New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-22
PARTY TO GOBBLE STATE?
"PrepoSterous," Suffrage Folk
Say, Then Talk It Over.
"MEANS VICTORY IN 1915"
That's How Miss Jones Feels
About Organizing on Lines
Adopted by Men.

VIII the party" gobble up the state"
or Will the state" gobble up the party
That Is the question which is lurking way
back in the minds Of lots OF good suf-
fragists-though they don't admit Il for A
minute.
1t Is prefectly preposterous 20 think OF
such a thing" they declare, and then pro-
coed to tell you how the state" has
adopted party methods. and just how
each organization is going to retain its
identity.
II shouldn't be necessary TO explain that
the state" means the New York State
Woman Suffrage Association and the
party the woman suffrage party; nor
that the one is the oldest votes for women
organization in the state, 80 doesn't enjoy
having folks say It is being gobbled up by
the very youngest organization.
We'll, what does it all mean" the re-
porter asked yesterday Of Miss Resale
Jones, tho energetic young woman who
put the thing through at the suffrage con-
vention in Utica last week
1T means victory i'm 1916" answered
Miss Jones, rapturously. you see, this
state has simply got to be organized sys-
tematically IL we're TO win when the suf-
frase referendum is put before the people
I'm 1915. The party method is the only
sure way.
"We are dividing the state into election
districts and Assembly districts for suf-
frage just the way the men divide II for
the Republican and Democratic parties.
1T took us-nsurgents, we call our
selvcs-four hours to persuade the stand
pat leaders from upstate that the old
suffrage methods must give way TO real
mems political methods, and when they
were convinced they gave in beautifully.
There was one dear old woman who
vention.
And what do you think about ito
asked her
DO whatever you want, my dear she
answered. We want suffrage in 1915
These old women upstate have be-
longed to suffrage societies since the days
OF Susan b. Anthony. But the societies
have been church affairs. or Woman's
Christian Temperance Union affairs, or
social affairs They have never belonged
to all the people.
III woman didn't move I'm III" same
social set as the president o. the suffrage
club she wasn't asked 10 Join. II the wife
OF the minister OF the Methodist Church
started n club. the Baptists wouldn't have
anything 10 do with Il. Under the party
system. every woman IN the state Will be
expected to Ioln There will he no church,
no creed. no color. no money In It"
The lnsurgent band who led The four
hours fight were Miss Elizabeth Free
man and Miss Rosalie Jones, known "a
the yellow cart girls" who toured Long
Island and Ohio last summer In little
yellow cart Mrs. Marie Jenny Howe, and
Mrs. Arthur IAvermore, OF Yonkers; MIS-.
carl Osterhcld and Mrs. Dexter p. Rum
scv. OF Buffalo, and Mrs. Emma T.
Sweet. ~ Rochester.
Mrs Iivormore was made chairman or
the election district work, which VIII b"
b.oun M oncc. As many districts as pos
eibIc will organize I'm time 10 hold their
curve1tions i'm January, which Is the date
cot for the party" convention I'm greater
New York
Toxt door 10 tho state" AZ No. $50
Madison avenue. the party leaders at
No 30 Fast 34th street were equally sure
Yesterday that # was preposterods 10
think OF tho party gobhlnG up the state.
Mrs Martha Wentworth Sunr"n, OF
H-ookIvn. explained that the party could
rovcr do such a thing, even II It wanted
90 ber,use "upstatr" would have eighty
o,,,,, districts. while the CITY has only
siyty-three. 80 they would come down 10
The Bronx" with a majority every time
i,,st like the men.