New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-31
WOMEN ASHAMED OF KEMPNER
Magistrates Mistake in Maud Malone Case-Wilson
Still Undecided on Suffrage Question.

u NC put OH tHe lOrHeIy tHey VIII NC
fully justified in militant" movement.
Women in Politics.
Mrs. Wilson has made UP her mind on
the question of woman suffrage II her
husband hasn't. In several interviews re-
rently she has expressed the opinion that
II is unnecessary and that II takes the
minds of women from domestic duties
This last week at public dinner given In
Philadelphia for her and Mrs. Cleveland
which they both left their domestic duties
long enough TO attend, Mrs. Wilson made
an address in which she said that so
cial work and the great needs OF chill
dren should occupy the minds or women
more extensively than the right to vote.
1t happens that every leader OF organized
work Of that kind in the whole country
has reached the conclusion that 1t never
can be effectively done until women nave
the franchise. On this question Governor
and Mrs. Wilson are simply "stand-pat-
ters"-they haven't progressed In TINS
direction.
The suffragists shouldn't be too hard on
Mrs. Wilson-it Is Just that she has
spoken, while the wives Of the other can
didates have kept still. Mrs. straus ID
the only one Of them all who has declared
for suffrage and come right down to the
work Of the campaign. All the wives ana
daughters sisters, cousins and aunts were
to be at the Moosette ball to raise iunds
for the campaign. but the night OF the
ball all were conspicuous by their ao-
sence. All the aristocratic relatives vi
all the candidates were to play tag
with the public, and then, when Mayor
Gaynor cruelty vetoed the game, all were
to stand around in the public parks anu
sell buttons and bandannas. But when
the curious public went TO have look
at them, there were the same hewers OF
wood and drawers of water that all along
had borne the brunt OF the contest. Anu
so when one goes TO the Republican
women's headquarters to see Peter anu
Polly Protection In their beautiful, cheap
clothes, or TO the Democratic women
Chamber OF Horrors to see how she 10
cheated every time she pays - yard
for dress goods-and incidentally 10 gaze
on ahose prominent women whose men
folk were running for offlce-wel, they
don't happen to be there that day.
Visitors will not be entirely disappolnt-
ed. however, for they will hear the can
dldates and platforms eloquently DIS
cussed by the leaders of the snti-suffragc
movement, who for years have been
pointIng out the awful consequences IL
women should get into politics. MIS-
William Force Scott spent many weeks
in California last year trying to defeat
the, amendment for woman suffrage be-
cause 1T would take women into political
life, which they are In no sense htted
for" and she has Just returned from
Ohio. where she went for the same pur-
pose. Now she IA talking tariff on the
Republican platform. Mrs. Barclay Haz-
ard is speaking there, too, although II mas
long been her mission to prove that
physically women are entirely unequal
10 the stress and strain OF politics Mrs.
Nelson Henry is another Of the Repub-
IIcan spellbnders opposed TO womenS
voting but In favor OF their running cam
paigns At the Democratic headquarters
this week Mrs. FEWER OF Texas, has been
telling the audiences that "women's Job
in this campaign is 10 raise the money
for expenses" and that she does not be-
lIeye I'm suffrage for women. because their
place is in the home" After this cam
paIgn, how can anybody say that women
have no sense OF humor?