NAWSA Gen. Corresp. California Suffrage Assoc. THE MONTHLY BULLETIN A Non-Partisan Monthly Magazine Expressing the Principles of THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CIVIC LEAGUE 713 Higgins Building Los Angeles, Cal. January 15, 1915 Agnes E. Ryan Business Manage, The Woman's Journal, 585 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. Dear Miss Ryan, Yesterday I wrote to Dr. Shaw on a matter which has been suggested to me and which I have considered carefully. Briefly it is this. Last year we found in our suffrage campaign that by far the strongest arguments for suffrage, the most pertinent and convincing, dealt with the activities of enfranchised women. This year we have received hundred of letters concerning the work of the enfranchised women of California and always with the same story that the rest of the country was watching us, and that everything we did was quoted, accurately or inaccurately, as a basis of argument for or against suffrage. The Bulletin has grow out of the need of expression of the women of this state. It is simply impossible to state the new background, the strengthened point of view, and the acceptance of woman's position in so many words. It is only the recital of these activities that can make one understand what has taken place. I believe that in this way the Bulletin is the natural adjunct of the Journal and that now is the time for the two to join hands. In writing to Dr, Shaw I said that we would make a net price to the Journal of fifty cents a year, enabling you to make a club price of the two magazines, and offering to exchange advertising space on this offer. This is the proposition which I wish to make you. As a business proposition I believe the arrangement would be mutually advantageous. For the advancement of suffrage I think it would be a very strong combination. I would ask you to consider the matter thoroughly and write me definitely at your earliest convenience. Sincerely yours, Harriet H. Barry Fairfield, Cal., Feb. 6, 1914. Miss Cora A. May. Chairman Information Committee of the New Era League. Dear Miss May: In reply to your inquiry as to my views as to whether or not the granting of equal suffrage has worked advantageously in California, and also inquiring as to what my views were prior to the adaptation of the Constitutional Amendment according equal suffrage, I would say: As a member of the State Legislature in the sessions of 1905 and 1907. I voted for the submission of the equal suffrage amendment, and in the last campaign for its adoption spoke at least at one public meeting in support thereof. My support of equal suffrage in the Legislature and in the campaign referred to was based upon what I considered the cold justice of the question. While I was a supporter of the measure as a legislator and also as an elector, and had been for many years in private discussion, I was at no time what could be called an enthusiast, but based my support of the cause upon what I conceived to be a deprivation of a right to practically one-half of our citizenship, and while the withholding of that right might with some find justification, the argument for such withholding did not overcome in my mind the abstract justice of the situation. I have briefly endeavored to state my views with regards to suffrage before it was finally adopted in California. Had I had opportunity of seeing it in effect prior to its adoption, as I have had since, I am sure that I would have been not only a supporter of it but an enthusiastic and ardent fighter in the cause. What probably commends itself more strongly to me is the open-mindedness of the women voters and the advantage to our State generally in this regard. -1- H. M. HALDEMAN, President BETTER AMERICA FEDERATION Of California No. 390 WEEKLY NEWS LETTER 724 So. Spring St. Los Angeles February 22, 1927 NATIONAL DEFENSE Under the leadership of Mrs. Adelin W. Macauley, National President, American Legion Auxiliary, and Mrs. Grace W. Brosseau, President-General, Daughters of the American Revolution, a conference was held in the Memorial- Continental Hall, Washington, D.C., February 9-11. Representatives from twenty patriotic women's organizations attended, among them, Mrs. H. H. McCluer, National President, American War Mothers, together with State presidents; U. S. Daughters of 1812, U. S. Daughters of the Confederacy, Colonial Dames of America, American Women's Legion, Daughters of American Colonists, Order of the Gold Star, National Patriotic Council, National Patriotic Women of America and Women's Overseas Service League. Resolutions in support of proper preparedness had been passed by a number of these societies. In the joint call for this meeting by Mrs. Macauley and Mrs. Brosseau, they said: "Pacifist groups are unusually active all over -2- the nation. They seek to impress upon Congress that all American women are opposed to adequate National Defense. It is vital that we, as members of patriotic organizations, be heard in this matter in no uncertain terms, to offset the propaganda now flooding the schools, churches and homes of our Nation." The platform enunciated follows: "Americanism is an unfailing love of country, loyalty to its institutions and ideals; eagerness to defend it against all enemies, undivided allegiance to the Flag, and a desire to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and posterity." H. M. HALDEMAN, President BETTER AMERICA FEDERATION Of California No. 387 WEEKLY NEWS LETTER 724 So. Spring St. Los Angeles January 11, 1927 Its (the Federation's) purpose during a period of eight years has been a patriotic service in exposing movements destructive of our great American principles, the awakening of citizens to a proper sense of their responsibility, and offering a program of constructive thought and action for the preservation of our national ideals, progress and prosperity. BUREAUCRACY---PATERNALISM We have received a copy of "Congressional Record", 69th Congress, embodying remarks of Hon. Thomas F. Bayard in the Senate of the United States, Saturday, July 3, 1926. This is a comprehensive and illuminating presentation of a petition for the rejection of the Phipps-Parker Bill, known as the extension of the Maternity Act, prepared by the "Woman Patriot", under the leadership of Mrs. John Balch, Mrs. Randolph Frothingham, Mrs. B. L. Robinson, and other women prominent in patriotic and civic undertaking in the United States. -2- Active opposition to the Bill now pending before Congress has been expressed by the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, in which the President-General, Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau, says: "This is a case which is of sufficient importance to concentrate all our energies toward the defeat of an unconstitutional and vicious law." The Mass. Public Interests League has voiced its disapproval, classifying the measure as of radical origin and dangerous legislation to local self-government. Sentinels of the Republic makes appeal for its rejection as contrary to constitutional principles, as an Act which delegates powers to interfere in the most intimate domestic and family relations. The National Patriotic Council, speaking through its President, Mrs. Noble Newport Potts, deplores the attempt as a further effort to federalize individual and state responsibility, and an expensive experiment. Mrs. George Madden Martin, well known author and writer of Louisville, Kentucky, brands the Bill as a danger to be averted, saying: "The Phipps-Parker (original Sheppard-Towner) Bill concerns matters over which the American people never gave their Federal Government authority, and as unwise in affording an agency of Bureaucratic control." - 3 - The Woman's Constitutional league, Dr. Anna M. Randolph, Secretary, opposes as inimical to home and our Constitutional Government; the American War Mothers, Mrs. Margaret N. McCluer, President, in National session, took action against the passage of the Bill! "Composed entirely of Mothers of Sons and Daughters who served in the World War, realize and appreciate to the fullest measure, the keeping of the American Homes free of Federal legislation." How We Won The Vote In California By Selina Solomons 773 Bay Street, San Francisco EUREKA. Single Copies 35 Cents Special Rates to Suffrage Clubs and Organizations of Thirty Cents each for ten or more copies Extracts from private letters to the Author, by kind permission "I am taking your little book with me all over the State. It is splendid." CRYSTAL EASTMAN BENEDICT, Campaign Manager Political Equality League of Wisconsin. "We shall all get many hints for future work from your admirable booklet. I can see how valuable it is going to be to suffrage workers everywhere." KATHARINE WAUGH MCCULLOCH, President Equal Suffrage Association of Illinois. "We read your attractive little book at our Sunday morning breakfast table, and both laughed and cried over it." ROSE C. SWART, Press Chairman Oshkosh County, Wisconsin. "Your account of the great fight won by California women is as inspiring as the strains of a martial song. It should incite all non-suffrage States to renewed effort. and fill them with hope." HARRIET BURTON LAIDLAW, Chairman Borough of Manhattan, Woman Suffrage Party of the City of New York. "It is a distinct service to the cause. Every suffragist is surely greatly indebted to you for taking the time and infinite pains to tell the story with such very interesting detail." MARY WARE DENNETT, Corresponding Secretary National American Woman Suffrage Association. "Let me congratulate you on your book. It begins, and goes, as all stories should, and carries its mass of statistics very easily. I enjoyed it, and have referred to it repeatedly. You have done a fine little stunt, and I, for one, thank you for it." FRANCES SQUIRE POTTER, Director Research and Study Bureau Twentieth Century Magazine, Chairman Literature and Library Extension Department, General Federation of Women's Clubs. "A victory in California is as precious to us as our own, and I have read your book with the very greatest interest. I shall be delighted to draw to it the attention of readers of "Votes for Women." E. PETHICK LAWRENCE, Editor "Votes for Women," Honorary Treasurer Women's Social and Political Union of Great Britain. "Every stage of the struggle by which American women are winning their freedom is of poignant interest to English women, and a study of the suffrage battles in America can only strengthen the hope and determination of British suffragists." Mrs. Henry Fawcett, L.L.D., Editor "The Common Cause," President National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (Non-Militant). "C'est avec le plus vif intérêt et le plus grand profit que j'ai lu l'exposé si clair, si vivant, si littéraire, que vous presentez au sujet du mouvement qui a abouti a la magnifique victoire feministe de 1911. Tous ceux qui s'interessents au mouvement mondial de l'émincipation politique de la femme eprouveraient le meilleur plaisir, a lire votre travail." J. Barthélémy Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Montpellier, France. IN PREPARATION "HOW WE USE THE VOTE IN CALIFORNIA"' Congress can enable women to vote for U.S. Senators and Representatives. Panama-Pacific International Exposition The Federal Suffrage Association of the United States Holds a Congress in San Francisco July 11, 12, 13 [*1915*] OPENING SESSION Sunday Afternoon in the Civic Auditorium, Elizabeth Lowe Watson presiding. OFFICIAL DAY ON THE GROUNDS. JULY 12. Morning meeting in the Ball-Room of the California Building 2 P.M. Women in the Building of America Illustrated by Pageantry in the Musical Concourse Reception in the California Building; Dinner in Inside Inn. July 13, Three Sessions in the Civic Auditorium. Speakers: Rev. Olympia Brown, Mrs. Frances W. Munds of the Arizona Senate, U. S. Senators John D. Works, Miles Poindexter and others. Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby, Chairman, 1144 Larkin St. Phone: Franklin 6033. While we must work along all lines until full suffrage is secured for all women, this demand for Federal Suffrage based on the original Constitution of the United States adds dignity to our movement, and lays upon men the responsibility to secure to women their inheritance of liberty according to the foundation principles of our Government. Woman Suffrage Endorsed BY California Conventions. Four important State organizations, not women suffrage societies, have reported to the California Equal Suffrage Association that they have officially endorsed woman suffrage at their annual conventions. Attention is called to their resolutions, which follow: California State Federation of Labor, January, 1906. "Believing that a square deal for every man should be accompanied by a square deal for every woman, we pledge ourselves to work for the political emancipation of the women of California, as a measure of justice, an aid to education, good laws and good government; and as an essential step toward the improvement of labor conditions. Furthermore, be it "Resolved, That we pledge our sympathy and support to the Equal Suffrage Campaign now pending in Oregon, which has been made possible through the enactment of an initiative and referendum law." California Teachers' Association, December, 1904. "Resolved, That we, the members of the California Teachers' Association, heartily endorse the movement toward equal political rights of men and women, as founded on justice, and as tending to advance the educational interests of the State." California State Farmers' Institute. Passed an identical resolution, December, 1905. California State League of Iroquois Clubs (Democratic), February, 1906. "Whereas, Many State organizations, including labor organizations, economic clubs, and educational societies, have adopted resolutions favoring political equality of men and women; and "Whereas, The State League of Iroquois Clubs believes that a question of such moment should be submitted to the people of the State for their decision; therefore be it "Resolved, That we favor the submission to the qualified electors of the State, of a Constitutional Amendment providing for the extension of the suffrage to women; and we request the next Democratic Convention to insert in its platform a plank to that effect." California Equal Suffrage Headquarters, 2100 Pacific Avenue, San Francisco. March, 1906. J. H. B. State Cor Cal 1911 CALIFORNIA Five political parties had tickets in the field in 1910 and the breaking asunder of the dominant parties has always resulted in liberality. A suffrage amendment was submitted to be voted upon in 1911. There had been a royal amendment campaign in California in 1896 when all the Southern half of the State carried, but San Francisco defeated the Northern half and, hence, the State. In 1911, ten thousand suffragists worked early and late for six months and won. The majority, however, was only 3,500. San Francisco had again mobilized the lower elements to vote against the amendment. One newspaper in New York said, editorially, that the victory in California doubled suffrage sentiment in New York over night. Everywhere it stimulated the movement amazingly. Three states joined the line in 1912. [*MAR 13 1915 KRB 244/500*] Please find enclosed five dollars for enlarging the work of THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL to meet the needs and opportunities of the suffrage movement during the campaign in my state. Name Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead[*, Mr. Santa Barbara Cal. [New York] R.D 1 Cal.