New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-23
State Convention Passes
Mark Set by Leaders
by $4,000
LEADERS IN CITY
PROMISE $150,0OO
Mrs. Gait Predicts Great
Struggle for Human
Liberty
IRON . stan Correspondent, Of IN. Trbun-l


Albany, Nov. 22.-Three hundred
thousand dollars was pledged for the
new campaign by the suffragists OF
New York State to-day. This Is twice !
as much as was used in the campaign
of 1915, and $4,000 more than Mrs.
Norman de Z. Whitehouse had asked
the women TO raise.
1t was after a speech by Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, president Of the Ma
tional Woman Suffrage Association, IN
which she called upon the women not
20 be "slackers" in the suffrage war, |
that Mrs. Ogden Reid began her appeal
for funds. The sufragists proved they
we're not "slackers.'
For two hours the hall rang with
the voices of women who wanted TO
increase their contributions.
"The second campaign district was
assessed s1,5OO-we will raise $4,000
cried Mrs. Raymond Brown, and other
campaign district leaders followed her
example.
New York City To Give Half
Mrs. John Blair pledged $4,000 for
the publicity section, Miss Grace Stra-
chan $4,000 for the teachers section,
and Mrs. Howard Mansfield $4,000 for
the educational section.
The women fairly revealed in their
thousands. Only Miss Garrett Hay sat
aloof and disappearing.
"Sit tight, New York." she called
once, don't let me hear pledge from
any of you that come from New York.
We have $4,000 to raise all by our,
selves, and don't propose to have all
the edge taken off our campaign by
your giving now
The whole amount demanded by the
state chairman for the new campaign
was s225,000, and of this New York
City is pledged TO raise $4,000. Miss
HAY was assessed $4,000, but she
doubled it voluntarily. To raise 1t,
even now, her aids are working in New
York City, foregoing the pleasures OF
the convention.
Pass Mark by $4,000
What with large gifts from Mrs.
Blair and Miss Strachan, and the UNI
expected loosenng of the purse strings
of the upstate women, the total pledgei
leaped ahead of the S225,OOO marx. !
Suddenly Mrs. Reid made the thrilling
announcement that $292,750 was prom |
ised. OF course, there was nothing to |
do with q sum like that but TO make |
it 100000. /
Mrs. Alice Duer Miller promised /
$4,000 from her committee, Miss Mary /
Dreier 81 900 for the industrial section,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Laidlaw $4,000. That
finished il, but the momentum already
gained carried the women along few
dollars more, so that the grand total /
for the new campaign will be more than
100000.
Mrs. Reid then described some of the
ways by which the women could raise I
the money.
A Suffrage Christmas
This is to be suffrage Christmas
she said. INSTEAD of giving presents I
to YOUR friends, give the money to 4
suffrage, and tell your friends to give /
to the cause what they would have
spent for you. Special Christmas cards
with suffrage trees Ill covered with /
yellow candles and suffrage bells TO /
ring the hour Of women's freedom have /
been prepared by the committee. and I
our state poet. Mrs. Alice Duer Miller,
has written verses for them.
"Of course, it is a little difficult
when it comes to the children. They
have TO have a Christmas with presents.
But you would be surprised TO find out
how many suffrage presents there are
A. 1 foua
low sashes and caps, horns, and votes
for women dolls"
An advisory committee Of men wise
in the ways of politics will cooperate
with the suffragists in the organization
of the campaign Mrs. Gait announced
that the 81 ,00O, 900 due the women from
the will Of Mrs. Frank Leslie is not yet
available, and perhaps will not be ou.
of litigation until the campaign is over
Mrs. Gait urged the women not 20 /
underestimate the strength OF the .
enemy.
"They will use not only poison pens,
but poison clubs" she said. They will .
hit Us over the head with them every ]
time We pop Up out of our trenches
But we might as we'll fight it out now
as ever. Ven make it the grandest
struggle for human liberty the world
has ever seen"
Charges Fraud In This State
She charged that fraud had lost thes
election to the suffragists in Iowa and
South Dakota and had helped TO lose
il in West Virginia.
"As for the women's votes In the
Western states" she said, they work
both ways to our advantage. The be-
lief that the Western women voted for
Wilson has done more for suffrage IN
the South than fifty years OF argu-
ment 1t appears from Southern edi,,
torial writings that we have indeed
won the South. But wait, II the West
ern women had voted for Hughes, we
might have won New England.
"The Republicans are little bit sore
Just now. They haven't much use Tor
women voters. However, when they
are rested bit they will realize that
in Republican territory the women
would probably vote the Republican
ticket, and so they will come to see
that they cannot let the Democrats run
away with the women's vote that way.
The suifragists were 20 have been
received by Governor Whitman to-,
night, but at the last moment learned
that he had not returned from New
York City. However. they all put on