Women -- Suffrage -- History; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History; Women's rights -- History; Women's rights -- United States -- History
Resolved, that we urge the United States Senate to take up and
submit this amendment at the earliest possible date in order that
all the women of the nation may have the right of suffrage and
the nation may have the benefit of their citizenship.
Both Democratic and Republican parties, and the Populist and
Progressive parties when they existed, have stood for equal suffrage
and unequivocally endorsed it in their platforms. The appointment of
vice-chairwomen of the political State Committees is a foregone
conclusion. During the memorable campaign of 1914, Mrs. Steele, wife
of the late Chief Justice Robert W. Steele, successfully filled this
place in the Democratic party during a time fraught with difficulties,
as the then Congressional Union opened headquarters in Denver to
oppose every Democratic candidate for Congress under the excuse of
holding the party in federal power responsible. The injection of such
a movement in a State where equal suffrage had long been in force and
the women had allied themselves with the parties of their choice,
created among them a keen resentment and acrimonious controversy. The
Democratic Senator, Charles S. Thomas, and Democratic Representatives
who had always been friends of woman suffrage, were re-elected.
Beginning with 1908 the following women were sent as delegates or
alternates to the presidential nominating conventions: Mary C. C.
Bradford, Katherine Cook, Anna H. Pitzer, Eugenia Kelley, Nancy
Kirkland, Helen L. Grenfell, Alice B. Clark, Mary Nichols and Anna M.
Scott. The following have served as presidential electors: Gertrude A.
Lee, Sarah K. Walling, Adella Bailey, Julie Penrose, Anna Wolcott
Vaile.
On Jan. 1, 1919, one of the most important receptions in Denver was
given by the State Equal Suffrage Association to the new Governor,
Oliver H. Shoup (Republican) and his wife, and the retiring Governor,
Julius C. Gunter (Democrat) and his wife. Both were on the board of
directors of the association. It was held in the roof ballroom of the
Adams Hotel and was a most democratic affair, all classes being
represented, as all had found a common interest in public welfare. A
few months later the association gave a handsomely appointed luncheon
at the Adams with Senator Agnes Riddle as guest of honor. Its purpose
was to show appreciation of her heroic stand for women when she voted
against the male appointee of the Governor of her own party to take
the place of a woman expert (a member of the other party) on the Board
of Charities and Correction.
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