*] Make checks payable to THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL 585 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. ALLIED PRINTING BOSTON 34 Please find enclosed five dollars for enlarging the work of THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL to meet the needs and opportunities of the suffrage movement during the campaign in my state. Name (Miss.) G.W. Littlejohn 1934 Virginia St. Berkeley Calif Make checks payable to THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL 585 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. ALLIED PRINTING BOSTON 34 Please find enclosed 2 dollars for enlarging the work of THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL to meet the needs and opportunities of the suffrage movement during the campaign in my state. Name Eliza. H. Webb R.D. Route #1 Escondido Cal. Make checks payable to THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL 585 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. [*AER Bill ASB FIN. - KRB HBS ADVT. Rec'd Jun 10 1915 ACK. SUB. PAPERS LIT CIRC. Amt. & Page 31/2.00 *] ALLIED PRINTING BOSTON 34 Please find enclosed $5 dollars for enlarging the work of THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL to meet the needs and opportunities of the suffrage movement during the campaign in [my] the state where it will bring quickest results. Name E.C. Tompkins 218 [Loke St.] San Francisco [*AER Bill ASB FIN. HBS ADVT. Rec'd Jun 10 1915 ACK. SUB. PAPERS LIT CIRC. Amt. & Page 31/5.00 *] Make checks payable to THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL 585 Boylston St., Boston, Mass. ALLIED PRINTING BOSTON 34 ANSWERED MAR 17 1915 Ack. K.E.M. June 10, 1915. AER Bill ASB 5 Fin KRB HBS ADVT Rec'd JUN 1 1915 ACK. SUB. PAPERS LIT. CIRC. Amt. & Page 22/5.00 Ack. K.E.M. June 15, 1915. Ack. K.E.M. June 15, 1915. [*1*] RESOLUTIONS. The following resolutions were passed by the American Woman Suffrage Association at its Nineteenth Annual Meeting, held in Philadelphia, November 2, 1887. Whereas, the Woman Suffragists of the United States were all united until 1868 in the American Equal Right Association: and whereas the causes of the subsequent separation into the National and American Woman Suffrage Societies have since been largely removed by the adoption of common principles and methods; therefore, RESOLVED, That Mrs. Lucy Stone be appointed a committee of one from the American Woman Suffrage Association to confer with Miss Susan B. Anthony, of the National Woman Suffrage Association, and if on conference it seems desirable, that she be authorized and empowered to appoint a committee of this Association to meet a similar committee appointed by the National Woman Suffrage Association, to consider a satisfactory basis of union, and refer it back to the Executive Committees of both Associations for final action. PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE. Account of conversation at informal preliminary conference between Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stone, in Boston, on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 1887; written out for Miss Rachel Foster by Miss A. S. Blackwell, at Miss Foster's request. After the preliminary civilities, Mrs. Stone invited Miss Anthony to make suggestions. Miss Anthony said she should prefer not to make any at that time, but to hear what Mrs. Stone had to suggest. Mrs. Stone said that the first point would be the question of a name for the united society. Miss Anthony said she should object to the adoption of any name that would destroy the historical continuity of her society in the announcement of annual meetings as 19th, 20th, etc. Mrs. Stone said that as the united society would be neither the National nor the American, but a new body, a combination of the two, it would necessarily have a new name. She had thought of three names, any one of which might do, viz: The United Woman Suffrage Societies, the National American (or American National) Woman Suffrage Association, or the American Equal Suffrage Association. Mrs. Anthony and Mrs. Stone agreed that they both liked "Woman Suffrage" much better than "Equal Suffrage." Mrs. Stone liked "The United Woman Suffrage Societies" best. Miss Anthony expressed a preference for "The National American Woman Suffrage Association." She asked Miss Blackwell what she thought about it. Miss Blackwell said she liked the name National American Woman Suffrage Association best. Mrs. Stone said "Then let it be "The National American." Miss Anthony said: "How would it be written? National-American with a hyphen? Very well." Mrs. Stone suggested that in the united society there should be no distinction of sex in membership or eligibility to office. Miss Anthony said that that was now the case in the National Association. Mrs. Stone said that she had been under a contrary impression. Miss Blackwell said she had always heard that a by-law or other provision was adopted at the first meeting of the National Association excluding men from holding office. Miss Anthony said she would not say that there never had been such a regulation, but it certainly had not been in existence for the last fifteen years. She said: "We have not elected any men to office simply because no men have offered us much help. We have treated them as they treat us." Mrs. Stone suggested that the united society should have a delegate basis; that duly accredited state delegates should be alone entitled to vote at business meetings; that the presidents of State Societies should be ex-officio vice-presidents of the general society, and the chairmen of executive committees of State Societies be ex-officio members of the general executive committee. Miss Anthony said that Mrs. Shattuck had been engaged for a year or two in working up a plan for a delegate basis for the National Woman Suffrage Association, and had now got it into a shape where she (Miss Anthony) thought it was perhaps as good a one as could be devised. The Woman Suffrage Association really ought to be organized thoroughly like the W.C.T.U.; every local society paying a portion of its annual fee to the State Association, and the State a part to the National Association. As for the presidents of State Societies, a good many of them had been made vice-presidents of the National. Miss Anthony took up the list of National officers and went over them, naming the national vice-presidents who were State presidents, and where this was not the case, assigning reasons. Mrs. Stone called attention to the fact that the sole object of the National Society, as now defined by its constitution, was to obtain a sixteenth amendment. She thought that the scope should be so far widened as to include all kinds of suffrage work. Miss Blackwell said she thought, in case the union were accomplished, there should be an understanding that Miss Anthony would help to push the movement for municipal and presidential suffrage, which had always been our specialty, and that we should do all we could on the other hand to aid the effort for a Sixteenth Amendment. Miss Anthony said she approved of the effort to get municipal suffrage; she did not take much stock in presidential suffrage, but, if any State wanted to try for it, she had no objection. Mrs. Stone suggested that the object of the united association should be defined to be "to secure suffrage to the women of the United States." Miss Anthony thought there would be no objection to that. Miss Foster suggested that the general officers and chairman of the executive committee of the united association for the first year be elected by the individual members of the two associations on joint ballot— the vote to be taken by mail. She said that in important matters of this kind, the individual members were apt to feel better satisfied if they had all been consulted, and that the National Executive Committee had not been elected with a view to their acting on this particular matter, as it had not been known at the time of the last National Annual meeting that the American W.S.A. would make an overture for union. This idea impressed Miss Blackwell favorably at first. After a little reflection, however, she saw and pointed out to Miss Foster that to decide anything by joint ballot would not ensure a result mutually satisfactory to both Associations, but only a result satisfactory to the Association which cast the most votes. To secure a mutually satisfactory result, every matter of importance connected with the union must be accepted by each association separately. This was what was contemplated by the vote of the American Association at Philadelphia. Miss Blackwell added that under the newly adopted regulation of the National Association by which all the individual members of some of its auxiliary State Societies were reckoned as ipso facto members of the National W.S.A., the American would be placed at an undue disadvantage on such a ballot. The individual members of those State Societies would all be entitled to vote on the question, which the individual members of the American auxiliary State Societies would not. Miss Blackwell added that the American executive committee had been authorized by the Society to take final action on the question of union on such a basis as should have been previously agreed upon by the Conference Committees. As the National Executive Committee had not been so authorized, if they thought fit to refer the report of the Conference Committees back to their individual members for ratification, there could be no objection to their doing so. The question of States where there were two State Societies was discussed. Mrs. Stone thought that in such cases, the original State Society should be the one recognized by the united association. Miss Anthony thought that the State Societies should be left to settle their own quarrels. Miss Foster said that the formation of a second State Society where one already existed was generally due more to local causes than to any special sympathy either with the National or the American. If the two general societies united, the pretext for keeping up two State Societies would be removed, and she thought that they (the State Societies) would undoubtedly unite also. Mrs. Stone said that since many persons in the National Association regarded her as responsible for the original division, and since many persons in the American Association regarded Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony as responsible for it, and more or less feeling still existed in regard to the matter, she thought it would help to promote the union if they were all three to enter into a mutual agreement in advance that they would none of them accept the presidency of the united society. Miss Anthony expressed strong repugnance to this proposal, and so did Miss Foster. Miss Foster said that she herself would like to see Miss Anthony president, but rather than not have that office filled by some one of the three ladies named, she should prefer a triple presidency composed of all of them. Miss Anthony said she was not willing to retire from the work as long as she could be of any use in it. Mrs. Stone said she had had no idea either of proposing that Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony should retire from the work, or of retiring from it herself. She said: "We could all be together on the executive committee." From this remark, which was several times repeated in the course of the conversation, Miss Foster got the idea (as she told Miss Blackwell on the following Friday) that Mrs. Stone proposed that they should none of them hold office except on the executive committee, or even be chairman of that. Miss Blackwell understood Mrs. Stone to be referring to the presidency only, and it is so set down in her notes. Mrs. Stone, being asked, says that her suggestion referred solely to the presidency. Miss Anthony said that in sending out notices and public documents, it was important that the women whose names were signed as officers should be persons of national reputation. Mrs. Stone said that Mrs. Julia Ward Howe and Mrs. Mary A. Livermore were both of them women of national reputation. Miss Foster said that that was true, but their reputation was not solely as suffragists. She added that there were many women in the National Association who would not be willing to work under the presidency of Mrs. Livermore, or of any other person whom they regarded as just about on a level with themselves, but who were willing to work under Miss Anthony on the ground of her priority in service. Miss Blackwell suggested that the constitution of the united society should contain a proviso like that of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union by which no department of work recommended by the general association should be binding on State Associations or on individuals; also that if the associations united upon a constitution satisfactory to both, that constitution should not be changed afterwards without full notice given a good while in advance to all the members of the exact change proposed. Miss Anthony said that another question which would come up would be that of the papers. She said: "Mrs. Colby has struggled on with her paper for four years, and we cannot ask her to give it up," or words to that effect. Miss Blackwell said: "We had not thought of asking her to give it up. She could not be expected to do so. Neither could we be expected to give up our paper, which has been going on for nearly twenty years, and has always kept out of debt. What I should propose would be that the Woman's Journal and the Woman's Tribune should be dealt with on an equal footing, without discrimination for or against either, and left to make their way on their merits, as lower price, or superior interest, or other similar considerations, may determine. They could both be offered at the National meetings, and the lower price of the Woman's Tribune would always give it a considerable advantage." Miss Anthony said that she thought if the papers were both offered, the result would be that subscriptions would not be got for either. Miss Anthony said that if she appointed a committee, it would consist of Mrs. May Wright Sewall, Mrs. Laura M. Johns, Mrs. H. R. Shattuck, Mrs. Clara B. Colby, Miss