New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-21
By Ida Hustled Harper.

Roth Philadelphia and New York are to
b, congratulated; the former because it
g 70 have whole week of woman suf-
frage expounded by the most eminent
uon,en Of the country; New York because
g &c 10 have whole week of rest from
This all-peryading subject.
Rut. no-that hope was shattered at
,,e anti-suffrage luncheon Tuesday at
s5errv's, The silent woman" is to keep
s,u no longer Heretofore men, il is said,
we're happy in being able to find one
erol,p of women who would let them do
al the talking, but now. alas, even these
have decided officially that lit is high
time there should be no silent women"
Nobody, in fact, knew there had been
any for a long. long while, as every days
napers tell of -suffragists speaking
IN public at all sorts of places on all
kinds Of subjects. but it seems that it
really is only talk" when 1t is in favor
of suffrage and that comes pretty near
being true. Now the slogan Of the "antis'
Is 10 be. Bore the men" Well, they
couldnt do it more effectually than to
beg them not TO allow New York women
sny voice in the government Of cities or
state. A man who wouldn't be bored by
that kind Of talk is not much Of a man.
II was very tired lot of women, that
advance guard. who moved on TO
Philadelphia from New York. In ten
dsys' time they had managed and par
tcipated in a parade OF 10000 suffragists;
they had held one mass meeting in Car
pegie Hall TO celebrate the enfranchise-
rent Of another million women in four
more states, and a second to welcome
home their international president from
having organized the women Of the
whole world for suffrage"
There were a few score smaller
stunts" which they do not stop to count
these busy days, but all were forgotten
when they unfolded their morning papers
and read the accounts Of the anti-suffrage
luncheon at Sherry's. They were like the
little boy whose teacher scolded him for
laughing out loud in school.
Il didn't mean to-" he said, but / was
smiling and the smile bursted."
That is just what happened on the
train and has been happening ever since.
as they have passed these reports around
the headquarters at the Hotel Walton to
be enjoyed by the other delegates. There
has been danger indeed that they would
upset the serious business Of the con-
vention.
Suffragists have a strong sense OF
humor: if they didn't have It at the be-
ginning IT has been developed by the
"sntis." Think of Martha McCulloch Will
Jams standing up in the exclusive pre-
cincts Of Sherry's, amid all those aristo-
cratic anti-suffragists, and solemnly de-
claring:
we DO not want mems pantaloons or
politics.
Wasn't that a voice from the shades
of the past? The mass Of the women now
I'm the movement for suffrage do not
know there ever was a time when every
one who advocated il Was tainted with
venting TO wear that ungainly article of
mans apparel. But Mrs. Williams is still
living in that dark age and her assertion
was received with loud applause by the
rest OF the cave jewellers.
Woman" she said. is no more 1t
Tor the ballot than TO be trapeze per-
former or bareback rider"
Take a day Off, dear antediluvian. and
20 10 the, circus and see what excellent
work women are doing in both those
roles. II will convince you that women
may have the physical strength even if
they haven't the human intelligence TO
cast a ballot.
National Suffrage History.
This is the forty-fourth annual cOnven-
tinr nf The National Woman Suffrage