The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-04
WOMEN PUT MAYOR
ON 1915 TABOO LIST
Suffragists Warn They "WOn't
Forget That Carnegie
Hall Speech"
"POOR BOY" SAYS LEADER
Mrs. Blatch Wanted to Speak
Her Mind, but Maternal
Instinct Won.
''POOR BOY" SAYS LEADER

IN the May day celebration and were
present at the big meeting at Carnegie
Hall Saturday evening turned their guns
on Mayor Mitchell yesterday for his So
called "hundred-year-old speech
Some said the speech showed lack
OF good manners and AN astonishing
ignorance OF the suffrage movement and
its ideals: others attacked the Mayor
personally and said he was absolutely
undemocratic, snobbish and arstocratic,"
| while all were of the opinion that he
had done the most "inconsiderate and
boyish thing so far In his administra-
ton.
The ballot enthusiasts had intended to
| air their views on the Mayors speech
at a luncheon given to business men at
downtown Delmonico's. sc Beaver street.
this afternoon. hut there was memorial
meeting at the headquarters OF the Wom-
ems Political Union yesterday and when
| the irate members assembled they found
| IL impossible to contain themselves
longer
Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blatch. who was
chairman of Saturday nights meeting
and introduced Mayor Mitchell. said she
marks when he came to shake hands
with her after the meeting she could
hardly help saying MY dear young man,
( you have lot 10 learn
"Poor Boy" Say. Mrs. Blatch.
81 was almost at the point of han
ding him without gloves" said Mrs.
Batch, but he looked IN and my ma
! ternal instinct was 50 strong that all
I could think of was. Poor boy poor
/ boy"
can II be possible" she con, nued.
that the poor fellow thinks suffrage
won't come Mayor Mitchell will find
/ out that his chickens VIII com" home to
roost. and not later than the Presidential
election OF 1916. The biggest chicken
of all will represent his silly speech in
/ Carnegie Hall on Saturday night"
why did he come to the meeting X
he didn't intend to say something opti-
mis,ic?" interrupted Miss A. j. q. Gray.
| "He was invited by the Women's Politi-
! cal Union to welcome the upstate and
local delegates attending the woman's
linden. ndence day demonstration. Did
he welcome them
That's just it, ventured Mrs. j. w
Brannan If he had made an agree
able. polite and welcome address all
would have gone well. hut he showed
| a lack OF good manners as guest He
was not asked to come to the meeting
! in order to air his personal views on the
| suffrage question
Mrs. Brannan said II reminded her OF
4 guest at a convention Of liquor dealers
who suddenly attacked his hearers with
a dissertation on prohibition.
Mayor Mitchell told thu suffrarists
that they mus, prove by their capacity
their ability to become leaders. and in
this way only could they advance" she
said what are his ideas of democracy?
Was he elected by leaders? Did he talk
this way in his campaign days.
Suppose our meeting Saturday night
had been a convention Of railroad men
interested In "A new air brake" said Mrs
Batch. and suppose speaker had got
up and said. When enough railroads
want this air brake and want It enough
they will get IT. what do You mink his
hearers would have thoUrht OF such
logic? Woud a railroad man say such
a thing II he were Interested in the worh
OF saving human lie and lettering con-
dltons? Would he BE- So narrow a. IL
say the public would not surer materially
FOR lack of the air brake when the pub
lice demands II? Wei. that is what
Mayor Mitchell did al Carnegie Hall.
But "Nrn Are 80 PcrsOnaI.''
He couldn't see the bigger and more
> y
he could see was the air brake and h
; centred his thought on H. Men Rre 80
personal They can't see in fair and
equal light another mans views ON the
same question. Mayor Mltchel's speech
illustrated his personal and selfish sid,
! OF the question. lie seemed to think that
in the appointment OF Miss Davis he nae
done something OF historic Importance
. and, having done such an amazing thing
was now willing to step aside and busy
himself with catching bouquets instead O
, continuing the good work.
r Mind you, a young man like our Mayor
4 talking In such vein TO women VIII
/ We're old enough to be his grandmothers =
I'VE won't forget this treatment :
vsntured "A young woman who refused Il
, give her name. The ballot comes II
1915 and the Mayors chickens return
: in 1916"
: Mrs Norman de r. Whltehouse. who en-
. tertained the Mayor at dinner previous &
the meeting, pointed out the humorous
. side OF the situation that tn" Mayo
should have taken this part GUAR &C
. casion to express his rather unenlC htene,
! views on woman suffrage when he wa
- expected only To extend "A simple WELDON
: to the large number Of visiting delegate
here from all over the state.
i, "Our Mayor showed an astonishin
. ignorance Of the suffrage movement an
u total lack Of insight into Its ideals
said Mrs. Whitehouse. He SAID he (
convinced that women do not requir
the suffrage to achieve entrance into pub
lice life Entrance into public life ia
h women is not the aim of the suffrag
- movement. We are asking for the ballu
! primarily as matter Of justice in orde
u that the interests and the opinion
! OF women should be represented
!, the Government He says also that 'whc
~ enough women want II and want II cnoug
they will get Il. Until then my expcrienc
= does not lead me To believe that the
= win suffer materially for lack OF It.
> More Than Ever Ask Vote.
d Large classes OF women. however, al
t suffering more for lack OF il. Mayt
!. Mitchell himself has given us evidence
p the discrimination that Is 81 suhtly an
@ unconsciously exercised against the vot,
d less women, AS to the numbers OF wone
2. who want the vote, there has never bee
g SO large n class before In the hstor
o OF the world asking TO he enfranChist
= or asking 50 earnestly and persistrntly.
Y when, may ] ask, has equal cnpucit
:. for public service and leadership wit
n an established electorate c,or been Il,
e mandcd by "A class OF men about to |
q enfranchisedP II was surely not d,