Rachel Foster, Rev. Olympia Brown, Mrs. Helen M. Gougar. As we all rose to go, Mrs. Stone recurred to her suggestion about the presidency, and said she wished that it could be favorably considered, as she was sure it would greatly promote harmony. If Miss Anthony's objections to it were insuperable, she (Mrs. Stone) thought it would be necessary for her to consult again with her auxiliaries. Mrs. Stone wishes me to add that she is perfectly willing to leave the whole question of officers, etc., to be agreed upon by the respective Conference Committees and ratified by the Associations. [* 2 Subsequent Correspondence*] MRS. STONE TO MISS ANTHONY. BOSTON, Dec. 23, 1887 DEAR MISS ANTHONY: In thinking over the points raised at our informal conference, it seems to me that the substantial outcome is this: The committees appointed by us respectively, if we conclude to appoint them, must each agree upon a common name, a common constitution, and a common list of officers for the first year. A subsequent acceptance of these by each association will thereafter constitute the two societies one society. If you think that there is a fair probability of coming to an agreement, I will proceed to appoint my committee; but the selection will be a matter requiring care and thought, and I must take a week or two about it. As the formal overtures for union have come from the American W. S. A., it will be appropriate that our committee should draw up the plan for union which appears to them the most feasible, and forward it to Miss Foster, to be submitted to your committee. The chief points will probably be those we spoke of on Wednesday, of which Alice will write out a statement for Miss Foster, so that your committee may be thinking them over in advance. Then your committee will suggest such modifications as they may think needful; and if a mutually satisfactory result can be reached, the name, constitution, and list of officers will go to the executive committee of each association for final action. Yours truly, LUCY STONE. MISS A. S. BLACKWELL TO MISS RACHEL FOSTER. OFFICE OF THE AMERICAN W. S. A. 3 Park St., Boston, Dec. 25, 1887. DEAR MISS FOSTER: The arrangement between Miss Anthony and my mother was this, as expressed in the letter I read to Miss Anthony Friday morning, to which she took no exception: The committees appointed respectively by herself and Mrs. Stone shall each agree upon a common name, a common constitution, and a common list of officers for the first year; and the subsequent acceptance of these by each association will thereafter constitute the two societies one society. At the conference between Miss Anthony and my mother on Wednesday afternoon, Miss Anthony said she preferred not to make any propositions herself at that time, but to listen first to what our side had to suggest. My mother then read a series of points that she had jotted down, as what she would like and should consider feasible. These suggestions are all purely informal, and may be added to or subtracted from by the committee into whose hands the whole matter will be put. They were substantially as follows: though a few have been a little more fully elaborated since, and one or two were not mentioned on Wednesday, but were talked over between Miss Anthony and my father on Friday morning. I thought you would probably prefer to have them all together, as your reason for wanting them written out was to give your committee a general idea of what our committee was likely to propose, and to let them be thinking it over in advance. And we should be glad if Miss Anthony would send us a similar informal list of the things she would like and would consider feasible. 1. NAME, either of the following: The United Woman Suffrage Societies, National- American W. S. Association, American Equal Suffrage Association. [Mrs. Stone like the first mentioned best, and Miss Anthony the second. I think there would be no objection to the second.] 2. OBJECT, to secure suffrage to the women of the United States. 3. A delegate basis, such as may be mutually agreed upon. 4. Duly accredited State delegates alone to be entitled to vote at business meetings. 5. Presidents of State Societies to be ex officio vice-presidents of the National-American, and chairmen of State executive committees to be ex officio members of the National-American executive committee. 6. Men and women to be eligible to office and membership on equal terms. 7. After a mutually satisfactory constitution has been agreed upon, it shall not be altered except after full notice to all members (through the woman suffrage papers or otherwise) of the exact change proposed. 8. A provision like that of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union, by which no department of the National work is binding on the States, or on individuals. 9. Each State to have supreme control of its own State work, and the National-American to have supreme control of the national work. 10. Headquarters at Boston, and also at Washington while Congress is in session. 11. All woman suffrage papers to be treated upon an equal footing, and no discrimination made for or against any one of them. 12. Where there are two State societies in the same State, that they be requested to unite; and if they fail to do so, that the original State Society be the one recognized by the National-American. 13. Since many members of the National Society regard Mrs. Stone as the cause of the division, and many members of the American regard Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony as the cause of it, Mrs. Stone suggested that it would great promote a harmonious union for those three ladies—Mrs. Stanton, Miss Anthony, and herself—to agree in advance that they would none of them take the presidency of the United Association. [*3*] SUGGESTED CONSTITUTION. NATIONAL AMERICAN W. S. A. 1. The name of this society shall be the (Union W. S. A., or the) National-American W. S. A. 2. The object of this Association shall be to secure suffrage to the women of the United States, by appropriate National and State Legislation. 3. The general officers of this Association shall be a president, [*ten*] [eight] vice-presidents at large, chairman of executive committee, a corresponding secretary, a foreign corresponding secretary, a recording secretary, and a treasurer. The president of each auxiliary State or Territorial W.S.A., shall be ex officio vice-president of the general W.S.A. The general officers, with the vice-presidents from the States, heads of departments, and national organizers and lecturers, shall constitute the executive committee, of whom fifteen members actually assembled shall constitute a quorum; but three-fifths may act by correspondence in response to a circular addressed to every member of the executive committee by the president, chairman of executive committee [*not less than 15 days beforehand,*] and corresponding secretary. Superintendents of departments and national organizers and lecturers shall be proposed by the executive committee, and elected by the annual meeting. 4. The annual meeting shall consist of the executive committee, auxiliary State and territorial corresponding secretaries and treasurers, national superintendents of departments, national organizers and lecturers, one delegate at large from each auxiliary State or Territorial Society, and one additional delegate for every five hundred paying members. The district of Columbia shall be represented on the same basis as a Territory. 5. Any State or Territorial W.S.A. may become auxiliary to the general W.S.A., by subscribing to this constitution. 6. The annual meeting, at which the officers shall be elected, shall be held at such time and place as may be determined by the executive committee of the general W.S.A. 7. Each auxiliary State Association shall pay annually to the general treasury ten cents per member of the State Association. 8. This constitution may be altered or amended by a two-thirds vote of all the delegates present at any annual meeting and entitled to vote, provided the proposed amendment has been submitted in writing at the previous annual meeting; and it shall be the duty of the recording secretary to enter such proposed amendment in full on the minutes, for publication. 9. Any person may become a member of the general Association by subscribing to the constitution and paying the sum of one dollar, from which the general association shall refund to his or her State and local treasurer (if any) the amount of their respective dues. If there is no State or local society where the person comes from, then the general society shall keep all the money. 10. All woman suffrage papers shall be treated by the general association upon an equal footing, and no discrimination made for or against any one of them. 11. This society shall have a headquarters for Congressional work at Washington during the session of Congress, a headquarters at Chicago for a lecture bureau, and a headquarters at Boston for suffrage literature. 12. No distinction on account of sex shall ever be made in membership or eligibility to office in this Society. 13. No officer or representative of the general organization shall go into any State to work in behalf of the National-American W.S.A., except with the written approval of the President and Corresponding Secretary of the State Society or Societies. BY-LAWS. DUTIES OF OFFICERS. 1. The president may, through the corresponding secretary, call special meetings of the executive committee, when he or she may deem it necessary, or at the written request of ten members of the executive committee, the topics to be considered at such meeting to be stated in the call [*at least 15 days notice to be mailed to each member of the executive committee*]; and shall perform all other duties usual to such office. 2. The corresponding secretary shall perform all the duties usual to such office, and shall also send to each State corresponding secretary, at least two months before the general annual meeting, a blank for his or her report for the current year, from which the Secretary of the National- American W.S.A. shall collate his or her own report to the annual meeting. 3. The recording secretary shall attend all meetings of the Association, and of the executive committee, and keep a correct record of the same; shall send to each member of the executive committee a notice of such meetings; shall apprise members of committees of their appointment, and officers of the Society of their election; at the first session of each annual meeting shall read in their order the minutes of all meetings of the executive committee since the last annual meeting, and shall perform all other usual duties. 4. The foreign corresponding secretary shall conduct the foreign correspondence. 5. The treasurer shall keep accurate account of all receipts and disbursements, and present a detailed report thereof at each annual meeting; and shall pay no bill except on an order signed by the president and recording secretary. The fiscal year shall end two weeks before the annual meeting, and the books shall then be closed. At the annual meeting the treasurer shall give the corresponding secretary the number of delegates to which each State is entitled, according to the amount of dues paid; and shall perform all other usual duties. 6. The superintendents shall originate, advise and direct plans of work relating to their several departments; correspond and co-operate with State superintendents, and report to annual meeting work accomplished and proposed. They shall furnish an itemized account of their receipts and expenditures. 7. The officers, with the exception of vice-presidents of States, shall be elected by ballot, on the morning of the last day but one of the annual meeting. 8. Each delegation may fill its quota by visiting members from its own State. If any State president is absent, said State may be represented on the executive committee by a member of its delegation, chosen by said delegation. [*4*] 9. Tellers shall be appointed by the annual meeting, and the [*members of same*] [delegates] shall proceed to vote by ballot. 10. The executive committee may fill any vacancies occurring in the interim of annual meetings. 11. The following committees shall be chosen on the first day of the annual meeting — Credentials, Finance, Business, Resolutions. The last shall consist of one delegate from each State, chosen by its delegation. 12. The executive committee, superintendents, and organizers and lecturers shall meet in joint session, previous to the annual meeting, to prepare a plan of work to be submitted to said meeting. 13. An auditing committee and a committee on railroad rates shall be appointed by the general officers in the interim of the annual meetings. 14. The committee on credentials shall approve such as are signed by president and secretary of State or Territorial Societies represented; and shall report to the convention setting forth the whole number of delegates present. 15. The finance committee shall consist of three or more. 16. The business committee shall consist of three, chosen by the executive committee from their own number. They shall, in conference with the local committee of the city where the annual meeting is held, provide speakers for all public services outside of the business meetings. 17. All documents and announcements from the general officers shall be sent to the State Societies through their respective presidents or corresponding secretaries. 18. No new department of work shall be created, except on recommendation of the executive committee and vote of the annual meeting. Co-operation with any department shall be discretionary in each State. 19. These by-laws may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the [*members*] [delegates] present at any annual meeting [*, and entitled to vote therein*]. AMERICAN CONFERENCE COMMITTEE. Mrs. Lucy Stone has named: Hon. Wm. Dudley Foulke, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Henry B. Blackwell, Mrs. H. M. Tracy Cutler, Margaret W. Campbell, Dr. Mary F. Thomas, Rev. Annie H. Shaw, NATIONAL CONFERENCE COMMITTEE. Miss Susan B. Anthony has named: Mrs. May Wright Sewall, Mrs. Harriette R. Shattuck, Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, Mrs. Laura M. Johns, Miss Rachel Foster, Mrs. Clara B. Colby, Rev. Olympia Brown. SUGGESTED OFFICERS. PRESIDENT, Mary A. Livermore. [*TEN*] [EIGHT] VICE-PRESIDENTS AT LARGE. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Hon. William Dudley Foulke, Mrs. May Wright Sewall, Mrs. H. M. Tracy Cutler, Mrs. Zerelda G. Wallace, Dr. Mary F. Thomas, [*Mrs. Margaret W. Campbell, Mrs. A.S. Duniway.