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
Our plan is this: To send at least two women to each of those nine
States. We would put one woman at the center who would attend to the
organizing, the publicity and the distribution of literature. We
would have literature printed showing what the Democratic Party has
done with regard to Suffrage in the Sixty-third Congress. We would
have leaflets printed from the Eastern women appealing to the
Western women for help, and we would have leaflets issued showing
how much the enfranchised woman herself needs the Federal Amendment
because most important matters are becoming national in their
organization and can only be dealt with by national legislation. We
could reach every home in every one of those nine States with our
literature, without very great expense. One good woman at the center
could make this message, this appeal from Eastern women, known to
the whole State. The other worker would attend to the speaking and
in six weeks could easily cover all the large towns of the State.
[Illustration: WHY IS THE GIRL FROM THE WEST GETTING ALL THE ATTENTION?
Nina Allender in _The Suffragist_.]
This is the plan that we are considering, and that we are hoping to
put through. We would be very much interested to hear what you think
about it and want, of course, to have your co-operation in carrying
it through.
* * * * *
The Conference voted to unite behind the Bristow-Mondell Amendment in
Congress and to support an active election campaign against candidates
of the Democratic Party. It raised over seven thousand dollars to meet
the expense of this campaign.
* * * * *
The details of the election campaign project were immediately worked
out; organizers were selected and after a farewell garden party on
September 14, they started for the nine enfranchised States.
Headquarters were opened in San Francisco under Lucy Burns and Rose
Winslow; in Denver, Colorado, under Doris Stevens and Ruth Noyes; in
Phœnix, Arizona, under Jane Pincus and Josephine Casey; in Kansas City,
Kansas, under Lola C. Trax and Edna S. Latimer; at Portland, Oregon,
under Jessie Hardy Stubbs and Virginia Arnold; in Seattle, Washington,
under Margaret Whittemore and Anne McCue; at Cheyenne, Wyoming, under
Gertrude Hunter; at Salt Lake City, Utah, under Elsie Lancaster; at
Boise City, Idaho, under Helena Hill Weed.
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