The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-27
F LIVE ADS" TO
COMBAT ANTI POSTERS
Will Travel Two Days in Subway Seated Under Printed
Signs, and Bear in Their Laps Boards
With Answer.

S~uffragists have been characterized
by the opposition as women who prefer
lapdogs to children. but lapboaIds are
what the sufYragists are going to carry
the last strenuous days Of the campaign.
At a meeting of the eleventh hour COM
mittee Of the Empire State Campaign
Committee at the home of Mrs. ogden
Mills Reid. So West Fifty-third street.
yesterday Mrs. Norman DeIt. White
house called for volunteers to ride in the
subway, sitting directly under the anti
cards. which have recently been put up
declaring that less thar 10 per cent. of
the women var the vote" and carry
ing on their laps boards refuung this
statement.
Mrs. John Blair. who devised the plan.
was the first to say ''rll GO Some of
the VINO promised to join her
were Mrs. Henry Wise Miller. Mrs.
Philip Lydig. Miss Elinor Byrns, Mrs.
Anna O'Hagan Shinn. Miss Lola La Fol-
lette. Miss Janet ~scudder, Miss Rose
O'Neil. Mrs, Reid and Mrs. whitehouse.
All udN 'dtuIudN diNu al udy luollldy
these and scores Of other women will
ride from end to end Of the subway lines
holding the silent arguments so that
;hose who sit and hose who hang
on straps may see.
we have absolute figures to prove
that 1000. 0 women in the State of
New York DO want the VOTE Mis- RIOS,
Young. press chairman. asserted
These figures are based or a house 10
house canvass and Mrs. Gait has them
n her possession a, 3O3 Firth avenue.
where doubtc.s may see and he con-
vinced."
The large anti-suffrage signs saying tina,
"~oms.h suffrage is a failure In Colo
ra6.o," which are displayed at subway
7 and elevated stations. are to be coun
tered BY sandwich men. ON Saturday
and Monday the entrances TO the sta
tons will blossom with sandwich mer
bearing statements from widely known
men showing that woman suffrage has
not been "a failure In Colorado.
There was an animated discussion as
To which OF the anti arguments should
be given most attention In these eleventh
hour activities. Miss Maudc loungel
and Miss r. S~chlingheide. who cam
paiEned in California. Ohio and Michi'
raj said that the assertion that "womei
would vote prOn1DltlOn was tHe on
most frequently brought forward 10y
the man ,on the street. But the meeting
agreed that the liquor question vas 8
dangerous one. and that the best course
for the suffragists was to emphasize thu
fact that women hold varying Niew'
just as men do. and will not vote alik'
on the liquor or any other problem.
Francis J. Heney OF San Francisco
who as District Attorney put Abe Rue
out OF business. made a short speech
Miss Younger had just been telling nov
f~iercely the ants worked In California
to defeat the suffrage amendment, an'
called on Mr.. Heney to confirm her. Blu
the attorney was disappointingly mild
THE ants didn't do any more thal
"A party always does in n campaign I,
defeat the other party" he said. There
tricks In politics. You've got 10 eNpec
that"
This goes TO show" said a man a
the meeting. that men are used to poll
ties and women are not. But womsi
will get there. They'll get over beini
dismayed by the tricks"