New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-16
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Cats
Compromise Heals Breach at
Meeting in Binghamton.
ASSEMBLY DISTRICT UNIT
The County People" Lose on
First Onslaught When County
Organization Is Abolished
Sop Thrown to Clubs.
lBy Telegraph 10 tn. Tribune

! Binghamton, y. Y. oct. 1j.-NiCtory
perches on the insurgent banners to-
night The woman suffrage convention
after three hours fight adopted Gen
eral' Resale Jones's amendments TO the
( constitution Of the New York state Wom-
an Suffrage Association
/ \ compromise. prepared by Mrs. Carrie
! Chapman Gait. won over many of the
old club defenders. and the rest was easy.
Mrs Gait proposed that the clubs now
existing be permitted to remain auxiliary
to the state association. hut that all new
/ clubs formed must be auxiliary to the AS
! sembly district organizations
Mrs. Laura NJ. Meyer Of Marcy. Oneida
| County. Is being greeted as the Joan OF
Arc Of the insurgents. Her story turned
the tide in favor of the ASS, mbly district
as against the club
Il am a delegate from a club she said.
we have five members myself, my sis
ter my daughter and my two cousins We
! have exactly the same representation in
this convention as an Assembly district
club Of 500 members. That's ridiculous.
isn't it?"
Mrs. Meyers words were greeted with
1
The meeting was practically controlled
| by the New York City women. Miss Jones
proposed the amendment, and Mrs. Gait
and Miss Mary Garrett Hay stepped into
the breach when the fight waxed too vio-
| lent.
The County People" Lose.
! The county people lost in the first on
slaught The amendment 20 abolish the
county organization was carried without
| a dissenting voice. Mrs. Il. G. Talbot
| Perkins and Mrs. Harry Hastings did not
| arrive. though their friends were at the
station to meet every train
Miss Jones's amendment as finally car
ried reads as follows:
And political equality club Of ten mem
bers auxiliary TO the state or October Is.
| 1913. may continue in auXiliaryship to the
state association. but this shall not apply
to cities of the first class"
That's all right said Miss Hay. I'm
| president OF the Equal Suffrage League OF
New York City. with 800 members. We
don't want TO belong TO your state associ-
alton. We'd rather keep our money at
home"
| Mrs Gait said she personally did not
believe in allowing any club to be auxil!-
| airy 20 the state body. but since some
people seemed TO be unable to think in
any terms except club, II was better to
| have them so think than not 10 think at
! all.
At the afternoon session Mrs. Gait out
| lined her plan for the 1915 campaign
The state Is TO be divided into nine
campaign districts. whose boundaries shall
| be practically the same as those OF the
| judicial districts. There shall be a cam
| paign committee. composed OF the presi-
dents Of the seven suffrage organizations.
! with the nine chairmen OF the judicial
districts and heads Of friendly organiza-
| tons.
Cooperation Expected.
| Among those who will be invited 10 CO.
operate with the suffragists are the Wom-
ans Christian Temperance Union. the
| State Grange. the State Teachers As
| ISOLATION the Women's Trade Union
| League, the State Federation OF Labor.
the State Federation OF Women's clubs
and the several political parties.
Mrs Gait has said that she would ac-
cept the Craftsmanship OF this committee
II such was the desire OF the members.
| conference has been called In New York
| next Wednesday afternoon Of all pres-
| dents OF suffrage societies. There are two
provisions in Mrs. Cats acceptance. how
ever. The committee must guarantee 10
| raise $4,000 at once, and every member
! must engage to work as hard az Mrs
| Gait herself.
| There shall be campaign headquarters
| in each of the nine campaign districts, in
stead OF the one state headquarters In
! New York City. The question Of abolish
| ing the Offices at No. 100 Madison avenue
| was left to the board OF directors OF the
| state association.
| If an upstate woman is elected 10 the
presidency, in all probability the central
\ headquarters WILL shift to her campaign
! district, though many women feel that
for convenience in comforting with other
suffrage leaders the headquarters should
be in New York City.
General Jones Refuses Office.
| A Jones boom started by the Army OF
| the Hudson" and loyal assembly district
cohorts was exploded late in the after
noon by Miss Jones's statement that In no
circumstances would she accept the Office.
The general is disappointed that her
Assembly district plan was not adopted as
a whole. The compromises forced on her
change the whole character Of the state
organization, she gays.
"I couldn't honestly accept an office
from an organization with whose work
am not In sympathy" she says. Il would
be all the time discouraging clubs. be.
cause | don't believe in them. and that
wouldn't be fair to the people who Sect-
ed me 10 direct the clubs as part OF my
work"
Mrs. Helen Probst Abbott, OF Rochester,
comes up as the strongest candidate to-
| Nfro OF 0ounQn 10 alan he