xt70rx937t9n_266 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. General correspondence text General correspondence 2020 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt70rx937t9n/data/46m4/Box_13/Folder_17/Multipage12303.pdf 1921 1921 1921 section false xt70rx937t9n_266 xt70rx937t9n Call to the Final Meeting of the Federal
Suffrage Association of the United States,

to be Held on January 29th, 1921.

Dear Friends and Members of the federal Suffrage Association,
We have passed through many and varied experiences since the
founding of our association in 1892. We were led to organize a
new society by the fact that Mrs. Virginia Minor had failed in her

appeal to the Supreme Court, that body holding that the United

States had no yoters, and also by the fact t:2%6since the union

of the National Association with the America ”policies of the
latter seemed to dominate, and their policy had always been that
we must work in the states instead of trying to influence Congress.
At that time we were all thinking of the great World’s Fair at
Chicago. I intended to spend my entire time at the Fair where I
could see the people and get members for our association. We
were organized in May, 1892 and the numbers of prominent people
from all parts of the United States who expressed an interest in
our work and a readiness to join the society gave us much enCOur—
agement. This was just before the great Republican convention
in Minneapolis. Mrs. S. M. C. Perkins of Cleveland went to the
convention with me and we presented a memorial asking the con—
vention to take some action in regard to Woman Suffrage. We
were well received and succeeded in getting recognition for our
memorial. After that Mrs. Perkins and I went on a tour of speak—
ing and organizing through northern Indiana. All this seemed to
promise much but alas! our work received an unexpected blow in
the sudden death of my husband and the sickness of my mother,

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which kept me at home and all that I could do during the Fair
was to secure a section in one of the World's Congresses and to
arrange two sessions, one in the afternoon, the other in the

evening. But my mother's sickness continued and prevented me

from leaving home, and limited my efforts to writing and present—

ing appeals to the great national conventions of the Republican
and Democratic parties.

_But in the spring of 1902 my mother having died I went to Washing—
ton, where I met Mrs. Clara B. Colby who proposed an entire reor—
ganization oflour society. From that time wrs. Colby devoted
her energies and her time to this work. She obtained hearings at
every session of Congress. These hearings were well attended and
created a very great interest in the cause. VAmong the most
important of these was the one in 1904, at which so much interest
was shown that the committee asked her to return the next day and
explain the subject more fully. Another important hearing was in
1915, when we had the largest hall which is used for hearings filled
with people and many who could not find rOOm in the hall stood in
the corridor.

Immediately after the hearing of 1913, as there seemed to
be no interest in securing the amendment to the constitution
providing for the enfranchisement of women, our executive committee
decided to present a bill for such an amendment in Congress. This
bill was drawn by wrs. Clara macNaughton and presented by
Senator Chamberlain of Oregon at the next special session. It
was called Jbint Resolution Number One.

Our society was represented at the Gettysburg celebration by
Mrs. macNaughton and wrs. Anna Harmon who spent a week in circulat-

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But perhaps the most important work done by this society
was the Woman's Congress held in connection with the Panama
Exposition in San Francisco. The Congress was arranged by Clara
B. Colby. The Speakers were Rev. Olympia Brown, hrs. Ida Husted
Harper, Hrs. Adelaide Johnson, Miss Alice Park, MTS. Elizabeth
Lowe watson, and others.

In September, 1916, Mrs. Colby died. Had she lived, she would
have taken an active part in the great enterprises which have opened
up to women and where she would have made her influence felt» But
she was not permitted to see the victory which crowned her worko

And new we shall meet for our final gathering without any
word from here We shall rejoice in the victories that have been
achieved. We shall think of the many things we have done and many
things which we might have doneo We have advocated woman suffrage
during a period when it seemed to be neglected by others. We have

kept the flag flying. And now when I invite you to this final

meeting you will come as fullmfledged citizens to celebrate the

greatest victory for liberty that has ever been achieved, Come to
the parlors of the Ebbitt House, Washington, D. 0., for a short
business meeting at half—past three on January twenty-ninth,
nineteen hundred and twenty one. An evening meeting and reception
will be held at the same place at eight o'clock. Eminent speakers
will address the meeting and we hope to hear from all who have

assisted us in the hearings in the years pasta

Olympia Brown,
President of the Federal Suffrage

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Mr. Desha Bredkinridge, Editor,
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Lexington, Kentucky:
Dear Sir;

Your letter of March 15th, which appeared in the Herald, must
prove our justification, if one there be, for this effort "to make patent
to the State the difficulties with which we are burdened”, and ”the objects
for which we strive“; It may be that we have written too much; but, say-
ing anything, we here been unable to find a way to say less.

Prior to the campaign of 1919 partisan politics had brought the

public institutions of the State, and the care of their inmates to a con-

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dition that was a disgrace and/scandal to the Commonwealth. The cam-

paign addressed itself in large part to a discussion of them.

The Legislature of 1920 sought to reach the heart of the trouble
by providing for the appointment of a big and non-partisan Board of eight
members, the State Board of Charities and Corrections, without salaries and
without patronage, except in the selection of a Commissioner of Public In-
stitutions, a.Receiver at each institution and approval of the appointment
of the administrative head of each institution by the Commissioner. The
law distinctly prohibits any member of the Board from recommending or ask-
ing for the appointment of any person to any position in these institutions.
It places full responsibility and complete authority in the hands of each
superintendent in the selection of his officers and employee; and each
Superintendent is held responsible to the Board for the proper discharge
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Referring to my conversation with you re-
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dressed to Mr. Dasha Breckinridge, Editor, The Lexington
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Dear Madam,

I am writing to you as a Member of the International
Woman Suffrage Alliance to suggest to you that it would be
useful'in your work if you took in this paper, the Woman’s
Leader, a copy of which I enclose.

Its object is to promote all those reforms and causes
which are especially important to WOmen, and it is strictly
non—party in character. It publishes every week an article
on some aSpect of the position of women in other lands, and it
should be, I think, a useful medium for the interchange of
helpful information. Its usefulness of course increases with
its circulation and I should be very glad indeed to send specimen
copies to any clubs or colleges or to any persons whom you might
suggest to me as likely to be interested in its contents. It is
also an excellent advertising medium in this country and might
well prove useful for advertisements of schools wanting English
pupils, or teachers or other University women wanting posts in
Great Britain.

For all these reasons I believe the paper is Worth
your while to take in: and from the point of view of the paper,

you are just exactly the kind of reader whom we Wish to reach.
I hope you will at least try it for three months, and I enclose
a subscription form.

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