The sun., 1916-09-08
MRS. GAIT AROUSES
SUFF CONVENTION
Pleads for United Action by
Women to Carry Nation
for Ballot.
DJSPrTE NOT SETTLED
Delegates Make Fight Against
Indorsing Any Candidate
for President.
DISPUTE NOT SETTLED

ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. 1.-THE
xonar's hour" struck literally at the
convention Of the National Woman Suf-
rage Association In the New Nixon
Theatre to-day. Just As Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait ended her address on the
"rrisis" with the words the woman's
hour has struck a wandering sufYragist
collidcd with the sheet OF tin used for
stage thunder behind the wings. It was
Almost too opportunc and the women
who did not arise In response to their
residents appeal Jumped out OF their
seats with alarm.
Everything combined to make that
sr,cch effective. Just when Mrs. Gait
srokc Of the women OF Europe who do
mems work amid the whirring OF air.
ships one vert hunming over the thea
tre with a noise that filled the air. but
tie .poecii needed no theatrical accom-
panireats to make 1t effective.
Altogether the afternoon session.
though 1t ended with a parliamentary
tangle and a wordy war over the future
policy Of the National. was one OF the
most impressive the body has ever held.
Complications TO the dispute over the
policy. which apparently was settled yes
terday by vote. n then reopened 'the
Southern women thought Mrs. Cats
resolution declaring all state work mere
Is q preparation for Federal work. were
added to-day by the arrival fiom New
York OF Miss Eva Ward and Miss Mary
lApe OF the Hughes Alliance to work
TO- an Endorsement Of the Republican
candidate.
calls Action Partisan.
Mrs. Raymond Robins. wife Of the
Progressive leader. here as a delegate
from Illinois. is working hard to get a
resolution indorsing every candidate for
office who stands for the Federal amend
ment. She says that II she cannot get II
introduced from the platform she will
tut II on record in committee. She holds
It does not mean Il partisan Endorsement
OF Hughes but simply that the National
Is behind every candidate for office who
believes women deserve acknowledgements
al the hands Of Uncle Sam.
Many OF the delegates. notably Mrs.
George Bass of Chicago. join with the
Southern women in believing this trail
Will lead them into the hated camp of
the congressional Union. and are sworn
to keep 1t out. Miss Lape aid she found
a d.scourag.ng situation. and that she
didn't dream there were so many Dem
orrats in the National Woman Suffrage
Association.
Mrs. Cats resolution. ITO regard
State work as preparatory to Federal
WORK rs "A special order for discussion
tomorrow. and will be voted upon hut
q WAS IN the hands Of the delegates
long enough to-day for some fireworks
from those who scent danger in il. Mrs.
Bass appeared to voice the opposition
when she cried:
The resolution is couched almost In
the words Of one OF the candidates for
the Presidency OF the United States. II
would be y fatal mistake to adopt 1t in a
Presidential year. Introduce IL next
March n it will be all right. bu: not
row. Adopted now II would put; us in
The position Of following the policy OF
one OF the most radical and partisan OF
suffrage organizations"
Ends Session for Day.
Cries. Of NO came from all over the
theatre at this reference to Miss Alice
Pauls union. but the opposition would
not be stilled and the discussion ragged
on until Mrs. Gait ruled that she and
the delegates were becoming too tired &c
know what they were doing. and brought
her gavel down to end the snarl for the
day. Mrs. Cats address. the annua
address OF the president. consumed al
hour and a half, and was a call to thu
women 20 recognize the TACT that victor.
is IN their grasp IL they will put out theil
hands for il.
But while behind us. IN front OF US
everywhere about us are suffragists. mill.
IONS Of them she said, they are mac
tive and silent. There ar thousands Of
yomen who have been agitated and edu
Gated, who are with us in belief. who
have even been members Of our organi
cation, but have dropped out because I,
thsm the movement secm,d negative anC
pointless.
There are millions OF men too wait