The sun., 1918-10-03
SUFFRAGE LEADER
ATTACKS SENATORS
Mary Garrett Hay Makes Spe.
cial Target of, Henry
Cabot Lodge.
PREDICTS VICTORY SOON
Applauds President and Saws
Negative Vote Will Prove
a Boomerang.

Miss Mary Garrett Hay. chairman q,
the New York city Woman Sufrrar.
party. returned from Washington yester.
day chockful and boiling over with emo.
ton compounded about equally Of the
following ingredients: Admiration o,
President Wilson for his championship
of the Susan d. Anthony amendment, 1,
the Senate Monday, fierce deterniinai,on
to continue the fight for It's passage, dis.
gust and fury at the Southern Senator,
who voted against the amendment be.
cause they do not want negro women 10
have the ballot. and with the Republican
Senators who. she says, clasped hands
with them on that issue.
"It was a noble sight" she said 10 m.
group OF devoted SUITS who awaited her
at party headquarters, 3 East Thirty.
eighth street. II tell you my blood
boiled as I sat in the gallery and
watched the senior Senator from Massa.
chusetts, Henry Cabot Lodge. cross the
aisle to shake hands with the senior Sen.
ator from South Carolina, Ellison n
Smith, after Smith had made his speecb
In which he said that this country was
not nation but federation OF States
The Senator'S Of those States Join forces
on the proposition that the womanhood
Of the land shall be insulted in order
that negro women may not vote.
"Holy Alliance" in Senate.
'It wasn't only Lodge - Weeks of
Massachusetts. Penrose of Pennsylvania
Wadsworth Of New York crossed the
aisle to grasp the hands OF the Southern
Senators who made their States rights
speeches against Justice to women.
holy alliance wasn't 1t? Oh. get the
Congressional Record and read the
speeches Of the anti-suffragists. The in
suits in them! The outrage OF It tina,
thirty-four wilful Senators should sit
there and vote that Amendment down.
Then the Big Boss, looking clean tuck.
cred out by the strain of the past week,
started to climb the stairs to her Office
to resume business at the old stand
Amendments may go down, but the
women OF New York must be educated
to use the vote which they, more fortu-
nate than some Of their sisters possess
and that's the job Of the City party. But
the Boss hadn't gone two steps before
she heard a tactless reporter mention
something about the amendment being
beaten"
Beaten? Not much :" she shot out
Il am ready to go on; every woman is
ready to go on fighting for 1t.
Tribute to the President.
President Wilson did a magnificent
thing in going to the Senate. He knew
l believe, that he couldn't change a vote
Nothing would change those Senators
from certain Southern States who had
made up their minds against the amend
ment; nothing, not even the appeal OF
the leader of their party. But he was
determined to speak out for what he be.
lieved was right. and the women of the
country are grateful to him. Even out
In the Hobbies you'd hear women saying
No king, no Kaiser would do for women
what our President is doing And mark
me, though he didn't change the vote
that time. the noes Of those thirty-four
wilfpl men will prove a boomerang to
them"
Miss Hay said she had strong hope
that the complexion of the Senate would
be altered when the amendment comes
up again after election, adding: Mrs
Gait comes home tomorrow, and on
Friday the Board of the National Woman
Suffrage Association holds a meeting TO
decide on what is to be DONE"