The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-27
DUCHESS Sees VOTE
FOR ENGLISH WOMEN
Former Consuclo Vanderbilt,
Here for Visit. a Suffragist,
but Not a Militant.
TIRIES' MISLED. SHE SAYS
Goes TO Newport to BE Guest of
Her Mother. Mrs. o. II. =.
Belmont.

The Duchess OF Marlborough. formerly
Consuelo Vanderbilt, arrived yesterday
BY the Cunarder AquitdnIa and was met
at the pier by her brothers. Harold Van
derbilt and william X. Vanderbilt, Jr.
The Duchess has the reputation Of being
the most democratic Of American or
other duchesses. and she demonstrated
this by the thoroughly Yankee style In
which she received the reporters.
At her invitation they went to her
cutie and she asked them what they
wanted to know and said frankly that
she was willing to tell them anything
that might be OF interest to them or the
grea, American public that they repre-
scented.
The Duchess declared that her Amcri.
canism had been unaffected by her Brit
'sh residence and that she had been gen.
timely disappointed by the failure OF the
American polo team to keep tho trophy
on his side OF the water. She hoped the
next contest would bc next year and
that the Americans would win with bet
ter ponies than they had when they were
defeated recently.
The Duchess is sufrasist. but moi
a militant She intimatcd that there
might possibly be change In militant
methods in England and that finally the
EnGlshwomen would get the vote.
She said she did not care to express ar
opinion on the drastic methods of the
mllltants that history alone could de.
eide whether or not those methods were
justhablc There were arguments IL
favor of tho militants' way Of trying to
accomplish things. The suffragiSts had
eNperimented with peaceful methods foI
fifteen years without accomplishing much
aud finally had turned - violence as a
last resort They had been misled
The Duchess was opposed TO the idea
~ letting tho women fYries" die She
sid the proposition. II il really existed
vas absolutely heartless. that she haC
heard nothing personally on the other side
sbout II. and that she did not believe q
Oas seriously advocated by decent Eng.
l'shnen.
She had talked recently with Secrotar,
Mrkenna about the eat and mouse &C
and he had said that the Government
could not afford TO let a woman starve it
prison, tud that " one woman died ot
starvation there would be many NOR,
eager TO follow her example.
II was impossible. the Duchess said. q
compare English and American suftra gists
as the mon Of the two countries and tn,
political conditions Were so different. Sh
looked upon the mcu ~ England as les
open minded than the Americans an,
moro inclined to hold stubbornly To con
sorNativc views.
The Duchess reported that her so :. tn
Marquis of Blandford. aged IL. and Jor,
Tror, ~, who are ut Elton. are baseball
enthusiasts and go TO every game playei
in their neighborhood They may como {
New York later in the season and Sc
what a real baseball game is like.
NEWPORT. June 26.--The Duchess o
Marlborough reached here this eveninj
from New York to spend "A month or 81
with her mother. Mrs. Oliver II. T.. Bel
mont. at Marble House. Harold s. Wan
derbil', her brother. accompanied her here
Numerous entertainments are bein
planned in honor OF the Duchess beside
those v hich her mother will give.