New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-23

many saloons Vote MOI posters are
displayed.
Mother" called Miss Dorothy Shu-
Ter from the corner Of headquarters
where she was interviewing a stranger,
this gentleman says they have Get
another Of our streetcar posters. He
says he saw the words Vote Mo- put
in place of our Vote Yes,' and he tore
them out himself"
Mrs. Shuler cheered up.
"That is the kind Of thing that put,
new life into our hopes" she said.
I'VE never saw that man before. He
is just one of the thousands Of LABOR
men we know are with us.
we led the Labor Day parade and
we have had the assurance of labor
leaders that they are all strong in our
support. Down on the river front
where the police told us il was unsafe
70 try TO hold a meeting. where they
sent twenty-five officers to protect us,
we had over one thousand men In the
audience. and they simply begged US
fcr literature.
zone Of our politicians said the
othc. day. on. there IS no suffrage in
tercst in Buffalo. ] have walked up
and down Main Street without seeing
a suffragist, while down in New York
they are bowling all up and down
Broadway That is where our cam
paign differs from the New York one.
That very night when our friend the
enemy was looking for us or Main
Street, we were holding seventeen
meetings in quiet corners Of residen-
tial districts.
I'VE don't believe in calling the
enemys attention 10 everything We do.
For the same reason we do not publish
a suffrage calendar, or even announce
cur street meetings in the news
columns of our papers. We simply dis
tribute handbills announcing our meet
ings in the immediate neighborhoo GOD OF
the corner where they are TO be held.
The result is that we get an audience
composed OF quiet citizens and their
wives instead of the noisy curiosity
seekers who would flock about US or
Main Street.
Results Of Canvass.
an the one ward where We have made
q complete house TO house canvass. VIC
found one In every one and one-thirt
Of the voters was on our side. Tha
vas good middle class district
.
,ouI! be sure that the bosses and The
saloons would let US alone, we could
carry the city. because we have it wei
educated. There Is scarcely stree
corner in all Buffalo where We have
not had a meeting. Even the antis say
that Buffalo is the best organized city
in the state. Three-fourths Of th'
policemen have signed our pledge. Our
, Mayor is with Us and six Of the eiSh
candidates for City Council.
These councillors are obscuring the
interest in the suffrage campaign
Buffalo has just adopted the commits
sion form of government There IS
the most intense excitement over the
first election. The candidates are very
wary about taking 100 active part In
the suffrage campaign.
con the other hand the intense in
terest in this local fight will prevent
frauds at the polls The Republican
and Democratic watchers will have
their eyes on each other so jealousy
that neither will have chance to put
anything over. There can be no stuif-
ing the ballot boxes because we have
the Australian system OF voting
machines. We aren't afraid Of those
tactics here"
Politicians Predict Defeat.
Local politicians unhesitatingly pre-
dict that Buffalo will defeat the
suffrage amendment by eight or ten
thousand.
There is no politics in IT," said one
man. 1--WE just take the word OF most
OF our women folks that they don't
want the vote.
THE western counties, as a whole
will 20 against suffrage. Erie Is sure
to defeat it. Allegheny, Chautaudua
and Cattaraugus. the three southern
counties, will defeat il. too. according
TO the word OF the keenest pollticai
leader down there. The only one
where there is any doubt Is Niagara;
The 'suffs' claim that as einched' ana
we admit it may be close there.
"1t's all nonsense TO talk aoou, the
upstate vote as sure to be strong TOT
suffrage. New York is the place where
the women are best organized; do"i,
there the men take it for granted ana
have long since made up their minus
that il is coming. Up here we nave
lust begun to think about II, and rurai
,,;rds ncwa slowly"