The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-30
Doctors, Lawyers, Merchants.
Chiefs Announce They
Are for the Cause.
WOMEN SEE VICTORY NOW

New York telephone operators had
more than their share OF work yester-
day. Suffrage in every shape and form
buzzed over the wires and not a public
oficial or man of any Importance was
left uncalled. Wires stretched from the
various suffrage headquarters to the
Court House. the county Jail. the hos
pitfalls. schools. churches. wherever public
officials had secreted themselves. ana on
s%uffragist who insisted on knowing what
the party on the other end thought on
the great question. II they were going to
vote for 1t in the fall and IL not why
not.
Responses were for the most part
favorable. In fact. Mrs. Norman der.
Whitehouse. t~elephoning from her house.
said she had found only two ants. Only
one man anti had the courage to come
out against it strongly. Judge Giegerich
always been opposed TO granting the
women the franchise and always would
be.
II don't approve of suffrage in any
shape or FORM he reiterated. mo. I
don't know why ! am opposed to i'll
simply am"
Considering. a. Mrs. Whitehouse re-
marked. he was only one man out OF a
whole city. this response was not SO de-
pressing as II might have been. Gov.
Whitman was inaccessible but Mayor
Mitchell responded nobly by saying. II
will vote for il, but can make no pre-
diction as 10 the outcome In city or
state" Even mons the favorables there
We're few who would forecast victory, but
from all parts OF the city rolled up the
names of those who promised to vote
for II.
Miss Katharine Davis's Answer.
Miss Katharine b. Davis. City Com
missioner Of Correction. was obliged to
call in her first deputy. J. Burdette
Lewis, saying. II wish I had a vote. and
] hope to have one after the fall election.
As matters stand now I shall have to
refer you to my deputy" Mr.. Lewis.
needless TO say. wal in favor Of it.
Nearly all the Commissioners. includ-
ing Police COMMISSIONS Woods. were out
Of town. Commissioner Kingsbury,
Health Commissioner Goldwater and Fire
COMMISSIONS Adamson all wished the
suffragists hearty success.
City departments were divided among
the various suffrage headquarters. Miss
Mary Garrett Hay OF the Woman Suf-
frage party had the Commissioners. while
the Judges and Justices fell to the lot
of the Equal Franchise League on West
Thirty-seventh street. Mrs, Whitehouse
had charge Of the out OF town notables,
and from the leading cities of the West
and many of the Western suffrage States
came good wishes for New York next
fall.
Policemen, Miss Portia Willis COM
mented, were more than favorable to
the
The further up own you go the
more enthusiastic they are" she re-
ported. Those in The Bronx and Harlem
wished us unqualified success. but down
In Spring street things were more du-
bious.' Judges were In favor, so, for the
most part, were lawyers; much better.
the suffragists thought, thar ordinary
business men.
Mrs. John Blair. acting president of
the Equal Franchise league in the alb
sence OF Mrs. Howard Mansfield. super
intended the calling up OF justices of
the Supreme Court. judges and lawyers.
Reports from her telephone board
were very favorable.
Ministers to a man rallied to the SUI
frage call and doctors responded eagerly.
Newspaper offices seemed In favor too,
all but one. Business men as a whole
seemed under the Impression that New
York State would carry, but that the
decision really lay with the upper par
Of the State
Good Wishes From the West.
Mrs. Norman der. W~hitehouse, from
her residence In East Fifty-sixth street,
had charge OF the telegra ms that po,rad