xt70rx937t9n_25 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt70rx937t9n/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt70rx937t9n/data/46m4.dao.xml unknown 13.63 Cubic Feet 34 boxes, 2 folders, 3 items In safe - drawer 3 archival material 46m4 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. Laura Clay papers Temperance. Women -- Political activity -- Kentucky. Women's rights -- Kentucky. Women's rights -- United States -- History. Women -- Suffrage -- Kentucky. Women -- Suffrage -- United States. Laura Clay correspondence with Alice Stone Blackwell text Laura Clay correspondence with Alice Stone Blackwell 2020 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt70rx937t9n/data/46m4/Box_2/Folder_6/Multipage1110.pdf 1911 1911 1911 section false xt70rx937t9n_25 xt70rx937t9n 45 Boutwell Ave.,horchester,hess.,
January 7.1911.

Dear Eemher of the officisl Board:~

hiss Lavinia hock, who has been taking such an active
part in fighting the Page Fill, writes me that it would he help
ful if as many women as possible would write to Robert W.de For

7, Washington Square horth,hew York City, expressing their

'rovel of Clause 79 and asking if it is true that the
Sage Fund money is being used in behalf of it, or saying othst
they hepe it is not being so used. Miss book says that these
letters had better be stirred up by quiet personal correspond-
ence, not by public appeal. of course the letters should not
mention that the writers have been asked to send them. It will
have more effect if they do not seem to he the result of con-
certed notion. hiss hock thinks it would do him good to get
letters from women in widely separated parts tf the country.
If you can stimulate the writing of any such letters, I hope
you will do so. Of course it would be best to write only to
such women as you know to he Opposed to Clause 79.

At the meeting of the hassaohusetts State Board yesterday,
it was voted to ask the hationnl Association to hold its next
annual Convention in Boston. The general sentiment was that it
would help the Tassechusetts work. 1 am quite sure that it will
help the Fassschusetts work, but from the point of View of the
Lstionsl work, 1 think it would he s mistake for the Hatiional
Convention to come to Boston this year. Ehere is at present a
renewal of the chronic growl among some of the western suffragw
ists that the national is an “Eastern Association“. I have fist
felt quite riled by some remarks which i lave lately seen on

this subject in the papers and elsewhere. The Association is en

even threatened with a split, based largely on this complaint,

though I don't know how serious this danger may be. Perhaps it
noes not amount to much. Put it seems to he that after holding
the Cenvention at Washington last year, to hold it again this

year at the Fast and at the extreme a Eastern edge- would be

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lherefore 3 favor Louiav lie rather
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*e the turn of tho Loot to have
fiasswchusetts.
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if we wanted ' Louisvil
not be quite o o ‘45; W "A, face for the anx westerners a-
Eoston. I agree wifin fro. Benneut and
important to have the political party
the next Convention, but that could
more cheaply by having half a do-on Homao who fi='o been doing
it and know all about a, , oouioville and talk to the

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OFFICERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL I OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL AMERICAN
WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION
PRESIDENT ,-" PRESIDENT

MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT _- ' REV. ANNA HOWARD SHAW
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SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT , CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
MISS ANNIE FURUHJELM A L MRS. MARY WARE DENNETT
HELSINGFORS. FINLAND 505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CITY

RECORDING SECRETARY

SECRETARIES 585 BOYLSTON STREET MRS. ELLA S. STEWART

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MISS MARTINA KRAMERS

92 KRUISKADE. ROTTERDAM. HOLLAND TREASURER

BOSTON. MASSACHUSETTS Ms JESS... ASHLEY

MISS ANNA LINDEMANN 505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CITY
DEGERLOCH. STUTTGART, GERMANY FIRST AUDITOR
MISS LAURA CLAY
MISS SIGNE BERGMAN LEXINGTON. KY.

10A ARSENALSGATAN. STOCKHOLM. SWEDEN SECOND AUDITOR

TELEPHONE 4-717 BACK BAY MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL
TREASURER 585 BOYLSTON STREET. BOSTON. MASS.

