The sun., 1918-11-01
MEN IN BACK SEATS
AT WOMEN'S RALLY
Friend Husband Gets Only a
Peek In While Smith Lam
bastes Whitman.
LADY COPS SHOO vAINLY
Kisses for Roosevelt Precede
Cheers for the Oliver
Street Candidate.


mat headed the dodgers announcing the
Alfred n Smith meeting at Cooper Union
last night. strictly woman's rally.
not man TO be admitted save the candi-
date" the new women voter Democrats
cold all and sundry who inquired.
Did the men stay away7 They did
nsl Reversing the roles in Bluebeard
tnsy hung around the entrances to the
old hall. peelxing longingiy In. and not
oreh the presence Of two hundred women
poIIce reserves inside and two hundred
male police reserves outside could scare
them away. 30 persistent were some that
Capt. Lucille La Verne. comely in her
trim uniform, relented and told them that
few husbands might come In II they
would sit In the back seats and be very
quiet. Thirty-one got in that way and
covered timidly In rear seats while the
Triumphant lady Alsmithites conducted
their rally without male help.
It must be admitted that the women
ala II up brown. They cheered the can
didate and they Kissed the mention OF
{ Roosevelt with all the vigor that their
brothers and husbands could possibly
4 display. Il was when Miss Anna Mos
kOwlts, lawyer, was speaking that the
hlSees were evoked.i
Kisses Are Unanimous.
sRDosevelt," she began. who said
ou6h things upon the platform of Car
+ nsgis Hall that It would be almost sedi-
ton to repeat them, things for which a
Socialist editor could be Jailed"
rHi-z-z-s-si H-i-s-s-sIs! H-i-s-sI
went the lady Democrats In the first row.
'Tx4-s-s-s-s-s." the second row Joined In
The rest of the lady Denis FASTENED to
make Il unanimous. and II was several
minutes before Miss Moskowttz could
proceed.
The old hall was q gay sight. for
every woman was handed small
American flag rs she entered. to wave
when Der emotions overcame her. and
th1B happened frequently enough to
make the hall a sea of red, white and
blue much Of the time. Mr.. Smith ar
rived early and made his first speech OF
The evening. He was received by Mrs
Charles d. Hirst. chairman. and spoke
( from platform filled with womer
Democrats, with Mrs Alfred T. Smith
hitting on one side of the speakers desi
ana Mira Hylan, the Mayors wife, OF
4 the other.
Mrs Hirst was sufficiently under tn,
iuz1uence Of the old order OF things Il
address her audience OF Thousand
women and thirty-one men as gentle
Men," but Mr.. Smith made no such mis-
take. He called his listeners fellow
citizens as naturally as could be. Al
usual he plunged right into a discus
sion of the issues involved in the cleo
ION next Tuesday. He warned tn
men not to be deceived by promises o
rdidates.
Makes Performance the Test.
II
promises everything he thinks will
please the voters" he said. But yo,
women who are TO cast your first vot
tuesday are protected. You have tn
cords of the candidates. Study ther
and vote accordingly"
Mr.. Smith went over the QUESTIONABLE
which the Woman Suffrage party sen
out to candidates and the answers o
himself and Mr.. Whitman. observing tina
II was easy enough for the Governor
conserve white paper in his answers, 70
he AMPLY promised everything. while h
tMr. Smith) could point to what he ha
done for women while in the State Legis
lature.
The Governor says he favors the CT,
~ alton of a wage commission to deal wit
minimum wage questions" he said. "Bl
during four years at Albany he gave I
word Of encouragement in any of h
R8Pefc TOT tnOse VINO urged SuCn ii Ia,
In no message to the Legislature did
request Its passage, and / am bo
enough to say that he doesn't undeTstar
what a minimum wage law means. 4
deals with II as a question Of economic
u Of the hxatlon of wages; he has I
comprehension of the need OF a law
protect and conserve the we'll being
women and children as an asset to Il
State. We can safely assume that Go
cd too trttr
law with as much sincerity as lies
hind all OF his actions"
At this point lady voter in ba,
seat sought to inject the prohibitit
question into the meeting. Gov. VIII
man. she complained, had tried to fast,
prohibition upon us when he-the re
OF her remar ks we're drowned by Ii
loud voice OF the candidate, who pr
ferred TO discuss the issues in his ov
way.
Defeated by Indirection.
He told the women to the tune of lo
applause that he was able to assure Z
women that he introduced a minimu
wage bill, fought the Republican majo
fty for II, brought II up in the Constit
tional Convention. defying the leader
the Republicans in the effort to embo
Il In the proposed constitution.
They didn't dare havo II come VI
he said. '-They beat 1t by indirection.'
Next Mr.. Smith attacked the ECU
pay for women question. Turning
Miss Grace Strachan. head of the Int
borough Teachers Association (who
banner adorned the walD, Mr.. Smi
eAid that he fought for the equal p
bin, that a Republican Governor veto
H. and that he. Smith. stood uncol
f4omisingly for no discrimination agar
women In the matter OF salaries Nj
9trachan smiled approval. and capp
Mr. Smiths statement by telling I
audience that he had come to the 8
sistance OF tho bill more than once
great personal inconvenience. and III
the teachers looked on him as tn
friend.
whitman knows that the exigenc
% the war have brought women II
lines of work where we never expected
see them--that they are running ele'
N tors. on street cars, working the farT
a Yet never did there come from him q
word OF suggestion that they should
protected until we injected the mat
Il into tho campaign"
Mrs. Robert II. Elder and NJ
Strachan spoke after the candidate
left for other meetings, Miss Elisab'
~.