New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-19
Suffragists Edit San Fran
cisco Bulletin State
Is PlaStered.
BELMONT EDITION
IGNORES YELLOW
One. Day Experiment Conquered
California for Anthony
Amendment.
By CONSTANCE DREXEL,


san Francisco, Sept ls.-"Paper -
~paper." San Francisco was peppered
today with special suffrage editions.
Since early morning newsbOys have
hoeu yelling on every corner; "Get the
speeial suffrage edition o. The Bull
lrtini" acct the Belmont edition!
The outside psge IS not yellow, but
yreen- actually green in color-With
Great red headlines, belmont Nstiona!
Suffrage Edition"
A bevy Of the prettiest, rosiest ana
most youthful OF sufragettes donneo
tho tri-oolored rcgalis Of the Congress
sional Union. There was no resisting
them. They were all over town, having
immense success, being photograph o.
and selling papers so fast that eciuoh'
oouJdp't come out fast enough to sup
ply them. By night "The Bulletin" hac
rome all over the state, and Callfornl"
had been conquered for national sui
fTage.
How did this all happen! Perhaps
because Mrs. Fremont Older. wife OF
the managing editor, has been keenly
interested in the woman voters con
vention, Just closed Perhaps because
the staff of The Bulletin" are wide
awake and see the news value OF SUI
frare. Certainly this convention has
A.. l.1.o.-o .kat the next Con-
moss will be given 10 peace until 1t has
passed the Susan B. Anthony amend
nent- and there's likely to be lively
.k;rr,isb- since other sufIrsgists of the
country sre favoring another amend
ment
But California and the Western
states are won TO the Susan d. Anthony
smepdrnent The women voters con-
ventioa d d il; the special suffrage edl-
4;on ~ "The Bulletin Belmont
edition. IS it is popularity called
eIinched it Mrs. o. II. P. Belmont was
beadliDed as editor IN chief, with the
following assistants: Managing editor
Sara Bard Field; news editor, Alice
Paul; city editor. Doris Stevens; tele.
grrDh editor, h-s. William heh'' ART
editor. Mrs. John Jay White.
THO following editorial, headed
.Prca9 Get Upon the Waters" was by
Mrs Be mont;
aFor many years past Eastern women
b,vo been helping Western women gain
the vote. Whenever a campaign was
-,~do- y.ay in any or the w estern states
Trrto-, women opened their pocket
L,,l-. IN Md Il. Whenever skilled
,,o-lere from the Atlantic coast were
csiI,I for on the Pacific, Eastern women
rrDt them. Now that twelve states,
Nth AGOONOO in them, have adopted
.ryaI suffrage, Western women are
reyiog back their debt 20 the last
"They are paying not so much WIZ
coin Of material substance as Win com
of spiri 1al power. They arc n4SSiIE
their voting strength. they say 20 lne
East: We arc not our own. W oI9
Longbt with q p~.ce which you helped
80 nav VIC are YOURS for service by
,gav Of the ballots power tlll all the
,royoon cf the natioh are free.
AID She closes by saying; Out OF
-oy, meaning of sisterhood mere
ebould come a keener conception OF lhe
,,er.ss Of all men and womanNnd.
Wss Alice Paul. in another signed
editorial. appeals 70 the women Oh the
West the women who have won Tree
5om for themselves and may now. WIN
il FOR the whole nation. TO subordinate
an other issues TO the outrage cues
zion until the national amendment is
passed. o.or ,,.bicb was
enlarged by several pages, was hlicd
with photographs Of the convention
met past and with stirring accounts
r. rs activities and results.
Mics MARGARET Angln. in a signed a
+icIe secs defects IN the work OF ma. o
dramatic critics. She thinks here is
he Mace where women may show the
,yav Mabel Taliaferro charmingly de-
cfores aO actresses are born suitraglsts.
ALTHOUGH women reign supreme, mere
man is also I'm evidence. Spencer Miller
+, ~ New York. who is in San iran
cisco. declares suffrage rs necessity
for America. and that fulhlment OF po-
lftical democracy is condironed on CIV
inc women the ballot. John D. barry
contributes an articles on women ana
the Exposition
Long live woman suffrage says
California and IT is going 20 help the
East get II, too.