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BRANCH OF INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUPFRAGE ALLIANCE AND OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN

HONORARY PRESIDENT

DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW. 171 MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

PRESIDENT

MR5. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT
I7I MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

IST VICE-PRESIDENT

MRS. FRANK M. ROESSING
MUNSEY BUILDING. WASHINGTON, D. C.

2ND VICE‘PRESIDENT

MRS. STANLEY MCCORMICK
171 MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE
PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC.

PRESIDENT
MISS ESTHER G. OGDEN
I71 MADISON AVENUE. New YORK

3RD VICE-PRESIDENT

MISS ESTHER G. OGDEN
I71 MADISON AVENUE. New YORK

TREASURER

MRS. HENRY WADE ROGERS
171 MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
MISS HANNAH J. PATTERSON
171 MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

NATIONAL H EADQUARTERS

171 MADISON AVENUE
NEW YORK

TELEPHONE. 4818 MURRAY HILL

RECORDING SECRETARY
MRS. JAMES W. MORRISSON
719 RUSH STREET. CHICAGOJLL.
IST AUDITOR
MR5. WALTER McNAB MILLER
COLUMBIA. MISSOURI
2ND AUDITOR

MRS. PATTIE RUFFNER JACOBS
ALTAMONT ROAD. BIRMINGHAM.ALA.

CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE
CHAIRMAN

MRS. FRANK M. ROESSING

HEADQUARTERS
MUNSEY BUILDING. WASHINGTON. D. C.

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

My dear Miss Clay:-

Last winter you very generously sent a contribution
to the special international emergency fund which I have
been raising in an effort to help the International Woman
Suffrage Alliance over the critical period of its exist-
ence during the present war.

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, the president of the Al-
liance. is desirous of increasing in this country the as—
sociate ﬁembership in this Alliance. The annual fee for
this membership is five dollars. I am writing to ask,
at hrs. Catt's request, whether you are willing to permit
us to credit five dollars of your contribution as your
dues for 1916 for such associate membership. This will
enable us to enroll you as a member, which we shall be very
pleased to do. If you consent, will you please sign and
return to me the enclosed card.

Cordiall yours,

(Mrs. Frank M. Roe ing) /

First Vice President.
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NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION

BRANCH OF INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE AND OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN

HONORARY PRESIDENT

DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW. 171 MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

PRESIDENT

MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT
I71 MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

IST VICE-PRES! DENT

MRS. FRANK M. ROESSING
MUNSEY BUILDING. WASHINGTON. D. C.

2ND VICE- PRESIDENT

MR3. STANLEY MCCORMICK
I71 MADISON AVENUE. New YORK

NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE
PUBLISHING COMPANY, INc.

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MISS ESTHER G. OGDEN
171 MADISON AVENUE. New YORK

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Lexington,
Kentucky.

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3RD VICE-PRESIDENT

M155 ESTHER G. OGDEN
171 MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

TREASURER

MRS. HENRY WADE ROGERS
171 MADISON AVENUE. New YORK

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
MISS HANNAH J. PATTERSON
171 MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS

171 MADISON AVENUE
NEW YORK

TELEPHONE. 4818 MURRAY HILL

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RECORDING SECRETARY
MRS. JAMES w. MORRISSON
719 RUSH STREET. CHICAGO.ILL.
IS'I' AUDITOR
MRS. WALTER MCNAB MILLER
COLUMBIA. MIssoum
2ND AUDITOR

MR5. PATTIE RUF'FNER JACOBS
ALTAMONT ROAD. BIRMINGHAM. ALA.

CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE
CHAIRMAN

MRS. FRANK M. ROESSING

HEADQUARTIRI
MUNSEY BUILDING. WASHINGTON, D. c.

,ugust 4, 1916.

you to nlease send me at once

your favorite yhotOgraph of yourself for use in connection
with the advance publicity camyaign for the September Con—

vention at ntlentic City.

