New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-10-08
Suffrage CONTRASTS
FOR GARDEN MEETING
Dr. Shaw to Tell Mrs. Pank.
h,,rst's Audience Why She
Opposes MiIitancy.
cusE FOR CONSERVATIVES
,nsrican Leader Fears Effect
Of Englishwoman's Visit in
Campaign for Vote in
This Country.

-. Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, presl-
~, Of the National American Woman
ssrraee Association, will speak at the
".,,ng which is to be addressed by
a., Emmeline Pankhurst, the English
~.rtsnt suffrage leader, at Madison
S,rare Garden Sunday night. october 10,
LIST any good. conservative member OF
cha National get heart failure on the
.nrnostion that this lines up that organi-
,,,ion for militancy, let it be stated that
NJ Shaw is not going TO indorse brick
,,,ouing. No. She is going to outline
~. American position against 1t. The
,,.,agers Of the Pankhurst meeting are
irving her free hand.
bsav what you like. only so you
.,sak" they say, generously. And she
nfr-for DR.. Shaw doesn't like Mrs.
p.nkhurst's coming 70 these shores at
this period IN American suffrage affairs.
II was suggested to the managers yes
to-day that the only thing needed TO
make II a bowling success was 70 get
Mrs Arthur NJ Dodge to speak for anti
suffrage, and then get the audience to
law bets at the start on which OF the
three favorites would win out.
Or. Shaw said yesterday there was not
. little opposition in the National 10
her speaking at all on the platform with
the militant.
One woman said to me: Won't IL ruin
YOUR chances Of being reelected 10 the
presidency?' I said to her: I don't care
The snap Of my fingers whether I'm re-
elected to the presidency, but I care a
good deal what is best for our cause.
Tam not going to introduce Mrs. Pank-
hurst. Those who approached me on the
natter said it was not necessary; Mrs.
Pankhurst is too we'll known TO need an
Introduction. But they allow me 10 state
the American position. the reasons why
We DO not like militancy, and l consider
that ought to do II.
~ am sorry Mrs. Pankhurst is coming
here ! don't care about the money she
will take away. but with our movement
at its present critlca! stage-the 1915 cam
pagn in New York, other state campaigns
before US and the federal amendment to
he worked for-I am sorry Mrs. Pank-
hurst is coming TO distract the issue.
But since she is coming and is 10 hold
these great public meetings, think. lest
the public get the idea that militancy is
the great thing in suffrage, il is well for
me TO take this opportunity of stating
from the same platform what we non
miniants are doing.
Madison Square Garden is a hard place
to speak in; it's so immense. But
think said DR.. Shaw, with a reflective
gleam In her eye, that my voice will
carry further than Mrs. Pankhurst's"
BY whom were you invited to speak7"
Dr. Shaw was asked.
4 believe" she answered, that Mrs.
o. H. P. Belmont, the Madison Square
Garden people and Miss Joan Wickhain,
Mrs. Pankhurst's representative, are CO.
operating in arranging the meeting"
Those in charge of the affair said Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait would be on the
platform. but Mrs. Gait told The Trib-
une reporter last night that anybody who
said that did not know what he or she
was talking about.
nave noIinhS 10 Say on the suOJeS1
OF the Mrs. Pankhurst meeting. she
said. Leave my name out OF H."
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch, head OF
the Women's Political Union, has been
asked 10 sit on the platform, and will do
so. She has not been asked TO speak, a
fact which has caused some surprise, as
Il was Mrs. Batch who got Mrs. Pank-
hurst over here for her first appearance
on an American platform, four years ago.