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The 0M0 Votes for W amen Fellowship

Non-dues Paying
It is said: “Women will get the vote when the majority
want it.” Be one of that majority. If you believe in
Votes for Women sign this slip. The top part is to be
retained by your local leader. Be sure that she gets it.

Name

Address Town or City.
St ................................. No .............

Do you belong to a suffrage organization?

Give name of organization.
THESE SLIPS ARE TO BE SIGNED ONLY BY WOMEN.

OHIO WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION

HONORARY PRESIDENT, FRANCES M. CASEMENT. PAINESVILLE

PRESIDENT
HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON
Warren

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
ZARA du PONT
1814 East 89th St., Cleveland

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT
DORA SANDOE BACHMAN
505 Grand Theatre Bldg. Columbus

THIRD VICE PRESIDENT
ANNA B. JOHNSON
Springﬁeld

HEADQUARTERS: MASONIC BLDG,

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RECORDING SECRETARY
MARGARET J. BRANDENBURG
Oxford

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
MRS. EDITH M. HUGHES
1231 Lakewood Ave., Lima

TREASURER
ZELL HART DEMING
Warren

MEMBER NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
MRS. O. F. DAVISSON
307 Central Ave., Dayton

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You rememner that
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jy dear ErS.Upton,
have 311st received yours Lith toe Qoose mort-

gage enol Bed. I am returning it with the release signed.

Do you know I am greatly relieved that the tenets did not pass the

ﬂnthony Amendment? It is a misnomer to call it a suffrage amendment

if it coEveys the idea that granting woman suffrage is its most exten-
ive polit cal effect. In fact, ite provision for Federal supervieion
elections is the provis io nwhich will extend to all the

whilst it does not touch the gr out of squr nge in the fifteen

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e which nave it in their constitutions; it only fills out nar-
tial suffrage already outfoxeof in M 3nLv—two other states, and initi—

attes suffrage merely f, o. a? ~Sw'de ”‘ i s ’ntnony sterte
movement in 1878 the Qua .:. 3;- .ﬂﬂl sug' ervis ion of stat;
was palliuted by the ‘4 3 “ va' extensive w‘th the grant of
and only
where women he) *w‘ '_;l 3”,'o Q”. Ly from Lee Lime “yoming 51% W61
the union in 1890 .u m suffrage state, the Federal eupervision of
elect one Mann - be the ﬂominant orovieion, anﬂ has been growing
more so with each triumph of moman suffrage until now suffrage gas be»
come evidently a secondury effect. I .ave no oatience with mcmen who
to other women's voting, since thev need not vote themselves
not wish to a0 80. But I think Lhat be th men and Lemon have
rioht to object to giving up the right of states to supervise
own elections for the sake of giving sni’froﬂe to women in state
their one wg oxen nt is that they either have not public ccnv.otion
enougn or are not interested enough in their own enfrancnieement to do

the necessary wotk to get it by .thte oonstito.t :nal amendment. The fat
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fact that so many of the states nave rrrn ted full or partial suffrage
by the vote of the elctors or by legislative action is a refutation of
tne claim that any state is insuperably Opgosed to granting suffrage
to women, ghen their own peogle ﬁesire it. I regard Feﬁeral sugarvi-
sion of state electinns as an instrument of tyranny ready to the hand
of any section, north, south, east or west, which gets the preponder-
ance in (ongress and cares to use the power.

Have you observed 39;. Cantrill's remarks about Frimary Q .ge?
36 is u 7y. renresentative, and if primary suffrage turns out to

c nstitutiunal with us, i ":Kely Hue ”he Ey.m-E.ﬁ. Till 33x

tnat next legislature.

am taking the inn. inquirer, an: ; sue all on” snfzxmwn

Ohio which is lifﬂjlishod ii "1 ‘ f. .. - ' 2 : tori-

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I919.