I am getting up a special layout and story
on the Three Cornered Debate which is to be one of the most
important features of the campaign and it is essential that
I should have your photograph, as you are to take so prominent

a part in it.

Sincerely yours,

/Wé

:ublicity Manager

MRS. THGS. J. SMITH

PRESIDENT

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Vice Presidenis

Mrs. J. Howard Murray
Mrs. Samuel J. Shackelford

Secretary

Mrs. John R. Sewer

Treasurer

Miss Christine McEwan

Finance Committee

Miss Amelia VVeitzel, Chairman
Miss Christine McEwan

Mrs. John Sower

Miss Lena Benton ./.r
Miss Irene Mattern xi? 64,751 £1-71,
Enrollment Committee

Mrs. W. S. Sandifer, Chairman
Miss Elizabeth Pepper

Miss Lizzie Hunt Chinn

Mrs. J. L. Coffey

Mrs. A. F. Crider

Mrs. Clay Hatchett

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Mrs. M. B. R. Day
Mrs. Orlanda. Brown
Mrs. Joseph Rupert ";;’%52}-
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Mrs. George Speer / ~—
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Mrs. L. M. Maus

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BRANCH OF INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE AND OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN

HONORARY PRESIDENT

DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW, 171 MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

PRESIDENT

MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT
171 MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

IST VICE-PRESIDENT
MRS. FRANK M. ROESSING

MUNSEY BUILDING. WASHINGTON. D. C.

2ND VICE-PRESIDENT

MRS. STANLEY MCCORMICK
I71 MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE
PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC.

PRESIDENT
MISS ESTHER G. OGDEN
171 MADISON AVENUE. New YORK

3RD VICE'PRESIDENT

MISS ESTHER G. OGDEN
171 MADISON AVENUE. New YORK

TREASURE R

MRS. HENRY WADE ROGERS
171 MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
MISS HANNAH J. PATTERSON
I71 MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS

171 MADISON AVENUE
NEW YORK

TELEPHONE. 4818 MURRAY HILL

RECORDING SECRETARY
MRS. JAMES W. MORRISSON
719 RUSH STREET. CHICAGO, ILL.
IST AUDITOR
MRS. WALTER McNAB MILLER
COLUMBIA. MIsSOURI
1ND AUDITOR

MRS. PATTIE RUFFNER JACOBS
ALTAMONT ROAD. BIRMINGHAM, ALA.

CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE
CHAIRMAN
MRS. FRANK M. ROESSING

HEADQUARTERS
MUNSEY BUILDING. WASHINGTON. D. C.

Washington, D. C.,
August 10, 1916.

Miss Laura Clay,

Richmond, Ky.
My dear Miss Clay:—

Thank you very much for your prompt and cordial response
to my letter about membership in the International. Mrs.
Catt will be much.pleased to have you enrolled as a member,
and has deeply appreciated your interest in and support of
the International during this critical period.

Of course we are glad to have your dues in addition to
the contribution which you made last December. You are most
considerate in sending them for five years in advance, and

thus further help to relieve the present financial strain.

Ybu will receive the regular membership receipt from the

International office.

Cordially yours,

%Mr//

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Mrs. Frank M. R0 /sing

First Vice President.

TELEPHONE FRANKLIN 2230 ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION
ONE DOLLAR

JUDITH W. LOEWENTHAL

ENA’IIONALSUFFRAGIST

PUBLISHED MONTHLY

THE HEARST BUILDING

CFHCAGO, Ill., Aug. 11, 1916

Miss Laura Clay,
Lexington, Ky.

My Dear Miss Clay:m

In introducing myself may I say that I am the
recording secretary of the Illinois Equal Suffrage
Association, and as you see I am now interested in
a magazine called THE NATIONAL SUFFRAGIST which I
hope in time will play a vital part in the awaken”
ing of women to their great Civic Responsibility.

Will you kindly contribute an article for my
magazine on some phase of the woman’s movement?

In order to make this magazine a success it
is necessary that we have the comoperation and morn
a1 support of all thinking women interested in this
great movement.

