New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-03
WOMEN PLUCKILY
SMILE IN DEFEAT
Suffrage Leaders Ready to
Start Another Cam
paign Right Off.
RAILWAYS ON TOP"
DIR. SHAW'S SLOGAN
Come on Down and Hold a
Street Meeting" National
President Urges.

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait sat at one
end Of the table, Miss Mary Carrot
I Hay at the other, in the old-fashioned
gas-iit room where an impersonal
/ ticker from Police Headquarters was
| chatterng the figures of the votes on
woman suffrage upstate and in Man
/ hottan.
! Outside 4S East Thirty-fourth Street
a curious street crowd footed horns at
the long second floor windows, but no
one except the journalists and ardent
workers for the cause got past the
door, and still more select few were
allowed to stoop under the yellow rib
bons which barred the way up the
stairway. Here the women and the
men who have been devoting their
nights and days rejoiced over figures
which showed victory, or joked pluckily
when the majority was on the wrong
side.
! The first returns came in from the
47th Election District of the 9th As
sembly District, Kings: l21 for, SO
against Miss Hay. at the head of the
table, beamed at the guests and work
ers of the Woman Suffrage Party who
were sitting expectantly on the camp
chairs which edged the room.
Victories Bring Applause.
The returns came thick and fast The
winning of Lockport and Niagara Falls
brought storm of applause.
Don't even compare New York and
/ New Jersey" called Miss Hay. "By
links, | wouldn', live in New Jersey
and III live in New York even If it de-
feats suffrage"
Cheers from downstairs told that the
news had spread. The chairs about the
edge of the room began to congregate
about the table.
Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw burst into
the room with the returns Of victory
at Fort Washington. She and Mr.
La dlaw took places at the side Of the
table between Miss Hay and Miss Rose
Young. of the Empire State Campaign
Committee. Commissioner Katharine
B. Davis who had been sitting in the
background, drew her chair nearer the
centre of attraction. Then the doorway
was cleared while the notables blinked
at the fashlight which recorded the
scene for the morning papers.
A batch of kilograms brought good
wishes from Montana and admonitions
TO watch for fraud until the last mo-
ment, since such policy had given
Montana victory ION the last lap" Mrs.
Nettie Shuler wired from Buffalo:
$4,000 votes for, 10000 against; all
returns in; ready to fight again." and
gained almost rs much applause as II
she had announced victory.
always on Top" Says DR.. Shaw.
The surprise Of the evening came
when DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, national
president, hurried in smiling and call
ing, 81 congratulate you, | congratulate
you all"
"Anna. we're rot defeated7" asked
Miss Hay, and DR. Shaw replied: "Of
course not. We are always on top
wherever we are"
When the applause which followed
her entrance had been quoted, DR.. Shaw
came around to Mrs. Cats end OF the
table and whispered, "When we get
through here we'll 60 down and hold a
street meeting. ! am ready to start
another campaign.
Bad news began to come in. To three
kilograms which said that two cleo
ton districts of New York were lost
and Pennsylvania women conceded de-
feat Mrs. Gait repeated three times
emphatically, 81 don't believe it, Miss
Hay became so far discouraged as to
announce that if they were defeated
they would start right over again, and
asked the watchers if they were ready
to go on. An emphatic chorus OF yes"
followed her question.
"Oswego lost by sixty-fve votes
read Mrs. Gait from a telegram thrust
into her hands. "That's the fault Of
you girls" she joked at q group OF
women at her side.
at was all the fault Of that rainy
day." answered Mrs. Frances Maui
Bjorkman. az had had one more
meeting I'd have gotten It,"
Just when the kilograms OF bad news
were thlckest Mrs Gait began to laugh
and Miss Hay demanded silence to hear
the joke. Mrs. Gait read: Have Simp-
son send Carlotta's rose gown direct TO
Thomas Boulevard, Pittsburgh and
sent her secretary to catch the mes
senger boy who had made the mistake
in delivering it.
At 10 o'clock, when . fourth Of the
returns were in and the sufragists
were distanced by $4,000, the leaders
still refured TO admit defeat. We've
lost a few spangles," said Mrs Herbert
Carpenter. who carried the great
American flag in the parade, but we're
still in the ring"
Mrs. Gait refused to admit defeat
but said that in case suffrage did not
win the next move would be TO work
for national as well as state
amendment
Don't Turn Aside"
az do not believe in turning aside
from anything we have begun" she
said, "and | am in favor Of trying all
the doors"
At 1915 o'clock the ticker announced
IN impatient ears that Judge Perkins,
admitting defeat, had sent congratu-
lstorv telegram 70 Judge Swami.
"Humph!" calculated Miss Hay; the
suffragists, not conceding defeat, send
no kilograms"
Among the well known suHraglsts
Who waited for the returns at the
Thirty-fourth Street headquarters were
Katherine Devereux Blake. In charge
~ the work Of The teachers in the cam
raign: Horace Parker, who. as lawyer
for Miss Hay, had remained at head
quarters all day 70 offer his services;
Miss Florence Guernsey, Mr.. and Mrs.
lanes Lees Laidlaw. DR.. Allan Nc
Crrdv. Mrs. Frederick Nathan, Judge
Charles E. Suferin, Miss Rose Young
and Mrs. Anna Ross Weeks.