*] CORRESPONDING SECRETARY: Miss Rachel Foster FOREIGN COR. SECRETARY: Mrs. Julia Ward Howe RECORDING SECRETARY: Henry B. Blackwell TREASURER: Mrs. Jane H. Spofford CHAIRMAN EX-COMMITTEE: Mrs. Laura M. Johns SUPERINTENDENTS OF DEPARTMENTS. Political Study: Mrs. Harriette R. Shattuck Literature and Press Work: Miss Alice Stone Blackwell Work among Foreign Population: Clara Neymann Entertainments, Dramatics and Bazars Cora Scott Pond Lecture Bureau: Ida H. Roby [*National Enrollment:*] Clara B. Colby Petitions and Legislative Work: Prof. W.H. Carruth NATIONAL ORGANIZERS AND LECTURERS. Mrs. Helen M. Gougar. Rev. Annie H. Shaw. Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake. Mrs. Mary E. Haggart. Miss Mary F. Eastman. Mrs. Elizabeth Boynton Harbert. Mrs. Adelaide A. Claflin. Mrs. Elizabeth Lisle Saxon. Mrs. Ada C. Bowles. [* Rev. Olympia Brown. *] Ward 23. Republican Ticket WITH Women Voters' Candidates For School Committee. For Mayor, AUGUSTUS P. MARTIN. For Street Commissioner, SAMUEL HICHBORN. For Alderman, 11th Aldermanic District, NELSON S. WAKEFIELD. For School Committee, CHARLES C. PERKINS. LUCIA M. PEABODY. EMILY A. FIFIELD. WILLIAM GASTON. FRANCIS A. WALKER. SAMUEL ELIOT. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON. THOMAS GAFFIELD. For Common Council, HENRY F. COE. CHARLES H. WISE. EDWARD P. BUTLER. California Submembers July 1888 Lucy B Holley Box 22 Woodland Cal Mrs C H Sprague " " Mrs L. R. Morrison Wrights " Mrs E S Lambert Yountville " Mrs Margaret V. Longley So Pasadena " Sallie H Lamborn Alameda " Mrs L M W Mastick " " " R P. Waddell " " " Alice Brooks 1430 _ 23d St East Oakland " " L. G. Charlton 1005 _ 12th ave " " " " Consuelo L Bulla Box 414 Los Angeles " " J M Dunning 867 Seventh st " " " " Mary E Garbutt Box 156 " " " " Elizabeth Hannah 647 1/2 olive st " " " Emma Harriman University place " " " Mrs Lauretta James Victor st off Temple " " " " E A Kingsbury 237 So Hill st " " " " Helena Keith Box 273 " " " " F. E. McDonell Adams st " " " " C L Patrick 211 W. 3 st " " " " Shively Hill st " " " Dr Mary E Spaulding 315 Temple st " " " Mrs Wm A Spalding 1107 Temple st " " " Mrs Sue Stansbury _ _ _ _ _ " " " Mrs J. Thornton 20 South Spring " " " " " M J. Todd 97 Rosas st " " " " L A. Gibson Temple st " " " " M G. Channing Pasadena " " M[?] A Dexter Carmelita " " " H C Howe Box 298 " " C. W. Gibson 122 E 12 st Oakland " Mrs L R Griffing 566 11th st " " Miss E G W. Hawks 576 8th st " " John Lewis 310 5th st " " Mrs Eudora Parker 1009 Adeline st " " " S Gertrude Smith Box 106 " " " Clare O. Southard 1203 Castro st " " " M L Varney 935 Filbert st " " Miss E J Watson 852 Market " " " Rev C W Wendte 678 W 14 st " " Mrs Josie P. Hill Petaluma Cal " A W Thompson " " " A P Whitney " " " S C W Bowen, Pomona, Cal " M A Hawkins " " " C C Armstrong 331 So 3d st San Jose " Dr Alida C Avery _ _ _ _ _ " " " Miss S E Beman 857 Empire st " S E. Canfield _ _ _ _ _ " " " " S T Ingalls _ _ _ _ " " " " S. L. Knox-Goodrich ___ __ " " " " Emma McClellan " " " " Mary L. Nash 338 So 10th st " " " " E O Smith " " " Laura J Watkins " " " J. Armenia Ackerman Sacramento " Mrs A Leonard 1811 G st " " " J E Turner 819 19th st " " Ward 23. Republican Ticket With Women Voters' Candidates For School Committee. For Mayor, AUGUSTUS P. MARTIN. ____________________________ For Street Commissioner SAMUEL HICHBORN. ____________________________ For Alderman, 11th Aldermanic District NELSON S. WAKEFIELD. ____________________________ For School Committee, CHARLES C. PERKINS. LUCIA M. PEABODY. EMILY A. FIFIELD. WILLIAM GASTON. FRANCIS A. WALKER. SAMUEL ELIOT. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON. THOMAS GAFFIELD. ____________________________ For Common Council, HENRY F. COE. CHARLES H. WISE. EDWARD P. BUTLER. California Subscribers 2 Mrs M L Austin 228 Capp st San Francisco Cal Lucy A Bates 1502 Jones st " " Mrs M.A. Buckerdyke 2244 Mission Street " " " C A Cook 224 Post st " " " " M A Edmonds 905 Bush st " " " Miss M Frontiri 1624 Golden Gate ave " " " " Gertrude Gallagher 333 Guerrero st " " " Mrs Maria Greenland Gray 316 Montgomery st " " " Mr Borys Gorow 109 9th st " " " Mrs L B Heren Box 2193 " " " Geo A Hill Box 2044 " " " Mrs. Flora B. Harris, 531 Jessie st " " " Mrs. Alice G. Howland " " " Mrs. F. F. Kelly Office Examiner " " " Hattie E Kingsbury 225 Leaworth st " " " Miss A E Knapp 528 Eddy st " " " Miss Susie W. Nicoll Pacific Mail L.S. Co " " " 1st L Brannan sts Mrs N.W. Palmer Pacific Coast Oil Co. 13 Pine st " " " Mrs. Dr Amalie Pfund 785 1/2 Stevenson st " " " Miss Ella M. Pinkham Irving Just st 1036 Valencia st Ellen C. Sargent 1630 Folsom st " " " Ida V. Stanibuch 424 Leavenworth st " " " Mrs Philip L Weaver Nevada Bank San Francisco Cal " Clara J. Colutriey 2030 Laguna st " " " Miss M C Willey 112 Taylor st " " " Mrs. A E Dickinson Santa Barbara " Almira H Eddy " " Mrs Geo Oliver Mission Canyon " " " Mrs J E Bonsall Santa Cruz " Mrs C B Jones Sierra Madre " " A E Suddith Colton " " C R Denmark Blocksburg " Solomon Cooper Eureka " Ida M H Smith " " Mrs John Kelly Fresno " Mrs M L Clark Garvanza " Mrs S M. Severance Gilroy " E A Bonine Lamanda Park " Mrs David Bush Martinez Dr Jerome T Leonard Merced " Mrs E F Head Redwood City " J. W Towner Santa Anna " Lon. A Seymour Santa Paula " John V. Aldrich Santa Rosa " Mrs Alfred Goss " " " Mrs N Danielson Luiscin " Miss Lizzie A Everett Sutter City " California Woman's State Democratic League Board of Directors MARY FAIRBROTHER............................President MRS. EDGAR L. ORMSBY.....First Vice-President MRS. CARRIE L. HOYT....Second Vice-President MRS. MARY E. FRASER.......Third Vice-President MRS. L. E. WELSH............Fourth Vice-President MRS. NORA F. RASMUSSEN.........Cor. Secretary MRS. C. C. EMSLIE..............Recording Secretary MISS ALICE MURPHY...........Assistant Secretary MRS. CATHERINE WORKMAN..............Treasurer MRS. MARGUERITE HIESTER LIGHT.................. ..............................................Financial Secretary MISS ROSE NILSSON...........................Historian MRS. MARGARET LANE KLINK...............Auditor MRS. MARGARET McDONOUGH............Auditor Member National W. D. L. Affiliated Woman's San Francisco Democratic Club Woman's Democratic Club of Alameda County Woman's Democratic Club of Berkeley 25th District Democratic Club of San Francisco Offices, 448-450 Phelan Building U. S. SENATOR JAMES D. PHELAN Honorary President Board of Directors MRS. SOPHIE CLOUGH MRS. MINNIE ANDREWS MISS MARY CODE MRS. W. C. DUDLEY MRS. H. T. MILLER MRS. JAS. P. MONTGOMERY MRS. CARRIE BERRY MRS. T. F. MURPHY MRS. ERINA CURRAN MRS. C. W. MOORES MRS. MARY A. ZELT MRS. W. R. McCOMB MRS. VIRGINIA A. BEEDE The following Manifesto was adopted by the unanimous vote of the Board of Directors, CALIFORNIA WOMAN'S STATE DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE, in regular session, August 4, 1914; full Board, 30 members, present. WHEREAS, The equal suffrage workers in the State of New York inform us that there is now being waged a titanic battle for the political rights of women, and the one unanswerable objection is the active opposition to the Democratic party by the Women's Congressional Union. New York being normally a democratic state and New York city a democratic city, we note with regret and alarm the continued assaults (with implied threats) on representatives of the Woodrow Wilson administration, especially in San Francisco, the Exposition city. The majority of those women nationally organized who have worked since the beginning of the long campaign for equal suffrage, deprecate the methods and fear the outcome of the Congressional Union partisan propaganda, therefore be it RESOLVED, BY THE CALIFORNIA WOMAN'S STATE DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE: That we steadfastly resist the entreaties of the Congressional Union to assist in their militant labor for equal suffrage; That we refuse to lend our names or personal influence to this division of equal suffrage workers; That we reaffirm our adherence to principles of human liberty involved in the propaganda of the National Equal Suffrage Association, with Rev. Anna Howard Shaw as its national leader, and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt as the international president; That we reaffirm our loyalty and pledge our assistance to the work being carried forward by these dauntless women; That after participation in political activities in California for several years and noting no bad results, but much benefit to the homes and citizenship of our beloved state, we urge good people to work and vote for equal suffrage in those states where it is an issue. RESOLVED, That we pledge anew our loyalty and devotion to President Woodrow Wilson and the great party of Jefferson and his followers, the first to advocate equal suffrage in California. This was on Sept. 4, 1908, by a practically unanimous vote of the Platform Committee. That we call on Democratic women everywhere to circulate and sign this Manifesto for the ultimate attainment of equal suffrage and real democracy. MARY FAIRBROTHER, CARRIE L. HOYT, NORA F. RASMUSSEN, Committee. [*Calif*] It is true that the son has been in the habit of following the father in his political preferments, and there is no doubt that the wife and daughter - all things being equal - would be inclined to accept the political views of the husband or father where the wife or daughters have been indifferent and have given little thought to political or governmental questions. Still it is my opinion that if we should take a given number of women, to whom were recently granted the right of franchise, and the same number of men who are just attaining their majority and the privilege of voting, that we would find the minds of the women much freer from political and personal bias and prejudice than are the minds of the same number of young men so selected; that is to say, I think the new voters among the young men are more inclined to feel the influence of the father, whether consciously or unconsciously, than are the women selected as suggested. This, to my mind, is a great advantage, particularly at this time, when the world is moving rapidly and great consideration and probably more consideration is given to political and economic questions by the masses than has even been given in the past. Another thought analogous to the one just referred to and which in my opinion follows that thought is this: if I am correct in my belief that women are more open minded, it follows logically that they are going to seek information before forming their conclusions and making their political alliance. This latter thought is not theoretical alone as is evidenced by the existence of non-partisan political clubs in almost every town of any size in California. As you probably know, these clubs are very numerous throughout the State and the members make a study of political questions, particularly those bearing upon the home and what might generally be termed the humane questions. I have no idea how many such clubs exist in the State, but I think I am within the facts when I say that practically every city or town of five thousand people or over has such a club. I can not say that no club of young men voters exists in the State for the discussion of these particular questions, but if such club exists, I never heard of it. 2 Please find enclosed [*one*] dollar for enlarging the work of THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL to meet the needs and opportunities of the suffrage movement during the campaign [[strike-through]] in my state [[/strike-through]] Name [*Mrs. C. G Hubert*] [*Santa Ana, Cal.*] Make checks payable to THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL Boylston St., Boston, Mass. Please find enclosed [*Ten*] dollars for enlarging the work of THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL to meet the needs and opportunities of the suffrage movement during the campaign in [[strike-through]] my state [[/strike-through]] [*New Jersey,*] Name [*Dr. L. W. Lambeck*] [*1802, 8th Ave. *] [*Oakland, Calif.*] Make checks payable to THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL Boylston St., Boston, Mass. Ack. K. E. M. June 15, 1915. Ack. K. E. M. June 15, 1915. AER BILL ASB [*10*] FIN. [*-- KRB*] HBS ADVT. Rec'd JUN 15 1915 ACK. SUB. PAPERS LIT. CIRC. Amt. & Page [*35/10*] Lucretia Watson Taylor of Saratoga, California, died in San Francisco February 23. She was the daughter She was the center of a large circle of admiring friends, and had lived thirty-nine years of helpfulness and loving kindness. Mrs. Taylor had charge of state headquarters of the California Equal Suffrage Association during the campaign months, and was an active worker in organizing the Civic Leagues. Mr.Taylor is [was] an earnest suffragist and [was] always eager to help in the work. The San Francisco Star printed the following paragraf March 1. LUCRETIA WATSON TAYLOR Our hearts are sad this beautiful morning in sympathy with the kindred of Mrs. B. Grant Taylor, beloved daughter of a beloved mother, Elizabeth Lowe Watson, both well-known throughout the State as earnest and efficient workers in every cause for the helping of humanity. Mrs. Watson Taylor was a thinker and reader as well as worker; she was a believer in the Single Tax and her name appeared in the committee of well-known women who worked for Home Rule in taxation during the recent campaign. Those who knew her intimately realized her deep interest in the lives of boys and girls which took definite form in the founding of the Saratoga Boys' Club. In civic, and in suffrage work, she was always one with her mother who was president of the State Suffrage Association during the campaign for equal rights. Called away in her young years her passing is a distinct loss to us all, to the State, and a grief inconsolable to her immediate family, and extended circle of friends. Mrs. Watson, who has been a preacher for the Spiritualists for forty or more years, spoke briefly at the close of the funeral services, paying a mother's wonderful tribute to a loving daughter. Dr. [Mi] Mrs. Mrs. Dr. [C] Mrs. Martha Nelson McCan, -2- (8) Cuts or photographs of important people (9) Any good short story or incident about the suffrage work in California We shall be very grateful for any assistance you can give us in getting out two California editions of The Woman's Journal. I enclose an addressed postal card and I shall be grateful if you will write on it whether you will send us material for this purpose, or not, and return it to me. Same letter sent to [erva] Goodman, Physicians Bldg., Stockton, Calif. [ ] Frances Noel, Ave. 43 & Marmion Way, Los Angeles, Calif [ ] Jennie Arnott, 424 Seneca St., Palo Alto, Calif [ ] Charlotte Baker, San Diego, Calif [College] Suffrage Headquarters, Union Sq. Bldg., San Francisco, Calif Mrs. Arthur Cornwall, Pres. Club Women's Franchise League, St Frances Hotel, San Francisco, Cali Miss Maud Younger, Labor Temple, San Francisco, California Susan B. Anthony Club, 2419 California St., San Francisco, Calif Mrs. Mary T. Gamage, 3010 Pierce St., San Francisco, Calif Mrs. Elizabeth Gerberding, Woman