MRS. ADELA STANTON COIT LEGAL ADVISER
LONDON. ENGLAND MRS. CATHARINE WAUGH McCULLOCH

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march 17. 1911.
Dear Member of the Official Board:-
Enclosed is the financial statement of the Woman's

Journal for January and February. It has been sent regularly
by Muss Ryan to Miss Ashley, but mrs. McCulloch has lately
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to each member of the Official Board.

Miss Ryan made her sworn statement this week of our cir-

culation - and I think you will all be pleased, as I watho

find that she has got it up to nearly 15,000.

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and I‘he Truth Shall Make You Free.”

President. Miss Laura Ciay, . Corresponding Secretary,Mrs. Mary C. Roark, Richmond

‘89 N- Mi“ St" Lexington Recording Secretary. Mrs. Emma M. Roebuck,
First Vice-President. Mrs. Mary B. Clay, Richmond 112 W. Front St., Newport

Second Vice-President, Mrs. Mary C. Cramer, Lexington : 3‘ Treasurer, Mrs. Isabella H. Shepard,
Third Vice-President,Mrs. N. S.McLaughiin, Covington 31 E. Twelfth St., Covington

Richmond, Kentucky.
May 25rd, I9II.
My dear Miss Blackwell,

I have been exceedingly interested in the state-
ment made by Martha Gruening, in her article on Enizersal Vs. Limited
Suffrage, appearing in the N.Journal of Hay 20thjn§fihe converse of this
principle is also teue, has been painfully illustrated in the Southern

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has within the past few years taken on a marked increase. This educational
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all club women to whose notice it comes. As a club woman who is frequent—
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matters in the Southern states I am very desirous to have the data on
which miss Gruening founds the statement; and as it is a tedious and la—
borious task to collect it for myself, I am writing to ask if you will not
request Miss Gruening to supply her data to you for publication in the Wom-
an‘s Journal, with the assurance that it will be a matter cg interest to
a wide circle of readers.

Hoping to have full particulars of the grounds for this statement
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MEMBER OF INTERNATIONAL WC‘vIAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE AND OF NATIONAL COUNCIL. OF WOMEN

PRESIDENT. ANNA HOWARD SHA‘N, MOYLAN, PA.

IST VICE-PRESIDENT. CATHERINE WAUGI-I MCCULLOCH, TREASUPER. JESSIE ASHLEY,

EVANSTON. ILI S 505 FIFTH AVENUE, NC“! YORK CITY

2ND VICE-PRESIDENT. KATE M. GORDON. LAURA CLAY, 189 NORTH MILL STREET

1800 PRYTANIA STREET, NEW ORLEANS. LA AUDITORS LEXINGTON. Ky,

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. MARY WARE BENNETT. ALICE STONE BLACKWELL.

505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK 45 BOUTWELL AVENUE. DORCHESTER MASS,

RECORDING SECRETARY. ELLA S. STEWART. CHAIRMAN PRESS COMMITTEE. MISS CAROLINE I REILLY.

5454 JEFFERSON AVENUE. CHICAGO~ ILLS AUXILIARIES 505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEw YORK CITY

COLLEGE EQUAL SUFFRAGE LEAGUE.
PRESIDENT. MISS M. CAREY THOMAS. BRYH MAWR. I‘A
FRIENDS EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION
PRESIDENT. MARY BENTLEY THOMAS. EDNOR. MARYLAND

TELEPHONE 68535 BRYANT AFFILMFED SOCIETY

THE EQUAL FRANCHISE SOCIETY
PRESIDENT. MRS MACKAY. 1 MADISON AwENLIE. NEW YORK

NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS. 505 FIFTH AVE. NEw YORK

June 2nd 191]

Dear $'~ Elackwell

Hy chief authority for the reference to the
Southern States is Rey Ctanrard Beher'e hook, "Following the
Color Line” (Bonhleday, Page i 00.}, especially the chapter
entitled "The Negro in Politics", from which I quote the
following, pp. 246-7e8:

