The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-31

took a drink from n bottle Of milk q
friend had brought her. Another
woman was munching peanuts.
Nuts are very nourishing," she OBJ
served. cheerfully. There are people
who live on such things. but after we've
won the vote the first thing I'll do will
be to eat the biggest beefsteak In this
town"
The climax of the Columbus Circle
meeting came when the committee Sc
lected to attend the anti-suffrage meet
Ing ut Carnegie Hall n report argu-
ments heard there returned. One by
one the committee women took up h
arguments of their opposers n demol-
lshed them to their W satisfaction and
that OF the crowd. apparently.
Meantime twenty members Of the
Women's Political Union were handing
to every man who attended the anti
meeting copies Of what the chairman.
George ". wickersham. said recently
about no democracy being possible where
thousands Of the people were disfran-
chised. These were handed out very
quietly near the entrance to Carnegie, and
they constituted the only interference
with the anti meeting. Energetic suf-
| fragists devised plans for spectacular
demonstrations outside Carnegie. but
Miss Mary Garrett Hay. the big BOSE
OF the Woman Suffrage party Mrs. Gait,
head Of the Empire State campaign com
mittee. and Mrs. Harriet Stanton Batch
OF the Women's Political Union all said
no.
Lee there he no interference with
our opponents" the word went forth
from the suffrage headquarters. lie
this campaign end as II has been con-
Quoted from the beginning, with the ut
most dignity"
Confidence wa expressed by every
suffrage leader last night.
We're going to win. we're going 10
win !" cried Mrs. Norman de II. White.
house as she dismissed the good-by
meeting of the press and publicity coun.
Gil OF the Empire state campaign COM
mittee.
We're going to win :" said Miss Mary
Garrett Hay az she left her office at the
Woman Suffrage party headquarters on
Thirty-fourth street. II can't &C
through another campaign like this one,
and 1 won't ave to. We've got the
not vets beaten"
'Our race is nearly run--and we're
going under the wire first said Mrs.
Batch.
"weT win,'' says Mrs. cat.
with a rair election we'll win-and
the political machines will keep their
promise to give us a fair election said
| Mrs. Cett.
S~uffrasists were encouraged by the
fact that the campaign committee of
fifty of the Central Federated CNior
distributed throughout the city an APP
peal yesterday to working men to vote
yes" on the suffrage amendment. This
was written and signed by Chairman
Frank l.. Walsh OF the United States
Commission on Industrial Relations.
Then there was the last minute state
ment Ia favor of suffrage signed by
men like Ebert II. Gary, Oscar $,
Straus and Clarence Shearn. and the
letter which Theodore Roosevelt wrote
TO Mrs. Il. Edward Dreicr. suffrage
leader IN Brooklyn.
One thing that tremendously raised
the hopes OF the sufrragists was the
nature of the last instructions sent out
by TammaHy to its voters. Whether
Tammany really intended to show
friendliness To woman suffrage or not,
votes for women leaders argued tina,
the order TO vote 10 on the new
| Constitution and vote Eyes" on the
propositions which are printed on the
other ballot, containing the woman suf-
frage amendment. even though the vote
veg doesn't include the suffrage
amendment, must work benefceHtly for
them.
il for granted that everything on that
ballot Is to get a yes" the s~uffragists
told zach other. "Oh. we're not going
10 get the deal that our sisters In
Jersey did"