Suff. Party, Lick Bldg., San Francisco, Cal Mrs. L.W. Taylor, 400 Duboce Ave., San Francisco, Calif Mrs. Clara Shortridge Foltz, Merchants Exchange Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal Mrs. Martha Nelson McCan, Chairman, Press Committee, Auditorium Bldg., Los Angeles, Calif Mrs. Mabel Craft Deering, 2709 Larkin Street, San Francisco, Calif. Circular letter Boston August 1, 1911. Woman's Initiative League 655 PHELAN BUILDING SAN FRANCISCO [*Sent in by Dr. Frances Louise Newton Woodland, Calif Nov. 16, 1913*] IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT Dear Sir:– The Woman's Initiative League has been formed for the purpose of placing on the ballot in November, 1912, an amendment repealing Woman Suffrage. The method and the probabilities are explained in detail on separate cards enclosed herewith. The League is composed entirely of women who believe that woman suffrage has been proved worthless as a remedy for anything, that it is actually detrimental to women, that it would be detrimental to California and that a great majority of both men and women think so, as is shown in our enclosed analysis of the last election. The public has received the petitions with amazing favor in all quarters of the State. The League has obtained already about 10,000 signatures to the initiative petition. Only 32,000 signatures are necessary, but the League intends to file at least double that number. The expenses so far for printing, obtaining signatures, etc., amount to more than $1500. They have been paid entirely by the voluntary subscription of the members. We now think the burden should be distributed a little. We need about $3500 to complete the petition and file it at Sacramento. If we can get the funds we can do this in ninety days. [*Calif*] THE PROBABILITIES More than 600,000 men are entitled to vote in California. Only 125,000, less than one in five, voted in favor of woman suffrage at the election in October, 1911, and the suffragists polled their full strength. At the next election, in November, 1912, the suffragists will poll very few more male votes than they did last time, because they got their full strength out. This strength is shown to the 125,000. There are about 500,000 women of voting age in California. The experience of Colorado shows that only 17 per cent. of women vote. In Washington only 20 per cent. vote. If this average holds good in California, as it undoubtedly will, there will be about 100,000 women vote. Let us suppose that the entire 20 per cent. vote for woman suffrage. Now take the opposition vote. At the last election there was no excitement to bring the vote out, but still about 121,000 men voted against woman suffrage. These will all vote the same way again. The next election being a presidential election, the vote will be heavy, and at least 150,000 additional votes will be cast. Very few of these will favor woman suffrage, as all the men who were in favor of it voted last time. However, let us give the suffragists 25 per cent. which is more than they will get. Lastly come the votes of the women who are opposed to woman suffrage. If all these women voted they would roll up a tremendous majority against allowing women to vote. Of course, it will be more difficult for us to get our women vote out than it will be for the suffragettes, but the League will have a membership of 100,000 women before the next election. Every member will be pledged to register and vote this once in order to squelch the agitators who are bringing ridicule upon our sex. We will also ask every man who is with us to bring one woman to the poles. This should give us one woman for every (over) If you are opposed to woman suffrage we hope you will aid us to remove it forever from this State. Send us $100, $50, $25, $20, $10, $5, or $1, as you please. Any subscription you see fit to make will be gratefully received and promptly acknowledged. Please make your check payable to Treasurer, Woman's Initiative League. And remember, please, that "he gives twice who gives quickly." We hope to hear from you and beg to remain, Yours sincerely, WOMAN'S INITIATIVE LEAGUE, Kathryn Croney President man we have, but let us count less than half of that and call it only 100,000. Now look at how the vote will stand at the next election. For Woman Suffrage. Male voters who voted for it at the last election . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125,000 Female voters (20 per cent. of total number of women in State, as per Washington and Colorado.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100,000 Twenty-five per cent. of the male voters who did not vote at last election . . . . . . . . . 37,500 ________ Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262,500 Against Woman Suffrage. Male voters who voted against it at the last election . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121,000 Male voters who did not vote at all at the last election (75 per cent.) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112,500 Female voters opposed to suffrage . . . . . . . 100,000 ________ Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333,500 Anybody can check this analysis very easily by taking a poll of his acquaintances. Almost without exception it will be found that a majority of the men and a majority of the women are opposed to woman suffrage. If this be true it will surely be repealed. Get in and help. SUBSCRIBERS FOR THE WOMAN'S JOURNAL IN PALO ALTO COUNTY, IOWA. EMMETSBURG Mrs. H.W. Beebe Mrs. William Young Mrs. N.H. Berkler Mrs. N. Bend Mrs. E.J. Brerston Mrs. E.E. Dixon Mrs. Earl Brown Mrs. Winnifred Haskins Miss F.H. Cretzmeyer Mrs. Jordan Mikes Mrs. J.P. Cross Mrs. G.L. Rice Miss Anna Donavan Mrs. Cora Hampton Mrs. M.C. Grier Mrs. Susie Gray Mrs. J.H. Knoblanch Mrs. C.H. Thatcher Mrs. D.G. McCarthy Mrs. R.P. Atkinson Miss Nellie Middleton Mrs. Bert France Emmetsburg Public Library Mrs. P. Hoelzner Miss Ethel M. Reary Mrs. L.C. Olsen Mrs. W.E.G. Saunders Mrs. P.V. Nolan Mrs. M. A. Scott Miss Bertha Whisler Mrs. N.R. Shroeder Miss P. Richardson Mrs. Elsie Wright (Mrs. E.E. Bock ) (East Burlington Street ) Miss C.E. Yentter Mrs. W.W. Wright CYLINDER Mrs. George Freeman Mrs. Jay Letson Mrs. C.G. 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Faultlessly tailored in dainty embroidered silk batiste or broche, prettily trimmed in lace and ribbon, Price $3.75 There is nothing [*1927 Calif*] [*Los Angeles, Calif Times Jan 23, 1927*] Luncheon to Honor Mrs. Catt and Miss Mary Hay Eastern Feminists Will be Speakers at Meeting Permanent Residence in City Planned by Visitors Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, national Democratic and feminist leader, and Miss Mary Garrett Hay, equally famous Republican leader, both residents of New York, are on their way to California, where they will make their home. These two celebrated women will be welcomed at a luncheon to be given February 16 at the Biltmore when the Woman's Law Enforcement League of Southern California, recognized as a permanent institution, will conduct an allegiance meeting. Mrs. Catt and Miss Hay will be the principal speakers. Miss Hay is an officer in the Woman's National Law Enforcement Committee, and will present its latest plans. Mrs. Oliver C. Bryant will serve as luncheon chairman and Mrs. John C. Urquhart, who headed the Southern California committee during last year's campaign and who has been re-elected to permanent office, will preside at the program hour. At the meeting in the Chamber of Commerce Building Friday a week ago the following officers and members at large were elected: Mrs. J.C. Urquhart, chairman; Dr. Lena Leonard Fisher, first vice-chairman; Mrs. William Read, second vice-chairman; Mrs. Maynard Force Thayer, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. Kathryn E. Ott, secretary-treasurer. Fifty members at large: Mrs. Chester C. Ashley, Miss Sue Brobst, Mrs. Robert J. Burdette, Mrs. Frances A. Blackburn, Mrs. H. K. W. Bent, Mrs. Josiah Evans Cowles, Mrs. Mary Coman, Dr. Mary Sinclair Crawford, Mrs. Susan M. Dorsey, Mrs. Sidney Thomas Exley, Mrs. Walter Harrison Fisher, Mrs. Eric Fowler, Mrs. Frank A. Gibson, Miss Lloyd Galpin, Mrs. Charles F. Gray, Miss Elizabeth L. Kenney, Mrs. E.B. Latham, Mrs. W. J. Lawless, Mrs. Cora D. Lewis, Dr. Irene Myers, Miss Gladys Evelyn Moorhead, Mrs. Charles McKelvey, Mrs. Martha Nelson McCann, Mrs. Leo G. MacLaughlin, Mrs. Seeley W. Nudd, Mrs. Hester Griffith Miller, Miss Flora Belle Nelson, Dr. Mae Parsons, Mrs. George Pepperdine, Mrs. Florence Collins Porter, Mrs. Julia D. Phelps, Mrs. Thomas Scott, Miss Ruth Sterry, Mrs. J.B. Stearns, Mrs. Lyman Stookey, Mrs. Charles D. Van de Water, Mrs. Eva C. Wheeler, Mrs. Arthur C. Wier. Members from counties other than Los Angeles: Imperial, Mrs. S.D. Jacobs; Inyo, Mrs. Mark K. Waterson; Kern, Mrs. William J. Shultz; Orange, Mrs. E. Kate Rea; Riverside, Mrs. Henry De Nyse; San Bernardino, Mrs. Robert Garner; San Diego, Mrs. Marmaduke Eckels, Mrs. David Fraser, Miss Ada York: San Luis Obispo, Mrs. C. J. Trussler; Santa Barbara, Miss Grace Southwick; Ventura, Mrs. L.B. Hogue. Approximately 2000 women are now enrolled in the Woman's Law Enforcement Committee of Southern California. It was decided to hold quarterly meetings and to carry on an educational campagin. Dues will be $1 for active membership and $5 for sustaining members. Men will be associate members at $5. The chairmen of commissions named by the chairman, Mrs. Urquhart, are: Mrs. James B. Lorbeer, home training for law observance; Miss Peggy Halloran, legal aspects; Miss Eleanor Miller, political assets and liabilities; Mrs. Oliver C. Bryant, the remedy through education; Mrs. Lucie C. Tanner, the remedy through religion; Mrs. William Carr, the situation in social life – the solvent; Mrs. Margaret J. Frick, prohibition justified by health, morals and economic situation; Mrs. H. S. Craeger, speakers' bureau; Mrs. Lavinia Graham Timmons, publicity. It was decided to emphasize two laws now on the California statutes– for teaching scientific temperance knowledge in the grade schools, and also requiring graduates from the teachers' training schools to take an examination upon the same subjects. "We have the laws, but it depends upon us to see that they are enacted and upheld," declared Mrs. Julia Phelps of the W.C.T.U. [*"How are the mighty fallen!"*] [??THER FORECAST. cooler; to-morrow fair; [?] to northwest winds. [?]orts will be found on page 13. [*"And this the end?"*] PRICE TWO CENTS TAFT ASKS VOTES OF CALIFORNIA WOMEN First Appeal of the Kind to Be Made by President of United States. CITES CHILDREN'S BUREAU Appointment of Miss Lathrop as Head Also Advanced as Argument. WASHINGTON, May 12. – A President of the United States has issued his first direct appeal for women's votes in a contest for renomination. Before leaving Washington on his campaign trip to Ohio President Taft made public an appeal that he has sent to the men and women Republicans of California for support in the primaries next Tuesday. The President emphasized his claim to the women's vote by citing among the achievements of his administration the creation of the children's bureau and the appointment of Miss Julia C. Lathrop, "one of the able women of America," as its head. The appointment of a woman to this newly created $5,000 job in Washington is one of the few clever political moves credited to the Taft administration. The playing of politics may have been the furthest thing from the President's mind, but the fact is that the appointment of Miss Lathrop has been a strong card for him in California and in States where the agitation for woman suffrage has become strong. Information that has reached Washington is that President Taft appears to be in greater favor among the women voters of California than is Col. Roosevelt. The woman Republicans of California have been active in organizing in favor of Taft. The voting of the women in this contest will be watched with a good deal of interest. It is the first time they have taken part in a Presidential contest in California and their participation introduces an uncertain element into the situation. About 26,000 women voters have been registered in San Francisco alone. The President's appeal to the California Republicans is addressed to Col. Hammond, his political manager there. It is based solely on the achievements of his administration. The Presidential preference primaries in California on Tuesday will be the next important development in the Republican situation. The President's managers are hopeful of obtaining fourteen of the twenty-six delegates from that State, but political observers here are inclined to believe that Col. Roosevelt will control the majority of the delegates. Roosevelt is backed by Gov. Johnson and his organization, but the President's chances are helped through the fight La Follette is making in the progressive ranks. Here is the President's telegram to Col. Hammond, which will stand as the last word of the Administration to the Republican voters of California: On the eve of your Presidential primary in California I venture to appeal to the Republican men and women who exercise the franchise to consider fairly and well the legislative and executive achievements of my administration, and especially those which have affected California, and say whether they do not deserve approval by the people of California. In the matter of the tariff, in the matter of the Panama-Pacific Exposition, in the matter of conservation, in the increase in our international and Philippines trade, in the employers' liability act, in the more drastic and complete regulation of interstate commerce, in the postal savings bank bill, in the mining bureau bill for the health and welfare of miners, in the establishment of a tariff commission, in the change from a deficit of $50,000,000 to a surplus of $40,000,000, in the corporation tax, in the children's bureau bill for the health and welfare of children, in the appointment to the head of the children's bureau of Miss Julia C. Lathrop, one of the able women of America; in the making of the universal peace treaties with England and France, which have been emasculated through the influence of Mr. Roosevelt and his campaign manager, Senator Dixon, and the Democratic members of the Senate; in the effective prosecution of the work of building and completing the Panama Canal, I submit a record is formed that entitles this Administration to the support of the Republican men and women of California and that it is progressive in the highest degree. The Administration has shown no favor to wrongdoers. It has enforced every law on the statute books. It prosecuted the sugar frauds, the custom frauds, the railroad rebates and it has brought suit against every trust against which there was evidence of its violating the Sherman law, and this includes the steel trust and the Harvester trust, which were treated as good trusts under Mr. Roosevelt and as entitled to immunity after a threat by George Perkins that the prosecution of such trusts would bring about a fight by them with the Administration. Mr. Perkins is now one of the chief contributors to Mr. Roosevelt's political fund. The last important measure which I have urgently recommended to Congress, which has now passed the Senate and is pending in the House of Representatives, is the workmen's compensation bill, which changes altogether the policy of the law with reference to the liability of the employer to the employee on interstate railroads and fixes an insurance for every employee against the dangers of his employment by requiring the employer to indemnify the employee against any injury received in the employment not brought about by his wilful and voluntary act and fixes a reasonable compensation, graduated according to a regular table and proportioned to the extent of the injury and the earning capacity of the employee injured. In the opposition which Mr. Roosevelt is now making to this Administration he is not giving me a square deal, as I have shown by indubitable record proof. He is appealing to class hatred and forcing sham issues in such a way that his success would be a real detriment to the public interest and a dangerous departure from a wise tradition which he has himself recognized that limits a citizen to two terms in the Presidency. WILLIAM H. TAFT. SUN [?] 