The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-17
POLITICIANS VIEWS
DON'T DAUNT SUFFS
Women Say Party Leaders
Cannot Tell What the
Voters Will Do.
LOOK FOR A VICTORY

w have always known that the
machine politicians are against the en-
franchisemen OF women. That Is one
more reason for H."
So says Mrs. Norman De r. White
house. head Of the publicity committee
of the Empire State campaign COM
mittee. Mrs. whitehouse refused to be
d.smayed by the prediction. made In
THE U yesterday by Democratic and
Republican leaders OF New York city.
that the suffragists will go down to de-
feat November 2. Most OF the suffrage
leaders who could be found yesterday
took the same confident stand. Some
said the politicians didn't know what
the voters would do. some declared that
they knew that the sentiment was for
suffrage n were deliberately pervert-
ing the truth.
Thomas r. Foley's views aroused Miss
Lavinia l.. Dock. who holds as to sur
frage about the same position in the
Second Assembly district hat MIR. Foley
does as to the Democratic party.
FoIey's Views Answered.
You can tell Tom Foley for me-" she
said last night. that while my power Is
not as great as his / know the people
down here. But l wouldn't hesitate to
stand up In City Hall Park and tell
Foley that II the men vote as they feel
November . the district will give SUI
frage a good SAFE maJority-not an large
perhaps as the Eighth or Tenth. but
safe.
Foley ak about the old fashioned
mothers not wanting the vote. He knows
that is not 20. I wish he could hear
what those mothers really say, those
mothers who work for their husbands
and sons and sometimes take six or
c!ght boarders The Irish feeling is
strong for suffrage. The Italians are
not so strong for II. but II let alone
they will give us a majority. The Jews
ar coming out for us wonderfully
Mrs. Harriet stanton Batch is pre-
pairing to sail Saturday for a brief visit
- England. but she took time at the
Women's Political Union headquarters
yesterday to discuss the representations
OF the politicians.
The day when the politicians could
control the voters, Is past she said.
IL am not at all uncomfortable over
what the bosses say. for their sway is
departed. Why. a year ago last April
didn't they turn things upside dow to
get their constituents out TO vote for the
holding OF a constitutional convention,
and the voters wouldn't obey them. They
had to stun the ballot boxes to carry
the thing through. II the men wouldn't
follow orders In regard to a compara-
lively small thing like that are they
going to be voted in blocks on the en-
franchisement Of women"
TOO Early to Predict"
so the politicians think they know
that the voters will turn us down No
vcnber g" said Miss Mary Garrett
Hay. city Chairman of the Woman
Suffrage party. "a good politician
doesn't predict eleven weeks before cleo
ton day. The politicians will know
better abou this November 3 than they
know August Is. make no predictions.
but things are going our way"
Dr. Mary Halton. leader for the
Woman Suffrage party In the Twenty
ninth Assembly district. is as indefatI'
gable a ~canyasser NJ il Miss Dock.
THE three lenders in my district,
Republican, Democratic and Progress
SlNe, are TOT Nnnldl sulTd~t, SHe III
"and so ! believe are many political
leaders. II IL natural that organized
politt,s shorGd be against admitting
women to the franchise. but ! believe
the bosses are going to do as they say
In THE SuS-they are going to keep
hands of. and | believe that left alone
the voters will speak for us. That Is
what my ~csnvasslng has shown me"
"Our campaign is convincing us that
the popular voice Is for u.s. said Mrs.
! Carrie Chapman Gait. chairman OF the
Empire state campaign committee. But
she refused TO p%rophesy.