NAWSA Subject File Congressional Union (Dora Lewis) Lewis Mrs. Laurence [?] (Dora) Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 1420 F STREET, WASHINGTON, D. C. Colors-Purple, White and Gold Executive Committee Miss Alice Pual, N. J., Chairman Miss Lucy Burns, N. Y., Vice-Chairman Mrs. Donald Hooker, Md., Chairman Finance Mrs. Mary Beard, N. Y. Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, N. Y. Mrs. Crystal Eastman Benedict, N. Y. Mrs. Gilson Gardner, D. C. Miss Elsie Hill Conn. Mrs. Wm. Kent, Cal. Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, Jr., Pa. Advisory Council Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch, N. Y. Mrs. Inez Milholland Boissevain, N. Y. Mrs. John Winters Brannan, N. Y Mrs. Edward N. Breitung, N. Y. Reverend Olympia Brown, Wis. Mrs. Lillian Harris Coflin, Cal. Mrs. Everett Colby, N. J. Mrs. William L. Colt, N. Y. Mrs. Frank Cothren, N. Y. Mrs. Lucius M. Cuthbert, Col. Mrs. George H. Day, Conn. Mrs. John Dewey, N. Y. Miss Mary Bartlett Dixon, Md. Miss Lavinia Dock, N. Y. 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Mrs. John Jay White, D. C. Miss Charlotte Anita Whitney, Cal. Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, D. C. Mrs. S. B. M. Young, Mont. Headquarters California-Unit 195, Palace of Education. Panama Pacific Exposition, San Francisco. Organizer: Miss Margaret Whittemore. Colorado-324 17th Street, Denver. Organizer: Miss Ruth Astor Noyes. Delaware-305 Delaware Avenue, Wilmington. Organizers: Miss Mabel Vernon, Miss Anna McCue, Miss Edna S. Latimer. District of Columbia-1420 F Street, Washington, D. C. Organizer: Miss Isabella Mott. New York-13 East 41st Street, New York City. Organizer: Miss Doris Sevens. Oregon-514 Eiler's Building, Portland. Organizer: Miss Virginia Arnold. [*Look up Correspondence Rubens*] VOTES FOR WOMEN 1316 Eutaw Place, Baltimore, Md. June 15, 1915 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, 305 Fifth Avenue, New York City. My dear Mrs. Catt: I have delayed answering your letter of May 26th addressed to Miss Alice Paul and the members of the Board of the Congressional Union, in order to have the opportunity to see the correspondence between you and Miss Paul, re Congressional Union in New York. I now have the correspondence before me. You state in your letter of May 26th- "In reply Miss Paul wrote an entirely satisfactory letter in which I understood that she gave a definite pledge on behalf of the Union to keep its activities out of the State. She mentioned that plans were already under way for a deputation to visit Senator O'Gorman, but that when that was over, nothing further would be done. Bad tactics as I believe that to be, I made no protest, as I thought security was pledged in the compact against further mischief." I want to call your attention to the fact that no mention whatever was made of a deputation to Senator O'Gorman or to any other congressman in either your letter to Miss Paul or in Miss Paul's reply to you. The only point which Miss Paul discussed in her letter was the holding a Congressional Union Convention in New York, at which a constitution for the State Branch was to be adopted and the State officers elected and definite organizing begun-and which she stated had already been scheduled for November, after the campaign had closed - and also explained in her letter that this was the plan for all the campaign states. #2. You speak of "the attempted attack of your representatives upon the President in Philadelphia." There is some grave misapprehension here. The women who wished to see the President when he came to Philadelphia are the leading women in Philadelphia in suffrage and other reform, and surely such a serious representative group could not be said to be "attempting to attack" the President, when they were but asking for five minutes of his time in order to present Pennsylvania's claim to enfranchisement. You say "Is it not good sense, fair courtesy and good tactics to give these women of the campaign states the best chance possible." May I remind you that all of the Congressional Union demonstrations in the campaign states are made by the women of the campaign states themselves. No outsiders were members of the attempted deputations in either Philadelphia or New York. We are not opposing the Democratic Party, as you state. I am sending you a copy of The Suffragist, under another cover, which takes up that subject. I am sorry you did not look into these facts before making the charge. We have tried to make it clear that we are not opposing any party now, as this new Congress has no record whatever on the suffrage issue, and we are hoping, expecting, it to be friendly to us. These points of your letter being answered, I have only the last part to reply to - but indeed, I know that needs no reply. I am glad you are ready to acknowledge our sincerity and good faith, as we do yours and that of your co-workers, and I should be sorry to think any suffragist could question it for either group of workers. I am working to help carry Pennsylvania through my local organization, the Equal Franchise Society of Philadelphia, of which I am a director, and would not, of course, assist any movement that could injure our chance in November. I welcome the Congressional Union, as do many of our best workers in my state, as a very great help towards the success of our referendum campaign. With best wishes, for your success in New York, Very sincerely yours, Dora Lewis Member of the Executive Committee of the Congressional Union. Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage Committee MISS ALICE PAUL, N. J., CHAIRMAN MRS. CRYSTAL EASTMAN BENEDICT, WIS. MISS LUCY BURNS, N. Y. MRS. DORA LEWIS, PA. MRS. MARY BEARD, N. Y. HEADQUARTERS 1420 F STREET N.W.. WASHINGTON. D. C. [*Cong Com*] February 11, 1914. [*? 6 or V-3-*] My dear Mrs. Dennett: I will be at Headquarters tomorrow- Thursday- at 10 o’clock, in accordance with the invitation sent by you February 7th. Very sincerely yours, Dora Lewis Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.