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
In these centers, open-air, drawing-room, and theatre meetings followed
each other in rapid succession. In many districts, the campaigners
canvassed from door to door. Window-cards, handbills, cartoons,
moving-picture films, and voiceless speeches, calling upon the women
voters to refuse their support to the Party which had blocked the
National Suffrage Amendment, appeared everywhere from Seattle to Phœnix.
A pithily worded _Appeal to the Women Voters_ was placed in the hands of
the women voters. Press bulletins describing the campaign against the
Democratic candidates for Congress and reiterating the record made by
the Democratic Party on the Suffrage question, were issued daily.
Literature dealing with the record of the Democratic Party and with the
value to the woman voter of a national Suffrage Amendment, were sent to
innumerable homes in every Suffrage State.
The _Suffragist_, which teemed with reports of what these vigorous
campaigners were doing, presents pictures which could have occurred
nowhere in the world but the United States, and nowhere in the United
States but the West. The speakers were interesting, amusing, full of
information and enthusiasm. With a sympathy and understanding typically
western, men and women responded immediately, responded equally to this
original campaign.
All the time, of course, these speakers were educating the people of the
United States in regard to the work of Congress. This was a new note in
Suffrage campaigns; but it was the policy of the Congressional Union at
all times whether campaigns were being waged or not.
From the _Suffragist_ of September 19, I quote from a report of the
enterprising Jessie Hardy Stubbs, who actually began her work on board
the North Coast, Limited:
Here we are—all bound for the field of battle. Miss McCue, Miss
Whittemore and I are together. Miss Whittemore joined us at Chicago
full of earnestness and zeal. We have put up signs in each car that
there will be a meeting tonight in the observation car, and that we
will speak on the record of the Democratic Party in Congress and
Women Suffrage. There is much interest. We have sold ten
_Suffragists_ today on board the train, secured new subscribers to
the _Suffragist_, and contributions for the campaign.
Doris Stevens writes in the _Suffragist_ of October 3:
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