Lave just received tno Clock for toe ﬁoose note,

for onion I tuenk you. I enclose receipt.

that do you think of suoﬁuﬂiﬁﬂﬁﬂﬁﬁﬁ%i%§%kéﬂ%$ktho Anthony Amendment
an amendment : } r out the ”word male" wherever it occurs in section
'tmo of the Fourteenth amendment? It would have the effect of offering a
premium to all the states which grant suffrage to women by state amendment,
nave
of forcing on t osc which given it to submit to general inspec-
stste elections. It will not cost the stetes any more work to
get state amendments submitted than it would cost to ratify the Inthony
amendment; and toe politicians mould take good care to carry the state
amendment without labor or cost to ﬁne women, because they wreld dread to
;ation in Congress out down,
rive me your Opinion on this suggestion. It is
my impression tnet Kiss lnthony, tage,her with other early suffregists,
urged Charles lumncr not to put in the word ”male” in the fourteenth a?
mendment, realizing that if it nus left out, it would put pressure on the

States to enfrenohise women. ﬂow niss *nthony’s memory could be a. much

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honorei by heyl o the Vourteenth amendment read as sﬂe W18 so it as to
pass a later amendment, which she was forced to advocate bonuuse one coulé
not get the first done.

Very cordially yours

I need not say that this amendment nonlo not antagonize those VhO believe

in States sights.

OHIO WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION

HONORARY PRESIDENT, FRANCES M. CASEMENT, PAINESVILLE

PRESIDENT
HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON
Warren

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
ZARA du PONT _
1814 East 89th St., Cleveland

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT
DORA SANDOE BACHMAN
505 Grand Theatre Bldg. Columbus

THIRD VICE PRESIDENT
ANNA B. JOHNSON
Springﬁeld

Kiss LeNra
189 N. Nil?
Lexington,

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there are an awful lot of comyl
. Lit T felt onr Conventior,

rmitter, should de Gide these. The leade
810 ro‘ Hi ling to we it for
next Week, and as Lent CCI es
was social after next week,
of a Corven+ion int
I have been having a
and I really heven't any "Brain

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T have tried as hard as I could
Fourteen,h Arendment and The things which
Gated in regard to it, but T must confess

Maybe it is because I never took pains enough with it,
oppositior

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"Male"

because T was always
Amendment. Of CONPSe,
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much use of our trying to argue

they did try not toheve the word
Amendment, buf

tion was there.

. I do not think it matters much
Anthony's memory. If she were here
us to get SLlffPﬂ 1ge for women

Miss
For

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RECORDING SECRETARY
MARGARET J. BRANDENBURG
Oxford

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
MRS. EDITH M. HUGHES
1231 Lakewood Ave, Lima

TREASURER
ZELL HART DEMING
Warren

MEMBER NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
MRS. O. F. DAVISSON
307 Central Ave., Dayton

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OHIO WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION

HONORARY PRESIDENT, FRANCES M. CASEMENT, PAINESVILLE

PRESIDENT

RECORDING SECRETARY
HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON MARGARET J. BRANDENBURG
Warren

Oxford
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
ZARA du PONT MRS. EDITH M. HUGHES
1814 East 89th St., Cleveland 1231 Lakewood Ave, Lima
SECOND VICE PRESIDENT TREASURER
DORA SANDOE BACHMAN ZELL HART DEMING
505 Grand Theatre Bldg. Columbus- Warren
THIRD VICE PRESIDENT ‘ MEMBER NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
ANNA B. JOHNSON I ' MRS. O. F. DAVISSON

Springﬁeld 307 Central Ave, Dayton

““0 April 1, 1919.

Miss Laura Clay,
Lexington, Ky.

Dear Miss Clay:—

It was very nice for you to Sign the telegram
which was sent to me from St. Louis. I am sure that I
would have been of no account in the convention if I
had been there because everything was so well planned
and was carried.out according to plane, but just the
same I like to have the people who were there remem—
ber that I was still on Earth and I am.writing to thank
you for being one of the group remembering.

