New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-13
Suffrage Societies All Hit,
but w. p. u. Gets 1t
Hardest.
GOOD OLD DAYS
PAST AND GONE
Committees Now Rule the RoOst
and Mrs. Blatch Is Too
Busy To Be Seen.

The passion for reorganization seems
10 have struck the suffrage societies of
this city, and of all of them the Women's
Political Union has il worst The good
old DAYS when one walked unchallenged
into The unions basement headquarters,
No i6 East 10Th street, and found Mrs.
Harriet Stanton Blatch at her desk cook
ing up "A parade and Miss Caroline
Lexow and Miss Elizabeth Ellsworth
Cook putting their heads together over
Senator So-and-So's anti-suffraGe record
and Mrs. Arthur Z. Townsend counting
mp the receipts of the last street meeting
those days are gone forever.
The W. =, L. has become a thing of
committees. The new headquarters at
No Is West i2d street, managed by a
house committee, of which Mrs. Emanuel
Einsteln is the chairman, has become
bustling shop where suffrage literature
and novelties are sold. and visitors who
inquire for the president are usually told
that Mrs. Blatch does most OF her work
al her home"
lust now Mrs. Blatch is in Albany and
the nature of the work she is doing there
is a matter Of some query. She and Mrs.
Norman Whitehouse, who also is i'm Al
bany. are stated to have gone TO round
up the legislators for the watchers bill.
The Honest Ballot Association is tryinG
10 put through a measure 10 permit stu
dents and women to watch at the polls.
and with the referendum coming on the
sufragists naturally feel a personal inter
est I'm that measure.
But there are rumors that the plan is
20 have Mrs Blatch upstate a good deal,
while the New York City headquarters is
run by committees. She is certainly 10
have charge Of the legislative work for
the various branches of the W. =. |.
Mrs. Nora Batch de Forest, who gave
up her work as a civil engineer 10 work
with the union till the vote is Won has
left the headquarters. She remains ed
itor of THE Women's Political World,
hut does the work at her home, and her
position as executive secretary at head
quarters Is filled by Mrs Florence Mau'e
Cooley
\ braud-new figure AT the headquarters
Is the social secretary. Miss A. Whitney,
Of California, whose duty is to meet peo-
pie and make them 50 at home that
though they come in AT the door ANTS
they go out suffraSists. Also, they go
ont with their pocketbooks considerably
lightened. for a Christmas sale is in prog
ress there.
The cleft between Mrs Cats campaign
committee and the Women'S Political
Union seems 10 be the kind that can't
be- bridged. and a good deal OF regret i
EXPRESSED by some adhcrentS Of the COM
mttee that there must he two factions
I'm the referendum work, and that in
places like Troy there are two headquar-
ters Of two organizations. working sepa-
rately for the same end.
20 some members of the Women Po-
ltical Unions executive committee feel
the same way? A leak in the committee
yes. executive committees leak some
times-says there was warm opposition 10
Mrs Elatch's determination 10 cut loose
from Mrs Gait and her band OF societies,
but Mrs de Forest declared YESTERDAY
that in the final vote the governing body
Of the Women's Political Union supported
her mother.
Mrs. John Winters Brannan reported
yesterday that the Women's Political
Unions referendum fund. which she and
her budget committee are ralsluG.
amounts 10 nearly $1,000. This was COL
lected in 4 little more than week.
large fund IS expected, for the Women 8
Political Union, which grew out Of the
League Of Supporting Women ana
once was composed almost entirely OF
such. is now remarkable for the number
Of rich women Of leisure 1t has in It's
ranks.
Changes appear to be brewing in the
National Woman Suffrage Association as
well as in the Women's Political Union.
Mrs. Francis Maule Biorkmari, who has
selected and edited all the literature pub
hshed there is giving up her position on
account of trouble with her eyes.