells How Boss Gave Her Three
Minutes in Which to Say
Her Say.

"Well, no more organizations for me.
Both sides in this fight have BEEN guilty
of high-handed proceedings. and the skirts
Of neither are clean. III always he a suf-
fragist, but I'll have no more to do with
leaders who let personal feeling draw
them into a wranEle that VIII put the
cause back In this borough five years. And
now I'm going hoWe to my neglected chill
dren."
/ That was what one Brooklyn officer In
the Woman Suffrage Party left the court
room saying at the end cf the second
day OF the hearing of the differences be-
tween the party and the Elderites, before
Justice JAycox. Of the Supreme Court in
Brooklyn.
/ But If there was another suffraSist there
who took this dspassionatc view sh"
wasn't 10 be seen nor heard. Court ad-
iourned at 1890 o'clock yesterday with the
end Of the case not yet in sight and both
the Elderites and the Tower factions as
stiff-necked as in the beginning, not
more so.
| There was just one minute Yesterday
when It looked as II a decision might not
be far away. That was when Justice Jay
cox said that he believed that Mrs. Ella T
received twelve votes for borough CHAIRMAN
al the October IA convent on, out OF the
tventy-one organized Brooklyn districts
and that II these votes were proved an
right her refusal 10 allow Miss Ida Graft
and the other delegates she wouldn't rec
ogujze to vote hadn't affected the result
and her election was perfectly square
But Immediately Charles c. Sufrcn the
narty.s LAWYER popped up and told the
court that two of the leaders who voted
! for Mrs. Elder weren't leaders at all IN
! the partys estimation.
! she got ten votes, which isn't a ma
! iority." he said, defantly.
The day was spent in hearing Witnesses
called bv Miss Amy Wren for the Eld"rites>
Mrs. Priscilla HackstaT gave the court
room one good laugh by her description OF
her emotions when Mrs. Elder gave her
meagre three minutes to tell what she
thought about the charges against her al
q the October ~ convention.
J Did you say all YOU had to say in the
F three minutes inquired Justice JaycoN
Say all ] had to say.' shrleked
Uackstar. II did not And the en-
phasis on that not made tn" justice
! Jump
/ ..Yho forgot 20 mail that letter. was
! rne burning question while Mrs David Por-
: ter. formerly leader Of the 9th Assembly
District. was on the stand. Mrs. Porter Is
q Tower adhcreut
81 resigned as leader on october H. she
said. "and I calico q convention for 3
o'clock ON that day 10 elect d new leader,
and I wrote 10 Mrs Elder on October 10
asking her to come, because wanted both
sides at my convcrtion.'
us this the letter? Just read the date on
the postmark aloud" requested Miss Wren.
''Why-er-October H. II p. m slut
tered Mrs Porter.
Mailing on invitation at Il p. n. 10 a
@ o'clock p m meetingr mocked the E'-
derite LAWYER
well. ! can't tcu who carried that lot
ter around in their pocket before II was
mailed" eaii Mrs Porter.
probably d man murmured the justice
Little matters of that sort didn't bother
the sunrarista Bit When Mrs. Grace Q.
. Woncrbeek testified that she was not ac-
companied by g. lawyer at the October Il
. convention, vhcr. She was expelled. and
then man witness George PETIT testih' /
I that ho attended jhc convention as dele
gate and as Mrs. Woterbecks lawyer not
q sufragist turned It hair. But Justice
JaycoN smiled ID little.