Mrs. Avery is with me for a few day's Visit
and she has been telling me all the ins and ou‘s Of the
Convention and I think I have a very good understanding
of it.

Cordially yours,

_. —\,—‘..._..\

Form 1204

CLASS OF SERVICE SYMBOL
Telegram
Day Letter Blue
Night Message Nite

CLASS OF SERVICE SYMBOL
Telegram
Day Letter Blue
Night Message Nite
Night Letter N L Night Letter N L

If none of these three symbols - a - V. . ‘ If none of these three symbols

appears after the check (number of .- ’ appeare after the check (number of

words) this is a telegram. Other- * worde) this IS a telegr'am. Other-
mse Its character IS indicated bythe

i e'tscharaoterislndicatedb the . , ‘
gyrsntml appearing after the chyeck. NEWCOMB CARLTON. PRESIDENT GEORGE w. E. ATKINS. FIRST VICE~PRESIDENT symbol appearing after the check.

RECEIVED AT

WARE N emse—- iliBAM 4-22-1919

LAURA CLAY "
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189 NORTH MiLL ST LEXN KY

RELEASE WILLIAMS MORTGAGE AND NOTE AND SEND T9 ME lMMEDiATELY

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MRS IET T LIPTON
1122AM~«

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April 22, 1919

Miss Laura Clay,
189 N. Mill St.,
Lexington, Ky.,

Dear Miss Clay:

The Real Estate Board has bought
the Williams property and they want you to
release the mortgage. As it will be due soon
anyway and as you would have no objections to
releasing it I have said you would do this.

I therefore telegraphed you this morning to
release the mortgage and the note and to send
them to me immediately. I am hOping you will
want me to re—invest this money either in a
mortgage drawing 7% or in my real estate busi-
ness drawing 10% or 12% maybe more.

There is no possibility at all of
your losing your principal. However you will
know whether you want to re-invest it and you
will know how you want to re~1nvest it. If you
only want to re-invest part of it that is all
ﬂight. I could take the Whole thousand or
e500.00.

Hastily yours,

HTU/B

189 N.Mill St., Lexington, Ky.
April 25rd, I919.
My dear Mrs.Upton,
I received your telegram about the “Williams mortgage,
this afternoon, too late to go to ﬁiohmond, where I have my lock box.
But I am going on the first train tomorrow morning, and expect to send

you the papers by the afternoon train. I am writing in Lexington to

save time; so you will understand why the post—mark is ﬁiehmonﬁ, instead

of Terington.
I shall stay in ’ichmond for a ﬂay or two; so if you have written to
me I shall not receive the letter till I come back.

"or? cordially yours,

TﬁQ T.Mill ”+., Lexington Vy.
April 26th, I919.
My aear "rs.”pton, '

On my return yesterday from ﬁichmond where I went to
send you the ”illiams mortgage I found your letter explaining your tel-
egram.

Yes, I was quite willing to have the note paid; for before T re-
oeived your telegram I had applieﬂ for some of the Victory liberty bonds,
intendins to new for them on the instalment olen; and T has hesiées made
some oledges, including one for repairs to our church. 80 that I mes quite

relieved at tee orosneot of having readv cash to meet these expenan,
Ehempt rayment of these obligations is more attractive to me than the
larger interest 7 would obtain by re-investing in warren; so please send
the «one? when you collect it. It certainly has been a great help to
me to have you invest this money in the first place; and I went to than?
you for the assistance you have been,and are, to me. T suppose the liberty

loans are taking up a greet ﬂeel of money which once was free for real
estate. Whey anneal to patriotism.

Hove not our recent suffrage victories been greet? Tennessee's

victory is especiallv fine, as it includes municieal suffrage. I am

confidently looking for presidential suffrage in a large majority of the

qtotes, including Kentucky, before the onmneian of 1920/

Very cordially y0urs,

gﬁarriet EL gﬂptmt
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Miss Laura Cl«
189 N, Mills
Lexington, Ky.

