New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-28
w omen Assail
Wadswortll and
Party's Bosses
Many at Saratoga Con-
ven.ion Predict Senator's
Defeat i'm November in
Case He Is Nominated
Resent Secret Conferences
Mrs. Robinson, in Name of
Party Harmony, Appeals
for United Aid for Ticket
From a STAFF co,respondent

SARATOGA SPRINGS, July 81
United States Senator James W. Wads-
worth >r was bitterly attacked at the
meeting OF the women leaders held here
tins afternoon after the adjournment
! of to-day's session.
Miss Elizabeth Collier, vice chairman
Of the Kings County Committee, led in
the attack and quoted the late Colonel
Roosevelt's words in which he criti-
cized Wadsworth
HE has misrepresented his state in
his opposition to woman suffrage. "
said Miss Collier, "and there is no rea-
son why we should have him forced
upon US now"
Other women chairmen also attacked
the senior Senator from New York. and
many of them predicted that if SEN
ator Wadsworth were nominated he
would be defeated at the November
election
Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
urged in the name of party harmony
that all unite in supporting the entire
Republican ticket. from Senator Hard
| ing down. Answering Miss Golfers
attack on Wadsworth, she said that it
was not quite fair to use against him
now what her brother SAID FIVE or six
years ago and added that if he were
alive she believed that he would be for
Senator Wadsworth.
n
Mrs. Robinson urged that the past
be forgotten, and said that she had
received many letters charging her
with inconsistency IN supporting Sena-
tor Hard ing for President because Of
what he had said about Colonel Roose-
welt in 1912
The Republican women should get
together this year to elect the entire
Republican ticket" said Mrs. Robin
son. Remember that we are entering
the university of politics, and that
we are in the freshman class. Let us
watch the seniors for while and in
time we will be seniors ourselves. "
But the women as a whole did not like
the way the seniors" were running
the show, and Miss Mary Garrett Hay,
former chairman of the Womens Exc
cutive Committee of the Republican
National Executive Committee, said
that the men in control here were
holding scores of important confer
ences but not woman was admitted
/ 70 one Of them
Il am sorry to see the women getting
/ their first lesson in politics this way
( said Miss Hay. The men leaders set
| time for the converting of the con-
vention and then did not meet until
half an hour after the set time, and
/ then adjourned over until 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning. They waste the
time of all of us by these secret meet
ings, at which only few men attend
and after they leave these secret
meetings. they tell US what to do As
it is nov, we have nothing to do until
10 o'clock tomorrow morning.
81 haven't seen woman go into any
Of these secret conferences, and | wish
to make it clear now that am not GO
ing, to accept that sort Of thing, nor
Will the rest of the women We will
fight it. We have equal suffrage. and
that should carry with it equal partci-
patton in political matters. BY that
don't mean that in conference where
ten men sit there should be also ten
women. But believe that at least one
woman should be present, and believe
that the women should be consulted
The women are getting FESTIVE under
this total ignoring Of them. They have
wasted time and money in coming here
for they find that there is nothing fol
them to do but to take orders"
Mss Hay and the other women who
are leading the active fight agains
senator Wadsworth believe that tneJ
may q least make the handful OF mel
who arc running things realize tina
Wadsworth will be a dead weight OF
the ticket. and may carry it to defeat
The meeting was presided over b!
Mrs. William H. Ives, Of New York
executive secretary of the Women
Executive State Committee. Mrs. Ar
thur l.. Livermore, chairman of tn
D.. body, is i'll at her home in Westchest