New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-03
BY ELEANOR BoOTH SIMMONS.

rect influence diverting by counsel or
cajolery the masculine hands that
moved the pieces. Now woman sits
at the board, having challenged the
Democratic party to game. Miss
Alice Paul ordering a great party to
put up its tenure Of Office as stakes
against the enfranchisement OF the
women OF the country is sight that
has made a good many people sit up
and take notice.
Perhaps it isn't fair to the many
hundreds of women who form the
Congressional Union to say that Miss
Paul is doing it. They are all doing
it. But in the suffrage movement, as
in everything else, personalities strike
the imagination. People talk OF Susan
z. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady STAN
ton. not of their helpers and followers.
End when the great procession OF
white clad women marches the length
of Pennsylvania ave. TO the National
CAPITOL next Saturday and delegates
from every Congressional district IN
the Union pass through the doors and
present to Congress demands for the
freedom of woman, Alice Paul, little
figure though she is physically, Will
loom pretty large.
a Politician, Not a Charmer.
How is it." a Western visitor to
Washington asked newspaper man
in that city recently, how is 1t that
Alice Paul, little. frail woman, with
? voice that can't make itself heard IN
2 fair-sized hall, with-she says 1t her
self-no charm, how is il that she is
playing off Congressman against one
another and stirring things up, as she
seems to be doing?
Well" said the newspaper man,
Alice Paul, you see-shes poiiti-
clan"
The proof Of the pudding is in the
eating. How is the political plan OF
;he Congressional Union--for in JUS
tee to Miss Lucy Burns, Miss Pauls
right hand assistant, and the rest oil
that group of women, it can't be called
Miss Paul's plan--how is it going to
work out? 1t seems to be irnpressing
a good many people. In the three
months since Miss Paul announced II
and she and Mrs. Crystal Eastman
Benedict and Mrs. Emma Smith Devoe
and other officers of the Union went /
forth through the states, North and
South and East and West, to beat up
recruits for the May 2 nationwide
demonstration that was part OF the
Elan, many we'll known women have
Joined the Union.
influential Women Join.
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who
has kept free of suffrage organiza-
tons before-save the international
Alliance-has just become member.
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, head OF the
Chicago school system, and Mrs. Kate
Waller Barrett, president of the Ma
t,onal Florence Crittenden Mission
and national leader of the lnterna-
tional Council of Women, are recent
members.
In its Washington rolls the Union
counts any number of Congressmen's
wives. Mrs. Kent, wife of the Repre-
sentative from California; Mrs. Men
dell. wife of the Representative from
Wyoming; Mrs. Sutherland, wife OF
the Senator from Utah; Mrs. Stone,
wife of the Representative from Hi
nois; Mrs. Prouty, wife OF the Repre-
sentative from Iowa, are few. Cabi- /
net women are working with the Con-
eressional Union, too-Mrs. Lane,
wife of the Secretary of the Interior,
and Mrs. Burleson, wife of the Post
master General.
Mrs. BIateh Endorses Union.
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch, prcsi.
dent of the Women's Political Union,
after warily watching the Congress
sional Union through its comparative
w brief life, came out for it last night
al Carnegie Hall and brought her or
sanitation with her Miss Paul and
Miss Burns were speakers on the pro-
sramme of the Women's Political
Union meeting there. and in reso-
luton the Women's Political Union
Endorsed the Bristow- Mondell amend
ment which the Congressional Union
is working night and day to forward
in Congress.
Mrs. Batch discreetly says that the
Womens Political Union doesn't wish
@ take sides between the Congression-
al Union and the National Womans
Suffrage Association, and therefore
indorses the Bristow-M ondell amend
uent. which is Just the old amendment
that Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth
csdy Stanton urged on Congress back
in 1869. and which, she says, the Ma
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