"It is a fact of common knowledge that cris—

t cracies caniot long survive when free education is for
all classes of people. Every aristocracy that has eurViVed
has had to monoyolize learning more or less completely - else
it went to the well. Education enablee the Negro, as I
Lone points out, to ascertain his rights. To prevent hi
ascertaining his rights, he must not be educated. The 1n-
divided supremacy of tin White Party is clearly bound up with
Negro ignorance. Therefore ne.heve seen aid are now seeing
in certain parts of the South continuous agitation against

the education of Wegroes" —~——«~~ "The result of his feeling
has been an actual reduction of Negro schooling, in many lo~
calities, especially in Louisiana, and little progress else-
where, as comrmred with the ra‘wid educational development of
the whites, ~~~~~~« except thru' the work of the Nrgroes th3m~
selves."

Hr. Baker gives the following examples of the
attitude of the majority of Southerners and their representa-
tiVes on the subject of Negro education: Sovernor Vardmanin
cutting off an appropriation of $8,000 for Alcorn College, said:
I u not anxious to see the Negro_a skilled mechanic. God Alu
mighty intended him to till the soil under the direction of
the white man, and that is what we are going to teach him at
Alcorn College.” (p. 247). Another is from a letter of
mr. Charles P. Lane, Editor of the Hunnewell, Alabama, Daily
Tribune to Governor Cromer, (p. 248). "We, the Southern peeple,
entertain no prejudice against the ignorant per se inoffensive
Negro, but our blood boils when the educated Negro asserts him-
self politically." Governor Hoke Smith and others have ex~

 

 'essed themselves in a similar fashion,:md in the same year,

compulsory education bill was introduced into the Alabama
1 ,islature, carefully framed so as to apply only to white
peeple.

My further authority was a .tatement by Professor
Charles F. Fnerick, head f the Economics Department at Smith
College, in which he pointed out dflut the situation in Mississippi,
which had first disfrsnchised its negroes, and then cut down
their (the Negroes') School apprOpristion as significant of tin
relation between Suffrage and p0pulsr education. My statement
was not meant to apply to all the Southern 8 ates, but only to
those where this tendency has shown itself,- Worth Carolin and
Kentucky being the most conspicuous exceptions. Mr. Baker
speaks of this in the chapter, "The New Southern StatesmanSiip",
in which he quotes the admirable resolutions drawn up by the
Southern Education Association at its lQOV meeting. He fur-
ther states his general conclusions thus: "So the State limits
Suffrage and rightly, so long as it accompanies the limitation
with a determined poliCy of education, but the Suffrage Law is so
exercised in the SOuth to-day as to keep many capable Negroes

from exercising their rights, to prevent recognition of ionest
merit and is executed unjustly as between white men and colored."
(p. 303).

Very sincerely yours

 

 NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRACE ASSOCIATION

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

PRESIDENT, ANNA HOWARD SHAW. MOYLAN. PA.

‘lsT VICE-PRESIDENT CATHARINE WAUGH MCCULLOCH. TREASURER. JESSIE ASHLEY,
EVANSTON, ILLS. 505 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY

2ND VICE-PRESIDENT KATE M. GORDON LAURA CLAY, 189 NORTH MILL STREET.
1800 PRYTANIA STREET NEW ORLEANS, LA Auonons < LEXINGTON, KY.

CDRRESDONDING SECRETARY. MARY WARE OENNETT. I-AL'CE STONE BLACKWELL.
SOS FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK CITV 585 BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON, MASS

RECORDING sgch-IARY ELLA S. STEWART, CHAIRMAN PRESS COMMITTEE, IDA HUSTED HARPER.
5464 JEFFERSON AVENUE CHiCAGO, ILLS. AUXILIARIES 505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CITY

COLLEGE EQUAL SUFFRAGE LEAGUE
PRESIDENT. MISS M. CAREY THOMAS. BRYN MAWR. PA

FRIENDS EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION
PnESIDENT, MARY BENTLEY THOMAS. EDNOR, MARYLAND

AFFILIATED
THE EQUAL FRANCHISE SOCIETY
PRESIDF‘NT, MRS MACKAY, I MADISON AVENUE NEW YORK

Chilmark, Fukes County, TTassn
August 8. 1911.

