New-York tribune., 1922-10-28
Defiant w omen
ElectiO1leer. In
Club Meeting.
delegates TO Convention of
Federation Resolve Rule
Against Campaigning Was
Really Made for Breaking
Cohalan Support Urged
Adopt Resolution Opposing
Long Skirts and Free
Seeds From Congressman

Inc corridors Of tho Hotel Astor
were strewn last night with crumpled
political literature, with torn photo
graphs OF judges and would-be AS
semblymen, with celluloid buttons that
had been thrust into unwilling hands
ana tossed away--relics of the liveliest
session OF electioneering that has ever
oeen experienced by the New York
City Federation of Women's Clubs.
Women lieutenants Of both parties
and OF all the candidates lined the en-
trance to the Grand Ballroom as the
1000 delegates to the convention of
the federation gathered at 10 o'clock
Tor the morning session, although it
is rule of the "fed" that no cleo
tioneering be permitted under. its
jurisdiction.
Mrs. Willis X. Howell, president Of
the Colorado Cliff Dwellers' Club,
voiced the protest of the convention.
Protests Electioneering
Il am from the West" she said, "and
am not much interested in your New
York State politics. l object to having
the federation, which is non-partisan.
used for electianeerins."
Thereupon, Mrs. Richard M. Chap
man, president Of the federation, or
dered the electioneering stopped in the
hall leading to the ballroom. I'm
daunted, the politicians carried their
pamphlets and their arguments into
the cloak rooms. From there they were
dislodged by the management Of the
hotel.
Peace reigned until mid-afternoon,
when Mrs. Emma Kip Edwards was dis
covered with a neat little bundle of
Calder buttons in her hand, from
which she surreptitiously slipped one
to each passerby.
"You can't do that, Kippy," pro-
tested Miss Elsie Rogers, the door
keeper.
"Why, what am I doing? Did any
body here see me do anything?" de-
manded Mrs. Edwards in an aggrieved
voice.
Campaign for Calder
Presently she took her buttons and
pile of campaign photographs Of
Senator Calder out to table in the
hall, where Mrs. Belle de Rivera was
collecting signatures to an anti-vivi-
section petition. Nemesis in the form
of Miss Rogers again pursued her.
Democratic women were there by the
half dozen with cards of John P.
O'Brien, Of William Harman Black and
Alfred E. Smith. Mrs. Olive Scott
Gabriel had lieutenant in position
with quantities of Cohalan literature
and Mrs. Julian Heath, president of the
Housewives League, offered her serv-
ices also in this crusade.
"I'm an enrolled Republican," she
said, "but I believe the Cohalan issue
is above partisanship. have inquired
of my son, who is lawyer, and my
lawyer friends. They all say Cohalan
should be supported"
Defy Foreign Styles
Nothing political crept on to the
floor of the convention no matter how
the fight ragged in the corridor The
women passed resolution protesting
against long skirts and against free
seeds from congressman.
eve owe it to our own intelligence"
said Mrs. A. M. Palmer, introducing the
long skirt resolution, "not to let lot
of women on the other side tell us
what we want. After all, they are only
trying to sell materials. Women must
be in fashion. realize that. There
is no one so out of fashion as I am.
My skirt is seven inches from the
ground, yet think 1 am we'll dressed.