New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-04
Five Ladies' Aid Societies
TO Aid Men at q. 0. p.
Convention.
FIRST DELEGATION
STARTS THIS NOON
Miss Carpenter Certain Roose-
welt Will Be Elected-Suf.
frage Parade To Be Big.

The time has gone by when mere man
is to be permitted to settle the affairs
of the nation all by himself To-day
at noon the Grand Central Terminal
will be filed with New York women all
bound for Chicago 70 help the Republl-
cans make up their party platform
Five separate ladies aid societies" will
be on the field.
They are the National Woman Suf-
frage Party, the Congressional Union,
the National Association Opposed to
Woman Suffrage, the Progressive
Womens League and the Women's Pre-
paredness Committee.
"Wo're out for Teddy and we're going
to elect him" This was the slogan OF
the Roosevelt women, voiced last night
by Miss Alice Carpenter, head of the
Progressive Women's League. The
women will have a special car all of
their own, attached to the Progressive
special, which leaves at 1850 this
afternoon. The women expect OF attend
both the Progressive and Republican
conventions, acting perhaps as doves
of peace between the two groups.
Suffrage Group Largest.
In the Progressive Women's party
will be DR.. Katharine b. Davis, Mrs.
Winston Churchill, Mrs. George Rub
Ice. Mrs. Frank Cothren, Misses Mary
ard Helen Maynard, Mrs. Francis Hyde,
Mrs. Elon K. Hooker and Mrs. Joseph
5. Stevens.
The largest contingent of women in
Chicago will be the members of the
National Woman Suffrage Association,
who are there for the great parade of
June and the hearing before the Re
publican Resolutions Committee. Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait, president of the
national association, is already IN
Chicago, and will review the parade,
which is expected to be the largest
suffrage march ever held in this
country. Estimates of the size of The
parade vary from twenty to forty
thousand.
New York's delegation Of the ma
tional" will start for Chicago to-mor-
row at / o'clock. They will be led by
Mrs. Norman de r. Whitehouse, chair
man of the New York State Woman
Suffrage party. and among the march
ers will be Mrs. Raymond Brown, Mrs.
Ogden Reid Mrs. Alice Duer Miller,
Mrs. Frank A. Vanderlip, Miss Mary
Garrett Hay, Mrs. Alice Parker Hutch
ms, Mrs. Hoerge hoffman, Mrs. William
G.. Wilcox, Miss Alice Einstein, Mrs.
W. Herbert Jackson and Mrs. Joel
Spingarn. go.
The third contingent of women will
be the Congressional Union, which IS
10 have a whole convention of its own,
at which will be formed the new Wom-
ans party.
Unionists Go at Noon.
Delegates Of the New York Congress
sonal Unionists, gay with purple, yell
low and white flags, will leave the
Grand Central Station this noon. In
their special car will be Mrs. 1nez Mill
holland Boissevain, Mrs. Crystal East
man Benedict. Mrs. Robert Adamson,
Mrs. Charles Farnum. Mrs. o. II. +.
Belmont and Mrs. William l.. Colt.
The anti-surfrage delegation, small IN
numbers but conscious of the fact that
their plea that they do not want the
vote is usually successful with the
politicians. will also start to-day.
The fifth group Of women is less ia
miliar in convention circles. but 1T ex-
poets 10 90 straight TO the heart of
things. Il is the preparedness group,
led by Mrs. Lindon Bates and Miss
Anne Morgan.