New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-08
1000 Delegates Respond
as One to Her "Bugle
Call"
FIGHT STILL ON OVER
FEDERAL AMENDMENT
Wilson Will Address the
Convention This
Evening.

From star Correspondent q The Tribune
Atlantic City, n. j.. Sept. "A
thousand suiTragists here were waiting
this morning for the emancipation of
womankind. Tonight thousand
suffragists have signifed that they will
wait no longer. The women are 60
ing to march out from Atlantic City
TO summon their reserves. mobilize the
men and add them to their forces. and
win the cnemys country of political
freedom and make it their own.
The woman's hour has struck!
cried Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait. ma
tional president, sounding what she
called the bugle call OF the battle.
1t was the real crisis of the conven-
ton. 1t was a crisis that had nothing
TO do with the earnest and often i'm
FASHIONED fight waged here since the
first convention bell rang by the
women who believe in states rights
and those who stand out for the
Federal amendment. All their politi-
cal differences were forgotten when d
thousand recently flushed and argu-
mentative women looked at each other
in the mutual accord of triumph and
determination.
"The woman's hour Las struck. What
we need now Is a mobilization OF
spirit Let us sound bugle call here
and now to the women of the nation.
The political emancipation OF our sex
calls you. Women Of Al erica, arse.
Assembly is Electrified.
Then and there the mobilization OF
the delegates took place. Under the
spell summoned by Mrs. Gait, women
who had come into the convention hall
convinced that the winning OF the bal
lot for women would be a matter Of
years changed their whole attitude
toward suffrage and rose to their feet
TO say that they knew the time OF
victory was just at hand.
"The woman's hour has struck!
As Mrs. Gait repeated her bugle call
the stage thunder behind the scenes
of the New Nixon Theatre, the con
vention headquarters, fell TO the hoor
with crash, and the delegates
rocked with laughter.
II didn't think 1t would strike so
soon" said Mrs Gait. But the room
was silent again as she went on plead
ing the changed status Of womanklnd'
the fact that women are permanently
able to take the places OF men IN Eu-
rope. and in some instances IN Amer
lea. her doctrine of equal pay Tor
equal work. Listening to her with a
triumphant smile was the beloved
suffrage pioneer. DR.. Anna Howard
Shaw. who had seen Susan b. Anthony
mobbed for her political opinions. In
the audience was "the heroine we
know as Alice Stone Blackwell" who
remembered the days when women
were legged for daring to speak IN
public"
Election Laws Criticised.
The election laws of many states
were severely criticised by Mrs. Gait
for permitting ballots that either By
the use Of emblems or by setting the
suffrage amendment apart from the
others enabled even such voters as
could neither read nor write to vote
against il. She condemned the ants
also for "unspeakable treachery to
their SEX
Yesterdays fight against Mrs. Cats
resolution that the association shall
make its Federal work its chief end
was resumed to-day. Mrs. George
Bass and Mrs. Antoinette Funk. of
Chicago. led the opposition, on the
ground that the resolution was
couched almost in the terms used by
principal Presidential candidate
and might seem to commit the associ-
alton to support that party. The mat
ter will be voted upon tomorrow.
Mrs. Raymond Robbins will probably
present resolution or amendment
asking the convention TO come out for
Hughes.
The new platform adopted yesterday
provided that the national board
should continue 10 conduct a campaign
in support Of the Federal amendment;
that il should continue a lobby IN
Washington until the Federal amend
mcnt is submitted; that 1t should. at
the discretion Of the board. remove
its headquarters to Washington, and
that million-dollar fund for the
campaign should be established.
Tomorrow evening. at o'clock
President Wilson will address the
sufTragists. with Mrs. Wilson, Secre-
tary Tumulty. DR.. and Mrs. Grayson
and several Secret Service men, Id
will arrive quietly in the middle OF
the afternoon and go at once to the
Hotel Traymore. He has asked that
no demonstration at the station be