The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-02
ITS once In a lifetime. girls,

ITS once In a lifetime. girls"
With this thought did Miss Mary Gar
re;t Hay. Big Boss Of the Woman Suf-
frage party, console herself and her
workers yesterday for the fact that they
would " to rise ut LAO o'clock this
morning. after working. many of them.
until after midnight. In the cold gray
dawn more thar 1000 women who had
agreed 10 serve as watchers at the polls.
and the same number scheduled TO act
and hasten forth that they might be at
their posts for the opening of the polls
at q.
Party leaders took no chances OF the
watchers oversleeping. Workers were
assigned to call every watcher by telc-
phone at $50. At the Women's Poll
tical Union headquarters, Is West Forty
fifth street. Miss Marion Tomkins and
Miss Elisabeth Collins borrowed two
stretchers from a hospital and slept be-
side their desks all night. From there
they could ring up the watchers Will"
reclining comfortably OH their stretchers.
and their last instructions from Mrs.
Harriet Stanton Batch. their chief,
were:
Keep at every watcher un;il YOU
know she's aw AXE and IN the job
While there was a good deal of cam
palgning yesterday the leaders tried to
have most OF the workers stop speaking
at a reasonable hour SO they could res
for the last arduous lap of the race TO-
day. Go home and go 10 bed early
was the counsel OF Mrs. Carrie Chap
mar Gait, Miss Hay and the other sea-
soned campaigners. Miss Hay didn't
follow II herself, for she didn't go home
- III ..A..t,- aSaaf.-. IN faxsr A,r loo
at "A hotel near the Woman Suffrage
party headquarters at As East Thirty
fourth street. Miss Rose Sanderman
conducted an all night meeting al Forty
third street and broadway. But most
OF the work and the oratory stopped At
10 =. NJ.
Mrs. Gait Il Confident.
II was 6 o'clock when Mrs. a
closed her desk at the Empire stat
campaign committee headquarters. tired
but apparently happy and confident.
81 do earnestly and sincerely believe
New York women will win the vote to-
morrow" she said. II am not saying
this because think they ought 10. went
through the campaign IN Colorado, in
Idaho, in California. and never have
I seen such a strong individual opinion
III VI III
True, never have I seen such hos
fifty to suffrage as has been exhibited
In New York. I never struck anything
like the Ma Suffrage Association on
posed TO the Extension OF Suffrage Ia
Women before. II Is a new thing for
men Of good social standing. like tho
members of that organization. To band
together against woman suffrage and
fight It In the interruptions ways Ia
which they have descended. II il unfor-
;unate for us TO meet them effectively.
but in spite OF this ! shall GO to bel
tonight perfectly confident that We shall
win"
Mrs. Batch Was also sure OF victory.
though she didn't think the amendment
would carry In New York city.
II think the city will give W. a larger
vote thar tho politicians expect she
said. But there will he a small ma
iority against MS in Greater New York.
This will he overcome by the favorable
vote M state. We shall carry the
state by about 10000
Miss Alberta Hill. executive secretary
Of the W. l.. L.. put II lower. We'll
carry the state by something under
5,0Oo." she -,aid,
Expects to larry city.
Mas Hay didn't agree with Mrs.
Batch that the SUNS would lose the city,
We're going to carry Greater New
York." she said, "and We shall certainly
carry the state. No, I wont say by
what majority. Tho ants are good or
ma jorities. CoIno TO mo November 4
and TIL tell you the majority for woman
suffrage In his State"
"Tammany Hall Is absolutely neutra'
on the question 81 woman's suffrage,
was Charles r. Murphy's announcement
yesterday. THE central organization
promised to keep 'ts hands on and We
are sticking strictly to that promise
The sample ballot sent out, while ma rkcd
against the revised Constitution and In
favor OF the canal bond Issue, speci.
| fcally omitted any mark or any sugges'
! ton to indicate that the organization
! was otherwise that strictly neutral OF
the suffrage question. I understand that
! some OF the leaders are for II and some
are not. I have not Old n hok
. am going to vote. nor have I sought TO in
huence the vote OF any man either way
Mrs. Arthur NJ. Dodge. president OF
| the National Association Opposed &c
Woman Suffrage, was certainly no,
afraid OF the predicted majorities foi
the amendment. Two years ago Mrs
Dodge bet "a New York newspaper
woman that when the suffrage amend
ment was submitted to the people |,
would lose by 100000. The bet was fol
IS and the stake were placed. Mrs
Dodge said yesterday hat she stood BY
that bet.
Message From DR.. Shaw.
The president of the National Amer
can Woman Suffrage Association. Or
Anna Howard Shaw, spent yesterday al
Atlantic City resting after her three
speeches a day. From that resort sht
wired the following message:
THE politicians, they tell me, hav'
refused to predict what the outcome will
be. Well. l I'M not afraid TO predic
victory. 1t has been a remarkable cam
paign, the most remarkable campaign
ever went through and ] have beer
campaigning forty years. The wome
of the three States. New York. Massa
chusetts and Pennsylvania, have worked
AS women never worked before, and the,
will have their reward when the vote
IL counted tomorrow night"
DR.. Shaw will come to New York to
, day and receive the returns at nationa
HEADQUARTERS, sos Fifth avenue wher.
n special wire will be run in. Specia
wires are also being put In at the Woman
Suffrage party headquarters on Thirty
fourth street and at the Suffrage ShoJ
of the Women's Political Union. IS:
Fifth avenue. At these three places tn
suffs OF the city will gather this eve
ming to learn their political fate.
The women watchers to-day will ID
like a big army. under the general super
vision of a number of inspectors. who
In turn will be directed by Miss Ha.
from headquarters. Mrs. James Ices
Laidlaw. under Miss Hay, will oversee
thlrty-one inspectors in Manhattan
Mrs. Edward s. Dreier will have unde'