1911. by Sun Printing and Publishing [A?] WOMEN VOTE SOCIALIST OUT GOOD GOVERNMENT WINS IN LOS ANGELES BY 35,000. Mayor Alexander Beats Harriman. One of McNamaras' Counsel - Newly Enfranchised Voters Cast Larger Percentage of Ballots than the Men. Los Angeles, Dec. 5. - Los Angeles women, voting for the first time in a municipal campaign following their recent enfranchisement in California, piled up a majority to-day for the Good Government ticket that left the Socialists far behind. At 9 o'clock to-night incomplete returns from nearly all precincts nets in the city gave Alexander, Good Government candidate for Mayor, 35,613; Harriman, Socialist, 16,212. A huge vote was cast and the count is very slow. The result will not be known positively until to-morrow. Women voters supplied the surprise of the day, voting faster than the men in many cases. A heavier percentage of the registered woman vote is believed to have been polled than of the men. Mme. Caroline Severance, mother of women's clubs and more than 90 years of age, was one of the early voters, casting a ballot for the first time after almost three-quarters of a century of struggle for suffrage, much of that time as a contemporary of Susan B. Anthony and others. "I am satisfied," said Mme. Severance. "This is what I have lived for for years." Mrs. Isabella C. Pease, 90 years of age was carried to the polls. The confessions of the McNamaras and the disclosures in connection with the jury bribing had much to do with the defeat of Harriman, who, although not directly involved, was one of the attorneys for the McNamaras and therefore lost followers when the disclosures came. But the women, after all, showed themselves the foes of Socialism. The vote cast - 140,880 - was tremendous for Los Angeles. The indications at 10 o'clock were that Alexander would have not less than 35,000 majority. Two weeks ago the Socialists appeared to have an excellent chance, but the women were an unknown quantity. Mrs. Sarah Louise Flaught, 71 years of age, died of heart trouble a few minutes after she had voted this afternoon. Before going to the polls she said to her three sons: "Let me vote once before I die." Her vote was against socialism. When she returned home the excitement of it proved too much for her vitality. THE SUN, WEDNESDAY, JULY Amid the fluctuations of Stocks and Bonds GUARANTEED MORTGAGES remain the standard of absolute, unchanging SAFETY LAWYERS MORTGAGE CO. Richard M. Hurd, President Capital & Surplus $8,5000,000 53 Liberty Street, Manhattan 184 Montague Street, Brooklyn _____ CALIFORNIA BETTER FOR WOMEN VOTING _____ Take Marked Interest in Elections and Have Improved the Conditions. _____ LEARNING POLITICS FAST _____ Many Offices Filled by Them Are Conducted in Praiseworthy Manner. San Francisco, July 29. - Woman suffrage in California has been an accomplished fact for two years, yet it is difficult to get facts in regard to what has been accomplished. Much of the good wrought is tentative and will not show clearly for some time. One thing has been demonstrated, that women take as keen an interest in politics as men and that when they have been educated by experience they will vote with fully as much sense. At the outset women were kept from registration by the requirement that they must give their age. Thus the registration for the first election in California in which women had the right to vote showed only 40,000 female registrations. Now, when that requirement has been discarded, the registration in San Francisco for the special election next month reveals almost as many women on the rolls as men. The last election in Los Angeles showed that the women cast more than half the total vote and that they voted more quickly and more intelligently than the men. Much of the credit of winning equal suffrage in California belongs to Mrs. Mabel Craft Deering, who had had several years of practical experience in newspaper work. After the earthquake and fire Mrs. Deering, who found much time on her hands, took up the press work for womanhood suffrage in California as a diversion. She got a list of 700 newspapers in the State and sent to each a letter asking whether the editor would print regular matter bearing on woman suffrage. She got 400 replies. To these papers and some others which afterward came in she sent every week news of the suffrage cause. Thus she educated the men who read these papers and broke down their prejudices. It is doubtful if suffrage would have secured any material vote in California without this educative work by Mrs. Deering. When the amendment was passed by the Legislature and an election was called for woman suffrage the field was ripe and nearly every editor who had been printing extracts about suffrage during these five years became an advocate of the cause. The women voters have already had a marked effect in California on the manners of the men in the polling booths. Before their day the ward heeler was conspicuous and in the rougher districts fights were common and many voters were practically disfranchised. since women officials have been given a place in the booths a great change for the better is noticed. There is none of the swearing and rowdyism so often seen in the old days. Much more work is accomplished with far less friction. The women voters are usually instructed by representatives of their own sex, and the result is that they vote more quickly than the men and give less trouble. Work Women Have Done The different leagues and associations see to it that the women voters get all possible information in regard to the looks out for the interests of all the women operatives in local shops. The Supervisors, after much work, have been induced to agree to the appointment of three women police officers to look out for women in public places, and especially at the ocean beaches on holidays. These women officers would have been named some time ago, but the police and the civil service are quarrelling over the right to name them. The women do not want civil service rules to prevail, because this would deny a place to any woman of mature years, and these, they say, are very women who are best fitted by their experience and their knowledge of human nature to perform the duties of the position. First Women's Jury Acquits. The first women's jury in a criminal case was empanelled in San Francisco last week. The jury consisted of eleven married women and one spinster. The case was of a woman accused of sending a blackmailing letter to another woman. The evidence was conclusive that the accused woman wrote and sent a letter demanding $150 or she would have printed matter that would seriously compromise the victim. The prosecution showed these facts clearly, but the defence rested its case on the plea that the accused woman did not mean anything by her threats and they also put on the stand character witnesses to show that their client had a good reputation. They also invoked the California law which requires that one must show intent to defraud or injure any one before a conviction may be secured. The Judge called the attention of the jury to the clear proof, but he also pointed out they were at liberty to give the prisoner the benefit of the doubt in regard to intent. The jury of women after being out two hours acquitted the prisoner. On the first ballot they stood ten to two for acquittal. It is safe to say no male jury with such evidence before it would have rendered any other verdict than guilty. The women on this jury showed much interest in the testimony and evidently tried to give a conscientious verdict. That they leaned too far to the side of mercy was due to their temperament. An important result of women's vote in California is the influence in favor of temperance. In more than half the country towns where the liquor question has come up the women have cast their votes solidly either for absolute prohibition or for high license. The same thing has held true in regard to gambling and other vices. The California women have also shown recently great interest in all questions bearing on the social evil and the protection of young girls. In every case the women have been on the side of decency and the strict observance of the laws for controlling the vicious classes. It cannot be said that the women voters of California have increased the expenses of the State or that they have shown any pronounced partiality for freak legislation. The State Legislature passed many foolish bills, about half a dozen of which will be the subject of referendum elections next month. The Governor has leanings toward socialism and some of the bills that he forced through the Legislature, the best experts declare will be followed as men. The last election in Los Angeles showed that the women cast more than half the total vote and that they voted more quickly and more intelligently than the men. Much of the credit of winning equal suffrage in California belongs to Mrs. Mabel Craft Deering, who had had several years of practical experience in newspaper work. After the earthquake and fire Mrs. Deering, who found much time on her hands, took up the press work for womanhood suffrage in California as a diversion. She got a list of 700 newspapers in the State and sent to each a letter asking whether the editor would print regular matter bearing on woman suffrage. She got 400 replies. To these papers and some others which afterward came in she sent every week news of the suffrage cause. Thus she educated the men who read these papers and broke down their prejudices. It is doubtful if suffrage would have secured any material vote in California without this educative work by Mrs. Deering. When the amendment was passed by the Legislature and an election was called for woman suffrage the field was ripe and nearly every editor who had been printing extracts about suffrage during these five years became an advocate of the cause. The women voters have already had a marked effect in California on the manners of the men in the polling booths. Before their day the ward heeler was conspicuous, and in the rougher districts fights were common and many voters were practically disfranchised. Since women officials have been given a place in the booths a great change for the better is noticed. There is none of the swearing and rowdyism so often seen in the old days. Much more work is accomplished with far less friction. The women voters are usually instructed by representatives of their own sex, and the result is that they vote more quickly than the men and give less trouble. Work Women Have Done. The different leagues and associations see to it that the women voters get all possible information in regard to the questions to be voted on. The work of publicity has been highly developed by the women's leagues, and this in turn has led to much better arrangements by the men's associations. Probably the best example of this publicity work was furnished by the campaign for the recall of Police Judge Weller of San Francisco, who incurred the hostility of women by his release on small bail of a man charged with an assault on a little girl. The man escaped and the women in their wrath invoked the recall and secured the votes necessary to oust the offending Judge from the bench. They made in many districts a house to house canvass, and in this way piled up a remarkable vote against a man of great ability and many friends. The man who succeeded Weller was not a tithe of his ability, but he will not be apt to repeat the offence of his predecessor, nor will any other police Judge be guilty of what was a common practice in these courts, for they have seen the power of the recall in the hands of women who are in deadly earnest. In all the courts of San Francisco the change made by woman suffrage is pronounced. In the old days a woman was made to feel by Judge and lawyers that she cut a very small figure. Now both Judges and attorney treat women with the same consideration as men, for they know that not only have they votes but that they are much more ready to resent ill usage than men. In every court where women are on trial the women's league sees to it that inspectors of their own sex are present to protect them from any badgering by lawyers. In fact, so careful are the attorneys now that this precaution might be omitted. To any one who recalls the procedure only a few years ago this is one of the most important results of arming women with the power of the ballot. The women of San Francisco have a factory inspector who has a desk in the Labor Commissioner's office and who facts clearly, but the defence rested its case on the plea that the accused woman did not mean anything by her threats and they also put on the stand character witnesses to show that their client had a good reputation. They also invoked the California law which requires that one must show intent to defraud or injure any one before a conviction may be secured. The Judge called the attention of the jury to the clear proof, but he also pointed out they were at liberty to give the prisoner the benefit of the doubt in regard to intent. The jury of women after being out two hours acquitted the prisoner. On the first ballot they stood ten to two for acquittal. It is safe to say no male jury with such evidence before it would have rendered any other verdict than guilty. The women on this jury showed much interest in the testimony and evidently tried to give a conscientious verdict. That they leaned too far to the side of mercy was due to their temperament. An important result of women's vote in California is the influence in favor of temperance. In more than half the country towns where the liquor question has come up the women have cast their votes solidly either for absolute prohibition or for high license. The same thing has held true in regard to gambling and other vices. The California women have also shown recently great interest in all questions bearing on the social evil and the protection of young girls. In every case the women have been on the side of decency and the strict observance of the laws for controlling the vicious classes. It cannot be said that the women voters of California have increased the expenses of the State or that they have shown any pronounced partiality for freak legislation. The State Legislature passed many foolish bills, about half a dozen of which will be the subject of referendum elections next month. The Governor has leanings toward socialism and some of the bills that he forced through the Legislature, the best experts declare, will be followed by much suffering should they become law. Lose Interest In Los Angeles. Los Angeles, July 22.