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I*SUFFRAGISTS EDITA REAL NEWSPAPERpThey Enjoy Themselves HugelyGetting Out The New RochelleEvening Standard.tedipp*tediorbrwAiarLONGS FOR A MURDER CASE Tfri•frithWoman Reporter Cast Down BecauseNews—27 Columns to 8uffrage.Special to Tkt New York Timet.NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y., April 4.-” What are we going to do with all this nice local news that I have taken so much trouble to get? ** walled Mrs. Walter Hutchings Smith, the city editor of the equal suffrage edition of The New Rochelle Evening Standard, this mornlnsr.Clof'7'Blt;MStJa18sDMEiHYiTlPdown,” decidedrs. Leigh H. French, editor In chiefI President of the Equal Franchiseigue of New Rochelle. *'We cannotord to cut a line of the suffrage :I It all happened within forty-five mln-b from Broadway.Why not leave out some of those big advertisements? ” suggested Mrs. George W. Tower, one of the reporters, who had Just rushed in with a story of a woman struck by an automobile. - They’re too big, anyway. Here’s a woman who might have been hurt if she had been hit bar dr er.”The first dally newspaper in the Eastern States to be edited by woman suffragists made its appearance at noon to-day. The paper was doubled in size, and contained twenty-seven columns of suffrage news and editorials, and eight columns of . local news. The rest of it was made up of advertisements and miscellaneous articles. The front page contained a large seven-column cartoon showing Uncle Sam’s voteless people—a convicted criminal, an intelligent woman, a lunatic, and an idiot The leading article was a report of the suffrage meeting at Bronxville. The next article was headed 44 Disorder In Closing Hours of Assembly,” two columns wide in big, black type. Then followed other suffrage articles, Including interviews with Mayor Frederick H. Waldorf and other New Rochelle men, most of whom declared In favor of equal suffrage.The women all say they were treatedwith the utmost courtesy while gathering the news Mrs. Smith, who gave out the assignments and kept her reporters hustling, did much of the work herself.We were treated beautifully everywhere,” she said. ” We felt that we were very green, but in time might becometrained reporters. We met with nothing but courtesy in all interviews, even whereSlt;hlt;vlt;otcl80axaaxmofbjthAifrefBSstthb3tlifo44 *WUIthscccmiTitamiDlt;JaCH41yeerinitoraTlt;people disagreed with our views on the frsuffrage question. It only shows the chivalry of the American man.Mrs. Li. H. Moore, social editor and general reporter, called on Coroner WilliamH. Livingston at his drug store this morning.“Any murders to-day? ” she asked, breezily producing her pencil and notebook.“ No, ma’am, said the Coroner.“Oh, that’s too bad. Can’t you find ust one. I do not wish any one hard uck, but I think we ought to have a little exciting news to-day, don’t you? **Included in the article, “Disorder InClosing Hours of Assembly/* was the following: gIt is easy to trick women and easy to evade the issue by leaving the chamber of introducing motions that nullify a favorable vote. We are, however, most grateful to the friends who stood loyally by us. Westchester County is to be congratulatedon the fact that every one of its four Assemblymen, except William S. Coffey voted for the bill. Senator Wainwrlght voted to report it out of the Senate Judiciary Committee, but against advancing the measure when it was up for debate on the floor.The edition had a large sale, and the suffragists say they hope to. repeat the experience soon. 7hiIsfi^ncmlt;caWthonhesadodrdochallnoallanDcStilatth;inhechdathlt;Sothlt;Th
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New York Times
New York, New York, US
Fri, Apr 05, 1912
Page 7
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