New-York tribune., 1912-03-13
s|JFFRAC|ST COHORTS
MOVE ON THE CAPITOL
Fair Advocates of Votes for
Women Invade Albany and
"Heckle" Legislators.
CUVILLIER PUT TO FLIGHT
Runs When Cornered by His Tor
mentors, but Meekly Re-
turns-0thers Share
Like Fate.
rRv Telegraph to The Tribune. J

Albany March l2.-The suffragis here
have not reached the stage of stone throw
Ing and public official Kidnapping yet but
there are many legislators tonight who
would break the anti-gambling laws by
betting that the American women can give
their English cousins a long lesd il
"beckling" obdurate lawmakers and still
heat them easily. 1t was persuasion day
for the suffragist sorority, preparatory tC
= big demonstration al a hearing on theiI
eoual suffrage resolution before the AS
semblv Judiciary Committee tomorrow
The various brands of persuasion proved
so potent that most of the anti-suffrag &c
legislators broke down before them and
ran.
That didn't save them, however. Wit
ness the case of Assemblyman Cuvillier
Percy Nagle, IL is to be assumed. doesn't
favor equal suffrage. for Cuvillier hasn't
announced so far any repentance for his
varied controversies in the suffragists
last campaign. Consequently Mrs. Mon'
tague Glass and a group Of fellow con-
SpIrators surrounded Cuvillier in the As
semhly lobby this afternoon and proceed
ed to put him through a third degree
which would have done credit to a Spanish
jnouisitor. Cuvillier stood it for a time.
and then departed hurriedly in the direc-
ton in which the women were not. They
surrounded all exits and captured the
doomed man when he emerged. Then
they taunted him with his flight.
"Oh. l only went to get my hat and
coat" replied Cuvillier weakly.
fAC' nut n
one of the young women, FOR his hat is on
now"
Cuyillier. a gallant Southerner. almost
smashed his hat in grabbing 1t off. but the
snicker which greeted that action finished
him.
Cuyilier may fight for the women in his
capacity as a national guardsman. but it's
a certainty he'll rot vote for them.
Deuge of Literature.
Cuviiliers experience was only one OF
dozens II was demonstration in force on
the part of the women vote seekers, and
there was not Senator or Assemblyman
within reaching distance who did no; have
from two to ten fair suffragette sisters
hanging over his desk or crowding him
into a corner. while yellow covered litera-
ture and yellow phrased suffrage thoughts
deluged him.
The suffragettes enjoyed themselves and
most OF the legislators by now have been
able TO smooth down their ruffled dignity.
The result in votes will not vary much. If
any, from what it would have been if a
vote had been taken before the demonstra-
ton. There has been one business like,
IOkk oh
legislative day, with smile as bright as
the yellow narcissus or daffodil she always
wore That woman has accomplished more
FOR the suffrage cause than to-day's entire
demonstration.
The suffragists got here about noon. Some
two hundred of them came in a special
train from New York. Among the leaders
were Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch. Miss
Alberta c. Hill, Mrs. Townsend, Mrs. Win
throp Burr, Miss Maud Ingersoll, Mrs. Eva
Ingersoll Brown, Mrs. Herbert Carpenter,
Miss Annie Tinker, who is TO head the cav
airy exhibit in the suffrage parade in New
York in May: Miss Caroline Lexow and
Mrs John w Brannan. Mrs. John Rog ers,
IT, headed delegation from Poughkeep-
sic Mrs Frederick Hazard led a delega-
tion from Syracuse. In the battalion were
representatives of the WomSns Political
Union the Equal Franchise Society, the
New York State Woman Suffrage Associa-
tion. the Collegiate Equal Suffrage League
and the Wage Farmers League.
Suffraeists Throng Galleries.
The New York suffragists formed into
line as soon as they disembarked and
ctr hill the Can't
tol their yellow and white flags flying as
gayly as If snow were not being hurled into
their faces by a rude March wind Once
al the Capitol they thronged into the Sen
ate and Assembly lobbies. packed the wom-
ems gallery in the Senate and calmly filled
the mems gallery with so much unconcern
that a veteran doorkeeper remarked:
MY God, they take the mems places Just
as II they belonged TO them.'
The sincere tribute to their ability great
by pleased all the women within earshot.
While these modern suffragists were exert
ing all their efforts in favor of the Stlwell
and Murray resolutions, Dr. Mary Walker,
who maintains that she has been suffra-
gist so long that she is disgusted with pres
eht-day tactics, was looking them over
scornfully. She said:
Why, IL these women really want the
vote all they've got to do Is to take 1t. JUST
let EN- 90 TO the polls some fine day ana
demand to be allowed TO vote. They'll ma
the men viii be so scared they won't dare
stop EN- You know women have the
ilght 10 vote now beyond a doubt, ana al
his campaign they're conducting now Is
ioolishness. I'm through with all that
fnd when you think OF all the years We
tried 10 induce them to take up simple
and rational form of dress.
Here Dr. Mary's words failed her. She
Strengthened her top hat on her shock OF
gray hair hitched up her trousers a trine
and departed, sadly eying the yellow
seshed suffrage sisters. who futtered
rnrough the Capitol corridors in beplumed
Eats and skirts about as wide as her
raaseuline drapings.
Many OF the suffragists remained over 10
attend mass meeting in the Assembly
Tonight under the auspices OF the New
ofk state Woman Suffrage Association.
ne speakers, who included John 5. Crosby
niioert Roe, Mrs. Raymond Brown and
mrs. Helen Hoey Greeley, declared that
une suffrage question Is part OF a great
movement OF real democracy that Is sweep