The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-24
INVITATION DENIED
STIRS UP WOMEN AT
CLUB CONVENTION
Mrs. COwleS, Candidate for
Presidency, Not Among Mrs.
HammOnd's Guests.
HACKERS SEE PLAN
TO ADVANCE RIVAL

The big event of the biennial to-day
Is the luncheon which Mrs. John Hays
hammond, for the local biennial board
of the General Federation of Woinens
Clubs. will give at the Hotel Aston for
the State presidents. the general board
and at least IA hundred other well known
women. Never before. probably. has
there been brought together "A group
OF women OF such varying political and
social beliefs. Seated at the same tables
Will be Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and
Mrs. William Jennings Bryan, Miss
Margaret Wilson and Mrs. Charles T.
Hughes. Mrs. Edward NJ. House and
Mrs. Charles S. whitman. Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait and Mrs. Arthur NJ.
Dodge.
Clubdom. OF course. is thoroughly rep
resented. Not a name of the many
oftenest heard In connection with the
biennial is missing from the list of in
v~itations-save one. The exception Is
Mrs, Josiah Evans Cowles. California's
candidate for the presidency of the Cen
eral Federation. Mrs. Samuel Il. Sheath
OF THIN. Ohio. the opposition candidate.
Will be there-at the table OF the gem
eral board, OF which she is a member.
Mtssing Invitation Ominous.
Straws show which way the wind
blows. and there is a feeling among Mrs.
Cowles's% supporters that the missing NJ
vitation shows which way the admins
tration breeze will fan the election Of
May 81.
The administration says this is all
nonsense. Mrs. William Grant Brown.
chairman Of the local board, declared
that II was ridiculous to attempt TO
make IA scandal out Of the fact that Mrs.
had not invited Mrs. Cowles."
Miss Mary Garrett Hay, who is neglect
ing suffrage temporarily to attend TO her
Job as director for New York in the
General Federation. said the same.
we can't dictate to Mrs. Hammond
who her guests shall be-" she said. las
Mrs. Hammond is paying the bills. And
Mrs. Hammond Just didn't happen to
know Mrs. cowles. This luncheon was
planned a month ago by the local boa d
we meant to give IL for the State presi-
dents and the general board and then
Mrs. Hammond came to us and said She
Z wanted TO do something for the biennial.
ana we suggested that she take over this
luncheon. Mrs. Sheath. being first vice.
president, Is naturally a guest, but Mrs.
Cowles Is not a member of the boar
ana we ouldn suggest her name to
Mrs. Hammond. And Mrs Hammond's
personal guests are women from Wash
1nRton and New York whom she knows"
But Mrs. Lily T.. q. Hubert. one #
Mrs. Cowles's two campaign managers.
was found crying in a corner over what
she felt was a slight 20 her candidate.
ana al over the Hotel Aston the Gam
f"rnia poppy dropped lamentably. Il
was said by several of the California
delegates that in the letter Mrs. Brown
wrote Mrs. Hammond in response to the
Iatter's request for names of distln-
Guished clubwomen Mrs. Cowles's na.nc
was deliberately left out.
Mrs. Cowlcs Very Cheerful.
Blu Mrs. cowles. who wen, over :,
New Jersey for the reception given by
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas A. Edison for tho
ciubwomen. appeared very cheerful ana
not at all aware that she had bee,,
sighted.
The luncheon is heralded as a social
anair. with no speeches. The list q
acceptances is an imposing one. Wives
OF foreign Ambassadors and Consuls-
French, British. Italian. Russian. Jana
nese, Brazilian, Argentine. Chilean. and
30 on the wife of the vice-Presid.nt
of the United States. Mrs. Thomas
Marshall most Of the cabinet women,
Mrs. Robert Lansing. Mir. Nowfur
Baker. and others; Mrs. Champ ,llrI.
Miss Mabel Boardman, Mrs Alber, :
Burleson, Mrs. William H. Taft, Mrs.
Lindley Garrison, Mrs. Hughes. MI,
Wilson, Mrs, John Iurroy Mitchell. Mrs
Whitman, Mrs. J. Borden Hartman
Mrs. House, Mrs. John W, Foster. Mrs.
Whitelaw Reid, Mrs, Joseph choate
Mrs. George w. WickerSham Mrs. II. T.
Whitney Niss Anna A,ru.p Inr k,.,