New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-16
-Four Organizations Open
Headquarters in Ma
tiOnal Capital
PREPARING GREAT
ANTHONY PAGEANT
Congressional Union Hard at
Work on Special Feature
of Its Convention.
From Tn. Tnbun. Bureau ]

Washington, Nov. Is. - Reinforce
ments for the suffrage work TO be done
here this winter swung into line to-
day with the opening of headquarters
of four suffragist organizations ami
lated with the National American
Woman Suffrage Association. The stan
which has occupied quarters at 1917 r
Street will do the work of preparation
for the convention, which will be held
December il to 10, following the Con-
gressional Unions convention. The or
PLANTATIONS which will share these
Headquarters are the College Equal
Suffrage League. the Washington WON.
an Suffrage Council, the District OF
Columbia Equal Suffrage League and the
committee on local arrangements Of the
American Woman Suffrage Association.
Reports that the Congressional com
mittee of the leaguge, which has an
nounced that IL would abandon its ef-
forts TO push the Shafroth suffrage
amendment through Congress. would
affiliate with the Congressional Union
were denied to-day by Mrs. Medill Nc
Cormick, chairman of the committee.
The methods of the Congressional
Union, rather than the principles for
which il worked, prevented co-opera-
ton, Mrs. Mccormick stated.
"The difference between the two or
CARNATIONS is one of fundamental pol
icies," said Mrs. Mccormick. Most
women clearly understand this, and be-
fore they pay much attention to pro-
posals of fusion they will want to know
what that fusion will mean.
"Many Of us long have hoped that
the Congressional Union would realize
the shortsighted and un-American char
acter of its fundamental policy. State
campaigns for suffrage are still going
on in this country. and will continue
to go on. As long as body of organ
lied suffragists advertises its hostility
to one or the other of the big political
parties so long will our state cam
paigns suffer from the natural resent
ment of the members of that party.
There is no exaggerating the handicap
which this puts on suffrage work. 1t
must be abandoned absolutely before
the women of the country will consider
having their work identified in any
way with that of the Congressional
Union"
Meanwhile work is being pushed by
the Congressional Union on the prepa-
rations for its convention, and es-
pecially on the Susan b. Anthony pa
geant, which will be the last affair on
its programme. The cast is complete,
and Convention Hall has been chosen
for the pageant, on the night of De-
cember 49,
Mrs. Florence Rays Hanson will PLAY
the part of Susan B. Anthony. The
following will support: Mrs. Charlotte
Stanley as Elizabeth Cady Stanton;
Miss Catherine Reynolds Mccormick, as
Lucreta Mott; James r. DAILY, as Wen
dell Phillips; Mrs. Margaret Hopkins
Worrell, as Mrs. Amelia Bloomer; How
ard Treat: as Daniel Anthony; Mrs.
Ruth Pierson, as Mrs. Daniel Anthony;
Miss Leonora de Grange, as Hannah An
thony; Miss Marguerite Pierson, as
Mary Anthony; Professor +. c. Town
send, as the Quaker elder; j. B. Peat,
as Judge Hunt; Bennett Mead, as clerk
of the court; Frederick NJ. Kerb, as
Richard Henry Lee; Harry Meyer, as
a country boy, and Watson Ahlenfeld,
as Farmer Marsh.