NAWSA                                   Subject File                                                                Congressional Union
                                                                                                                                        Chamberlain, George E.

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UNITED STATES SENATE.
Committee on Military Affairs.
Washington, D. C.

September 29, 1914

Dr. Anna Howard Shaw,
National Headquarters,
505- 5th Ave/
New York City.

My dear Doctor Shaw:

I am very glad indeed to know that you do not approve 
of the course that is being followed by the Congressional Union 
for Woman Suffrage in opposing Democratic members of Congress 
in the different states in the Union, even where such Democrats 
have been long and consistent friends of the cause in which you 
have done valiant service. This is in line with your good 
letter to me of February 17th last, and it seems to me that it 
is the wise as well as the just course to pursue. Why, for 
instance, should Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubbs, the present Chairman 
of the Congressional Union For Woman Suffrage, go to Oregon, 
open headquarters, and expend large sums of money in an effort 
to defeat me simply because I happen to be a Democrat? For 
thirty-four years I have been a friend of woman suffrage, and, 
as you know, introduced you to audiences in my State in 1906, 
advocating with you the cause in which you were engaged.

I am glad to be able to tell you that your views are 
entertained by your Oregon friends and most of those advocating 
woman suffrage who believe in a "square deal" and who do not 
propose to defeat unjustly those who for almost a lifetime have 
made common cause with them.

You told me in your last letter that if you could at 
any time be of service to me in the present emergency, you 
would gladly render such service. I therefore suggest that if 
you still feel as you did when you wrote me in February last, 
you can very materially aid me in the unjust fight being waged 
against me by writing a good strong letter to me, to be published 
in the Oregon Journal, Portland, Oregon, expressive of 
your views of the course that is being pursued there by Mrs. 
Jessie Hardy Stubbs. I can safely say to you that her course 
will be resented by the good women of Oregon as strongly as 
it has been by your good self.

Thanking you in anticipation, I am,
Very sincerely yours, 

GEORGE E. CHAMBERLAIN.
Oregon Chairman.

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