Produced by David Edwards, Barry Abrahamsen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Illustration: ALICE PAUL. Taken the Day Before She Went to Prison. Photo Copr. Edmonston Studio, Washington, D. C.] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE STORY OF THE WOMAN’S PARTY BY INEZ HAYNES IRWIN ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS [Illustration: Publisher’s Logo] NEW YORK HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY 1921 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC. THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY RAHWAY. N. J. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ “But with such women consecrating their lives failure is impossible.” Last words spoken in public by SUSAN B. ANTHONY— her birthday, 1906. “Most of those who worked with me in the early years have gone. I am here for a little time only and my place will be filled as theirs was filled. The fight must not cease; you must see that it does not stop.” SUSAN B. ANTHONY. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TO THE INSPIRED, DEVOTED, UNTIRING, AND SELF- SACRIFICING MEMBERS OF THE WOMAN’S PARTY, AND IN ESPECIAL TO THOSE WHOSE WORK CANNOT FOR LACK OF SPACE BE MENTIONED HERE OR WHOSE EFFORTS MAY NEVER EVEN IN THE FUTURE BE PROPERLY APPRECIATED, THIS BOOK IS ADMIRINGLY AND REVERENTLY DEDICATED. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS PART ONE 1913-1914 I. INTRODUCTION 3 II. ALICE PAUL 6 III. ALICE PAUL AND LUCY BURNS 14 IV. F STREET AND THE EARLY DAYS 18 V. MAKING THE FEDERAL AMENDMENT AN ISSUE 31 VI. PRESSURE ON CONGRESS 49 VII. PRESSURE ON THE PRESIDENT 57 VIII. THE STRUGGLE WITH THE RULES COMMITTEE 66 IX. THE FIRST APPEAL TO THE WOMEN VOTERS 73 X. CONGRESS TAKES UP THE SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT 87 PART TWO 1915-1916