New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-22
eaders Ready for Big
Meeting in Atlantic
City Sunday.
MRS. HOPKINS HITS
AT THE DEMOCRATS
Saws SuffragistS Are
Working for Principle,
Not Party.

~The Democratic party is thoroughly
satisfactory 20 women, and its can
NS,tes ought not to be reelected"
This Is TO be the battle cry when the
Woman's Party fires its first gun in
n, Eastern states, with a suffrage
,,lv in Atlantic City next Sunday,
under the auspices Of the Jersey
Rrsnch Of the Congressional Union
for Woman Suffrage.
Ever since their strongly anti-Demo-
ratio conference at Colorado Springs
,ssSers of the Womans Party have
Ieen hard at work in the Western
Gates. Sunday will be the opening day
iere Of q campaign that they promise
Is 70 be the most vigorous one ever
carried on by women.
The rally will take place in the draw
;,e room Of the Steel Pier at Atlantic
civ al $3.50 p. m. Representative Isaac
Racharach, Of the Cd District. Will well
rome the women into the fight. Miss
Lucy Burns, national vice-chairman of
he Congressional Union; Mrs. Inez Mil
holland BoisSevain, Of the National Ad-
visory Committee; Allen McCurdy, of
New York; Mrs. ". Thompson Burch,
circulation manager Of "The Suffra-
gist." and Mrs. J. A. II. Hopkins, Of
Norristown. chairman of the Jersey
branch, Will be the speakers.
Mrs Howard p. Boyle, Of Atlantic
City, chairman of the I'd Congress Dis
trict. will preside. Mrs. Florence Bay
ard Hills. daughter of former Ambas-
sstor Thomas Bayard, will probably
return from her campaign in Colorado
10 let the women Of the East know how
their Western sisters are carrying on
the fight.
Money To Be Raised.
Why the women should fight the
Democratic party, and how, will be the
chief subject Of the afternoon. II is
hoped 90 raise a large sum of money
70 supplement the 100000 given by
Mrs O. II. p. Belmont TO carry on the
campaign. Two members of the Jersey
branch-Miss Julia Hurlbut, of Morris
town, and Miss Agnes Campbell, of
Short Hlls-are now at work again st
the Democrats in the State of Wash
ington, and viii send reports of their
progress 20 the women who have
pledged themselves against the party
which they accuse of blocking the
Susan B Anthony amendment.
"Ihe Noman's Party is nOn-parti-
san" Mrs J. A. II. Hopkins said last
night. 1T is working for no man or
set Of men, but for one principle-tha
Of political liberty for American citi-
zens. The Democrats in Congress have
opposed the Federal suffrage amend
ment az every stage. Women ought
not 10 return them TO power.
The other parties have each. either
in their platforms or through their
PRESIDENTIAL candidates, Endorsed the
FEDERAL amendment. Therefore, be-
tween them the Woman's Party makes
no distinction. This is a wise policy
both morally and politically.
Nm supporting an untried candidate
the Woman's Party would have no
knowledge of what he was going to do
Tor suffrage, and We have no interest
in hypothesis.
we know and can prove the Demo
cratic party is thoroughly unsatisfac-
tory TO women. and ought not to be re-
elected. Personally, as an unenfran
chised woman, | regard suffrage as the
supreme issue, and / shah do all in my
power 10 defeat the party which has
denied freedom to the women of TIL
United States. Until the voice Of every
citizen can be heard at the polls on
Election Day we shall not have a pure
democracy"
Mrs. Burch Advance Guard.
Mrs. W. p. Burch will go to Atlanti,
City tomorrow to make arrangements
for the rally, and Mrs. Hopkins vii
follow her there on Friday. Their,
was o series Of coast meetings at Bel
mar. Asbury Park and Spring Lake last
week 90 arouse interest in the begin
ming Of the campaign, and this weel
there viii be street meetings, parloT
meetings and hotel meetings in Atlantic
Cts. 20 let every one know what thu
women are doing.
The New York City Committee of
the Hughes Alliance reports that Mrs
Charles W. Farnham, wife of the man
ager Of Nr. Hughes's speaking tour, Il
chairman Of the upper New YORK DIS
trict. and is organizing scores OF wom-
en- for the cause. She has succeeded
in getting three stores for campaign
purposes. meetings and the distribu-
tiou of literature, one at Seventy
fourth Street and Broadway, one at
l05th Street and Broadway and the
third az 125th Street and Eighth
Avenue
Mrs. Emily s. A. Page has been APP
pointed chairman Of the negro women
who are out for Hughes, and Will ap-
point one leader in each OF the lead
ing c0lored districts, with I'VE chair
men under her TO organize them.