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Miss Laura Clay,
189 N. Mills St.,
Lexingtor, Ky.

Pear Miss Clayz~

Your cancelled mortgage came promptly and I took
it to the bank and they paid the mortgage without waiting
to get Miss Peilly'e note. I therefore put the principle
and the interoot into my account and am sending you your

£3

interest — 37.96.
T have had to do part of my stenographio work
at home of late and have been so rushed in the office that
between them I wrote you in regard to your principle and
made a Nietake about it. I thought you had $1000.00 in
this loan and Miss Reilly $500.00. It seems it was the
other way, so when I said that I could reinvest your
$1000.00 or your $500.00 if youxwanted me to I was in-
error, but of course, you knew that.

I Wil. await your instructions in regard to
your principle.

Cordially yours,

189 ﬂ.Jill :3., Lexington, Ly.

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Miss Laura Clay,
Lexington, Ky.

Dear Mis. Clay:

Have been out in the field hence
you did not get your check. I am enclosing
it. Hope you did not worry about it. You
see the girls in the office attend strictly
to suffrage business and nobody knows any-
thing about my private affairs. Hence the
check was delayed. ’

Cordially yours,

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"WE SHALL FIGHT FOR THE THINGS WHICH WE HAVE ALWAYS CARRIED
NEAREST OUR HEARTS—FOR DEMOCRACY. FOR THE RIGHT OF THOSE WHO
SUBMIT TO AUTHORITY To HAVE A VOICE IN THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT."

OHIO WOMAN SUFFRAOE ASSOCIATION

STATE HEADQUARTERS

PRESIDENT TREASURER
HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON WARREN. OHIO ZELL HART DEMING
WARREN. ‘NAPRHN

STATE FINANCE COMMITTEE

CHAIRMAN. MRS. EDWARD S. JORDAN. 3128 LINCOLN BLVD. CLEVELAND
VICE-CHAIRMAN. MRS. MALCOLM L. McBRIDE,1583 MISTLETOE DRIVE, CLEVELAND

MRS. JAMES A. RICE. CANTON MRS. W. N. GATES. ELYRIA MRS. S. O. CUMMINS. BELLAIRE

MRS. H. H. HAINES. HAMILTON MRS. W. H. MERRIAM. CLEVELAND MISS MARY LOUISE RICE. WARREN

MRS. M. B. SHARP DAVIES. MRS. WM. A. FEATHER. CLEVELAND FINANC’AL SECREH‘W
WASH'NGTON COURT HOUSE MRS. SINCLAIR ELLIOT. ZANESVILLE

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May 15, 1919
Diet. May 14.

Miss Laura Clay,
189 Mill St.,
Lexington, Ky.,

Dear Miss Clay:

I have just re—read your letter of May 9. I had not
filed it after I referred to it in my last letter. ’

Of course you know I believe in the National amend-
ments. That is a part of our training. You have a Southern
leaning and I have a Northern and the same Spirit as the States
Rights and National Rights exists today as existed then. We
can't argue it out. As I look back on it I think it was pro-
bably a mistake to enfranchise the negro. I think it is pro-
bably a mistake now to disenfranchise them. I realize it is
very easy for me to say this when I live in a community where
there are few negros. I am sure I would not like to be ruled
by a negro government as I would to be if I were in some of the
black pits in the south but I really would not mind being ruled
by a negro any more than I would mind being ruled by an ignorant
man of any nationality. The color does not effect me. Previous
servitude does not affect me. In other words my angle and yours
are entirely different but I have thought it does not make any
difference what you believe or what I believe, it would not make
any difference if the beliefs were reversed, the National amend—
ment is going to pass Congress, it is going to pass early and
whether it will be passed in time for us to vote in 1920 remains
to be seen. I am much more of the belief that it will than are
most peOple. The Democratic Party had a chance in the last Con-
gress to make great political capital, President Wilson is a
splendid politician, he saw this, he knew it, he tried to make
his people see it but the Southern senators with the States Rights
doctrine and the northern senators reactionarydtbwthe core made
that passage impossible. Now the men who opposed it in the north
were reactionary Republicans, those who opposed it in the south
were reactionary Democrats. Now however the Republican Party
has a very good chance to succeed at the next election and it is
bound to secure the woman vote. The woman vote really belongs
to it because the women of the west have been enfranchised a long
time and the women of the west as a rule are Republicans, that
is the states go Republican so the Republicans have everything
to gain and nothing to lose. They know if they get this vote
they must push it nuickly through Congress and I think there are
some states where the legislature is not now in session, where

