New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-04
WOMEN OF NATION
MEET WEDNESDAY
Will Honor Jonathan I'd
Wards's Doctrine at
Atlantic City.
100000 ARE READY
FOR CONVENTION
Matters About Principles
To Be Discussed, Mrs.
Gait Says.

"As for women, they ought rather to
occupy themselves with the householu
questions they best can comprehend
scrubbed Jonathan Edwards. eminent
divin. and thinker. IN his Diary. on
September :. 1860.
Next Wednesday morning Viii % '"e
l56th anniversary Of the day wher ne
/ thought this out. To celebrate the &C
casion, between 100000 and 4ooooO
women will gather at Atlantic City 70
occupy themselves with the "houseno'd
questions" OF nation. Times nave
: changed all Of them now know
or il Going to be wonderful con
vention." Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait
national president of the National As
ISOLATION fot Woman SuGrage. SAID yes
Z terday.
Not Like Other Conventions
Even the suffragists have never mao
inst such A gathering before. 1t comes
AZ IN. very beginning OF the era wnen
| IN. political parties have all admit.eu
+ with more or less reluctance that alter
all women are people, putting the sea,
NJ their Endorsement upon the veNeu
suffrage problem. Leading Republican,
/ Democratic and Progressive Representa-
tives will think 1t worth while 10 DC
nres.nt 20 talk over matters OF grave
/ import with the Suffragists. fFesl-
dents. real and prospective, VIII prop
ably address the women. IL IS 10 Dc
an affair Of realization and OF eXpecta-
ton and. beyond doubt liver!
fight
But i will differ from other con
ventions that we have had, TOT oul
/ arguments will all be about matters OF
principle, rather than about PERSONAL
/ ties" Mrs Gait declares.
/ "The convention will be one OF tne
most important gatherings women SUI
/ frscists have ever held" Mrs. Nor
man do r. Whitehouse. state chairman
of tho New York State Woman Suffrage
marty. said Yesterday. Upon wise de
cisions at this meeting the immediate
success OF the cause may depend.
/ Planks in Both Platforms.
"Both national parties have given US
planks in their platforms, and one can
didate has expressed his belief IN the
Federal amendment. II Mr.. Hughes is
: elected great things may be expected
: Of the Republicans in advancing 1t. In
view Of this situation, we must decide
whether il is wise TO adhere 10
strictly nonpsrtisan policy.
political situations change so quick
" that we hone the Democratic party
NAV drop into line very soon. and JOIN
in advocating suffrage by Federal &C
ton.
an view of the hopeful national sit
uation. the question has arisen as 10
whether we should continue with our
state campaign or concentrate an our
efforts on a Federal amendment. Mean
while we have already entered upon
strenuous campaign in this state, WIN
every indication of victorious END
80 il is easily seen that no delega'
ton TO the national convention from
any state will be as interested in the
decisions to be agreed upon as our own
delegation. ! may say we are going
100 women. all of one mind, but pre-
pared 10 accept the DECISIONS OF the
convention, no matter how it goes.
Mothers to BE Delegates.
There will be mothers and others,
but chiefly mothers, at Atlantic City
next week. fact which Jonathan Id
wards would doubtless note as distinct
" reassuring. if he were writing his
diary nowadays. Almost all Of the Off
Gals of the New York State Woman
Suffrage party have families ranging
from one youngster TO half dozen.
Mrs. Whitehouse, chairman; Mrs.
Ogden Mills Reid. treasurer; Mrs.
James Lees Laidlaw. vice-chairman;
Mrs. Frank A. Vanderlip, Mrs. Joel
Spingarn and Mrs. II. Edward Dreler
are among the New York women who
will leave ardent little suffs at home
next week.
In New Jersey there are so many
mothers among the delegates that
report that all who had young children
would be quarantined upon their re-
turn 10 their homes caused constcrna-
ton. The cities of other states may
not have as rigid infantlle paralysis
regulations, but their sufragists have
a corresponding number of babies.
And the sufs who aren't young
mothers are young grsndmothers. Mrs.
|. Mcfarland, Of Texas, argues the
perfection of her twin grandchildren
even more ardently than the question
Of the Federal amendment. Little lsa-
bella Lee, Of Wellesley, Mass. grand
daughter of Mrs. Robert Gould Shaw,
will be the youngest sufragist at the
convention. She is going to permit
both her mother and her grandmother
20 go with her.
Are you sufragist, Isabella" she
was asked the other day. And Isabella
stared.
81 fought everybody was she said.
For Isabella knows things that iona
thnn Edma rds dim Z