New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-13
WAR NOW WRINKLES
SUFFRAG|STS' FRONT
Women's Political Union Takes
Umbrage at Policy OF Central
Campaign Committee.
SAYS IT WILL WORK APART
Critics Say Upstate Workers,
Better Organized than Those
Here, Have Been Neglect
ed in 1915 Plans.

Like Lord Dundrearys birds OF
feather the Women's Political Union VIII
henceforth flock all together.
This organization has decided that TOT
il to work with the central campals"
committee would be "equiVaien'
strangling the union" They would 'heS
declare. cheerfuly consent TO straheui'
ton if the operation would bring success
for suffrage in 1915, but they Know u
would have exactly the opposite erect
and devotion TO the cause compeis 'he"i
to say goodby to Mrs. Carrie chapman
| Gait and her campaign committee ana
/ embark upon a referendum campaign OIL
| their own.
Mrs Harriet Stanton Blatch will have
a few things to say in the next issue Oh
! '"The Womens Political World aoou'
the absurdity of a state campaign coiii-
mittee that includes only representatives,
of New York City organizations ana IL
nores the suffrage bodies that dot 'he
rest of the state Mrs. John Rogers IT,
member of the executive board, mas writ
ten for the same issSe an editorial point
| ing out that IF i'm the last four or hNe
wears the Womens Political Union had
been hound by a two-thirds vote OF a
campaign committee like the one no"
| formed we would never have had pa
rade or an outdoor meeting or a cam
paign against certain enemies in the
Legislature"
The immediate cause of this announce
ment was a letter which Mrs. Raymond
Brown. president of the New York STATE
Woman Suffrage Association, has been
sending around, asking for contributions
to the campaign fund. In this letter.
dated October 81. Mrs. Brown an
nounced that a fund of $4,000 was neces-
sary, and as a starter Mrs. Gait wanted
10 be assured of $4,000 by November I.
One of these letters went TO Miss Anne
Constable, of the union, who Immediately
took it to her chief, Mrs. Blatch. MIS-
Blatch's eagle eye noted in the letter the
sentence. the suffrage societies of the
state have Joined their forces and nave
organized" and fearing, she says, tha'
persons not reading carefully the llst OF
societies appended to the letter Woulu
think the union included in the appeal
for funds. she felt 1t high time TO make
the unions position clear.
There are suffrage organizations up
the state" Mrs. Batch said yesterday,
that could give clubs and spades to our
New York City societies and still win.
! committee formed to win suffrage for the
women of the whole state, formed to con-
vince the voters of the state, is very
narrow and unrepresentative when II
shuts It's eyes TO such bodies
| Mrs Batch highly disproves of the
| action of the state association in sup
pressing, at It's recent convention, the suf-
| frage clubs affiliated with IL and making
them subservient to newly appointed AS
sembly District leaders.
Thus does the Womens Political Union
, point out to Mrs. Cats campaign com
mittee how a well balanced state CAIN
paign should be run. The union an
nounces, through Mrs. Rogers. that II
doesn't mind focking by itself It's war
CHEST is filling up nicely, and 1t looks for
ward cheerfuly to a competitive cam
paign. (which will allow personality to
count"
To be bound by a two-thirds vote OF
Mrs. Cats committee. the Women's Po-
! nucdl Union reefs, WOulu ne Squ'INH'"s
Mrs. Blatch's personality too much.
| Mrs. Gait was asked last night If the
committee had raised the $4,000 IT wanted
by November Z. She said the reports
were not all in, but she believed they
were getting along toward it,"
The w. p. us affair with the cam
paign committee is not its only one. IT
has another in prospect with the National
Woman Suffrage Association. The plan
which the National Will try to put
through at the convention next month
taxing affiliated bodies according to their
incomes, hits the opulent w. p. L. right
in the solar pleXus.
ITS an unfair plan," said Mrs. Blatch
yesterday. Our budget last year was
about $4,000. The budget Of the Woman
Suffrage party was, l believe, about slO,-
900 or $11,OOO. That puts tax on us of
nearly three times as much"