New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-05
WOMEN RAISE
100000 FOR NEW
SUFFRAGE FIGHT
Pledges of Money and
Cheers Mingle at Rousing
Cooper Union Rally.
MRS. Gait SEES
BLESSING IN DEFEAT
Zone Hundred a Year Until
Ballot Is Won" Scores Cry
When Told Of Trickery.

'N' 10 "oH, oNoICo VI
When Told of Trickery.
One hundred thousand dollars wa,
pledged to the new suffrage campaign
at the mass meeting at Cooper Unior
last night.
"And they say suffrage is dead ir
New York." cried Miss Mary Garrett
Hay.
This is the resurrection" shouted
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw from the bacl
row Of tho platform. and everybody ap-
plauded again.
1t was the most joyous assembly
Cooper Union ever saw. They couldn't
have been any more enthusiastic il
they had been celebrating a victory in
stead of 100000 votes. Everybody was
in holiday humor. When Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, chairman Of the Empire
State Campaign Committee. entered
the women rose, waving their handker-
chiefs and yellow banners and singing
Shouting the Battle Cry OF Freedom.
Miss Hay wac chairman Of the meet
ing, and her attempt TO make n speech
sounded like this:
Last Tuesday Hurrah, hurrah! y
last Tuesday (Hurrah. hurrahD -
was n great day in New York. (Hur-
rah, hurraho Suffrage (Hurrah, hur-
rah! lis not defeated, only postponed
(Hurrah, hurrah) All day have been
getting letters from women who never
worked before Hurrah, hurrah!) )--
saying. Call me in. I'm ready to work
now, tHurrah, hurrah, hurraho Let
lie count our blessings and go forward.
(Hurrah. hurrsh, hurrshD"
Money Pledges Pour In.
They were just as generous with their
money as with their enthusiasm, too.
The total amount pledged is the larg-
est sum ever raised for suffrage at one
meeting in this country. The Woman
Suffrage Party pledged $4,000; Mrs.
Norman de Z. Whitehouse and Mrs
Ogden Reid pledged for the Press and
Publicity Council Of the Empire State
Campaign Committee, 10000; Mrs
Gait pledged $1,000; firm Syracuse,
Ruffalo and Yonkers came pledges of
$4,000 for these campaign districts.
William G. Wilcox. husband Of Mrs
Wilcox. chairman of the Richmond
Borough suffragis's. shouted:
"One thousand dollars a year for five
years, or until the vote is won,"
"Hurrah for little Richmond" cried
Miss Hay. 1T did the best Of all oil
Tuesday"
Five dollars for the five voters who
gave us a majority in Alice Hill Chit
tcnden's own election district" came
next, and the suirragists shrieked their
wicked glce.
Commissioner Katharine b. Davis
offered: Fifty dollars year for two
years. and longer ii have job
zone hundred dollars in honor OF
Pennsylvania. for she almost Won:
came from the back of the hal
zone hundred from Massachusetts,
was greeted with shouts Of Keep II.
You need it yourself"
an ask a contribution from every
member of The New York Times
staff" shouted Edward Van Zile, and
he got more applause than anybody.
One Hundred Year.
Many pleadges were for zone hundred
dollars a wear until we get the vote.
The financial experts, feverishly iigur-
ing up in the back room, counted only
the one hundred dollars for the first
year. so the amount pledged is really
almost double the figures given out.
The exact total raised from the floor
was S94.649 Mrs. Gait and Mr.. Laidlaw
raised il to ali even 100000.
In her address, Mrs. Gait told some
plain facts about what she called the
idamnable literature" circulated by the
opponents Of suffrage in this campaign.
Much of it, she said, was constructed
purposely 10 Confuse, mix and muddlc
the public mind on the subject of pro-
hibition."
"Among the upstate clergymen they
circulated pamphlets saying suffragists
were against prohibitions; that they
loved wet states. Among the liquor
dealers and bartenders they sent word
that woman suffrage meant prohibition.
The suffrage leaders have never taken
any stand on one side or the other or
the question of controlling the liquor
traffic" she said.
"The opposition was composed OF
three parts, like a musical comedy.
where the heroine in pink chiffon takes
the centre stage with her father on
ono arm and her husband on the other.
She carolled her little lay so prettlly
that she prevailed on many men to
think she was the whole opposition.
"Then there was the Mems Anti
Suffrage League. composed of elderly
respectable gentlemen with narrow
minds. Both, of these. whether they
knew il or not. were the tools OF the
third man. King Whisky. The two
others worked honestly and fairly be
cause they are conservative. but hinS =
Whiskey worked against us because he
is afraid and desperate as he sees the
prohibition movement sweeping over
this country. and he felt that woman
suffrage would help in his overthrow
Sees Blessing In Disguise.
Perhaps il was better that we were
defeated. Perhaps Divine power Is
working out grsnder campaign TOT
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