New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-06
Courtesy of Coast Resort
Is Granted Delegates
TO Convention.
WOMEN SEEK UNITY
AS SESSIONS BEGIN
Mrs. Gait Hopes Amend
ments Will Not Change
Their Constitution.
From . STAT corrsspondcu, o, ra- rrbun. !

Atlantic City, Sept 5.-Three hun
dred suFraCists marched in flank move
ment upon Atlantic City tonight and
took Americas playground as a forum
for the consideration Of the problems
Of womankind.
In ten minutes the city had capitu-
lated. The whole Boardwalk left the
discussion Of frivolity TO talk suffrage
and the problems OF the national asso-
citation. Great yellow banners welcom-
ing the women blazed across all the
principal streets. ana fax men in bath
ing suits paused 10 read placards ex-
tending the courtesy OF the city 10 The
sufragists. Thousands of other women
vii. swell the suffrage ranks to-mor-
row, but Atlantic City has already sur
rendered.
The invasion was headed by forty
dusty and breathless delegates from
the Far West who arrived al daybreak,
more than thirty hours ahead OF time,
because they had feared a railroad
strike. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, ma
tional president, reached here early
this afternoon, and led the national
board and state presidents into an ex-
ecutive meeting behind closed doors.
Have Evening Session.
This evening they went into session
again, and although no Official infor-
nation has been given out, i IS be
lieved that they are chiefly concerned
with the hope that the convention may
continue upon the non-partisan basis
10 has advocated up 70 this time.
1T is my hope that our constitu-
ton may remain unchanged" Mrs. Gait
said tonight One faction will offer
amendments stating that the national
association shall hereafter cOnfine rs
efforts 20 working for the Federal
amendment. The opposition will pre-
sent an amendment suggesting state
work as the only solution OF the SUI
frage problem.
Il both these are lost the national
association will continue with its pres
ent policy, a combination Of Federal
and state work.
Await Wilson's Speeches.
Interest here is so general in the
suHragists and especially IN President
Wilson's speech on Friday night that
Miss Lulu II. MARVEL, president Of the
loca. suffrage organization and chair
man Of arrangements, has asked the
Department OF Public Safety 70 see
that Nixon's Theatre is not mobbed on
that night.
"The seating capacity Of the theatre
is only ABOUT 1900, and / know the
whole public viii want 70 turn out,
she said.
Husbands are the feature Of the suf-
frage convention so far. A great
many of them have not yet learned
that mans place is the home, and have
come along IN astonishing nun oers 20
take care Of the delegates. Ten men
have been sent officially as delegates
from the Mems State Suffrage Asso-
citation of New York.
Feeling against the Congressional
Union seems 20 run high, and Mrs.
Frank Rocssing, national vice-presi-
dent, in executive meeting challenged
Miss Alice Pauls statement az Little
Rock that the association had never
done any Federal work Mrs. Roes-
sing said Congress just now was Ike
an apple, almost ripe. In Us views on
suffrage. The genera! feeling is that
the national board may have 20 light
for the non-partisanship OF the asso-
citation.
Flowers Fill Hotels.
Every hotel is full of yellow flowers,
flags and suffrage arguments. The
Marlborough Blenheim is the general
headquarters, but the various state or
CARNATIONS have meeting places IN
almost all the boardwalk inns. Every
one wonders what will be done with
all the surplus sufragists tomorrow.
The state suffrage organization IN Ne
vada. which left the ranks 20 go over
20 the Woman's party when Anne
Martin became It's president, has been
supplanted by a larger organization.
This has sent delegates 20 Atlantic
City.
The Women Lawyers Hughes Com
mittee is already az work distributing
circulars under the leadership Of Mrs.
Rose Falls Bress, asking sufraglsts 70
support Hughes and the Fedora!
amendment.
Among the leaders present in ex-
ecutlve meeting to-day were Mrs. Gait,
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, honorary
president; Mrs. Minnie Reyno Ids, head
Of the Women Political Union OF
New Jersey; Mrs. Norman De Z.
Whitehouse, chairman Of the New
York State Woman Suffrage party, and
NJ Ida Hustled Harper.