New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-28
Suffragists Sharpen Toma-
hawks in Party Rally at
Atlantic City.
MANY FAIR TAKERS
SCORE DEMOCRATS
Bacharach Endorses the
Observation-Disclosures
tons Increase Fund.

Atlantic City. Aug. 27.-"We're after
the scalps of the Democrats"
Four thousand members and friends
of the Woman's Party thus announced,
as they took their tomahawks in hand
hore to-day in the big opening rally OF
their Eastern campaign.
"Our hats in the ring" they an
nounced when the party came INTO
being at the Chicago convention IN
June. But two months OF Democratic
oppositior since then to the Federal
amendment for woman suffrage nave
brought them TO a belief IN more saw
age methods of warfare. They iaio
down their ultimatum here to-day. o..
"They force us to use political ar,
guments now" said lnez Mllhoiland
Boissevain. ave are going to make the
Democratic party see 1t has made a
mictake."
As she went on to outline the SUI,
fragists' war plans she was interrupted
by the applause of one OF the most
unusual groups ever gathered 10 go
tomahawking. Many in the audience
were of the leisure class of playday
CITY. torn from their diversions by the
gravity of the crisis in the Federal
amendment situation. The big music
hall of the Steel Pier had lowered into
gowns of chiffon and marquisette ana
lace, and the points OF gay-coloreo
parasols thumped the floor IN applause
Women with silk sport coats over drip
ming bathing suits listened at the door.
The wall was lined with roll-chairs,
whose occupants had come from the
ravety of the Boardwalk to hear the
Susan B. Anthony amendment demand
ed and the Democratic party con-
demned.
"We're after the scalps of the Demo
Gratis" Mrs. Boissevain repeated. ITS
GOOD politics and good sense to oppose
the party that refuses us freedom. our
policy is to hold that party responsible
for having power to confer political
liberty upon women and refusing to do
So"
Takes Rap at Wilson.
She said that for President Wilson
to register in New Jersey as IN favor
Of woman suffrage and then oppose the
rational amendment was TO declare he
considered the women of his own state
capable of voting. but those OF the rest
of the country not qualihed: =,
"If the Federal method is good
enough for the negro and the Filipino
and the alien within our shores, IT'S
good enough for the women OF the
United States" she ended. =,
"And we're going TO have it, cried
woman as Mrs. Boissevain sat down.
Representative Isaac Bacharach de-
livered the address of welcome to the
Women's Congressional Union OF New
Jersey. under whose auspices the meet
ing was held.
az believe the question of woman
suffrage is the paramount question be-
fore the American people to-day, ne
said. "and I-believe the amendment to
the Constitution should be adopted by
Congress, submitted to the states and
ratified by them as promptly as they
ace fit When this is done, it will per
nit our mothers, our wives and our SIS
tiers to resume their proper places IN
our homes"
president Wilson and his party have
heen too blind to see the national char
acter OF the suffrage movement-that is
the only reason the women OF the
United States are opposing all Demo-
cratic candidates" said Miss Lucy
Burns. editor Of 1.-THE Suffragist." 1--WE
have had to fight a government OF
phrases and we don't want to- do 1t
again. Once Presiden. Wilson said he
was too busy to think about the Fed
eral amendment The next time he
could not 90 beyond his platform. To
the third delegation he said he had a
passion for local elf-government, and
then il was the negro question. NOW
he says he prefers the respect OF
women to their votes. | think he is
doomed to lose both"
Allan McCurdy condemned the alarm
lists who had cried out the Woman's
PARTY meeting was a dissertation of the
Sabbath. 1t was never a desecration
of any day, he said, for people to come
together TO demand freedom.
Many Contributions Made.
There are in the West 1000, 900
women who vote" he said. That's
quite some votes. For four years the
women have had experience with the
Democratic party, and they say it can't
deliver the goods"
Mrs. Howard p. Boyle, of Atlantic
City, presided over the meeting. intro
ducing first Mrs. J. A. II. Hopkins, of
Morristown, state chairman Of the New
Jersey Congressional Union, who ex-
planned the nature of the opposition
the women intend to offer the Demo-
Gratis. She made her most telling
speech at the close of the rally in a
plea for contributions to the war
fund" Checks or banknotes of from
81 TO s25 came from all parts of the
hall. The money was taken in by Mrs.
Hopkins and Mrs. W. T. Burch, national
circulation manager.
"This is only a rally" declared Mrs.
Hopkins, her hands full of bills. "Our
real fight against the Democrats begins
now. And we're going to win"