-- The women of Los Angeles, who turned out en masse when they first got the elective franchise, have lately fallen into the ways of mere man and now aside from the political leaders evince no more interest in the burning questions of the day than the backsliding male voter. At the last election not quite 70 per cent of the women registered and only 65 per cent of these voted. The men for the same election registered 78 per cent and voted 73. But when it comes to discharging the duties of office to which they are elected or appointed, women are conceded to be more faithful than the men. They all show great administrative capacity. Mrs. Clara Shortridge Foltz, former member of the State Board of Charities and Corrections, is now Deputy District Attorney, and she is a good one. Miss Georgia Gardner is Deputy City Attorney, and she is more than making good. The number of cases that women bring to her that would never have been brought into court at all but for her presence in the City Attorney's office is steadily increasing, and more recalcitrant husbands than ever are feeling her power. Besides these two, Mrs. D.C. McCann is a Civil Service Commissioner. Since she took office the usual rumors of crooked appointments have almost disappeared. Mrs. Susan M. Dorney was appointed assistant superintendent of the city schools. Supt. Francis recently issued a statement praising her work in emphatic terms. Besides these women in office, the four policewomen have kept and are keeping the loafers from the street corners and make it safe for women to go out without escorts. This is something that the men police have never been able to accomplish. [* To CCC in re California campaign*] October 16, 1911 My dear Steady:- For the past six months we have travelled the pace that kills but the goal was worth the pace. Some of us are in the stage now where a single mention of "Votes for Women" would mean a padded cell. We are to0 dead to realize the full glory of the high honors that have been thrust upon us by a reluctant populace. After we have recovered our mental and physical balance we may break out properly and do the event the justice it calls for. Our victory came to us in such dribbles that we could enthuse only in dribbles, and our margin was so small we were always fearful of enthusing too much for fear of news that we had been overwhelmed in defeat again. We had been on the rack wo long we expected almost anything to happen. Returns were exasperatingly slow coming in (I am told that some are not even in yet) and while we had made a constant gain once the tide had set in our favor, there were yet a large number of precincts to be heard from throughout the state and we knew not what might be in store for us. We were harrassed also by all sorts of fears that the enemy was keeping back the returns so that at the proper moment they could flim flam us out of victory. It was nerve racking 35 hours - a prolonged agony after a heart rending defeat. Even after we were sure of victory we had to use every precaution not to have it snatched from us. When we had calculated that #2 we had beaten in the race, news came to us that the enemy had sent emissaries into 22 counties to try to juggle the returns on the canvass of the vote. WE immediately wired every county seat to guard the returns [ ] until the official canvass was made and to have our watchers present at this operation. We also put some one on guard in San Francisco and Oakland the moment the returns looked promising. We figured that our margin was so close that one ballot counted out in every three precincts in the state would be sufficient to defeat us; so you may be sure our precaution was a necessity. Our majority last night was 2747 - a very close shave. There are some 200 precincts to be heard from yet, but the ratio of gain that the country districts have shown will probably increase our majority somewhat on the 200 to be heard from. The slowness of the returns from districts accessible to railroad and steamer gave us more or less concern. It looked "fishy" to us that they should have been held out unreasonably long. This uncomfortable state of affairs together with the information that our enemies were sending people out into 22 county seats and the fact that we were gradually reducing the majority against us by the returns from the country districts, was enough to stir up in the breast of every suffragist the most intense excitement. The City Election Headquarters was a mass of excited, tear-stained, hopeful, hopeless, buoyant, dejected, elated, anxious women. Multiply the emotions of the women in these headquarters by the emotions of the women in headquarters throughout the state and you can then form some idea of the all kinds of hell and heaven that were alternately possessing the souls of the suffrage forces. It was the most trying nerve racking, #3 harassing, soul-tearing day in the lives of many of us. I was worn to a frazzle and so was every other woman to whom the cause was dear. A horse race on which you have bet every last penny that you own is not a circumstance to the suspense of watching the majority against gradually being lessened , then altogether wiped out and then slowing creeping up vote by vote inyour favor, with the chance always staring you in the face of being pulled back into second place again. The finale to our campaign was dramatic in the extreme. If California never before merited the reputation of doing things in an unusual way, it certainly established an unassailable right to this distinction by this last performance. Buried in miles of defeat we dug our way to victory inch by inch. It was a spectacular escape - and only the fine weather that prevailed throughout the state saved us; for had the weather been doubtful old "Rueb" would not have come out and voted and we would have irretrievably lost. "Rueb" is entitled to our everlasting gratitude for his vote and the Almighty for the fine weather sent us. San Francisco gave a majority of practically 13,000 against us and Alameda County about 2000. Oakland, as you know, is in Alameda County. These were the two districts that killed our last amendment. Southern California had a much harder fight this time than last owing to the labor troubles down there and the McNamara trial which is going on at the present time. For a time it looked as tho their majority would only be 1000 and then indeed our battle seemed hopeless, for we had figured on Southern California's majority wiping out our avalance of defeat in San Francisco and Oakland. That portion of the state finally returned a majority of between 5000 and 6000 - about the same majority as in 1896, but the number of votes cast was largely in excess of that cast in 1896. #4 California now has the most complete democracy of any state in the Union. The last election gave us the referendum , the initiative , the recall and woman suffrage. The first three went through with tremendous majorities and were an awful blow to Big Business which frowned mightily at the returns on these measures. They fought the recall and woman suffrage relentlessly. The recall came in with the biggest majority of the 23 amendments passed. This blow was a good deal softened by the defeat of woman suffrage the first day. There was general crowing among the business interests that we had gone under; not just ordinary content at their victory, but high glee and tremendous satisfaction that we had lost. Translated their looks clearly said - "We have taught you where you belong - and will continue to do so". The first returns showing defeat were greeted by howls of "Down with the women", andother such disgraceful pleasantries. Our enemies were nasty to say the least - and the nastiness was not confined to the vulgar either. Themoneyed man may not have been so outspoken - but he relieved himself no less intensely and coarsely in undertones to his fellow anti. There was unconcealed satisfaction that we had lost. The mayaralty fight here had a very important bearing on our amendment. The settlement of this fight at the primaries on September 26th in favor of the candidate (Rolph) for Big Business against the Labor candidate (McCarthy) by 20,000 majority made Big Business very cockey. They had had a hard battle to re-establish themselves after four years of McCarthy rule and had no intention of jeopardizing their advantage by the introduction of an element upon whom they could not figure ,or rather an element who they figured would not stand in with them. #5 On the other hand Labor charged some of its defeat to women and we lost a great many labor votes on this account, tho we likewise polled a good many votes of this element. We carried only 25 out of 356 precincts in San Francisco and with one or two exceptions these were all located in the Mission and other districts where the laboring man lives. I was down in an awfully tough district, where some of the scum of the earth live like rats, and my booth showed 83 for to 99 against - a remarkable showing for that district. Another booth located across the street showed a majority of 15 for us - another remarkable showing. I can account for these results only in two ways. There are a large number of laborers living in this district who had been reached by Maud Younger through their unions and there was an able woman stationed at these booths who knew how to approach these men as they went to the polls and offset the influence of a certain element in the labor field which at the last moment was bent on defeating us because McCarthy had been beaten. I am firmly convinced that it was Maud Younger's work in the unions that saved us from having the entire labor vote turned against us. Had the mayoralty fight not been settled at the primaries and the final decision been held over until the general election in November we would have had a much better chance - altho Big Business I think would have been secretly against us in either case. At all events, their tremendous victory made them bolder in their opposition. Before that time I knew scores of young clerks who were favorable to the amendment (not men who control business) but even they at the last moment turned against us. We heard that some word had been passed #6 among them by Big Business that made this change. Some banks passed anti literature across the counter - not openly, but none the less surely. The liquor interests of course were against us. Anti literature was openly passed across the bar. One champagne agent, a society lender here by the name of Ned Greenway openly said to one of our leading workers, Mrs. Orlow Black, that he had given the Anti Association $1000. to fight us. A sum variously estimated at from $250,000 to $400,000 is said to have been used to defeat us. And there is a rumor current that no such sum of money has been used to defeat a measure since the Stanford campaign. Between corrupt Big Business and corrupt saloon interests we had a sweet time. The methods of the high slums and the low slums did not differ materially. The high slums provided the money and the low slums did their bidding. Every precinct worker reported ballots that out of the 23 amendments to be voted on showed only a NO against our amendment and the rest of the ballot blank. Other ballots that showed the hand of our enemy were voted NO against all 23 amendments. These were marked by men who were too ignorant to be trusted to pick out our amendment - Their instructions were to vote no against all, so as to be sure to hit ours. With all this corruption against us the wonder is that we pulled through at all - that the country had a sufficient number of votes in our favor to offset the corrupt vote of San Francisco. Do you wonder that we say - "God bless the farmer". I have stolen that from Albert Elliott. Men lined up in saloons the day after the election to get their $10, the amount said to have been paid to them for their votes. #7 Our victory at the eleventh hour was a bitter pill for Big Business. They were sour and surly and swallowed hard - some even threatened us with the Initiative, which would be a boomerang indeed. The Committee of Fifty in Los Angeles ("lame ducks" the newspapers called them - all men whom the political tide left high and dry on the insurgent bank- and chief among whom is our old friend Senator Flint) boldly declared through the papers that they have a fund of $20,000 with which to fight us and that they will start the Initiative in motion to repeal the amendment. They are sensitive enough now to want to do anything to us. This feeling may wear off in time , but in any case it is the intention to keep our organizations in-tact both in the south and here to be prepared for any emergency. Our amendment polled the second highest vote of the 23 amendments voted upon. The Recall polled the highest. This is an indication of the interest these two measures aroused. Gail Laughlin was chairman of the City Election Day Committee and did excellent work for the very short time she had in which to fill a big order. In fact, Gail did everything well that she had anything to do with. There were a few of course like Mrs. Coffin who said she hurt the cause here, but they were so few as not even to be worth while counting. I understand Mrs. Coffin is saying that but for her excellent work on election day, we would have lost the amendment! etc. etc. etc. Gail made some big hits here and got 8. tons of admiration heaped upon her. She was equal to almost any occasion. The Antis lied boldly about Colorado and charged every thing,from failure to keep the heavens free of stardust to the political murder of Governor Waite ("the man who did the most to enfranchise women"), to women suffrage. Gail figured as the star refuter of Colorado lies. She speaks with such authority