New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-07
Meeting Tomorrow TO
Mark Start of "ReCOn-
structiOn Period"
ELECTION RETURNS
WILL BE ANALYZED
Five Hundred Thousand Buttons
To Be Distributed to Voters
for Suffrage.

The reconstruction period OF SUI
frage history Will begin tomorrow
with a meeting of the Woman Suffrage
party at headquarters. As East Thirty
first Street. The election returns, dis
trio. BY district, will be analysed. and
plans for the new campaign will be
based upon the results of this analysis.
Five hundred thousand buttons for
the five hundred thousand voters who
went right on Election Day VIII be
issued by the grateful suffragists. The
idea il that one hundred years from
now these buttons will be invaluable
as establishing claims TO membership
in the "Sons of New York Sufragists'
Miss Mary Garrett Hay will preside
over the suffrage meeting, and from
there will journey tomorrow evening
60 Syracuse to attend the annual meet
ing Of the New York State Federation
Of Womens Clubs.
The affairs of the Women's Political
Union will be Strengthened out TO-
morrow also, at a meeting of the execu-
tive board, at 663 Fifth Avenue. Mrs.
John Rogers, Mrs. Emanuel Einstein,
Mrs. John Winters Brannan and sew
eral other members of Mrs. Harriet
Stanton Blatch's board have gone
over" 70 the Congressional Union. AT
q meeting at Mrs. Brannan's home on
Thursday $4,000 was pledged TO start
the work of the new alliance, which
will labor for votes for women through
the Federal amendment
Surragists Will Meet President.
A reception will be given on Novem-
Der 26 at Sherry's in honor OF MIS-
Sara Bard Field and Miss Frances
Jolife, who are bringing the tve-hun-
dred-thousand- petition from the
San Francisco fair to President wilson,
and who are to be received at the
White House on December 8. President
Wilson will invite three hundred prom
inent suffragists TO attend TINS recep-
ton. In suffrage circles this announce
ment has stirred up as much lnclpleAV
jealousy as the announcement OF the
Presidential wedding. Who Will be leit
ont when the list of all prominent SUI
fragists has TO be cut down to three
hundred? -,
The Congressional Union will start
Its annual convention with this gather
ing at the White House, and will end
on December - with a Susan b. An
thony pageant.
The next week the National Woman
Suffrage Association will have Its Inn
ings, starting its annual convention on
December Ia. DR.. Anna Howard SHAW
Yesterday wrote TO the chairmen or
both the Republican and Democratic
parties asking for hearings before the
committees at their December meetings
for the purpose of discussing the pos
sibility of securing for the woman sui
frage question "a real and not per-
functory hearing" at the national con-
veutions next spring.
Request to Republican Committee.
Her letter to Charles D. Hilles, chair
man of the Republican National Com-
mittee. read:
"Mcre than one million voters on
November 2 voted in favor of woman
suffrage. That means that more than
one million voters have, by their own
act. acquired probably a deeper inter
est in woman suffrage than they ever
had before. They sympathize with the
check put upon us as they have never
done before, and for most of them, as
for all of us, the question OF woman
suffrage has ceased 10 be remote and
academic; it has become political.
For this reason-because we have
more than one million men behind us
in the conservative East and eight
million men and women voters in the
West-the executive committee OF the
National American Woman Suffrage
Association is especially DESTROYS that
the Republican party at its national
convention shall give the National AS
ISOLATION special opportunity to discuss
the political aspects of woman suffrage.
We should like to have discussion
confined TO one point, and one point
only-the justice, propriety and politi-
cal expediency of a plank In the Repub-
lican party platform in favor of woman
suffrage.
"And that there may be no tnisun-
derstandings we should be glad 20 DIS
cuss the details of such a hearing with
your committee at your meeting IN
Washington on December Ii, If you
can give US very brief share OF your
time. If il is agreeable 70 your com
mittee, we can present as our spokes-
man the daughter of a former distin-
guished chairman Of your committee,
Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mccormick"
A similar letter was sent 20 Chair
man william +. McCombs, of the
Democratic National Committee, asking
for a hearing on December 7.