New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-26
Suffragists Shown Way TO
Form Own Government
and Gust Man.
DEFEAT AT POLLS
MEANS REBELLION
Cause Adhcreuts Ready 10 Name
Officials as Did Rhode
Islanders of Old.

rom no .ANAlf ~. INV
1915.
Mrs Blatch fo7 Governor
Nv. r. L.. President Would BE MIS-
trcss OF Peoples House
Women Convention Nominntes Can
didotes for .iu state Offices
Md thcn the s.orv goes on TO describe
80 length ,hc convention OF would-oe
women voters. who. incensod at their de-
feat AZ tue polls on Election Day, have
o-uanized a state of their own. They
nave called convention. elected legis-
lators and a Governor and will soon
march upon Albany, demanding that
mere man give up his seat and let the
people rule.
This Is no Idle cream OF Quiet sun
DAY afternoon. lt Is serious political
proposition made to the members OF the
Womcr's Political Union by Professor
Charles Beard Of Columbia University
at A meeting at the berkeley Theatre yes
terdav afternoon.
I'm case the women arc defeated al the
POLLS in 1915. he advised them TO take
leaf from the book Of their superiors
aud DO as they did when they were dis
franchiscd. II was in Rhode Island IN
1892. that the voteless bankers mer-
chants and lawyers. tired Of arguing anu
holding street parades. agreed among
themselves that there is one instrument
an frcemen can use when deprived OF
an political power-that Of force.
so those militant suffragists OF
Rhode Island set up a state Of their own
elected a Governor and marched upon
the state Capitol. They had cannon
zoo. and the only reason some one wasn't
,urt was that the cannot wouldn't
shoot" said Professor Beard. How
ever. they marched into the Legislature
and they said 10 the presiding Governor'
we are the people OF this state. You
aIe the minority Get out.
The Governor and his henchmen the
LEGISLATORS. laughed and said. My dear
sirs we don't see it that way at all
But the next week they got together
and changed the constitution so that all
men could vote regardless Of their prop
erty qualifications.
Of advise the women Of New York
state. in case they are not able to &C
complish their end by arguing and de-
moustratinS the strength of their move
mont by parades TO do this very thing
certainly We will" responded Mrs.
uarriot Stanton Batch. But that isn't
an We will do. and ! am sure we shall
win However i'm case we do move on
tho LEGISLATURE we won't take no foi
an answer. the way those men of Rhode
Island did. We know the way into the
state House: we haven't been going there
for forty years for nothing. Well get
i'm there with our lunch baskets some
night and well stay
Professor Beard proved as popular
with the suffrasists as with the Barnard
college sophomores lie told them per
fccuy lovely things about the men Of
the United states VINO had been dis
franchised
THE vote is not matter OF a God
given right TO the male sex alone he
said. 1T has been a matter of landhold-
ms almost NY to the present day. Before
the Revolutionary War Jews could not
vote i'm New York Catholics could not
yoto i'm North Carolina and YOU had to
bclicve i'm the Trinity to vote in Delaware
After the war q man could not vote Tor
Senator i'm New York State unless he had
$500 I'm 1917 a petition signed by 10000 dis
franchised men was sent 10 the Lesis
lature i'm Albany.
'ln all these cases-and our history Is
fun Of them-the same arguments were
used 10 the men that are advanced as
reasons why women should not vote TO-
dav. III the shopkeepers should vote,
the landowners said, they would neglect
their business They would want to &c
into politics. They would want 10 inter
fcrc in matters Of government that are
too high and exalted for their feeble in
tcllCcts.
In conclusion said the professor, -
would advise you that YOU can 90 on ar
guins until you are black in the face and
it won't get you the vote. The thing for
you TO 90 IS 10 stop telling the men that
iheir stockings will get darned just the
same after YOU get the vote Stop al
that and prove to the politicians that II
viii he healthy thing for the party that
gives the vote 10 a million more voters"
Mrs Edith Ellis Furness spoke about
the womcns national theatre from the
suffrage point OF view. Then there should
have been tea. But, alas the fire laws
forbid the use OF alcohol stoves at the
berkeley Theatre.