New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-05
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PRESIDENT MAY SEE
DELEGATES TO-DAY
Will Receive Entire Convention
if Able-Dr. Shaw Is Re-
elected President.
From The Tribune Bureau

day president OF the National American
Woman Suffrage Association? According
to a statement in The Tribune Wednes-
day, made on the authority of a friend
who thought she knew, DR.. Anna How
ard Shaw is siXty-eiCht years old.
According TO a correction by DR.. Shaw.
she is siNty-six years young. According
10 the action Of the forty-fifth national
suffrage convention, which wound up an
orsy of money-pledging this afternoon by
passing the hat TO raise 81 for each year
Dr.. Shaw has lived she has passed the
century mark. for there was tl05 In the
hat when it reached the last delegate.
The money-pledging orgy, which put
the national" on easy street" for the
coming year. was dramatic proof Of how
much more potent Is an appeal TO the
emotions than an appeal to business
sense. The convention, which spent the
day in wrangling over the items In the
1914 budget. finding fault with the amount
Of Office rent, attempting to scale down
office salaries. and scrutinizlng expenses
for POSTAGE. in seven minutes threw fig
ures 10 the winds and pledged sum con-
siderably in excess Of what tho tax would
have been had the 1914 budget been
adopted The sum of sl9.577 IS was
pledged from the floor in amounts rang
Ing from 5000 down TO ST.
Publishing Company Assured.
Eleven thousand dollars OF stock in the
new suffrage publishing company was
subscribed in few minutes. making pos
sible the incorporation of that company
MI l,, In
creased dues. will. under the new con-
stitution which was fnally-with the
Objectionable deficit clause taken out
adopted, give the national board what 1t
must have 10 go on working--conidcnce
and support
What brought the convention TO sharp
sense Of shame in the cheeseparing policy
which some members seemed determined
TO force on IL was a short speech by DR.
Shaw Various items had been ques-
toned. and the time was slipping by
when DR.. Shaw gave the gavel into Miss
Jane Addams's hands and turned to the
delegates.
Your president" she said, works
without salary; she is given the use Of
quarters. When she goes 10 a campaign
state she asks So for expenses, and often
II costs SO TO get there. Nine times out
Of ten when she makes addresses she is
not paid; but, by the generosity OF
friend who has contributed fund OF
5000 for this work, she is able TO go
whittier she is called. And If reelected,
Cf.a mill
giving the best that Is in her. In three
campaign states the tide was turned by
that fund Of $1,000 and what 1t enabled
your president 10 do. She will go on Civ
Inc the best that is in her. She is willing
TO pay the rent of the office she has at
headquarters"
Thousands Pledged in Seven Minutes.
This evoked a demonstration for DIR.
Shaw that has seldom been equalled.
Women jumped 10 their feet clapping
hands and waving handkerchiefs. Then
began the pledsing. led by DR.. Shaw. who
gave $1,000 from my friends fund OF
81 100" other thousands followed fast.
Mrs. Stanley Mccormick pledged $1,000:
the Massachusetts, Political Equality
League. $1,000; Illinois. $1,000; Pennsylva-
MIA, 81 900, and New York State, $1,000.
Then they dropped 10 500 pledges. and
then lower but the SO given by some
worn little Western delegate or some suf-
fragist from "A poverty stricken Southern
state was as gratefully received by Or.
shaw as the big sums.
The pledge that raised the most laugh
ter was from man not afraid OF
woman suffrage" who gave 80 "for my
dear mother-in-law." 4 pledge Of $500
by Ms Joseph Bowen, Of Hull House,
Chicago. was the last. That seven min
utes was a dramatic point in wearyng
day.
Mrs. Belmont Indignant.
Another dramatic incident was the in
dignant exit of Mrs. o. II. p. Belmont
after her motion TO move the national
headquarters to Washington was voted
down Mrs. Belmont tried several times
during the day 10 get hearing, but
there were generally sixteen delegates
ahead OF her with other motions. The
precise time when Mrs. Belmont lost pa
tierce was colncdent with the introduce
ton on the platform Of Mrs. Champ Clark
who started 10 make a little speech. Mrs.
Clark is considered rather an important
person in suffrage circles, but not a whit
cared Mrs Belmont.
Are we to see President Wilson, Is
question that IL agitating the conven-
lion
Mr.. Tumulty will answer II tomorrow.
When informed yesterday that MT. VIII
son was indisposed, some OF the more
hot-headed ones prophesied freely that ne
would not recover until the last sunraglst
delegate had left town. But the others
coUnseled patience, and when Mrs. Medili
Mccormick went. a committee of one 70
the White House she was rewarded.
Call up Mr. Tumulty tomorrow
word came from the President, land II /
am able 70 see any one ] will see the
Whole convention"
While Mrs. Mccormick was reporting
the Presidents assurance 20 the suffrage
delegate. the president Of the National
Association Opposed 10 Woman Suffrage.
Mrs. Arthur NJ. Dodge, was opening the
ants " hearing at the capitol.
Tile association elected the following
ohieers to-day: President, DR.. Anna
Howard Shaw; first vice-president, Miss
Jane Adams; second vice-president, Mrs.
Desha Breckenridge, Of Kentucky; third
Fiee-presidcnt Miss Ruutz-Rees Of Con-
hecucut. recording secretary. Mrs. Mary
Ware bennett; corresponding secretary,
MIS- Susan w. Fitzgerald, Of Massachu-
Mo n