New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-06
"Give Us the Ballot Key
note of Congressional
Union Convention.
REVOLT THREATENED
IN TWELVE STATES
Have 100000 Voters and Can
Decide Presidential Election,
Assert Speakers.
Irrnm , star corresrondent Of me Tribune.

tFrom stan Correspondent Of The Tribune
Chicago, June with a suddenness
and an intensity that literally took the
breath from the Republican delegates,
a woman suffrage cyclone nit Chicago
to-day and gave strong evidence OF its
intention to tear things up by the roots
| throughout the entire country on No
vember next unless the women of the
United States obtain the ballot.
The equal suffrage question promises
TO be one of the biggest problems the
/ Republican party chieftains will have
to decide here this week. The Demo-
Gratis at St. Louis next week will have
the question put up to them in an even
stronger way, for the reason that the
Democratic party is now in power, not
only in the White House but in the
/ Senate and House.
I There are two separate organizations
OF women working TO get the ballot for
women throughout the United States.
/ They are the National American Woman
Suffrage Association, of which Mrs.
! Carrie Chapman Gait, DR.. Anna Howard
Shaw and Mrs. Norman de r. White
( house are leading lights, and the Con-
gressional Union for Woman Suffrage,
+ in which Mrs. o. II. p. Belmont. Mrs.
Harriet Stanton Blatch, Mrs. William
Randolph Hearst, Mrs. Abby Scott
Baker, Mrs. Inez Milholland Boisse-
vain, Mrs. Robert Adamson. Miss Lucy
Burns and Mrs. Helen Hill Weed are
leaders.
Working TO Convert Women.
The National American Woman Suf-
frage Association has carried on the
fight for woman suffrage for years.
The members are still working hard in
the different states TO convert the
women themselves TO the cause of
woman suffrage and TO sway state con-
ventions in favor of suffrage.
The plan of the Congressional Union
las been to form woman suffrage
party, composed of woman voters in
I the twelve equal suffrage states, who
will pledge themselves to support only
parties and candidates who are in
favor OF the immediate passage by
/ Congress of the Susan B. Anthony
] amendment
They now claim that in each OF the
[ twelve woman suffrage states they al
ready have enough women voters
pledged TO carry the balance of power
and decide the national election. The
fate of President Wilson and Of JUS
tice Hughes, or whoever is named for
President by the reunited Republican
party. rests, they assert, in their
hands. Likewise. they say, they can
spell victory or defeat for about TWEEN
ty-four United States Senators and
fifty or sixty Representatives.
Farsighted politicians are taking no
ice of the 100000 woman suffrage
voters whose vote may be decisive in
several states.
Women's Convention Opens.
The National Womsn's party con-
vention opened tonight In the Black
stone Theatre. It's programme calls
for a three day convention. and IT IS
an open secret that important poll
ticians Of all parties are clamoring
Tor a chance TO address It. Dudley
Field Malone is 10 be one Of the
sneakers for the Democratic party.
Ex-Governor Chase Osborne. Of Mich
iyan. and John Hays Hammond are
scheduled to speak for the Republican
rariy. Clifford Pinchot and Victor
Murdoch will talk for the Progress
sives. Ex-Governor Eugene y. Foss for
the Prohibtionists and Allan {. Ben
son for the Socialists.
The meeting in the Blackstone
Theatre tonight was enthusiastic.
Long before the hour for the exer-
cises 10 begin the theatre was iammed
% the doors and hundreds were
turned away.
Mrs. o. ri. ?. Belmont. Mrs. Harriet
Stanton Blatch. Miss Anne Martin, OF
Nevada: Mrs Ida Finney Mackrille
End Miss Maud Younger, OF California,
and Mis- Lucy Burns, of Washington
Miss Younger sounded the keynote
Of the movement. She said:
with the formation Of the WON
ans party a new force marches on the
political field: new cry rings out IN
n national campaign. For the hrst
time i'm a Presidential election the
voting women are factor to be reck-
oned with.
Party Has Only One Plank.
"The womans party has no candidate
and but one plank the enfranchise-
ment of the women of America through
the Federal amendment. There is no
higher service in which we can use our
votes. We have come TO realize through
the many appeals TO us IN the state
campaigns that the struggle OF our Sis
ters of other states is our struggle, that
their cause is our cause and that we
cannot rest content in our own enfran-
cbisement until the women of this en-
tire nation shall share it with US.
"Our hour has struck. With an un-
certain Presidential election, knowing
our mower and realizing our duty, be-
neath the banner of the Woman's party
we stand. Facing all other issues, we
nlace suffrage first, and pledge our
selves 10 cast our votes 10 the end that
before this year has passed we may OBJ
tain the Federal amendment eniran-
cbising the women of the United
, States D
Miss Lucy Burns arralgned the Demo
cratic party for its failure TO pass the
Susan b. Anthony amendment. She SAID;
az as great a percentage OF Demo-
rate as Of the Republicans had voted
CO.. suffrage twO-thirds majority IN
10 House would have been secured.
D. rnore than two-thirds of the Demo
arats voted against suffrage, reducing
~ vote 10 a point that the amendment
4, Id not have secured two-thirds ma
ioritv II every member Of every otner
party had been present anu 'O'eu
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