New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-11
DEBS TO PREACH
SUFFRAGE HERE
VIII Begin Next Sunday
Weeks Campaign, Speak
ing Every Night.

Eugene V. Debs, who has run for
President on the Socialist ticket more
times than William J. Bryan has repre-
sented Democracy, will come to New
York next Sunday and launch "whirl-
wind campaign" for woman suffrage.
He will speak every night Of the week,
covering territory from l8lst Street to
the lower East Side, and also parts of
Brooklyn.
Mr.. Debs's programme is;
Sunday afternoon, Carnegie Hall;
Monday night, Amsterdam Opera
House. at $40 West Forty-fourth Street,
and Leslie Hall, at Eighty-third Street
and Broadway; Tuesday night, LYceum,
at Eighty-sixth Street and Third Ave-
nue.. and Sokol Hall, at 525 East Seven
ty-second Street; Wednesday night,
Webster Hall, at 119 East Eleventh
Street. and New Star Casino, at l07th
Street and Park Avenue; Thursday
night. several meetings in Brooklyn;
Friday night, LenoX Casino, at 10th
Street and Lenox Avenue; Barnard
Hall. at 125th Street and Madison Ave
nue., and Brady's Hall, at l8lst Street
and St. Nicholas Avenue; Saturday
night, several meetings on the lower
East Side.
At the committees headquarters, at
800 Fifth Avenue, the cry this week will
be "Hay Foot, Straw Foot" The first
drill of the awkward squad for the ban
ner suffrage parade on October % will
be held on Thursday evening at the Sth
Regiment Armory, Ninety-fourth Street
and Park Avenue, with Captain Cowdy,
Of the 8th Coast Defence Corps, in
command.
Prominent in the work Of recruiting
are Mrs. Norman de K. Whitehouse,
Mrs. Leonard Thomas and Marjorie
Benton Cooke.
Recruiting booths for the paraders,
IL was announced yesterday, will not be
established until Wednesday, Columbus
Day having interfered with the plans
OF the prospective women voters. Six
white and gold tripods, similar TO those
the Salvation Army uses at Christmas
time, will be erected at Thirty-fourth
Street and Fifth Avenue, Madison
Square, Wall Street, Forty-second
Street and Fifth Avenue, Broadway, in
front of the Aston Hotel, and at Fifty
ninth Street and Columbus Circle. The
tripods will be in charge of well known
women, whose names will be placarded
conspicuously above the tripods. The
committee Is sure that at least twenty
five persons an hour will rush TO enroll
for the pee-rade.
items of thousands Of votes have
been added TO the Empire State suf-
frage cause by President Wilson's dec
laration in favor of giving women the
vote" Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, Of the
Empire State campaign committee, told
The Tribune last night, after address
ing several hundred persons at the
Church of the Messiah. Park Avenue
and Thirty-fourth Street.
1--WE have checked over the lists care
fully and We are sure OF victory on
Election Day." she added, "but the
Presidents announcement nevertheless
was a welcome step. His fiancee, Mrs.
Gait, is also a sutfragist, you know"
"Do you think that had anything TO
do with his declaration ?" Mrs. Laidlaw
was asked.
"You never can tell" she replied.
Out we're going to win, anyway. We're
going town"
Miss Ida Simonton, the African ex-
plorer, and the Rev. John Haynes
Holmes, pastor Of the church, also
spoke in favor of suffrage.