The Story of the Woman's PartyGillmore, Inez Haynes
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The Story of the Woman's Party
Gillmore, Inez Haynes
National Woman's Party; Paul, Alice, 1885-1977; Women -- Suffrage -- United States
From the very beginning of our work in Washington, we have followed
one consistent policy from which we have not departed a single
moment. We began our work with the coming in of the present Congress
and immediately went to the Party which was in control of the
situation and asked it to act. We determined to get the Amendment
through the Sixty-third Congress, or to make it very clear who had
kept it from going through. Now, as has been shown, the Democrats
have been in control of all branches of the Government and they are
therefore responsible for the non-passage of our measure.
The point is first, who is our enemy and then, how shall that enemy
be attacked?
We are all, I think, agreed that it is the Democratic Party which is
responsible for the blocking of the Suffrage Amendment. Again and
again that Party has gone on record through the action of its
leaders, its caucus, and its committees so that an impregnable case
has been built up against it. We now lay before you a plan to meet
the present situation.
We propose going into the nine Suffrage States and appealing to the
women to use their votes to secure the franchise for the women of
the rest of the country. All of these years we have worked primarily
in the States. Now the time has come, we believe, when we can really
go into national politics and use the nearly four million votes that
we have to win the vote for the rest of us. Now that we have four
million voters, we need no longer continue to make our appeal simply
to the men. The struggle in England has gotten down to a physical
fight. Here our fight is simply a political one. The question is
whether we are good enough politicians to take four million votes
and organize them and use them so as to win the vote for the women
who are still disfranchised.
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