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

r1G1BE9 CONCRES>iONHC UNION
favorably out of committee.
The Women's Political Union will
also send large delegation, in a spe-
cial car, to Washington to join in the
demonstration on May g.
"WatchfuI Waiting"
What will that demonstration ef-
feet? What did the demonstration yes
terday effect? Whenever Miss Paul or
Miss Burns or any of the executive
committee of the Congressional Union
were asked if they were making plans
to cut down the Democratic majority
in the Senate by defeating candidates
in the suffrage states, according to
their announced procedure in the
event Of Congress dissolving without
the passage of the suffrage amend
ment, they would say:
Wait; wait till after May 9. We
are waiting to see what May 2 and
May DO to Congress"
This is how Mrs. Mary Beard, wife
OF Professor Charles Beard. of Column
bia University and an active member
of the unions executive board, ex.
plains it:
These men at Washington are aw-
fully sensitive. In matters concern
ing trust legislation, all kinds of leg
islation, they are always watching to
get the pulse of the country. Women
are climbing to the position Of constit-
uents. We are voting in ten states
now. Illinois gave us a great politi-
cal boost. We arc political factor,
and when these Congressman receive
the message from all the country over,
from men and women in every Con-
sress district, bidding them pass the
amendment we believe it will have a
great effect upon them.
Menace OF woman Ncter'
IF the Democrats don't heed our
bidding, it will be time to play our
next card. and that card is the women
voters. Whether the women voters
can be induced to forget party and
rally to help their sisters in other
states to secure the freedom they have
is somewhat predetermined. We think
they can. And the plan is simple. The
Democratic majority in the Senate is
only seven. Senator'S are to be elect
ed next fall in seven suffrage states.
We need only defeat four Democratic
candidates and that party's majority is
overthrown.
Our critics in the National Woman
Suffrage Association are SO silly.
They say our policy is militant, that
we are mad to declare war on party
when we have many friends in that
party. They appear to think we're
going cunning directly after Senator
Thomas, of Colorado, for instance,
who is chairman of the Woman Sui
frage Committee and is absolutely
Straight goods We're not. There
are Democrats from the suffrage states
in the Senate who aren't our true
friends, and we shall aim at these, II
cunning becomes advisable"
Unions Militant Antecedents.
Militant however, the National
holds the Congressional Union to be.
May be it is only natural that Miss
Paul should be militant, when she
served her suffrage novitiate under
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst in England
and was jailed, went on the hunger
strike, and was forcibly fed, receiving
in the process injuries which are seen
to-day in the frequent illnesses that
attack her.
When, a year ago last January, she
and Miss Burns and two or three
others were appointed by the national
association Congressional commit
tee, and went to Washington and
opened headquarters in the shabby lit
tie shop at 1920 F ST., N. w., things
ran smoothly enough. Then came the
news that Miss Paul had formed an
auxiliary. calling it the Congressional
Union; and then the final break at the
national convention last December,
when Miss Paul's report, with its rec
, ord OF parades and demonstrations. OF