BLACKWELL FAMILY MASS. ANNUAL 1914 ALICE STONE BLACKWELL SUBJECT FILE MEETING: SUPF. MEETING[underline]Man[/underline] 1914 STENOGRAPHER'S - - NOTE BOOK - - [underline]Parade[/underline] From......................................................................... To................................................................................. 1009Mass Annual Meeting May 1, 1914 A SB in chair Minutes, Miss Wulkoh Treas., Mrs Oakes Aurel Clerk's, Miss Wulkoh Legislature, Mrs. Crowley support [throughout?] the State for all sorts of people - 5 yrs ago wrote 250 letters + got only 10 replies - nothing like local pressure [Paragraph symbol] Org, Mrs. Pukham 46 new leagues + course + a lot more just ready 70 Leagues, 9 course, mostly doing active work about 100 members of Org Com CampaignWays + Means Com ¶ Mrs Kelley since Sept last (Tent of Sept) 82 meetings ¶ Foley 289 meetings re part yr - in every city + town of any age + campaign of 2 was in Pa + work in Wash, + Pa ¶ Miss smith on office 4 slurs + Smith 8 volunteer Luthers regurary + irregular + more needed Loward+Pubham working rights 50,000 letters for machine In [?] were [?] in 500 lots, now in 5,000 lots + can't keep up [?] 10,000 lost sold outside state ¶ Miss Luscomb 114 [?] to 106 meetings? ¶ Mrs Bagley, [?]Can't do much because of difference of opinion Constitutional Amendments discussed 1st one - carried Evening, W S Club rooms, May 1, 1916 Mrs. [Prilsham?] " Park " [Wytan?] sd go into a county who has much sentiment; take 8 women - whole bunch - let one, interview rich women & get money, & anothergo around & ask [?] how compaigin is going to turn out; split & go & talk all over county 2 by 2- get [?] Mrs. Crowley - hold open-air meeting in summer to get at men -Portsmouth found only [s?] & went out to the ball game & had 1000 instead of 50 safe, & in winter before[nos] non-suf men's organizations; offer to send 'em good speaker -must use lots of free literature - do house to house canvassing - if there is 1 live individual in each ward she ought to cover her ward Mrs. Park- next 6 weeks in training workers - 3-day conferences in each city, & branch out from there Mrs JPH Mahoney of Lawrence "I had been taking care of my 4 sons & for 17 yrs had not a moment" -send 2 scouts ahead to camp in each new locality - & find the women who are leaders in their own set & religion -Has got to be rgarded as rather a small thing -you must have members in that form of both religions& all nationalities -French, German, Irish & American - will be a prom doctor & his wife who may be got in - have in or 1st come Among ushers each time must be a girl fr [mills?] " " stores one small lady in her best clothes - here a German girl or a French girl Developing a working voice publicity - Mrs. Willard of No Adams Attleboro? Amesbury, Mrs. Chadwell - almost doubled membership - good collection of suf lit put into pub library - members enthusiastic Andover - anti-meeting around us (Putnam & George) - meant to have quarterly but shall have monthly meetings fr 25 to 76 members - over Congressman in favor - 200 meet in blizzard Belmont? Boston? Brighton? Brumfield? Brockton? Brookline - pagesteady increase of work & membership - weekly meetings - [headqrs?] often daily fr 10 to 5 - many meetings - 3 in town hall - [?] expenses & put money in treasury 318 $ members -W S party had doubled membership - table cleared $1261. at fair - 2 who charge of parade [?] cleared 267 Boston - 1024 dollar members & 10,000 affiliated - holds [alternate?] big one & smaller aft meeting - legislative conf on street entrance - netted $934 on Belmont meeting - in Jan 2 sets of weekly eve meetings for wage earners - alternated to State Assn in Sunday afternoon teas & now take full charge 56 towns visited supplied speakers for >179 other organizations - pays 1/3 publicity expenses of state - helped [new?] & [?] - had hearings before stenographic school & suf [add] [?] was given out for practice Cambridge, Mrs Johnson 365 members - w s party has 2200 & asks to affiliate Sent out list of questions - will you do this, that or other? Have gathered group of experienced speakers - Hart Holcombe Dewey Jeffrey Nasmyth - merry-go-round - much of Cambridge [whims?] to represent members of League - have advised in debates - Dr Crotters addressed autis- Camb table cleared $600 or $700, $100 for WJ & $100 for parade - every meeting has had expensive memberswho joined at it or soon after - 2 [c??s] in wkly Tribune - amts take 100 copies every wk + it has strong influence on coalition - our speakers have [?] going all about the State Concord 94 members - 1 [?] meetings food sale cleared $70, + $400 at Bazar Chicopee? Dover? Boston, Merrick many meetings, 9 canvassing teas, suf table at church/ fair, game. [E??field]? Framingham began w 43 members - 5 standing Will bring 60 to march in parade - Framingham pres has not been able to step for 17 or so yrs. (many millions) Lexington - grter enthusiasm + activity > earlier - have enlarged hague - doubled it since Jan nonpartisan lecture course by [?] Kelly - no such [reun??] of that + emotion like [?] [?] Lowell - is fr 596 ft - is [argau?ing] by words - ardent suffrage showing in unexpected quarters Lawrence Mrs. Mahony - Less than 1 yr had never had suf talk - antis who are majority of smallest club had captured everybody we knew ofgot 2000 signatures before we knew it - Bernbaum & Fitzgerald (sent coachman around to back doors) got Mrs. Park & 500 women to hear her 1st meeting in April - brave [?] 