New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-19
WOMEN VOTERS ANTI.
SUFFRAGE PARTY

Cooperating Wlth established parties against
radicalis1n)
The purpose of the members of this party
is to lose the vote. 1t is not an official party
and cannot hold a primary unless it polls
$4,000 votes for Governor. Enrolment is car
ried on by mail, on cards which bear the name
of the party with those of two cooperating"
parties-the Democratic and the Republican,
It's platform follows
WE, THE ANTI-SUFFRAGE WOMEN OF
NEW YORK STATE, enfranchised by men
against our WILL believe the ballot, however UNI
wisely bestowed, to be binding obligation
We have, therefore, determined to take up the
political duties forced upon us, and to this end
have organized ourselves into the Women
Voters Antl-SuHrage party, thus taking the
customary and necessary means of "getting
out" our vote in use among men voters. This
is particularly necessary for us, because the
vast mass of anti-suffragists throughout the
state-the industrious housekeeping women
busy with the normal duties and responsible
ties of women-do not wish to enter the poiti-
cal arena and will be reluctant voters whereas
the radical, socialist, feminist forces are fight
ing to get to the polls.
THE IMMEDIATE PURPOSE of the Wom-
en- Voters Anti-Suffrage party is to get out
the anti-suffrage vote in order to oppose with
our full strength the radical forces which have
been greatly increased by the grant of woman
suffrage in New York State. These forces
rampant in New York City and all other con-
gested centres throughout the state and coun-
try, boldly threaten revolution.
Our ULTIMATE PURPOSE is the result
mission of woman suffrage in this state, in or
der that women themselves may be afforded
an opportunity to vote on this question which
most concerns them.
WE STILL HOLD THE CONVICTION
THAT POLITICS ARE BAD FOR WOMEN
AND THAT WOMEN ARE BAD FOR
POLITICS.
The platform is elucidated by these para
graphs from the editorial page of ''The Woman
Patriot" national newspaper for home and
national defence against woman suffrage,
feminism and socialism"
1.-The anti-suffrage women are of a retiring,
unaggressive type. They do not like politics,
even antl-sutfrage politics, any better than our
boys over there like war.
The antl-suffrage women believe that their
sex should be exempted from politics. even
anti-suffrage politics. But they are not slack
ers or moral towards. When forced into de-
by every means in their power to avoid, they
are not too proud to fight the feminist menace
to which 50 many men supinely surrender"
But what of this experiment (wom-
al SuITage) II IL be merely the prelude to
vast, revolutlonizing movement aimed to abol-
ish sex distinctions altogether and to pu1
woman and man on the same low plane of
equalized brutality" Henry Waiter
son.
(The New Citizen may be pretty strong
for the rights of women--and occasionally, if
unintentionally, severe with men. But we musr
object to Mr.. Wattersons implication that
equality with his sex means descending to a
"low plane of brutality" We may not know
much about 'cm, but we've never found em
like thatD
The advertisement Of "The Woman Patriot"
weekly is reproduced, in part, below