Tag: suffrage

From 4 AM on, suffragists waited today for a victory in California. All signs, however, did not point to victory.

Though confident of victory in day after tomorrow’s suffrage referendum, some California suffragists are making backup plans in case of defeat.

Twenty-six thousand, three hundred and thirty-four very long and difficult days ago, a small but brave group of suffrage pioneers declared “… that it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.” Today, they are victorious.

Any remaining doubts about the National Woman’s Party’s political clout must certainly have been dispelled today.

An exciting week and a half of activity began today as members of two rival suffrage organizations arrived in Chicago.

41 years after the Susan B. Anthony Amendment was first introduced into Congress, it’s being sent to the states for ratification.

Theodore Roosevelt joined the ranks of suffrage speakers tonight, and left no doubt he will bring the same enthusiasm and stirring oratory to the “Votes for Women” campaign which have characterized his efforts for other causes he passionately supports.

There was a quite frustrating and somewhat heated exchange of views this afternoon in Washington, D.C., as Inez Milholland Boissevain, Doris Stevens, and several other members of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage met with Senator James O’Gorman, Democrat of New York.

There are now about 15,500,000 women eligible to vote for the next President – a number just 2,000,000 less that the total number of votes actually cast for the two major party candidates in the 1916 Presidential election.

This certainly has been a newsworthy day for woman suffrage!

Run by the Women’s Political Union, it’s at 663 Fifth Avenue, and there is always some sort of activity going on while suffrage items are being sold. Even those basic items are now more numerous and imaginative.

I have been as one crying in the wilderness to women of wealth and leisure to give over their pleasure and frivolities and do something to justify their existence. I have cried in vain. No reform ever appealed to people who have all they want.