I am sending you under separate cover a copy
of THE NATIONAL HUFFRAGIST which I hope you will
read and enjoy.

Thanking you for your COaOperation, and hop~

ing to receive the article as soon as it is con«
venient for you, I am

Yours s inc er W

JWL.MEJ

GERHARD SISTERS
PHOTOGRAPHERS
ST. LOUIS

August,
Twlefnth,

NineteenaSixteen.

‘iss.Laura Clay.
Richmond, Kentucky.

Dear Madam:—

Recoived your proofs this morning, and you want
us to finish two and one~hwlf dozen photos For your friends.
You went six fron the three differert styles, that you have
marked and twelve of the proof at the window reading, you
also want twenty-four prints for reproduction.

The dozen pictures at the window reading will

be 5 5.00 dozen, and the other dozen will be $27.00, as you

are ordering frOm two different negatives. The half dozen

will be $12.00, and the prints for reproduction will be
$12.00 for the two dozens.
Hoping this is all satisfactory, awaiting your
reply, we are,
Very Truly,

GERHARD SISTFRS.

Per. 6%;

No. 348 East Third Street,
Lexington, Ky.,
August 15, 1916.

My dear Friend:-

A committee of the Council of the Diocese of Lexington has pur-
chased for $1700 (seventeen hundred dollars), a rectory for St.
Andrew's Mission to Colored People in this city. In view of the
character of the building and location of the lot, the price is con-
sidered a reasonable one.

To effect the purchase, the Bishop of Lexington, the Rt. Rev.
L. W. Burton, D. D., has had to make himself personally responsible for
nearly one-half of the cost of the rectory; and the Diocese is borrow-
ing the other half. I am myself to pay a fair rental for the use of the
rectory until the latter is paid for.

My own people are subscribing; and I expect help from the
Church people of this city. But I must appeal to you to supplement
what they contribute, by giving me one dollar ($1.00) toward the
Rectory Fund, though, of course, you must know that I shall be thankful
and rejoiced to receive more.

Please send the gift to Mr. George S. Weeks, Cashier of the
Second National Bank in this city and Treasurer of St. Andrew's Rectory
Fund, and it will be promptly acknowledged.

Respectfully yours,

/' ﬂWVfA/é’a’

Minister in Charge,
St. Andrew's Mission.

As Bishop of the Diocese of Lexington, and, for the twenty
years of my episcopate, resident in this city, I know that a rectory is
sorely needed for St. Andrew's Mission; and I also realize that a large
portion of the purchase price must be raised outside this city. I com-
mend our faithful and aggressive missionary, without qualification and
very earnestly, to all who receive his appeal.

, Bishop of Lexington.
Lexington, Ky., V, c¥£¢24/£‘ A
August 15th, 1916. /L/% L9 555 ﬂiﬂk
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NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION

BRANCH OF INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE AND OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN

HoiIORARY PRESIDENT

DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW. 171 MADISON AVENUE. NEw YORK

PRESIDENT

MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT
I71 MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

IST VICE-PRESIDENT

MRS, FRANK M. ROESSING
MUNSEY BUILDING. WASHINGTON. D. c.

2ND VICE - PRESIDENT

MRS. STANLEY MCCORMICK
171 MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE
PUBLISHING COMPANY. INC.

PRESIDENT
MISS ESTHER G. OGDEN
17] MADISON AVENUE. New YORK

Miss Laura Clay,

Lexingtono
Ky.

3RD VICE- PRESIDENT

MISS ESTHER G. OGDEN
I71 MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

TREASURER

MRS. HENRY WADE ROGERS
I71 MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Miss HANNAH J. PATTERSON
l7] MADISON AVENUE. le YORK

NATIONAL H EADQUARTERS

171 MADISON AVENUE
NEW YORK

TELEPHONE. 4818 MURRAY HILL

«@w August

My dear Miss Clay:w

RECORDING SECRETARY
MR5. JAMES W. MORRISSON
719 RUSH STREET. CHICAGO.|LL.
Isv AUDITOR
MR5. WALTER MCNAB MILLER
COLUMBIA. MISSOURI
2ND AUDITOR

MR8. PATTIE RUFFNER JACOBS
ALTAMONT ROAD. BIRMINGHAM. ALA.

CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE
CHAIRMAN
MRS. FRANK M. ROESSING

HEADQUARTIN‘
MUNSEY BUILDING. WAsHINcTON. D. c.

1916.

The Associated Press has asked me for advance

copies of all the important speeches that are to be delivered

at our Convention in Atlantic City next month.

They want these

copies in the hands of their NEW York manager at the earliest
possible moment so that they may be duplicated and sent to all
of the hundreds of papers that take Associated Press service.

As you can appreciate, this nationawide distribution

of copy concerning the cause of suffrage is of tremendous value
to us and we will be falling down hard on our jobs if we do not
take advantage of the offer which the Associated Press has made.
I am going to ask you, therefore, to please send me at once,

or at the earliest moment possible, a copy of the speech which
you.will deliver at the Convention during the three cornered
debate and also the one which you will deliver on the "Elections
Bill" on the afternoon of September 8th.

Please do not put this matter off as it is most
important that we should keep in the good graces of the newspapers
and give them advance copy when they ask for it.

Thanking you for past co-operation, I am,

Sincerely yours, ,//v

WW v

Publicity manager.

GERHARD SISTERS
PHOTOGRAPHERS
ST. LOUIS

August,
Nineteenth,

Nineteen—Sixteen.

Miss Laura Clay.

My dear Miss Clay:—

Replying to your letter of this A.M.

will say, we have gone ahead with your order for two dozen
photos for friends and two dozen prints for reproduction.

When you returned your proofs you had marked
six or each for frinids and the other one six for friends
and twelve for newspapers. We will make three of each from
the proofs you have marked six of each. This makes two
dozen from four proofs and two dozen for reproduction from
two proofs.

Hoping this is satisfactory, we are,

Very Truly,
GERHARD SISTERS.

Per. 63

GERHARD astRs
ST‘ LOUIS

Miss Laura Clay.

Richmond, Kentucky.

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President
MRS. THOS. J. SMITH
State Headquarters,
403 McClure 13162.. Frankfort
First Vice President
DIES. ROBINSON A. McDOWELL
No. 6 Magnolia Anton, Louisville

Second Vice President
MRS. JOSEPH ALDERSON
Mlddlesboro

Third Vice President
MRS. F. A. ROTHIER
185 E. Second Street, Covington

Corresponding Secretary
MISS ELIZABETH S. PEPPER
Frankfort

Recording Secretary
MRS. J. D. HAYS. Owensbore

Treasurer
MRS. J. B. JUDAII
2115 Murray Avenue, Louisville

Auditor
MRS. W. F. LILLARD. Lewrencebur;

Chairman of Campaign
MRS. DESHA BRECKINRIDGE
726 McClellund Building, Lexington

State Member Executive Committee
MISS LAURA CLAY
189 N. Mill Street, Lexington

Chairman of Congressional Work
MRS. EDMUND or; “1:051, Paducah

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Vice Chairman of Campaign
MRS. MURRAY HUBBARD, Fort Thomas

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HON. D. N. LAFFERTY, Cynthiann
Muster Kentucky State Grunge
MR. HARRY ALLINGTON, Newport
Pros. Kentucky Federation of Labor
JUDGE ED. 0. O’REAR. Frankfort
MRS. JAMES BENNETT, Richmond
HON. CLAUDE THOMAS, Pnris
MRS JAMES A. LEECH, Louisville
JOHN,.G. MILLER. I'aducoh
»,BELIiE H. BENNETT, Richmond
Pres. man’s Missionary Council of
Met ,‘dist Church, South
JOHN C. C. MAYO, Paintsville
GE ROBERT L. STOUT, Frankfort
R. H. CROSSFIELD, Lexington
Pres. Transylvania University
DR. E. B. BARNES, Richmond
MAJOR JAMES BLACKBURN, Frankfort
REV. H. G. TURNER, Danvilie
GENERAL and MRS. J. B. CASTLEMAN
Louisville
MRS. MORRIS BARTLETT, Lawrenceburg
P Kentucky Federation Women’s
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JUDGE II. S. BARKER, Lexington
Pres. of State University of Kentucky
DEAN IRENE '1‘. MYERS, Lexington
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MISS LINDA NEVILLE, Lexington
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MR. R. A. McDOWELL

