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
Friday afternoon, Mrs. Lucius M. Cuthbert, a daughter of ex-Senator
Hill, gave us a drawing-room meeting in her beautiful Denver home.
She invited representative women from all Parties to come and hear
of the work of the Union, to which invitation about one hundred
women responded. One Democratic lady came up to me after the meeting
and said, “I had no idea you women had been so rebuffed by my Party.
I am convinced that my duty is to the women first, and my Party
second.” Another: “You have almost convinced me that we women must
stand together on this national issue.” And so it went. And, as our
charming hostess pointed out, the applause was often led by a
prominent Democratic woman. Offers of help, loans of furniture, and
general expressions of eagerness to aid were made on every side. The
meeting was a splendid success, judging from the large number of
women who joined the Union and the generous collection which was
given.
In the _Suffragist_ of October 10, Lola Trax writes:
The meeting at Lebanon was especially well advertised. The moving
picture shows had run an advertising slide; the Wednesday prayer
meeting had announced my coming, and the Public Schools had also
made announcements to their pupils. The Ladies’ Aid Society invited
me to speak in the afternoon, while they were quilting; and thus
another anti-Suffrage argument was shattered; for quilting and
politics went hand in hand.
At Phillipsburg the meeting was on the Court House green. It is
fifty-seven miles from Phillipsburg to Osborne and the trip has to
be made by freight. I was on the road from six-thirty o’clock in the
morning until three P.M. About a dozen passengers were in the
caboose on the freight, and we held a meeting and discussion which
lasted about forty-five minutes. Upon reaching Osborne at three
o’clock I found about one hundred people assembled for an auction
sale in the middle of the street. Cots, tables, and chairs were to
be offered at sacrifice prices. The temptation to hold a meeting
overcame fatigue. I jumped into an automobile nearby and had a most
interested crowd until the auctioneer came. I had been unable to
secure the Town Hall because a troupe of players were making a one
night stand in the town. The meeting at night was also in the open
air.
In the _Suffragist_ of October 10, Jessie Hardy Stubbs continues:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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