Wise Laura Clay,
189 U. Mill street, Lexington,
Ky.
Dear Miss Clay:-
Hany thanks to you and to fire. Bennett for your
dial invitation to Visit you. I am hoping to accept, and am
ing forward with pleasure to seeing you.

You cengratulate me on concealing so successfully the irritation
that I must have felt over the proposal to drop the word American
out of the name of the Association. But the truth is, I did not
feel much. I suppose one grows more philosophical as one grows
older. Besides, this proposal did not arise out of any lingering
party feeling against the American wing; it was an innocent sug-
gestion on the part of some inexnerienced young women who thought
our present name rather unwieldy and didn't know anything about
the past history or the offense that would be given to some of
our older members by the change. Trs. “ennett writes me that she
is now convinced that the proposed change would be unwise. I don't
think that there is much chance of its carrying, and if it did can-
ry, I should not greatly care, though I should consider it a piece
of folly.

Yours cordially,

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

PRESIDENT. ANNA HOWARD SHAW. MOYLAN. PA.
19" VICE-PRESIDENT, CATHARINE WAUGH MCCULLOCH.

TREASURER, JESSIE ASHLEY.
EVANSTON. ILLS.

. , 505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CITY
fLAURA CLAY. 189 Noam MILL smear.
AUDITORs LEXINGTON. KY,
ALICE STONE BLACKWELL.
585 BOYLSTON STREET, BOSTON. MASS.

2ND VICE~PRESIDENT KATE M. GORDON.
1800 PRYTANIA STREET, NEW ORLEANS, LA
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. MARY WARE DENNETT,
505 FIFTH AVENUE, NEw YORK CITY

RECORDING SECRETARY ELLA S. STEWART,

CHAIRMAN PRESS COMMITTEE. IDA HUSTED HARPER,
5464 JEFFERSON AVENUE, CHICAGO. ILLS. AUXILIARIES

505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CITY
COLLEGE EQUAL SUFFRAGE LEAGUE

PRESIDENT. MISS M. CAREY THOMAS, BRYN MAWR. PA.
FRIENDS EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION

PRESIDENT. MARY BENTLEY THOMAS. EDNOR. MARYLAND

AFFILIATED
THE EQUAL FRANCHISE SOCIETY
PRESIDENT, MRS. MACKAY. 1 MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

Laura Clay,
189 North Mill street,
Lexington,Ky.

Miss Clay:-

I an planning now to leave Boston Wednesday 1

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morning,reaching Few York in the afternoon,Spending the night“
there,going Thursday to Headquarters, and leaving for Richmond
either Thursday night or Friday morning.

I have written a longer letter to you to Richmond,but thinking
you may be in Lexington I will send this note to your address

there.

Affectionately yours,

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 NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION

MEMBER OF‘ INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE AND OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN

PRESIDENT. ANNA HOWARD SHAW. MOYLAN. PA.

131' VICE-PRESIDENT, CATHARINE WAUGH MCCULLOCH.

, TREASURER. JESSIE ASHLEY.
EVANSTON. ILLS.

505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEw YORK CITY
LAURA CLAY. 189 NORTH MILL STREET.
LEXINGTON. KY.
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. MARY WARE DENNETT. ALICE STONE BLACKWELL.
505 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY 585 BOYLSTON STREET. BOSTON. MAss.

