NAWSA       Subject File       Congressional Union California Woman's State Democratic League

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 Berkely
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 unanimous vote of the Board of Directors, CALIFORNIA WOMAN'S STATE DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE, in regular session, August 4, 1915; 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, depricate 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.


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