New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-14
CIRCUS FREAKS BALK
At RALLY FOR ''CAUSE"
aides of the "Side Shows" Fail
TO Attend Women'S Political
Union Meeting.
SUFFRAGISTS TURN OUT
About 100 Votes" Advocates
Drink Tea and Hear DR..
Anna Shaw Accuse
Liquor Interests.

The Fat Lady and the Bearded Lady
and the Living Skeleton and the Lady
Death Dipper and all the rest Of the cir
Gus attractions threw the suffragists
down hard yesterday. The Women's Po-
litical Union sent polite invitation TO
Madison Square Garden. asking them TO
come to the headquarters at No. IS East
10Th street yesterday afternoon and drink
tea and hear Dr. Anna Howard Shaw tell
how the vote wasn't won in Michigan.
Not one of them came.
About hundred suffragists came to the
tea and TO them Dr.. Shaw, having made
sure there wasn't an anti in the room. I'M
bosomed herself as TO the gravity of the
fght that is before them.
We've got the biggest fight on earth
ahead Of us-MichiGan taught me that.
she said Il don't mean were afraid Of
the Societies Opposed to the Further En-
tension Of Woman Suffrage. Mercy, no.
We're no more afraid Of them than
steam engine is afraid OF a lady-buS on
the Ia lway track. But behind that lady
bus is hiding the organized liquor traffic
Behind that little handful OF women II
hides and does its dirty work, and 1t Is so
thoroughly organized. so well intrenched
that il is going to give us bigger hgnt
than We over dreahed OF.
Mrs. Arthur Dodge national president
Of the ants has just come out with
statement denying that the liquor dealers
are backing them financially or in any
other way. Well. nobody charged that
the LIQUOR men are passing money over
10 them. She s screaming before she
hit
81 don't say there is any deliberate Dali
gain between the ants and the liquor IN
tercsts. But out in Michigan. Detroit
paper printed huge advertisement. SIX
reasons for voting against woman sut-
fragc.' and the bill was sent to the Nc
Comb County Liquor Dealers Associa-
tion. Thousands of pieces of anti ilteia-
lure were sent out by the liquor men IN
such way that any ono would nave
taken il for granted-it was taken Tor
granted-thaI they came from the anti
suffrage organizations. The moving PCT
ure mon throughout the state were told
that the women would join hands WIN
the Governor Of Michigan. who was Try
Ing 10 get through some legislation TO
nurif, their pictures: and they were all
urged 10 put on the film that Mrs. DouSe
exhibited in the window Of her headquaI-
ters in Washington d week before 'he
parade-an anti-sunrage film when dlu
much 10 foster and incite the disorders
on the day of the parade
THE liauor interests are throwing their
tremendous strength against MS ana any
woman who calls herself a suffrasist
and doesn't do something In TINS nshl VI
ours ought To be ashamed
Dr shaw said il would be an awfuny
good thing for this city If there We're
some motaerly aldermen in the Clty lia'''
cont in Michigan was asked, she
said If a woman would like to sit on
a Jury with ten men and an lmiilo'",
woman. and isn't il better TO DC soou
mother than an alderman:
81 said. as to the jury, | thought II
,,o,,,l mo safer for those ten men II there
was lady around. As 10 the other quos-
linn didn't see why woman shou'u"
he a good mother and better alderman
bocausc of being mother. II wouid I'M
,rovo New York morals II we had some
mothsrlv alderman in City Han!
queer notions those ants get one
asked me Al a Michigan meeting Why
sutfracis,s stood for trial marriages ana
easy divorces.
".,vha, sunracigts?' ] asked her.
WI charlotte Perkins Gilman and
I-cz Mlholland.
Neither Of whom represent inc sui
fracists. / told her. Anyhow no" can
Won think sufragists stand lot '''ose
things. when YOU are always teI'ihg Us
We are all spinstcrs?