The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-13
PIONEER SUFFRAGE
BODY TO DISAPPEAR
State Association Will Be
Merged With Other Or
CARNATIONS Soon.
FORMED so YEARS AGO

IL II be a melancholy thing to Is
sue cards to ones own funeral. but that
IN what the old New York State Woman
Suffrage Association Is doing. and put
ting a brave face on 1t too. The State
association. which was formed fifty
years ago, will cease to be at its con-
vention beginning in his city November
80. for which Mrs. Raymond Brown. Its
president. sent out a call yesterday.
The funeral baked meats will furnish
forth the marriage tables. for this con-
vention Is to celebrate the union Of the
Empire State campaign committee with
the Woman Suffrage party, tho Equal
Franchise League, the Collegiate
League. II Mems League and other
local suffrage organizations. The state
association is among organizations
which are to be Joined to the Empire
State campaign committee.
Mute About Future Boss"
Nobody will say which will be boss
In the new suffrage household, hut ap-
parently the Empire State IL ''it." Mrs.
Brown says IN u statement that II would
be foolish to talk Of candidates for
office until 1t Is decided just what form
the permanent organization will take"
h adds that Since the campaign be-
gan a number OF brilliant. talented
women have come to the front. and the
new organization Is rich In material
for its official board"
One OF the women who ann to the
front most prominently In the 1915 cain-
| paigu IL Mrs. Norm an DE II Whitehouse,
and gossip has II that she will come o u
OF the merger with almost any office
| she cares to take. Other young work
ers m have figured largely are Mrs
John Blair and Mrs. Ogden Mills Reid.
Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw. chairman OF
| Manhattan Borough for the Woman SUI
frage party. will lose her job In the re-
casting. but II was said yesterday thai
she could have a bigger one" Mrs
William Grant Brown. heretofore iden'
tilted with women's clubs, is said TO be
slated for an important chairmanship
Miss Mary Garrett Hay. chairman oil
the Woman Suffrage party and veteran
| clubwoman TOO. has made IL her con-
slant effort "a bring clubdom and sur
| frage together. and Mrs. Brown VIII pe
n link.
Lines Are to he shifted.
Two years ago. a, its convention, the
State association voted to organize the
state by Assembly districts. The En-
pire state. however. has done more alonl
that line. and apparently is strongly In
trenched. Now the lines are to be shifted
50 that the organization will be by o
gressional districts. in order that Fed
eral amendment work may be facilitated
The reason given for the merger IN
Mrs. Browns statement Is that II is
foolish and wasteful" to maintain &c
many different organizations. which 81
{ often duplicate one another's work. Sc
the official board Of the STATE association
is resigned to going out OF existence
and will e*en celebrate by giving a Din
ner to Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. chair
, man OF the Empire State, at the Hotel
/ .istor December /. at 1880 p. NJ.
Mrs. Brown will be chairman. and
I Miss Katherine Blake. Mrs. H.. Edward
Dreier, Miss Hay. Mrs. La!dlaw. Mrs
Howard Mansfield. Mrs. Charles l.. TIT
fanny. Mrs. Whitehouse and Miss Rose
Young will speak. The convention VII
hold It's session at the Hotel Aston, end
ing December ..