New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-02
MAYOR MERE MAN
ON SUFFRAGE DAY
Women Will Let Him Offer
Keys of City, but Re-
quest His Silence.
INTEND TO PRESIDE
IN THEIR OWN WAY
Ants Happy at News That Mitchell
Will Not Lead Suffrage
Meeting To-day.

Meetlng To-Day.
MAYOR Mitchell will sit on the platform
at Carnegie Hall this evening. when the
Women's Political Union holds its meet
ing there. and will hand the suffragists
the keys OF the city. He is not going to
preside
NO indeed. Mrs Harriet Stanton
Batch said yesterday we are not going
to have the Mayor or any man introduce
our speakers. We shall introduce them
ourselves"
1t win be a trihe late in the day for
Mr.. Mitchell TO give the suffragists the
freedom Of the city. Tor they intend to
take it by storm in the afternoon. They
viii possess 1t so completely that ii Faith
or Knickerbocker doesn't want To sign
a suffrage slip he had better motor out OF
town and stay until tomorrow morning.
From Grants Tomb to Tompkins
Square from the Polo Grounds 10 Wall
Street from the Mall in Central Park 10
the Battery. at Washington Square. AT
Madison Square. outside the schools and
colleges. and also in Brooklyn and Staten
Island. the sunragists will hold forth.
They will also soothe the anti breast
with music. Mrs Oliver n. p. Belmont an
nounces that she will have a band concert
at Grants Tomb. and the Womens Po-
iitical Union is to have one on the Mall.
with oratory interspersed. Fifth avenue
is not 10 have its annual suffrage parade
this season. but for one Afternoon the town
will be gay with numbers of automobiles.
decorated. some with suffrage yellow,
some with purple, green and white. car
rying the scores Of speakers from meet
ing 10 meeting.
Miss Rose Sanderman, the plump little
suffrage bugler. Will open the day on
cially with "A clarion blast at Washington
Square at l o'clock. Before that the
various ORGANIZATIONS will have gathered
there. the Womans Political Union going
down from its headquarters I'm ifty-one
automobiles the Woman's Suffrage party
from its headquarters in fifty more,
and other organizations according TO
their strength There will be forty-fye
minutes of speaking, and then the Wom-
ans Political Union Will speed away to
the Mall. the Mems League for Woman
Suffrage to the financial district. the
Equal Franchise Society to Madison
Square the Collegiate League to the col
leges, Mrs Belmont's Political Equality
League to Grants Tomb. the New YORK
State Suffrage Association to Rutgers
Square. and the Woman Suffrage party
to the plaza to hold meeting, and then
on TO the ball grounds. where they Will
pitch a few arguments over the plate
and fly the otes-for-women pennant In
the faces OF the voters as they leave the
grounds
At the Carnegie Hall meeting the speak
ers Will be DR.. Katherine Bement Davis.
Commissioner of Correction. Timothy
Healy, Mrs. Norman Whitehouse. Miss
Josephine Casey. organizer Of the Ladies
Garment Workers, Miss Caroline LeNow,
Mrs. Nora Batch de Forest Miss Alice
Paul and Miss Lucy Burns, Of the Con-
gressional Union, and Mrs. Antoinette
Funk, OF the National Woman Suffrage
Association and Senator Shafroth. At
this meeting. as at all the outdoor ones,
both in this city and I'm other parts OF the
country wherever this suffrage demon
stratiOn extends. resolutions will be
adopted asking Congress to enfranchlse
women. These are the resolutions that
are 10 be presented TO Congress by the
five thousand women who will march w
PENNSYLVANIA ave. to the Capitol one
week from to-day.
There has been much unwarranted glee
in suffrage hearts and woe among the
"antis" because Mayor Mitchell Will be
. DarnaVf.. Hall
this evening. He will not preside, but
Miss Alice Hill Chittenden, president OF
the New York Association Opposed TO
Woman Suffrage. did not understand this
when she wrote him yesterday as fol-
lows:
You were elected Mayor Of New York
last autumn on the fusion ticket. and the
platform upon which you ran made no
reference TO the subject Of woman suf-
frage.
whatever your personal convictions
are on this question, you are Mayor or
all the women citizens Of New York, and
we. therefore. consider we have SINH
lar right and claim to call upon you TO
preside at any meeting which our asso-
citation may hold in the future
When Mayor Mitchell vas asked last
night about this protest against his pre-
siding he interrupted quickly:
II am not presiding AZ any meeting
you viii We there?
Yes"
What will you do?'
II shall welcome the delegates. Just as
l .-nLlId ~ any other cOmAeMtion.-