The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-03-22
SHORT AND UGLY WORD
FOR SENATOR FERRIS
Suffragists Came to Cooper Union
in Autos and Furs and
.
Pretty Clothes.
MRS. BLATCH'S EXPERIENCES
Told What She Saw in Albany When
Senate Killed Bill, With Caus-
Tie Comment.

No habitue of Cooper Union meet rs
| would have recognized the scene OF his
oratories last night. For there came
many automobiles and women in iurs and
young women in white. wearing purple
and green and white ribbons the colors
OF the Women's Political Union that WAS
holding big mass meeting to tell the Leg
islature at Albany that whey thought Of
them moved up and down the aisles
getting the men present TO sign pledges
Mrs Harriet Stanton Batch. fresh
from her silent patrol Of the State House
corridors. presided aud told OF her Albany
experiences. She ~ id that Mr. Murphy.
whom she called familiarly Charley" y"
had sent ou, sword from the -Wigwam-
that the votes for women bin should BE
killed and that Senator Wagner had seen
to it that the orders were obeyed She
didn't think much Of Senator Pollock. who
she said. decided that he was in on the
dav the measure was voted on and told
= friend hat he was going to sit in Wash
fngion Park MR. batch snid that the
senator had promised 10 vote tor he bill.
And then there was Senator Ferris.
VINO had paired with Senator Newcomb
and who sat under Senator Wagner s
nose until he was ordered to ote on
purpose. said Mrs Bla,ch so she said that
Senator Ferris was a short and ugly
word. And rs for Senator Pollock. who
went and locked himself in his room
after one of Mrs Blatch's scouts had
found him in.the park. Mrs. Blatch said
she was ashamed of him
The women had sent to everybody who
is running for President al the yr-sen,
time 10 ask il he did not think the country
should have an opportunity to express
itself on the question Of women voting.
The replies they got were to be read AZ
this meeting. But Mrs. Anna Shaw said
they only got one answer and that was
from President Taft's secretary. Mrs.
Shaw said that if the President still be-
Iieves as he said he did in thei reply he
should either change his mind or his
secretary.
The President reply sent by Score
tary Hilles was an enclosure of two
excerpts from his speech on the subj
Ject. Both OF these excerpts said that
the President had argued in favor OF
women voting when he was sixteen
year schoolbOy. but that since then
he had come TO doubt the force o. his
argument Il am willing To wait Aaid
the President. and MIS- Shaw. who lad
kept up a running fire Of calistic renmrks
az she read the speech, said that the
President might he willing. but she
wasn't
Col Roosevelt, she said. had been too
busy comparing himself to- Lincoln To
answer the woInen's letters. and Wood
with himself. So on down the list
Rheta Enilde Dorr. who writes pieces
for ma gaines and who asks that Mrs.
b. left Off the front Of her name. told
of the " omen in Colorado and the effects
of their vote upon state government
the members Of which did not know
the referendum from a soft drink before
the women who studied books on direct
legislation while they mixed the bread
came along and voted for referendum
Elizabeth Ellsworth Cook. the vice.
president Of the union. said that five
members OF the executive committee had
decided to give up all their other in
terests, charities included. and work
only for the cause. Inns she urged all
the women present to do and she got the
scartfed ushers at work passing collec-
ton boxes 9 the men went out.
\ resolution was passed congratulating
the Government OF China for letting the
women there vote. and another resolution
asked the committee in Albany that
has the bill to hurry up and send it to
vote in the Assembly. Mrs. Blatch said
that il something isn't done the women
will resort to the expedient OF having a
closed call and lock up Legislators while
the sergeant at arms scours round the
State.in search OF more. She says il only
takes one legislator TO have such thing
done and the women think they have that
one, The women are sure the men will
vote for their bill il they are kept locked
up long enough.
Some OF the women who sat on the
platform, and applauded for all they were
worth, were Mrs. John Winters Brannan,
Mrs. ArthurTownsend, Mrs. John Rogers.
Jr.. Miss Lucy Anthony, Miss Anna Tinker,
parade OIL May 4; Miss Maude Ingersoll
and Miss Ruth Wellington