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MRS. SAMUEL BENNING

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JUDGE GEORGE DuRELLE, Louisville
MR. WM. MARSHALL BULLIT'I‘

Louisville

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MUNSEY BUILDING. WASHINGTON. D. c.

2ND VICE-PRESIDENT
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171 MADISON AVENUE. New YORK

NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE
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171 MADISON AVENUE. _NEW YORK

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I71 MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

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171 MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Mlss HANNAH J. PATTERSON
I71 MADISON AVENUE. New YORK

NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS

171 MADISON AVENUE
NEW YORK

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National Motto: For God and Home and Native Land

President:
MRS. FRANCES E. BEAUCHAMP,

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R. R. No. 2 Shelhyville. Time of Prayer—Noontide Badge—A Knot of White Ribbon
Recording Secretary: Methods~Preventive, Educational, Evangelistic, Social and Legal Watchwords—Agitate, Educate, Organize
MRS. LUDIE DAY PICKETT,

VVilmore.

Treasurer:
MRS. NORAH B. TAYLOR,
723 Central Ave., Lexington

Richmond, Ky. August 51, 1916.

Mr. Chas. Heaslip ,
New York, N. Y.

My dear Sir:

Please find enclosed a synapsis of the remarks I shall

make on the United States Elections Bill. I shall hope to

have from fifteen to twenty minutes on the program to
make my address.

I regret not being able to send this synposis
earlier, but I have done so as soon as I reould.

Re 3p ectflllly Your 9 9

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The Eniteﬁ B13tes' ﬁlochiona Hill pgovides: “Be it enscteﬂ
by cue 433533 sni House of “93r330n1~+1v»3 of the United Stutm3
of amarica in Cnxrrana a3nemhled, That woman who are citizens
of ﬁha Unite? ~53ta3 nnﬁ who DOBSQSS the qua3j Lfﬁentions raruﬁs’tr.
for men fer electors of the mo$t numerous I“WC‘ of the Ftate
1635.3101m ¢7um‘ an eligihla to refistnr ﬁnﬂ vote in the States
wherein “2;; ‘nvﬁ”. in 311 oleotiona for Lavators ntd ﬂamhers of the
House of Henxr3xgtnﬁiv03 in thﬁ Gangrnss of the :11t(1 Stateg of
Amorizzm "‘

Khan in '35 L30 Cnnatiﬁution 01 T19 Unitcﬁ 3:33rs subnraeﬁeﬁ

the Unqtif‘itéi ()1! confederation thy, SOI’GTTQTK‘YW rm ”SC”! 10 be mayely g

168313 FmOnﬁ sewarml Sﬁﬁtrs, :nﬂ form n a "more perfect union”

prcc {rﬁint iram Fﬂd 33511311361 “3 the 300319 of ﬁho Unifcd btatag.
Unlike the Confederation, which was formaa by Qua aoteﬂ only

on sovereign 3;3333. the powers of the NEW Constitution emanatc from

the people, nnﬂ are t0 be 6301? :03 ﬁirmatﬁv on than and for ﬁheir

benefit. Qhus, in aﬁditioﬁ ﬁo ﬁhe Stefﬁ governments, anﬁﬁher
government of enumerateﬂ powers 383 eaﬁvhlishod, so that now "in
our nwliticnl systam we have 3 ovo““nrwf of the United Stqtea and
a government of 3m; several status. Mach one of .hosa is distimet
from the otherm. anﬁ has citizens of its own, who owe it allegiance,
anﬁ whose Tighta Within its juriadiction it must protect."
(Cruikshank Haoiaion).