150 members 7/8 of city are poor people in mills 21 nationalities have got Am Celtic German French Jew & Gentile come together & work for their cause - mill girls say they feel as if there were a line drawn between them & all other women & don't like to meet in high school - must get men; are as anxious to come in as women & clergymen & 7 professional men gave excuses for advisary com Lynn - suf dept of pol sci club of Lynn = only suf org in " <3 mos old meetings grew & overflowed has got 60 to parade, also stickers' union & Manchester = summer home of auto's, also mine -have a small & rather frightened League - will have about [?] parade Mrs Bagley & have invited all state presidents to lunch Everett, Mrs Wallace April 21 & grown fr 22 to 205 -trying to reach every voter- 80% in favor 60% joininghave asked all pastors to preach suf sermons Melrose Newton has had splendid suf yr - in Feb 1913 Mrs. Wm Lloyd Garrison Jr. social prestige & Much more “Did not walk backward Worshipping fine name She bore” 1 - 10 villages So 49,000 population Distinct as NY & Albany - our 3 refs have voted Wrong since time began - I board & 14pub nicely Got 1200 names to see Petition, offered prizes To high school pupils Cleared ?300 at Bojar, Good press noticed 75 march in parade No Adams- biggest outdoor meeting since Taft- tent at Hoosar? & sell food & distribute It—had big meeting addressed by 3 of the 4 candidates for school board —Blake’s dramatic sketch — big lunch — 15 march Northampton - Mrs. Sluper — large loss for formation of Smith discussion club W 800 members -9/10 Have just had suf ? ? New Bedford, Miss Hussy - and is verystrong there- but many working girls in mills are much interested 10 - in parade Roxbury Formed in 1876 & has Been a constant quantity So Hadley - began last Nov w 20, now have 50, Fortnightly meetings Pres Woolly belays Mrs. Springfield Mrs Chapin - Hawpden Co w/exhibition had Noted solidly for Suf in Legislaturefor several yrs constant meetings & [feiels?] and speakers to many orgs - booth at ? Cial Travelers’ Assn What Are You Going To D? 350 cards Signed, Voiceless ? In constant motion Stoughton, Mrs. Farrell Has 40 dif organizations All struggling to Keep on foot- 25 Members - helped Bozar, peace and c Speakers before other Orgs — Recommends Mrs. Tellinghart 10th Narfalls Dest, Mrs Bagley "cut out a great deal more work than you can possibly do & them call loudly for help" less [?] yr organized but send 160 [marchess?] of whom 25 [men/were] - study class = real reason for our success, Miss Fisher talks- brings in many not [sufs], & each time we have picks off 2 or 3 more into suf ranks- always have [not] reportin local paper wkly meetings 2 was on Sunday after Mrs Clias [s?]ummer Bird Williamsburg- Oct 2/19/3- 15 to 24 will attended meetings Worcester WS League 10reg & 10 special meetings- 30 new members make 63- + 300 makes [w] pledges- had M Foley twice, contrib $37 to Stale + [?] dues, 157 articles to State Fair + cashWorcester [?] S [Fran????] [?| League - not a paper closed to us - last one came over after Senate vote wrote on back of [?] cards "This" request to vote for [?] [?] Wellesley S League - 3 mos old, [84] members - tribute to old League - 4 [pub] meetings - [Z??bliu] W J active work - enthusiasm over parade - Sarah Southwick Warner Waverhill - woman'sClub has members of both kinds - member sd no [me] women in his town wanted to vote - was called up by phone - both papers run columns pro & con [?] 4th Norfolk District Holyoke 39 meet twice per mo Brand of Trade invited us - have sent speakers to dif women's clubs - growing sentiment - press very favorable[?] Hon Frank Pope State [Treas] Auditor In game of roses & care stood 20 to 1 -- anceiut coach were the 3 1st women in US who signed suf petition -- way she split her skirt was nothing to way she split the opposition in the Legislature [??] 1914 3 victories - submission of amendments - to sign now paper for school even & to vote in primaries over school com.