#2. Miss Laura Clay.

they will be able to call a special session for the ratification.

Anyway I can't help but think that we will be through
in 1920 probably in time to vote. Shortly thereafter anyway
so there is no use of arguing what we could do because we are
not going to have to do it. Mr. McAdoo spoke with me at the great
Cincinnati meeting or rather I talked a few minutes on his pro-
gram, and he said that if that amendment which was prOposed at
the last session had been preposed earlier it would have passed
d told him that I did not think he was right, he wa.s counting
tgatI all of the Republicans would vote just as they did and we
//wou1d get a number of Democratic southerners. I told him that he
' whad miscaloulated because the men of the north were just as much
N0pposed to that sort of legislation as the men of the south were
i\ the other time and he said he could not understand why and I said,
/ "That is because you were born in the south".
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Now as to your question about the "white male” in our
Constitution. When an amendment enfranchising the negros was
brought to the State of Ohio for ratification the legislature
refused to ratify it the first time. Now whether this was the
14th or 15th amendment I do not know but I think it was the 14th.
It could easily be looked up but it does not matter. Later they
did ratify. however the words "white male" were in the Constit—
ution and although the National action nullified the State Con-
stitution as National action always does it did it in reality
and not in fact because the words "white male" still stand in
the Constitution. Vhen we had our Constitutional Convention in
1912 and voted to strike out the words "white male" and frame
our amendment providing for the striking out of the words "white
male" the politicians feared we would get the ne rro vote. They
need not have had any such fears because the negro does not vote
for us. It is a historical fact that the peonle who are newlyS
enfranchised always eppose the enfranchisement of the next cla
below them. I am sneakinq now politically. Occasionally educated
neeros are f_or us and sees ak for us but the rank and file of the
negro men do not believe in any vomen voting. Howeqer the polit—
icians got the leaders of the negros ioqether and asVed them 1.
they wanted to have their amendment brouzht about through the

aﬂkucapron strings of women and of course the narros fell for this and
put in their own amendment to the constitution striking out the
word ”white". ‘hen the politicians did by the negro what they do
by us, deserted them and their amendment so they lost and the
words ”white male" still stand in the Constitution and the negros

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“WE SHALL FIGHT FOR THE THINGS WHICH WE HAVE ALWAYS CARRIED
NEAREST OUR HEARTS~FOR DEMOCRACY. FOR THE RIGHT OF THOSE WHO
SUBMIT To AUTHORITY To HAVE A VOICE IN THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT."

OHIG WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION

STATE HEADQUARTERS
PRESIDENT
HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON WARREN. OHIO
WARREN.

