New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-16
SUFFRAGE LEADER
THANKS THE ANTS
Mrs. Gait Says Their Efforts
to Spoil Campaign Aid
ed It's Success.
BARRED FROM CHURCH,
WHICH PAID FOR HALL
Success of Empire State Tour
MARRIED by Accident to
DR.. Anna Shaw.

Ms Carrie chapman Gait hartman
Of tho Empire state Campaign COMMITTEE
said IT her bone last night that she was
deeply indebted 10 the ant-sufraeists -
the state Of New York she declared thai
by their alert and skilful advertising facy
had made hor i've weeks tour Of the
state. from which she returned last sat
urday. ono Of the most successful sur
fragc trims Of her career
II Or. Anna Howard shaw, who made
some spocchcs with Mrs. Gait and came
back with her saturday. hadn't fallen ana
broken hon" IN her Ice as she landed IN
Jersey city the five weeks would nave
been nawless. rs IL IS. the two leaders
consider the tour q triumph. Eight of the
ten districts into which the committee di-
vided the Empire state were covered
more than ninety meetings were held. ana
the evening audiences numbered IN All
Mrs. Gait says. at least sixteen thousand
persons. At the conferences money was
pledged 20 the amount Of S20.600.
"A biz blizzard struck Buffalo just as
W. did" she told the reporters, "and IN
spite of it two thousand people came 20
our lltEA4llHs anu diitAAo AAAcA'' b'N'cN'
$4,000 ~ Rochester We had three thou
sand people We-held eight conferences
three-dav conferences in some districts
and week long conferences in others. and
IN every district We found the suffrasist5
full Of vim and the rest Of the popula-
ton eager 10 hear US.
and this we owe in large measure 10
the ants In every district they pre-
coded us and held anti-suffrage meetings,
and all along the line they fought with
us, trying To keep us out of nails,
churches or wherever We wanted to speak.
This, Of course. was admirable publicity
for US and made everybody eager to heal
US when we arrived.
They succeeded in excluding zig from
the Second Presbyterian Church, in Al
bany by telling the trustees, who rented
us the church. that II we we're allowed
TO speak there they-the ANTS who be-
longed 10 the church--would leave il. But
the trustees being honorable persons.
told us to hire a hall, and they would pay
the rent of the hall and all the adverts-
ing And as we had paid nothing for the
church we didn't occupy we felt we
came out on top in that deal"
Mrs. Gait says the trip has strength
ened her belief that the suffragists VIII
win in the 1915 referendum.
II have had pretty wide experience in
campaign states" she observed, land
never have seen the suffragsts so en-
thusiastic and eager, and never have
seen the enemy so terribly frightened.
And that is a good barometer.
Never have ! seen so many public mon
willing to come out and speak for us.
While we were In Ithaca. President Schur-
man Of Cornell University came out for
woman suffrage And ! remember that
about three wears ago, in speech in New
York. he took stand that troubled the
suffraglsts OF Cornelrs student body very
much. TIo has changed since then.
ANDREW D. White. the former presi-
dent OF that university. let ii be under
stood in an interview. during our stay
i'm Ithaca. that he believed in votes for
women. And so il was everywhere. Ire
City Club. in Rochester. permitted four
women to attend its dinner. and two OF
those women. Mrs. Grace Duffield Good
win and myself debated after the dinner
on woman suffrage
AT Ithaca DR.. Shaw and myself gave
the first two speeches in the new Agri-
cultural Auditorium. That was during
farmers week. and We reached ] don
know how many thousands Of the rural
voters II was a good many
Or. Shaw, who had pledged thirty
speeches TO the Empire State campaign
gave sixteen OF them before her acci-
dent. She says she will complete the
thirty as soon as she RECEIVERS.
Mrs. Howard Mansfield. president or the
Equal Franchise Society, has designed
and presented to the committee two large
banners in yellow. blue and white. the
referendum campaign colors. One ban
ner has the rising sun--taken from the
stat e seal-and this device will be used
on the buttons. folders. etc, through all
the campaign.