New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-25
CAUSE CAUGHT MAPPING
Suffragists, However, Roll Up
Sleeves to Fight On.
READY TO TACKLE VOTERS
Soon as Assembly Passes
Amendment Electioneer-
ing Begins.

The suffragsts were caught mapping up
in Albany. They never thought they
could BE-. but they We're. While they sat,
last Thursday afternoon, listening to the
Senators tell how they didn't want to
vote for that woman suffrage amend
ment but they had to- the Assembly. to
which body the resolution was 10 be
rushed for concurrence as soon as the
| Senate passed it. adjourned. And now II
| can't come up in the Assembly until
Monday. and that means another little
| trip To Albany for the suffragists
/ Yes: We certainly were caught nap
I ping" Mrs Harriet Stanton Batch said
| yesterday. III We had been awake we'd
have sent tip over to the Assembly to
keep In session little longer. Never
mind: We'll pin it Monday night"
Mrs. Blatch says the referendum is now
assured.
But some of the anti-suffyagists are
saying that the legislators who announce
that they will vote for the amendment only
because their party pledges them to IL
will be in position TO turn thumbs down
when the amendment comes before the
Legislature of 1915" Mrs Batch was re-
minded.
They can't" said the president OF the
Women's Political Union. we saw to
that The Democratic party has pledged
itself TO the referendum and there can
be no referendum unless the amendment
passes both houses a second time. in
| 1915"
Suppose the new Legislature is Re-
publican"
We have them OF the hip. too said
MIS-. Batch. serenely. The Republicans
are pledged To the referendum. too"
Mrs. Batch was trife peeved about
the report that the suffragists didn't want
a naturalization clause in the amendment
Mrs. Ida Hustled Harper or anybody
else who says we don't, Is wrong she
said. ~ did remark that the legislators
could decide as they chose about it, II
only they'd come TO some decision: but
| the brief clause as IT stands now. requii-
ing FIVE years residence In this country
before voting for women as for men. is
what We wanted.
From now on" cried Mrs. Nora Batch
de Forest. az she stepped from the Al
bany train at the Grand Central Terminal
yesterday from now on the shabbiest
Bowery loafer Is OF as much importance
TO us as the biggest Senator Our cause Il
practically out of the Legislature. ana
before the voters
Miss Mary Garrett Hay. head Of the
Woman Suffrage party came back from
Albany with her head teeming. she said,
with plans for the conversion OF New
York State before 1915. mo. | won't tell
one OF them now she said Molly Hay
never gives plan out before it's ripe
But this much Is sure, New YORK must
look 10 itself now The referendum is be-
fore us. and the campaign Is on. And
New York is the statc-weil. | won't say
the suffragists all over the country should
concentrate upon II. but once New York
f. I'm the suffrage ranks. II VIII be easy
10 get the rest OF the states. and no bet
ter work can he done for the cause IMAM
helping New York to win.
II can't he excited about the passage
of the amendment I'm the Senate. because
IL had TO pass. II would have been
through the Assembly by now only those
men were In such a hurry TO be of for
their weekend that they adjourned. How
ever II will pass Monday. and it's good
bill with the naturalization clause taken
care of. Did ! want that clause? or
course. we all did.
Miss Harriet May Mills. president OF the
New York State Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation. was quite nifty when she re-
turned from the capital
Well what do you think OF us now?
she inquired generally as she landed AT
the state headquarters. at No. $50 Madison
avenue. The suffragsts have conquered
the Legislature, After working ana
begging and pleading and arguing some
forty years or so we've won. We have
met the Legislature and they are ours
And now We shall roll up our sleeves ana
proceed to make the voters OF the state
ours. too
"The naturalization clause? Yes. we
wanted that. We decided so Mt the meet
ing OF our cooperative committee las,
week. and so told Senator Wagner