New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-27
WORKING WOMEN WON
BY THE SUFFRAGlSTS
All Classes Now United in Fight for the Bal
lot-Delegates Make Police
man Shudder.

At this convention. but much of it must
no applied on last years Indebtedness,
and the ingenuity of the committee on
WAYS and means will be severely taxed.
As all of the states see their own cam
paigns approaching. they want 10 retain
their money and are inclined to object
TO the % cents per capita tax on their
membership.
Satire for Those Who Wanted IT,
Those who enjoy satire found it in the
action OF the convention, which. AFTER
voting ten to one that all officers ana
all members should be entirely free 10
affiliate with various parties and Work
for their candidates, adopted unanimously
this resolution: "The association shall
maintain the time-honored tradition OF
being absolutely non-partisan as to
political parties" What constitutes the
association II not its officers and mem
beers ii is difficult to understand.
The assertion was constantly made that
an officer can do anything she likes as
an individual, but not as an official. No"
ii seems that when member goes into
party politics she must make II clear
that as an association she is nor-partisan.
The experience of this convention must
have convinced every one present that II
she attempts to stand up for a principle
against the opposition of the official
board she will have an uphill time OF it.
There have been many features OF this
meeting which have caused the older SUI
fragists much apprehension, but they
feel that the less the public knows about
them the better for the cause of woman
suffrage.
THE Bulletin" of this city, has finally
decided that "out of the four hundred
thousand women in Philadelphia 1t may
be doubted whether there are forty thou
sand who are in entire sympathy with
the aims and purposes OF the suffraglsts.
Well, forty thousand are worth consider
ing when they are as representative as
have been in evidence during the last
week. But does THE Bulletin" really
think that If the women of the city had
the suffrage not more than that number
would use it? That is exactly the way
they talked in California, and in the whole
state only a few hundred took part In the
campaign for it, but at the hrst oppor-
tunity nearly elghty-six thousand regis
tered in Los Angeles alone, and 30 per
cent Of them voted.
Philadelphia Was UnresponsIve.
They never have had in Philadelphia
greater demonstrations than have been
made this week in favor Of woman SUI
frage. Miss Adams expressed the sltua-
ton for all time last night after the mag
nifcent addresses of Bishop Darlington, OF
the Central Pennsylvania Diocese, asking
woman suffrage for the sake of every hu-
manitarian cause; Baroness Won Suttner'
as a necessity for the peace for the world
and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait as the
only hope for the abolition OF the "hi'e
slave" traffic. 81 want to submit to you'
said Miss Adams, whether there ever
has been in all history any class Which
has asked for the franchise for such rea-
sons as YOU have listened to tonight
Are not the wishes of forty thousand such
women as these who are striving for the
suffrage more TO be regarded than those
of many times that number OF the ordl-
nary and the unrepresentative?
The effects of this convention will reach
to the furthest corner OF the state; they
will be felt when the Legislature meets
few months from now, and the delegates
from every state will carry home as their
slogan for the coming year the closing
words of Baroness Won Suttner:
Until women put their wishes into poll
tics they will be of no avail.