TREASURER
ZELL HAm DI-zMING
WARREN

STATE FINANCE COMMITTEE

CHAIRMAN. MRS. EDWARD 5. JORDAN. 3128 LINCOLN BLVD. CLEVELAND
VICE-CHAIRMAN. MRS. MALCOLM L. MCBRIDE. 1583 MISTLETOE DRIVE. CLEVELAND
MRS. JAMES A. RICE. CANTON MRS. W. N. GATES. ELYRIA

MRS. H. H. HAINEs. HAMILTON MRS. W. H. MERRIAM. CLEVELAND
MRS. M. B. SHARP DAVIES. MRS
WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE

MRS. S. O. CUMMINS. EELLAIRE

MISS MARY LOUISE RICE. \NARREN
. WM. A. FEATHER. CLEVELAND FINANCIAL SECRETARY

. SINCLAIR ELLIOT. ZANESVILLE

May 21, 1919

Miss Laura Clay,
189 Mill Street,
Lexington, Ky.,

Dear Miss Clay:

I think it is nerfectly useless to write this letter
because by the time you have read it the gational amendment may
have passed Congress. Then too, knowing your tenacity of thought
and all that I know that nothing I eculd say would change your
Opinion and I do not know as I would want to. I have said arveys
if I lived in the south I undoubtedly would feel just as you
feel. I remember a long long time ago Miss Gordon and I had suite

a discussion about this question and she felt rather hurt about
some things which were said. I asked her if she did not think in
the last analysis we would get woman suffrage by National amend-
ment and she said we would not. I think you probably have felt
we would not.

Technically women may be in the same boat with black
men but really nobody will know about it excent somebody with a
lawyer‘s head as yours is. The truth will remain that women are
enfranchised and the circrmstences of their enfranchisement will
not be parallel at all with the negro because the white women
will be allowed to vote everywhere and anywhere. I see that the
cases are similar, in fact, but they are not really so in practice.

You ask why the white men were not willing to allow the
word "white" to be struck out of the Constitution. It was not
that they were not willing but we are only allowed a Constitutional
Convention every twenty years. We had a Constitution adOpted in
1850. We were never able to get any other constitution adOpted
until 1912 and that simply amounted to the amending of the old
constitution. The reason the anendment to strike out "white male”
was not adopted was because it was really a dead letter, nobody
took any interest in it and did not vote for it. Nobody cared one
way or the other because they never had had the side presented to
them which the south presents. Black men have always voted in
the State of Ohio since the 14th and 15th amendments were passed
so what was the use of bothering about it.

I think you are wrong in your statement that the passage
of the federal amendment by a Republican Congress will not react to
the benefit of the Republican Farty. Mr. Wilson, Mr. MeAdoo.

#2. Miss Laura Clay.

Mr. aker and that class of Democratssaw that suffrage was coming
and as the Democratic Party had never been units as favorable t0»
wards the granting of further suffrage to any class as the Repub—
lican Party they saw it was their chance to get solid with the new
woman voter. Nobody knew that as much as Hr. Wilson. Thether he

is a statesman or a politician I have never been able to make up

my mind but that he sees, either himself or through advisement what
the political issues mean is perfectly sure. His enemies say that
he is the greatest politician that has ever been in the White House.
His friends say, his very closest friends, two of whom have told me,
one by direct asertion and another by inference that he believed
this to be a good niece of politics.

Now then the fact that the southern senators voted against
the amendment largely for the reasons we both know and that the
northern reactionary Republicans like Wadsworth, Lodge etc., voted
against it, defeated it. If it had not been for the negro question
entering in or rather for the states rights question entering in it
of course would have carried in the Senate. Now then it will carry
in the Senate and the Republican Party will certainly have the
gratitude of a great group of women in the United States because the
first thing they did in the new Congress was to put over the amend—
ment. I believe you will find that almost anybody you talk to will
give you this same information. The women of the western states are
naturally Republican because that is a Republican section of country
but they did vote for Tilson because they thought he was going to
keep us out of war. Now the fact that the ﬁepublicans really en-
franchised the women of the middlewest will add force of course to
their party.

I think now I have answered your letter in every way. I
would not care how we were enfranchised, whether it was by Aational
amendment or by State action but I know that the women of Ohio could
not be enfranchised by State action for years and years because of
the antipathy of the wet and vicious organizations. We tried it
under the most favorable circumstances. we even now are afraid to
introduce a presidential suffrage bill in a legislat