New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-04

canning. In Warren County the Wom-
an Suffrage party started thirty-fve
chapters Of the Ped Cross. The
suffrage coffee house a. Plattsburg.
with the latchstring always out for
soldiers, needs an s. r. o. sign, so
popular has the suffrage cooking be-
come with the boys. Sufragists have
organized White Gross service, work
ing toward better moral conditions in
the camps. Suffrsgists in Westchester
County made a name for themselves in
the census taking, and Mark ID. stiles,
chairman OF the census, telegraphed 70
Albany az follows:
Census proceeding splendidly IN
der the management of Mrs. William
Belknsp. Woman Suffrage party best
working organization | ever saw.
Nor are the suffragists asking lot
the ballot as reward for patriotic
service, but as q further means OF rem
dering service. The anti-suf-agists
refuse 10 take the word OF the war
ring countries and President wilson
that woman suffrage as a war issue =
important So they have put OUT
virtuous car cards telling the puonc
they don't want "to bargain with tnef
government" and in their pamphlets
they deplore the "pacifsm and sent
mentaiism" of their own sex as dan
ger" to the nation. But the sufraglss
Of New York know from me suhra-
gists of Canada, from the women
voters Of New Zealand and Austra,ia
lust how greatly the government ue-
pends on it's women to vote lor wa,
measures and OFFSET the dissenters anu
al al
1917 Campaign Quiet
And NOW what about the campaign
itself? 1t has been quiet lhVe"s 49,
affair, lacking the fireworks ana sns
tr,nninqs that made the 1915 campaign
oucb a brilliant demonstration. wine
taen hundred and fifteen had flower
Savs and strikes and telephone days.
Ioi7 has had canvasses and street meet
i,.os and hosts Of small meetings pc
fore every kind Of audience under the
sun. There's nothing spectacular ABOUT
a hearing before church comm I'ee,
bu, the suffragists have had plenty OF
them. and they unquestionably make
votes. A settlement house meeting on
the INNER West Side is nothing 10 thriil
the populace, but voters come 10 tne
has been with this campaign.
In the case of the soldier vote, the
susragists have had 20 go far some
fines 20 put their case before them.
Rut they have gone. For, IN addition
N the Decentralization OF the l5OiOOV
soldier voters, there have been personal
visits to the camps by Suffrage
speakers. ...
The circularization had gratifying re-
suits both from sailors and soldiers.
Mrs Whitehouse received scores a. let
ters from the men on board ship or IN
cemps pledging 10 vote for suffrage ana
10 eiectioneer for the cause among their
mates. Private George Armstrong wrote
to her from Camp Dix:
All Promise to Vote
"All the boys in Company II viii do
their BIT toward the cause, IN which
Signing himself yours 70 COM
mand." Joseph Goldman, on the At
lantic. wrote that he mad obtained the
PROMISES Of eleven other voters aboard
tho chin 20 vote for woman suffrage.
Emil Kovarik, OF the Amphitrite, took
a canvass of his shipmates, ne wrote,
and eighty-six promised to 'ote yes.
eve bows who left our wives and
babies at home" he wrote, know what
you suffragists are doing FOR the boys
the army and navy-who ere hshtihg
for democracy and their homes and
country"
The surragists did have 20 pay for
one sailor vote, FOR the man wrote that
he was going to vote for he amend
mant. and would the suifrasists please
look up mis- wife and tell her he wanted
70 make everything right again! he
used 10 drink and SIZE had left him, put
he wanted 20 see her again. etc. Inc
surragists did look up the woman, ana
tucked away in Mrs. WAREHOUSES; HE
now is a scribbly, ill-spelled note from
III. sailors wife, who said; Every
thing is all right again. Thank God Tor
such women as you"