NAWSA     
Subject File    
Congressional Union       
Young, Rose

National American Woman Suffrage Association 
(Branch of International Woman Suffrage Alliance And of National Council of Women) 

Honorary President Dr. Anna Howard Shaw 

President Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt 

1st Vice-President Mrs. Walter McNab Miller 

2nd Vice-President Mrs. Stanley McCormick 

3rd Vice-President Miss Esther G. Ogden

Treasurer Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers 

Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Frank J. Shuler 

Recording Secretary Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Smith 

1st Auditor Miss Heloise Meyer 

2nd Auditor Mrs. Pattie Ruffner Jacobs

1626 Rhode Island Ave., Washington, D.C. 

Press Bureau 
Rose Young, Director 
Telephone 4818 Murray Hill 

Editorial Section 
Mrs. Ida Husted Harper 

Washington Representative 
Mr. George Mosshart 

New York April 25, 1917

Miss Ethel M. Smith, 
1626 Rhode Island Ave., Washington, D.C. 

My dear Miss Smith: 

I have your letter of April 23rd, and you have certainly imposed a stumper when you ask me to keep the National Woman's Party from stealing our thunder. We simply cannot do it. Their imaginations are too lively. You will be grieved to find out that everything you do successfully will be claimed by them. 

If you find any antidote you let me know, and if I find any I will let you know, but from the outset I do not feel very hopeful for the success of either of us. With reference to their deputation to the White House to ask for the President's support for the Maryland Presidential Suffrage Bill, you probably know that the Maryland Presidential Suffrage Campaign is in the hands of the Just Government League of Maryland and that, of course, is a C.U. organization. I don't know just how the League took the lead in this but they seem to have done so. 

Of course we have already put out publicity from this end of the line covering Michigan, Rhode Island, and Nebraska, and have had a good many stories linking up these successes with the National's "Big Drive For Presidential Suffrage". What we must do is to get our stories out promptly in each case, making sure that each victory is stressed as a link in the National's chain of successes. 

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We have some advantage because of our local affiliations. In most states the Presidential Suffrage Campaign is definitely in the hands of the organization affiliated with the National. 

Cordially Yours, 
Rose Young (signature) 

RY/MR

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