New-York tribune., 1919-11-18
League of Women
Voters COnyenes
In Utica To-day
Welfare Measures and Cam.
paign Against Wadsworth
Are Chief Issues Before
State Suffragist Meeting
By Emma Bugbee

UTICA, Nov. 17.-The campaigr
against Senator Wadsworth and the
policy of the suffragists of the state
in regard to the women's welfare bills
are the most important subjects tc
come before the annual convention OF
the League Of Women Voters, which
opens here tomorrow.
Delegates who have been familiar
figures in every convention of suffra-
glsts for many years were seen in the
corridors of the Hotel Utica tonight
assembled for the first time not to
hight for suffrage. but to deliberate on
what use to make OF suffrage, now
that it is won. Even last year, al
though suffrage was won for the
women of New York, it was not won
for the nation. and the business of the
convention was to consider ways and
means to assist the Federal woman
suffrage amendment. as we'll as to plan
for the education of the new women
voters in political procedure.
The Federal amendment came first,
and prohibition, for example, which
many upstate women wished to vote
upon, was sidetracked lest it embarrass
the women in their fight with sensi-
tive souls in WASHINGTON
Foot Loose" This Year
This year, however, the women are
foot loose and politics free, and can
turn their untramneled attention to
the things they'really want to do. One
thing the regulation sufragist wants
TO DO is TO campaign against James S.
Wadsworth, if he runs again for the
Senate. The other thing that some
regulation suffragists want to do is to
continue the last years campaign in
behalf of the protective measures for
women in industry.
There has. been growing this year,
however, vigorous opposition to these
bills on the part of working women
themselves. and it is uncertain just
how much representation they may
have at the convention. The League
or omen Voters campaigned against
Speaker Thaddeus {. Sweet in the last
election, with these bills as the issue,
and gave him, for the first time in his
career as overlord Of the upstate Re
publicans, a fight for his district, but
they did not effect his defeat.
The leaders of the suffrage organiza-
tion are just as determined, however.
as they were before election. to con.
tinue the campaig ign for the bills in the
coming Legislature
The delegates will be largely upstate
women, owing to the distance to Utica
and the expense, and it is unlikely
there will be many opponents of the
bills present Some New York City
delegates are said to have refused 70
attend because they were not in sym
pathy with the welfare bills, but knew
they cou d not kill them before the
convention.
who arrived at 10 o'clock ton ight. were
led by Miss Mary Garrett Hay. chair
man of the City League of Women Vot-
ers. Among the small group of city
delegates were Mrs. Waiter Oliver, Mrs,
Walter Timme Mrs. Wesley Ryan, Miss
Adela Potter, Mrs. Charles S. Simon
son. Mrs. William G Wilcox, Mrs. L.
Komho'z and Mrs S. London.
The convention opens at 2 o'clock to-
morrow afternoon, at which time the
recommendation of the state executive
committee will be acted upon. These
will include .most Of the debatabie
propositions to come before the con-
yention.
Primaries Tomorrow
The primary elections for state Off
GERS will take place in the evening. The
name of Mrs. Frank A Vanderlip has
been proposed by the nominating COM
mittee, but others will be presented by
the petition Of twenty-five signators.
The names of Mrs. Gordon Norrie ard
Mrs Arthur L. Livermore are expected
to swell the list, and favorite daughters
of the rural counties probably will be
heard from
The evening session will be q me-
mortal hour for DR.. Anna Howard
Shaw