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Show 1 . iVW YORK WOMEN WHO LED" THE 'VOTERS "OVER THE ' TOP' I I Workers Gave Without Stint I of their Time, Thought, I J Energy and Money. I 'j I i Wlren success final jy, crowned the efforts of the women of Now York State last clcc- I ". Hon day at the polls laurel wreaths were ' placed on the brows of a splendid group I of workers. They arc women who have I plvcn tholr tlmo, energy, thought and I ( tnonoy to tlio campaign waged since 1913, I ; md while carrying before them tho Ideal c democracy tc which their predecessors J i devoted their lives, they represent a qulto I different typo of -women. I ; In earnestness of purpose tho women I I who fought for political freedom and won I ' In the first Eastern State are the same as I t woro Susan B. Anthony, Alice Stone I i Blackwcll. Lucretla Mott and the other I "' , pioneers. And they have gone regularly to j Albany. Just as that first little band did !J moro than two scoro ycar3 ago, to urge t the legislative committees to let the voters it decide on thn rff rnnrlnm i I But modern tactics which wen the battle ire different.. And the modern woman suffragist workers are different. Differ-' ' ent In their Idea of how to reach the pub- ! .ic, how to get at the voter, how to or-i sanlzo for concerted work, how to keep' women banded together In a consistently! ', and persistently waged fight. j , Tho women who took their battalions. , "over the top" In this State had learned from their predecessors, and they won bc-i rauso they adopted the methods of men.t organized one of tho best publicity cam-J, cam-J, palgns over started by men or women and II never let defeat or setbacks discourage I thorn. Hft From ri Dodcu to n .Illlloii. a v Gradually the little band or suffragist? which started the movement with less ; than a dozen stanch supporters grew Into a colossal body of moro than one million women. It took more than throe score years to win the fight, but the biggest battles were fought within tho last four or five years. When the amendment went clown to defeat Jn 1015 State and city leaders got together and evolved a programmo of activities which was carried Into every city, town ind village In tho State, They overlooked no corner of a county, and where tho enemy was securely entrenched they concentrated con-centrated on that particular district until they captured It or. at least, some of the ; ' enemy. Returns showed comparatively few districts which gave a majority against the amendment. Tho National American Woman Suffrage Association, which has headquarters at No. 171 Madison avenue, told the Stale and city suffrage organizations that for two yearn, from 1J1G until November 6, 1917. It would keep Its hands oft New York. It would ask nallher for funds nor for worker; nor, in fact, for any help or attention at-tention from New York women. They were to fight their fight, tho national body helping Jn any way it could. And afterward, after-ward, whether they won or lost, the State and city were to .help in the big national campaign to win suffrage by a federal amendment. - With this understanding the group of women In whose hands the State work was placed started their campaign. opening headquarter at No. 308 Fifth avenue, occupying the entire twentieth floor. From there all the auffrage activities In the State", outaldc of New York' city, wero directed. Sometime the State entered tho city, but for the most part the campaign In New York city was in charge of MUs Mary Garrett Hay, leader of tho Woman' Suffrage rty, nt No. 3 East Thirty-eighth Thirty-eighth street. She organized the city Into districts and had her own Assembly district loaders and election district unptajns. The State and, city co-operated on all big things, like the suffrage parade, which was given by the Slate, and Jn various big rallies and other features of the campaign. The Leallo Fund, said to reach a million dollars, and left to Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, President' of the National American 1 Goal Achieved by Women Who Never Knew When They Were Beaten, fl ' Who Always Advanced. iH Woman Suffrage Association by the lata lll Mrs. Frank lalle to help win suffrage in lll the country, has not been used for Stato' ll work except through Its publication, tho hissssssssfl Woman Citizen," In which suffrage propa- Hissssssssfl ganda is published and distributed to all lljH the States. 'liassssssH The group of women in charge of Stato IH work Included Mrs. Norman dc 71. White- J hou;c. chairman; Mrs. Raymond Brown, H Mrs. James Lees Laldlaw and Mrs. Henry H White dmnon, vice chairmen; Mrs. Ogdcn Mills Rcld. treasurer; -Mls Alice Morgan H Wright, recording secretary; Mrs, Charles Noel Edge, corresponding' secretary , and H the following directors : Mrs. Catt, of New IH York.; Mrs. Arthur Llvcrmore, of Yonkers, Miss Harriet May Mills, of Syracuse, and Mrs. Dexter P. Rumseyof Buffalo. H I'rcvlrfcnt for Each Section. IH The organization was divided Into sec- H tlons, with a president or chairman at the IH head of each. These were: Collegiate, Mrs, Charles Knoblauch, president; Edu- jH callonal, Mrs: Howard Mansfield, chair- H man; Endorsements, Mrs. AYUlls n IH Mitchell, chairman; Finance, Alice Duer Miller, chairman: Industrial, Miss Mary E. Dreior, chairman; Men's, James Lees Laidlaw, president; Press. Mrs. Frederick Edcy, chairman; Publicity, Mrs John Blair, chairman; Sales and Supplies, Mrs. Henry Bull, chairman; Speakers, Mrs. Victor Morawctz, chairman; Teachers, Miss Kathorlnc Dcvcrcux Blake, chairman, and Men's Advisory Board, Frank A. Van-chairman. Van-chairman. Chairmen of the twelve campaign dls-trlcts dls-trlcts were: First, Miss Mary G. Hay, jH Now York city; Second, Mrs. Frederick H Edcy, Long Island; Third, Miss Leila Stolt. Albany; Fourth, Mrs. Robert Ford, H Canton: Fifth, Mrs. Mary Hyde Andrews, t H Syracuse; Sixth, Miss Lillian Huffcut, Cinghamton; Seventh, Mrs. A. C. Clement. Rochester; Eighth. Mrs. F. J. Tone, Niagara. Falls; Ninth, Mrs. Frank A, Van-dcrl)pl Van-dcrl)pl Scarborough; Tenth, Mrs. Gordon Norric, Staatsburg; Eleventh, Mrs. George H Notman, Kecnc Valley, and Twelfth. Miss Lucy.C. Watson, Utlca. Mrs. Whitchousc, who organized the delegation which went to sec President IH Wilson and received his message to the H voters of New York State urging them to H vole favorably- on the amendment, has been an active suffragist since 1913. Prior H to her entrance into the ranks of the "voles for women" army she had devoted her time to civic, home and social duties here and in Newport, R. I. |