Racoaomc SECRETARY ELLA 5, STEWART. CHAIRMAN PRESS COMMITTEE. IDA HUSTED HARPER.
5454 JEFFERSON AVENUE, CHICAGO. ILLS. AUXILIAR'ES 505 FIFTH AVENUE. New YORK CITY

2ND VICE‘PRESIDENT. KATE M. GORDON.
1800 PRYTANIA STREET. NEw ORLEANS. LA, Anon-ens

COLLEGE EQUAL SUFFRAGE LEAGUE
PRESIDENT. MIss M. CAREY THOMAS. BRYN MAWR. PAr

FRIENDS EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION
PRESIDENT, MARY BENTLEY THOMAS. EDNOR, MARYLAND

AFFILIATED
THE EQUAL FRANCHISE SOCIETY
PRESIDENT. MRS. MACKAY. I MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

45 Poutwell Ave., norchester,”a~
September 29. 1911.

Laura Clay,
Richmond, Kentucky.

Miss Clay:-

I have delayed answering your letter because
of uheertainty as to when I ccnld get off. Tfiss Ryan expects
to be absent on her vacation until Oct.8, and I felt as if I
must stay to get the Journal to press next’Wednesdays Also I
hated to leave before Friday, Oct.7, when our State Board will
hold its last meeting before the Rational Convention. 1 had
nusg'vings for fear first FitzGerald might persuade the Board
into giving the de egates some instructions as to how they should
vote on the proposed Constitutional Amendmentfifof which she
strongly approves; But it would delay me too late if I waited
until after Friday, especially as I must break the journey in
New York. Tfiss Wilde has got baok from New Hampshire, and can
put the Journal together on Wwednesday. I can have all the
material ready for her by Tuesday night. ry present plan is
to reach New York Wednesday afternoon, rest that night, Thursday
go to headquarters and get as full information as I can about
what is going on, and either Thursday night or Friday morning

start on for Richmond,

A special meeting of our State Board has had to be called

 

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NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION

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

PRESIDENT. ANNA HOWARD SHAW. MOYLAN. PA.

151‘ VICE-PRESIDENT. CATHARINE WAUGH MCCULLOCH. ' TREASURER, JESSIE ASHLEY.
EVANsTON. ILLS. , 505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CITY

2ND VICE-PRESIDENT. KATE M, GORDON. LAURA CLAY. 189 NORTH MILL STREET.
Isoo PRYTANIA STREET, NEw ORLEANS. LA. AUDITORS LEXINGTON. KY.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY MARY WARE DENNETT. ALICE STONE BLACKWELL.
505 FIFTH AVENUE, New YORK CITY 585 BOYLSTON STREET. BOSTON. MASS.

CHAIRMAN PRESS COMMITTEE IDA HUSTED HARPER.
RECORDING SECRETARY ELLA S. STEWART, _ '
5464 JEFFERSON AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILLS, AUXILIARIES 505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CITY

COLLEGE EQUAL SUFFRAGE LEAGUE
PRESIDENT. MISS M. CAREY THOMAS. BRYN MAWR. PA

FRIENDS EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION
PRESIDENT. MARY BENTLEY THOMAS. EDNOR. MARYLAND

AFFILIATED
THE EQUAL FRANCHISE SOCIETY
PRESIDENT MRS. MACKAY. I MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

for Honday. because one of our organizers has been kicked by a
policeman and accused of immorality, and it is proposed to brfin
bring a suit for damages. At this meeting I shall have a chance
to ask some of our mast influential women what they think of
the suggestion of bringing the Iational Headquarters to Foston.
That such a suggestion comes from Kentucky shows at least
that some Kentucky women are generous enough to give a prefer-

ence to a place far from their own sectionn But I do not

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think the idea will be feasable. If the Headquarters are not at

Washington and are anywhere at the Eastg it Seems to me that
New York is the place for them; and I am sure that there Would n
not be the ghost of a chance to secure a majority of votes for
Boston. None of our women are anxious to have tne Headquarters
come here; and. while the cost of living and of offices is pro-
bably not quite so high as in Eew York, that would not beaherped
held to outweigh New York's other advantages.

Always affectionately yours,

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