New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-22
Hard at Work on Details
of Winter Campaign
for Suffrage.
MANY NEW WORKERS
GIVING THEIR AID
Active in Arranging for Coming
Convention of the Congress
siOnal Union.
Prom The Tribune Burssu.l

Washington, Nov. 21.-Members OF
the Congressional Union for Woman
Suffrage are jubilant to-day over the
promise Of Miss Margaret Wilson,
daughter of the President, to assist In
rec, wing at the big reception on the
night Of December 7, which will open
their winters active campaign here.
Following her promise, invitations have
been sent 10 all wives Of members OF
the Cabinet, and 1t Is believed that
several will accept, es a majority are
known to favor the suffrage cause.
The union is gathering its strength
for an attack on Senator Thomas,
chairman of the Senate Committee on
Suffrage, who has refused to grant
hearing on the Susan B. Anthony
amendment because the union opposed
his campaign for reelection last year.
He was active in the suffrage cause
and helped bring the Anthony amend
ment to n vote in the Senate, and ne
resents the activity the union directed
against him.
Hold Party Responsible.
Members Of the union explain that
their opposition was in line with their
policy to hold the majority party and
all its members responsible for the de-
feat o. the amendment, no matter
what the course Of the individual legis-
lator had been. Suffrage advocates
from states where women already have
IL n CanQ-
tor will find himself in hot water as
soon as he steps from the train on
Tuesday.
Reinforcements arriving for the
women who are preparing for the con-
vention here on December include
prominent New York workers. Miss
Eleanor Brannan has come TO take
charge of the financial committee.
Working with her are her mother, Mrs.
John Winters Brannan, and Mrs.
Harvey w. Wiley. Mrs. Evans Dick
has come as chairman OF the pro-
gramme committee, and Mrs. j. Is.
Hampton is here to take charge OF the
financial arrangements for the pageant
which will close the convention on De-
cember -.
Miss Mary Austin will arrive to-
morrow to plan the artistic side of the
cember to Mrs. Sara Bard Field and
Miss Frances Joliffe, ENJOYS of the
Woman Voters Convention, who Will
bring petitions to be presented to Presi-
dent Wilson and Congress.
Miss Maude Younger and Mrs. lnez
Haynes Gilmore have come to stay
through the winter, or until the An
thony amendment has passed both
branches of Congress. They have
taken a house in II Street and will be
active In work for the amendment so
long as there is need for it. Promises
have been received from Mrs. Harriet
Stanton Blatch and Miss Florence KEEL
Ter that they will speak at the hearings
before the House and Senate commit
tees.
New Workers to Attend.
Several New York women already
have taken boxes for the suffrage mass
meeting which will be held in the Be
lasco Theatre on December u. Mrs.
Adolphus c. Bartlett will bring a motor
party. including Mrs. John Dewey, wife
Of Professor Dewey, of Columbia Uni
yersity. and Mrs. Bruere, wife OF the
City Chamberlain. Others who have
engaged boxes are Mrs. William l..
Colt. Mrs. O. II. p. Belmont and the
New York branch of the Congressional
Union.
President Wilson has agreed TO re-
ceive three hundred suifragists with
the ENJOYS of the Women Voters Con-
vention when they present their petit
ton on the afternoon Of December 7.
Among those from New York who have
accepted invitations to be in the dele
CATION are Miss Lucy Burns. Mrs. o. II.
p. Belmont, Mrs Crystal Eastman
Benedict, Mrs. Gibson Gardner, Mrs. A.
C. Bartlett, Miss Florence Keller, Mrs.
John Dewey, Mrs. William l.. Colt, Mrs.
John Rogers, Mrs. Charles Beard, Mrs.
Robert Adamson. Mrs John Winters
Brannan, Mrs. Inez Milholland Boisse-
vain, Mrs. George S. Morris, Mrs. Har-
riot Stanton Blatch. Mrs. Tiffany Dyer,
Mrs. Dryden Brewer, Mrs. Edward Fair
field Burton, Miss Anna Constable and
Mrs. Preston Satterwhite.