New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-23
DIR. SHAW FAV0RS
EASTERN WOMAN
Fears Election of a Voter
Would Mar Nationals
Non-Partisan Policy.
MRS. LAIDLAW MAY
BE N. Y. CANDIDATE
Mrs. Roessing, Of Pennsylvania,
and Mrs. Winston Churchill
Also Put Forward.

Dr.. Anna Howard Shaw sat smiling
in her Office yesterday while the suf-
frage world hummed with gossip abou;
her successor to the presidency Of the
National American Woman Suffrage
Association. The three most promlnen,
Eastern candidates are Mrs: James
Lee Laidlsw, Mrs. Frank Roessins
and Mrs. Winston Churchill, wife OF
the novelist.
DIR. Shaw announced that she would
favor ST Eastern woman II II came to
4 showdown between East and West.
Any Western woman would Je a
yoLer. and therefore either a Republl-
can or a Democrat or a Progressive.
Her party affiliations would mar the
purely non-partisan attitude which the
National has always maintained. We
cannot afford 70 prejudice any political
party against us in the coming crisis.
These remarks were interpreted as
fling at her old enemy. Mrs. Grace
Wilbur Trout. president OF the Illinois
Woman Suffrage Association, who has
run against DR.. Shaw in every recent
election. Mrs. Trout has already LEI
f. be known that she will again be c
candidate for the presidency.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. Of course.
was the first thought of by New York
suffragists. but she has definitely re-
fused TO consider the position.
'I've implored and begged ner,"
sighed Dr.. Shaw. but she says no.
Her work y in New York, and she Will
not accept any other responsibilities
until the Empire State Is of her mind.
81 asked Mrs. Raymond Brown and
Mrs. Laidlaw, too, but they both re-
fuse.
AT is a very difficult position, mean
ing a great deal of work and much
heavy responsibility. don't wonde.
nobody wants it. 1t is difficult 10 find
the proper person FOR the place, be-
cause IL makes two very important de-
mands-frst, the national president
must be mistress Of her own time.
Any woman who is fortunate or IN
fortunate enough 20 have husband
and children, ought not 10 be national
president. We sufrsgists don't believe
in neglecting the home, you know. and
a woman cannot serve her husband
and the campaign in South Dakota AZ
the same time. Second, the national
UttNlNtHk mus NC q nOiAa4 " sA"NAS+'
wide experience and organizing ability
DR.. Shaw refused 10 say whether the
administration would present any can
didate 10 the convention, which l. TO
be held in Washington, beginning De-
cember II.
It is believed in suffrage circles, how
ever, that the choice OF the leaders Will
fall on one Of three women from three
OF the campaign states. Mrs. James
Lees Laidlaw, chairman OF the Borough
Of Manhattan of the Woman Suffrage
party. has refused the offer once, but
Ter friends think she might be induced
to change her mind.
Mrs. Winston Cnurcnil would come
before the convention as New Jerseys
offering. As wife Of the novelist and sup
posed heroine of many Of the novels,
she might spread a glamour over the
suffrage organization which would be
NOR. precious than a dozen years Of ae-
tual campaign experience. She was
very active in tho recent New Jersey
campaign, being one Of the flying