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
“They invited Miss Lancaster,” the _Herald_ continued, “to come to
Democratic State Headquarters, and there kept her on the grill for
two and a half hours. This term of cross-examination, during which
she was under fire of cross-questioning and denunciation from
practically all of the Democratic politicians present, was a vain
endeavor to have her bring to an immediate close her campaign
against the Democratic nominees for the United States Senate and
Congress. For two hours and a half, the hundred pounds of femininity
withstood the concentrated cross-fire of the ton of beef and brawn
represented by the dozen or more distinguished Democrats who acted
as attorney, judge, and jury all in one. After they had finished,
she went her way, telling Mr. Wallace that neither he nor his
hirelings could swerve her from her duty in Utah as a representative
of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage.
“The greatest outburst of Generalissimo Wallace,” concludes the
_Herald_, “was when, in a moment of rage, he brought his fist down
on the table and threatened to advertise Miss Lancaster the country
over by means of the Associated Press as being in league with
‘sinister influences’ in Utah.”
One of the candidates for Congress from Kansas (Representative
Doolittle) called at the Washington Headquarters of the Union
shortly after the inauguration of work in Kansas, and urged the
Union to withdraw its campaigners from his district, at least, if
not over all the Western States. Finding the Union determined to
continue its opposition through the women voters, as long as his
Party continued its opposition to the National Amendment, Mr.
Doolittle delivered a speech in the House of Representatives
(occupying more than a page of the _Congressional Record_),
denouncing the Union, and assuring the members of Congress that its
appeal to the women voters was not authorized by the Suffragists of
the country.
Representative Hayden of Arizona also endeavored, in a speech in the
House, to answer the appeal of the Congressional Union to the
Western women to cast their votes against him, together with the
other national Democratic candidates. Nearly three pages of the
_Record_ was consumed by Mr. Hayden’s speech, which he reprinted,
and sent far and wide through the State of Arizona in an attempt to
counteract the havoc which it was apparently believed was being
wrought by the Congressional Union workers.
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