New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-05
EXPECT WILSON
WILL DECLARE
FOR SUFFRAGE
Jersey Women Say They
Have Assurances He'll
Do So Soon.
ANTI-PARTY BATTLE
AT SAN FRANCISCO
Attack on Democrats VIII Be
Fought by Neutrals Before
Advance on Congress.

A hard fight is to be made on the
floor at the Women Voters Confer
ence. which opens in San Francisco
September Ia, to force the executive
board Of the Congressional Union for
. Woman Suffrage to declare against the
policy of fighting the Democratic
party snd its candidates because j.
will not use its msjorities TO put a
suffrage amendment through Congress.
As the anti-party policy is the be
loved creation Of Miss Alice Paul and
Miss Lucy Burns. chairman and vice
chairman OF the board, and the union
has put It's best energy into the West
ern campaign along these lines, TO
down the policy means TO Gust Mss
Paul and Miss Burns, who have worked
for the Congressional Union since 1t
was not much more than they two.
The insurgents are banding togeth-
er for the onslaught. Most Of them
are Western women and voters. Some
81 those who will lead the fight are
Mrs. Thomas J. Walsh, wife of the
Senator from Montana; Mrs. Estelle
Lawton Lindsey. chairman of the
Public Welfare Committee Of the City
Council Of Los Angeles; Mrs. Adelaide
Tichener. a civic worker in Long
Beach. Cal; Mrs. Herman Darling and
Mrs. Lewis s. Works, Of Los Angeles,
daughter-in-law and daughter OF Sen
ator Works; Mrs. Emily 5. Richards,
president Of the Salt Lake Civic Club;
Dr. Esther Pohl-Lovejoy, Of Portland,
ore; Mrs George A. Smith, president
of the Women's League of Seattle;
Mrs. Alice Lee. Mrs. Marian Pounds
Nrs. Florence Collins Porter and Mrs.
Laura Johns. Of San~ Diego, and from
Los Angeles. Mrs. D. c. McCan, pres
ident Of the Civil Service Commission
Of California; Mrs Shelby Tallhurst,
president Of the Women's City Club
there; Mrs. Cora Lewis. known as
politicai worker; Mrs. Mary Foy, pres
dent Of the Women's Democratic Club
Of California; Mrs. E. X. Brainerd.
president Of the Los Angeles City
Club. and Mrs. Luther Brown, record
ing secretary Of the Friday Morning
Club.
Say Wilson Is with Them.
New Jersey suffragists hope that
nothing will be done at the conference
20 ALLEVIATE President Wilson, for they
believe they have full assurance tha;
he intends to declare for woman sun
rage soon. That will not satisfy the
Congressional Union, who want the
states to gain suffrage at one fell
swoop. and not state by state, but II
satisfies New Jersey votes-for-wome
workers. The women Of the Presl-
dents home state pin their faith on
the statement Of a Hudson Couaty
Democrat who saw MI wilson re-
Gently. .,
Woman Suffrage Association, which
has opposed the union anti parry
nolicv from the first, say this lnsurgent
movement is not instigated by the Ma
tional: that il is the women voters or
The West. who feel their civic work is
being compromised by the effort to
commit them TO a political position
Nevertheless. DR.. Anna Howard Shaw
president of the National, sent letter
N the women voters q while ago urg-
ing them to this very step.
The Congressional Union announces
the collection of a large amount 10
carry through its policy, whatever IT
NAV be. and S74.s58.49 of the proposed
fund of 100000 to obtain the passage
Of the Federal suffrage amendment mas
baen raised. Part Of this came IN
large amounts from women like Mrs.
William Kent. wife Of the Senator
frorn California; Mrs. Ebert II. Gary
and Mrs. O. II. P. Belmont, who is 10
he chairman of the Women Voters
Con ference. although not voter her
self Mrs. Belmont and Mrs Kent are
stronq for the anti-party policy, as
ave hundreds Of the unron women, ana
The insurgents are not going TO nave an
easy time.
Four-Day Conference.
The conference is TO be held in
The grounds of the Panama-Paoifc TX
nosifion. and will last three days The
congressional Union says IT is the hrSt
r,olitical convention Of women voters
ever held and an event of historic i'm
T,o~tance." More than 5000 women are
sYnected TO .-etend, and many OF them
viii 90 afterward 70 Washington Tor
The BIG rally and demonstration, IN
abicb 5000 women are TO tell congress
and President Wilson in no uncertain
terms that il is time TO give the "om-
en- the vote. -.
A New Jersey woman VINO is Woth
ing hard for suffrage is Mrs; ot{o
Wjttpenp, formerly Miss Caroline D.
stevens. but who was better known
as Mrs Caroline B. Alexander, OF
Castle Point, Hoboken. Her family
founded the Stevens Technical lnsti-
tlte. AZ Hoboken. Mrs. Wittpenn mas
leen associated with the carrying OUT
Of many reform measures IN New ger
sey. and is now county probation U nice
Of Hudson, Of which her brother, Rich
ard Stevens, is chief probation ON. once -
She has just joined the COMMITTEE Commit S. Of
100 for Woman Suffrage, of which MRS
Everett Colby is chairman.