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Miss Laura Clay,
189 North Mill Street,
Lexington, Kentucky.

My dear Miss Clay:-

U I was very much interested in the contents of your
letter of January 24, which Miss Gordon read to me. I note par—
ticularly your observation that the Webb—Ks decision of the
Supreme Court may have a tendency to make it ore difficult to
pass a national prohibition movement, since the decision of the
Supreme Court will enable the states to protect themselves more
adequately.

I do wish the National would let the Congressional
Union sustain the burden_of the S.B.A. amendment, and the National
put its pressure on the United States Elections Bill instead of
this great waste of dual effort which is being sustained in WaShingtnn
by the headquarters of the C.U's and N.A.W.S.A.

I had a very pleasant vacation which included a flying
visit to my own home in Centralia, to my son Richard's home in Boston,
a day in New ‘ork and one in Philadelphia. I spent an.our or two
with Alice Blackwell. She looks very well, but I think is much wor—
ried over the WOMAN'S JOURNAL situation. She stated that sometime
ago She had an agreement with Mrs. Catt, whereby the N.A.W.S.A. was
to take over the JOURNAL, issue it from New York and assume the
$10,000 indebtedness which the JOURNAL has rolled up. This under—
standing obtained for some months, but just before the holidays
Miss Blackwell wrote Mrs. Catt for more definite arrangements and
received a reply to the effect that the whole arrangement was can—
celed. I think this came as a surprise to Alice. I do not know to
what extent She wants to keep this information confidential, but I
think it well that it be not discussed. I know your interest in
Miss Blackwell personally and the JOURNAL, and so I am tempted to
give you this information. I feel very indignant toward Agnes Ryan
for I am convinced that she has played on Miss dlackwell's credulity
for some years, and as Miss Blackwell is in no sense a financier
Miss Ryan had many opportunities for mismanaging and running the
JOURNAL in debt. I was amazed at the expenSive manner and the
tremendous force of workers the JOURNAL offices sustained. By the
way I suppose you know that Miss Ryan expects a baby very shortly.

 

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dinner with her at which time i took occasion to plead for Oklahoma.
Un my return to “cw “Pleans, I found several letters awaiting me
from which I made excerpts and sent to Mrs. Catt. I enclose you
a copy of the Oklahoma bill. I want you to be in touch with the
situation.

We have put Mrs. J.B.Judah on the

list for Conference
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KATE M. GORDON, President,

MRS. O. F. ELLINGTON‘ Rec. Sm: ‘y 1800 Pitvtumin St, New Orleans. m.

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 Feb. 19th, 1917.
My Dear Mrs. Boyer and Miss Gordan :-

I have received letters from
both and so will write to both of you.
I go to Washington City on Yednesday morning to the Council

meeting, ard if there is anything you would like for me to talk

over with Mrs. Catt or with the suffragists ydu can write to me

at National Headquarters, 1626 Rhode Island Avenue. you will

be glad to know that the danger of delaying the amendment in
Kentucky has about blown over. The liquor men wanted to submit

the amendment at the extra session of the Legislature, the legali-
ty of Which is very doubtful, and if the Eegislature passed it, it
would go to the courts for decision on its legality, thus tying it
up until it was too late to be passed by the regular session in
1918. But I am infbrmed that this trick cannot be successfully

played; so I am in hopes that we can get it submitted by the
Legislature of 1918 to he voted on in 1919.

Yes, I certainly do think it is a great mistake to have too
much flational supervision of State work. Howeverm I believe in
Illinois Mrs/ McCulloch is going to meet the difficulty of con-
tending with a Prohibition.amendment which the papers say 1313
has already passed one chamber.

I am intensely interested in all references in the letters

sent to me to the Oklahom situation. I did not know when I wrote

suggesting that both of you.should gt toOklahoma that Mrs. Catt
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had mafia any proposition about Mrs. Boyerfis going. I wish to say
at cnce thet if the proposition is put to the soard of the Southern
Conference that I will vote for it ans will do all I can to assist.
While I should exceedingly regret to have Hrs. Boyer absent from
the headquarters at *ew Orleans, yet I believe that to help a
southern state to win full suffrage would give the southern
Conference a great deal of prestige anfi assist all our plans.

I would not be willing to part with firs. Boyer for any but a
southern state.

I am enclosing a letter which Mrs. EcCulloch ask me to send

to firs/ {é%é?7%&afi”9L/”

Vlease remember me toall our suffrage friends, and udth

cordial regards toboth of you, I am

Very sincerely yours,

 

 SQU'E‘HERN Si‘A'EES WGMAN SUEFRAGE QQNFERENQE

KATE NL(}ORDODLanhmnu
MRS. O. F. ELLINGTON, Ree. Sec’y, 1800 PIytzLuiu St., New Orleans, La” AUDITOR-‘3
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L Lexington, Ky. 10‘? Brown Arcade, Baltimore, Md.
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41') Camp Street. New Orleans. La. NEW ORLEANS, LA.