Each of the3e governments hava officex armatcd by them3vlwss,
and filled in the manner preaca;.hed bu their Cnnsﬁiﬁution or 1933.
The offices 0f President anﬂ Vice :residunt of the Uniteﬂ Otatea

anﬂ Senators and Espresmntatives in Congress are all offices of

the Unites States; created by its Constitution, which also dtreots
how they are to be filleo. k

Each ﬁtate must appoint in such manner as the legislature thereof
may direct. the electors to elect the President and Vice President.

In 1913 the Legislature of Illinois granted the privilege to women,
though they have not State constitutional right to vote for State
officers. thereby departing from the uniform practice of all the other
states, which prescribe that the prcsiﬁenticl electors shall be voted
for only by citizens who vote for the State officers.

Originally, Senators were to be chosen by the Legislatures of
the States; but. by the 17th Amendment, whcch went into effect in
1913, Senators are now to be chosen by the people. with qualifications
prescribed by the several states for the electors of the penulcr
branch of their Legislature.

But, from the establishment of the Constitution. the Members
of the House of Representatives were to be chosen by the People

«of the several States. Without any intervention of their

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Legislatures: 'As theyncople‘combrise, obviously, persons unfitted
for voting b; nge,residence. stop. the Constitution, instead of
itself prescribing qualifications, adopts for its Own electors the
qualifications prescribed by the several States for the electors
of their most numerous branch of the Legislature.

When the United States' Constitution was adopted the States had

_ constitutions of their own. With the exception of New Jersey (and

possibleﬂgeorgie) all the states vested the right of voting in male

citizeng only. Congress left the machinery of providing for taking
the votes in Fedoral elections to the States, though undeniably it

has the right to prescribe the regulations for Federal elections.

Now, because the idea 01‘ women suffrage was unfamiliar to the
people. or because the control of the elections were left by
Congress entirely in the direction of the States, or for whatever
recs-son it my be, it is certainly true that the distinction of the
right of the people to vote for members of the House of Representatives,
and the right of the States to prescribe qualifications have been
confounded; and the right cm the qualifications have been
assumed to be one end the came thing; And. where states have not
given women suffrage in State elections, it has been eeeumed that they
have had the constitutional right to exclude them from the United
Stetee' Election for the Members of the House of Representatives.
because the State had, the right to limit voting in the States to
male citizens.

The question. therefore. for euffregiete to consider is: Does
the language in which the Cone titution veete thie right of voting
warrant the custom of the States in regarding sex as one of the

qualifications they may prescribe for voters at this election?

The advocates of this Bill hold that it ("1098 not. It is

perfectly ole. er that no community in which there is only one sex
' can preperly he called “the People" in the connection in which
it is used in the Constitution. National existence is dependent
upon the functions of both eexee; on is clearly implied in the
language of the Preamble in the wade, "We. the people of the
United States. in neder ........ to secure the blessings of
liberty to ourselves one our posterity" etc.. thereby by neceeeary
inference defining the People as coneie ting of two eeXee.

How, heceuee children are the posterity of men equally with women,
the accurate and. philosophical. language of the Constitution does not

permit the assumption that the mele eex alone my receive unshared

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by women a right “rated in "Peoplef which it itself desoribéa by ﬁhe

above quoted language, as consisting of two sexes. Nor‘ are the
States given authoriﬁy ever th eliminate ona sex by the right given to

them to pwcacribe the qualifications which shall be a&0pted fur

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those of electors in the United States elections for nopresentativea.
For. ¢f women ar0,in any manner, eliminated from the People who
enjoy the right of choosing those Rapresentatives.the Society which
remaineﬁ would no longer be the "Pﬂoplﬁ" within the meaning of

the Constitution.