- most ever given in 1 yr We have been hearing a grt deal about W S but fr this time on everything will be based on grt paradestandup as it were on shore of 20th century development + flourishing [b????] of the prejudice my [?] [?] into belief that they can [?] hack [re???] tide place + house that take its place in army of [?] [unemployed?] ideasResolution ¶ Mrs Croway moved vote of thanks to Mrs Leonard for getting a [?] parade ¶ Mrs Leonard pd tribute to her committee "A parade is only splendid when it means something & where many many people mean the same thing"$50 Pledged by James - 39 Commmmon- wealth Ave $5 Frances Delocolo $1 [?] Sarah Rothslecer [?] Members of all parties & 8 pioneer women [?] Henry Abrab[???]s See Bostoncentral Labor Union - 80,000 wage earners Am Fed of Labor & state Fedl always endorse in 1915 let us hope that war of roses will be over Mr. JPS Mallory pity for those men who so desecrated [?} Hallas to hold anti meeting Is wonder the grt Hancock did not speak for his portrait in protest & the Walls ditto but we have true descendants of Howes & [?] We revere their memory - I congratulate State of Mass and her daughters $ 1 Josephine Curree 2.50 Eetta NelsonNo cause was ever won but 1st was worked No gate stands wide but at one time stood locked. BelmontGirl who went first no in each div & how many divs off[???]r of each 30 Gaelie League led by Miss Mollie Carroll Christine Couverse daughter of Mrs R G Shaw 1st parade 81 marks epoch for city or individual No city is same after suf parade Are many processions of women thru ages We shall pass thru door of as 10 States have passed procession of mothers "Arise not to make a speech: my life is my speech." Noble realm as we consider it can be made of practical politics - We have to make out of that floating idea a grante fact Leonard Over 900 men marched were whistling & making own music - looked so strong & so cheerful - some faces we all know among 'em statesmen of whom Mass has reason to be proud - Hon Sam McCall McCall Question has no [?]about it or a partisanship all its own - old parties have seen leaders & rank & file divide - have 'em on both sides - We had Geo J Hoar Wm Mc Kinley TB Reed We might argue that success of [?] where tried has justified it in Mass. If under divine might cd be present as well as kings, surely in time of democracy when power comes fr below in shd belong to women as well as men - just power fr consent of governed -anthropocracy not [?] by people but by man [?] man of man - Give democracy a trial; has never yet had it in US Elevation of woman has been brightest thing in our civilization Is sd to be for womens own good - I congratulate you that legislature has voted y big majority & That your weapon has been reason - no agitation ever conducted better - you have been going + I predict time is not far when women will have rt of suf - Song Mrs Upton Am so glad I was born aradical -- wdut be a conservative for anything in world -- radical makes a fire & cooks his meal & moves on -- & [*upl[??]*] long after, conservative comes along & stirs up ashes & says "My, what a splendid fire I made!" Men don't want to be alone, women don't want to be alone & werenot going to be alone -- most foolish thing in wared to be alone -- this grt country of ours has been almost fathered to [??ath] Not enough to believe in WS; you must do something for it Not a sex war not a warbetween men and women at all- going to be better friends than ever - ¶ Leonard- when passed into headquarters band played Last Rose of Summer ¶ Mrs Elliott- [Rose???] why they used to [felt us???] in eggs, my deare! Same old war that was fought in same oldBoston [hinders?] - then they fought us w rotten eggs & bullets, but as soon as women get into it what a change - fight us w roses! Women in politics! why, they are in pols all over - KB David, not ... woman but ... best person in US for that job - in Fed service, JC Father of - Demand for women police - women are actually in practical pols & must bring lumbering old stagecoach of constitution up to date - Japanese sd "We never had any doubt- we have only to look up &see our grt ancestors. carried JWH banner in NY parade w Margaret Foley saw rough workingmen left hats -- saw Astor & Vanderbilt palaces & realized that I too had inherited grt fortune right of service. congress appropriating money for war When we have a voice in [?] as well as being allowed to do some of the heavy work, things will be different - mother voice much needed -- -- grt Catholic buildings Mrs 7 P Curtis pledges $25. Mrs Mary Gale Addvert $5 Mrs Julius Andrews $5 Mrs Lewis J Johnson $25. Mrs Leonard - welcome' to enroll 500 men a day till Nov 1915 we have to have headquarters & many other quarters Mabel Willard $100. Mary P. Fearing $100. Mrs E Adams $25 Mrs Elliot called for man & [?] in honor of her dear mother wd pledge $25 for wife & $25 daughter Mrs Page $5 for her new grand baby $5 for my grandchildren Mrs Townsend $100 day victory is one $15 (another man) Mrs Chas B Godfrey Milford $1 Mrs Remeritz $10.