and boldness that she never fails to convince. I consider she was a very important factor in a wonderful campaign. I would strongly recommend any state that has a campaign to gather tons of Colorado data and be the first to spread the information it has - and to warn at the same time the Antis will stop at nothing to discredit Colorado and woman suffrage. I would also strongly recommend every campaign state to prepare at least two months before election day to take care of that day. My experience at the polls during the day and in the booth watching the count at night convinces me that there is nothing more important in the whole campaign than to have women at the polls during the day; also in the booth during the day to offset the influence of hostile election officers who in a carefully careless way may drop a hint to the voter which why to vote; also at the count at the close of the polls. Wherever we left a booth unprotected I am sure we lost votes - we may perhaps have lost thousands in this way in all the large cities of the state, #9 In my own booth I had to exercise the utmost vigilance to see that the announcer called off "Yes" against our amendment and not "No" which he could easily do, and which was done on other amendments that had no watchers looking after the count; and to check the entries of the two tally clerks and see that they put a vote for us in the "Yes" column and not in the "No" column. I am satisfied that had there been no watcher, many a vote in this booth would have been counted out, as the entire election board in the booth was hostile to a marked degree. We were on duty from 5:30 A.M. to 11;30 P.M. when we saw our vote entered on the tally sheet. Wherever this was not done in the big cities I am certain we lost votes. I think that one of the reasons that we had such a favorable country vote was that we did not make much noise about our country campaign, so the enemy did not know where we were working. Had they known they would doubtless have followed us up wherever we went. Our newspapers were full of the campaigning that was being done in the cities and in territory contiguous thereto, but of our work in the mountain districts, lumber camps and dairy country, not much was published. The omission was not designed but accidental - it turned out however to have been a lucky omission. We did not scorn even the most remote counties where there were but a few hundred votes. The aggregate of these few votes in isolated territory is what helped out in the long run. Of course our campaign in this remote territory was not thorough - the shortness #10 of our time limit made that impossible - but every county was reached in some way. Mrs. Laidlaw's proposition of contributing only to a Central Campaign Committee was valuable in more ways than one. Up to that time the importance of getting out into the country districts did not appeal to the College League, in which they showed their newness at the game. They figured that the biggest opposition would come from the two big cities, Oakland and San Francisco, and that therefore their greatest strength must be concentrated there. They were loath to take speakers and workers away from these two centers. The three speakers sent out by New York to the Central Campaign Committee were seized upon by those of us who felt the necessity of getting our speakers and workers out into the country districts, to press our views in this direction and we succeeded in making our point stick. Results have shown the College League that it was well that this was done. They now agree that we should have started work in the outside districts at the very beginning of the campaign. The end of the campaign finds us as much without a leader as did the beginning. I do not consider that the campaign has developed any one dominant figure. It has however developed a number of women who have shown conspicuously high ability in the College League and not a little of the success and brilliance of the campaign is due to the excellent team work which they did. Miss Anita Whitney, the president of the College League, is conspicuous for the fine sense of fairness #11 ness, dignity and open-mindedness she showed throughout a campaign that was by no means a rosy path to steer through with eight or nine organizations mixed up in the mess. She is much loved by the women who have worked closest with her, a recommendation in itself, and has the respect and confidence of the other organizations. Of course you already know of the exceptional ability of Mabel Craft Deering. It was her press work kept up incessantly during the lean years that put an invaluable instrument in the hands of the College Women at the very beginning of the campaign. It was a plant right ready at our hands. Mrs. Deering has a dominating personality that must count wherever she may be and in whatever she undertakes. She did a tremendous amount of work from running the typewriter to making speeches - and did it all well. Like all the other women who worked in the campaign her hours were from 12midnight to 12 midnight. She lost 20 pounds in the operation. Outside of this her most conspicuous gain was the putting into practice much of the democracy at which she is a past master in theory. Mabel loves a suffragist, no matter who she might be - but she would draw the line at introducing every suffragist to her husband. She was particular what kind of suffragist should have that honor. She frankly and playfully acknowledged the weakness. This campaign has improved her in that direction. I have always liked her and admired her - even tho I had to wait years to be introduced. Mrs. Orlow Black, another of the conspicuous figures of this campaign, is a young woman of very marked #12 ability and personality. She is young, of the petite brunette type and a woman of good newspaper training. She had charge of the publicity work and conducted very successfully all the automobile speaking tours in San Francisco. She gave much wise counsel at the Board meetings and was a sane, constructive worker, if you know what that means. I do! Young men and small boys fell instant victim to her charms. She was executive, eager and earnest, and an important factor in the campaign. The public meetings were in charge of Mrs. Robert Dean, another able newspaper woman with considerable personality and sane judgment. She also is young and attractive, and has executive ability. All her public meetings were successful, especially the final mass meeting at which 5000 people gathered inside and about 3000 outside - and both meetings were kept going at a spirited pace, and made a deep impression. The day before election she got up a big Business Men's meeting in 24 hours and the place was filled every minute of the hours between 12 and 2 P.M. These three women with newspaper training, Mrs. Deering, Mrs. Black and Mrs. Dean , together with Miss Whitney did splendid team work in a brilliant and spectacular campaign. There were other women who worked probably just as hard and effectively, but the four mentioned were probably the chief planners and policy guiders of the campaign. #13 You doubtless will meet some of these women when you come round to us on your globe trotting tour and I want you to know something about them. Everybody worked unremittingly and unselfishly long after union hours, and considering the superabundance of suffrage organizations the campaign ran more or less smoothly. We left Mrs. Coffin strictly alone and she returned the compliment just as strictly. The only real threat of friction was on consolidation of forces for Election Day. However, that trouble was smoothed out without very much annoyance, and all forces worked together on that day - except where they didn't ! ! Of course lack of consolidation during the entire campaign meant much waste of time, money and energy - but tandem and not team work seems to be the order of the day where campaigns are imminent. I presume the State Association and Mrs. Coffin's Franchise League did good work, but of this I have no direct knowledge. The College League had a big membership back of it and had the most money and probably the best trained women. They were not overloaded with money and possibly that might have had some bearing on their reluctance to undertake country work at first - but the New York contribution to the Central Campaign Com. solved this problem as I explained before. The three eastern women did good work I am told. The only one I heard was Helen Hoy Greely in street meetings and she seemed to make a good impression. Mrs. Fisk was thought a little old for the #14 whirlwind campaign. Jeanette Rankin was a favorite with every one. Margaret Haley of Chicago who came here for the N.E.A. took us all by storm both because of her national reputation and the story she had to tell. The College League negotiated with her to stay here and I think they arranged with her to work for us for her expenses. She did very well at first and drew large and sympathetic audiences. After a little however, she grew very fond of her own voice and of the pathos of her story and wanted to be the whole show herself with everybody else on the program a tail-ender. She would spout an hour, an hour and a quarter and an hour and a half at a clip when there were half a dozen others to hear from including noted stars. The Committee at first was too polite to call her down but things came to such a pass they were obliged to pin her to a time limit, but they might as well have pinned Niagara Falls, once she got started on her troubles. She was passed from one manager to another to manage but she would not be managed. The College League found her impossible and they finally dissolved partnership and Margaret went automobile speaking on her own responsibility on money donated by Prof. Lillian Martin of Stanford. Helen Todd of Chicago did good work for us at the end of the campaign and became quite favorite. Mrs. McCullough did a little work for us also. I think she gave most of her time here to southern California. #15 We had some splendid men with us who worked unremittingly and did not quit until the last gun was fired late Monday night before the Tuesday Election. They had worked as hard as any woman the last six weeks of the campaign and merit the utmost measure of credit. J. Stitt Wilson, the socialist Mayor of Berkeley and said to be the best orator west of Chicago, was probably the best vote-getter. Dr. Aked did splendid work and improved immensely as the campaign waxed warmer. His debate with Col. Irish created immense interest and filled the house beyond capacity - there were probably a couple of thousand people who could not get in. Wilson did street speaking almost the entire last week - and Dr. Aked spoke in Union Square, where Nordica spoke and sang, the night before Election. There were about a dozen men who made our campaign theirs and did everything in their power to help us. We are told that we polled about half the 800 Chinese votes. This is particularly interesting because everything was done to turn them against us. The story is told that an attorney who has a large number of Chinese clients used his influence with them to vote us down, but a good many of the younger Chinamen stood with us because they said when the Chinese Republic was established they wanted to enfranchise their own women who would help them in their fight for freedom. It is said that the revolution in China is being organized from here. It would be a curious thing if when you reach China you find the Chinese women enfranchised. #16 Albert Elliott did yeoman service in this campaign as in 1896. He has risen politically since the last campaign and his political judgment was freely offered, and found invaluable. The one especially fine thing about him was that we could trust him absolutely. The day the tide of success turned our way he and his family spent hours at headquarters quivering alternately with hope and fear just like the rest of us. And there were other men who did the same thing. Mrs. "Polly" Chapin, a New York woman and a friend of Mrs. Laidlaw, whom perhaps you might know, did much quiet effective work. She has been with us for the past two months in the interests of the Nevada amendment. She contributed generously in money, did any and all the scrub jobs she was asked to do, and scorned union hours. We are hoping to make love to her so hard that she was will come back to us. She says she may. Quite a number of eastern women who have gone through the campaign have strong leanings California-ward, now that we have the vote. Gail and Dr. Sperry may leave Denver to come here and live. Just after election Gail received a letter from the Governor of Colorado saying that he had the honor of appointing her to a vacancy on the Board of Pardons. She is also attorney for the Denver Woman's Club and the Denver W.C.T.U. with a retaining fee from each of $50. She appears to be doing very well, and says it will be a wrench to tear away from all the good women of Denver who have made so much of her - but she may #17 come to California anyway. Helen Todd is very anxious to be a Californian and if some plans that are on foot now materialize properly she probably will have her wish gratified. There is a movement to organize the suffrage forces into a sort of Public Service Club. The plan is to have a house with perhaps two or three resident women who are fitted for the "Up-Lifting" business, where all kinds of experts on public question will be entertained and in exchange for something to eat will give tons of everything they know. The House will then become the disseminator of these tons of knowledge to the 18 districts into which our city is divided. We propose to have a machinery similar to that of the Woman Suffrage Party, only instead of working for suffrage we will [work] try to use the suffrage to the best advantage. Well, Helen Todd is regarded as a particularly good "disseminator" and if all goes well she will get the job to disseminate and gather in public wisdom. I have been spoken of as a vague possibility but I don't think I'd "uplift" very well. I don't care much about being tied to any one thing. I have a notion that you have been holding off waiting to see how California was going before really deciding to be a Californian. It is jolly to feel you are a voter. I have just worked for the vote so that I might lay it at your feet as an irresistible inducement! No one but a flint-hearted woman would spurn my sacrifice. #18 I sent you a cable the day you sailed from London (July 15th) wishing you Bon Voyage and am wondering whether you received it or whether it arrived too late. I sent it the night of the 14th and it should have been received in London early the next morning. I hope this finds you well and happy and that you still love me as well as I love you. Devotedly, Your Steady Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.