New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-17
Delegates War Over Merits
of Anthony and Shafroth
Amendments.
NATIONAL PARTY
WINS OVER STATE
ENJOYS Start for Washington oy
Automobile with Winning
Resolutions.
Bv CONSTANCE DREXEL.


| rxros,,ion Grounds. San Francisco,
Sept. l6.-The tiny note OF d'scord
hardly audible yesterday, but magni-
fed by those who like TO find rgn'
in anv woman's meeting. broke out
loudly to-day during the second ous'-
ness session Of the Woman Voters con-
vention. held this afternoon
The meeting was in the handsome
Illinois State Building, on the Expos'-
ton grounds. High aloft, against 'Ho
/ clear blue of the sky, few the go'u'
rurnIe and white banner Of the Con-
gressional Union for Woman Suffrage
/ which organized the convention IN
order to get the Western women VINO
/ have the vote to help their Eastern
| sisters get it. The method OF going
about il was the rub, as it has been
/ in many conventions and conferences
since the National Woman Suffrage
Association favors the Shaforth
amendment instead Of the susan D.
Anthony amendment.
Peculiarly speaking, the last amend
! ment is the short cut to woman SUI
/ frage for the whole country, ellminat-
/ ing state campaigns. But there are
people who think the young enthus-
iastic Congressional Union is trying TO
eat the whole plum; hence, the OPPOSE
ton to the resolutions, which, however
were enthusiastically passed by
/ large majority.
"Whereas, The enfranchisement OF
/ the women of the nation IS the para
mount political issue before the people
/ of this country and the Congress Of
| the United States; therefore, be II
| "Resolved, That we women voters III
convention assembled call upon the
! Gath Congress to vote the Susan Is. An
! thony amendment, and we pledge our
I selves TO work for this amendment IRE
/ spective of the interests OF any pollu-
cal party.
"Whereas, The Susan B. Anthony
amendment offers the only direct and
effective method of securing national
woman's suffrage therefore be 1t re-
solved that we pledge ourselves to work
exclusively for the Susan b. Anthony
amendment, and we herewith record
our unalterable opposition to the In
/ PRODUCTION into Congress OF any other
amendment dealing with the issue Oh
national womans suffrage
"Whereas, Suffrage amendments are
bending in the states OF New Jersey
New York, Pennsylvania and Massachu-
sets. therefore be it resolved that wo
send kilograms of greeting to the wom-
en- of those states expressing out neart-
felt hope that they will be given suf-
! frage at the coming election, and urge
upon the voters of those states that
lust survey of the results OF equal
( suffrage in the free states must result
/ in the granting of equal suffrage"
The chief opposition came from Or.
/ Esther Pohl Lovejoy, of Portland, Ore.
/ who was reported to have been sent by
! the National suffrage association to
cause trouble. In a private talk, how
! ever. she absolutely denied that she
, had come except on her own initiative,
and made the same statement for the
| other Western women who rose from
the floor to oppose the resolution.
Il was dramatic, however, when she
got up to denounce the Congressional
Union for high handed methods in
forcing the resolutions on the Western
women as a whole. Amid the scuftie
and noise she tried to insist that the
resolutions were being forced down
their threats, but the popularity of the
/ Congressional Union did not waver,
nor should il, since it .tands on solid
ground.
The methods by which they are try
ing to win the vote for the country are
the most direct; the Susan B. Anthony
I ha ebort tho Sh
forth amendment is only a makeshlft,
and the state campaigns are wasting
women's energies, which should be put
into legislation after getting the vote.
As one woman expressed it, why not
give it to the whole country at once,
since some of the states already have
it, and since il is coming, anyway?
This may have been expressed before,
but never more effectively than to-day.
Unexpectedly the wife of the Premier
of New South Wales, one of the large
sections of the commonwealth of Aus
tralia, turned up at the meeting. She
was Immediately asked 10 speak from
the platform, and brought an interest
ing foreign note. She was delightfully."-
English, with a still more delightful
| English accent, which / must confess
was in sharp contrast TO the speaking
of our native women.
She said she had been in America
only a few hours, but could not help
coming to the meeting TO speak for
suffrage, since their fourteen years of
woman suffrage in Australia had been
such success. She said the women
were still mending their husbands
socks and nursing their babies. but she
advised American women to neglect
even those necessary things until they
got the vote for the whole country.
What | cannot understand" she
said, what puzzles me, is why some
of you have the vote and some of you
haven't" That is what all American
women are saying, and that is why
the Susan B. Anthony resolution is
claiming more and more support.