A Til 25 191”.
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My dear Miss Clay:

I am trying to close up who many little odds and ends of
my suffrage work here in Louisiana; and I am doing it with a very
sore heart. Personally, I have enjoyed every day of my stay in
New Orleans and experience a delight in knowing the many friends
I have enlisted and the remembrance of whidh will continue to be
a beautiful memory.

I think Miss Gordon has written to you very fully of the
step we are about to take and how regretfully we both TOOK to the
ending of the press bulletins and our little magazine. We are
both egotistic enough to think that the hundreds and hundreds of
columns of press news have had an effect in creating southern suf—
frage sentiment. Two of the states which have the largest list of
papers on our mailing score are in the states of Arkansas and Okla—
home. It may be a coincidence that these states have shown a
Kindly disposition 5m women suffrage.

I expect to go to Boston to help with the Massachusetts‘
suffrage work and shell probably leave now orlesns shott hey 10.
This will give me a little period of rest at Oonirrlis sofone
camping down in Joston. I have had some stray echoes of your trip
in mains and expect to hear fuller accounts when I arrive in the
ii<>i*i;l1 . , .

Here in the headquartess we have had some happy moments in
putting white patches in the map.‘ fie speckle them over a little
bit, but even though the effect Mz5;that of measles, the map showed/
up in whiter hue Since 1917 then some of us hoped for. Now we are
looking focward for good news from Elorida.

Affectionately yours,

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 MISS ALICE STONE BLACKVVELL

MRS. SUSAN LEWIS BALL
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Treasurer

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MRS. LEWIS JEROME JOHNSON, First Vice—President and Chairman Executive Board
‘ MRS. WENONA OSBORNE I‘INKHAM, Second Vice-President
MRS. BENJAMIN F. l‘I'I‘MAN, Chairman Ways and Means Committee
MISS MARY W. DEWSON, Chairman Legislative Committee
MRS. HENRY DIKE SLEEPER, Chairman Organization Committee

MRS. TERESA A. CROWLEY, Chairman Congressional Committee

MISS ALLA A. LIBBEY, Chairman Industrial Committee

MRS. IDA PORTER BOYER, Chairman Press Committee

MRS. GEORGE “'INSLOW PERKINS, Executive Secretary

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March 20, 1918.

Miss Laura Clay,
181 Mill St., Lexington, Ky.
My dear Miss Clay:
I know you will be pleased to learn of the movement

to convert Lucy Stone's old home into a Convalescent Hospital

for Soldiers and Sailors; I am enclosing a clipping which

gives some of the details of the_project.
Affectionately/Xgurs,
Dict. IPB/M cr§2a€ag/ (J/jgyzz;f_.6/

Press Chairman.

 

 MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL

MRS. SUSAN LEWIS BALL
President

Treasurer

MASSACHUSETTS WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION
585 BOYLSTON STREET.BO$TON

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MRS. LEWIS JEROME JOHNSON, First Vice-President and Chairman Executive Board
MRS. WENONA OSBORNE I’INIUJAM, Second Vice-President
MRS. BENJAMIN F. PITMAN, Chairman Ways and Means Committee
MISS MARY W. DEWSON, Chairman Legislative Committee
MRS. HENRY DIKE SLEEPER, Chairman Organization Committee

MRS. TERESA A. CROWLEY, Chairman Congressional Committee

MISS ALLA A. LIBBE‘Y, Chairman Industrial Committee

MRS. IDA PORTER BOYER, Chairman Press Committee

MRS. GEORGE W'INSLOW PERKINS, Executive Secretary

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March 15, 1918.

Miss Laura Clay,
181 Mill St., Lexington, Ky.
My dear Miss Clay:

In reading the Transcript last evening, which is the
Boston bible, I came across a reproduction from the Providence
Journal, and I am wondering to what extent the Flood bill Will
resemble the United States elections bill which ybu prOposed
several years ago. Mr. Henry D. Flood is representative in
Congress from Virginia. His home address is Appomattox.

I am Writing to you instead of to Mrs. Catt, and if
you deem it wise, I trust you will take up the matter with her.
I presume Mr. Flood has prepared copies of his bill, but I have
not yet seen anything beyond the clipping which I enclose.

I know you will be interested to learn that Alice
Blackwell has loaned the old Dorchester home for a Convalescent
Hospital for Wounded Soldiers. It is to be known as the Lucy
Stone Memorial, and the use of the house and the grounds is
given during the period of the war and for one year thereafter.

Cordially yours, (/C:;:)
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one. Press Chairman.

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FORESTALLING VOTE SCANDAL

Introduction of Bill Against Aliens Exer—
cising the Ballot Privilege Brings Befon
the Public the Existence of a Practin
Which Would Allow 250,000 Enemies it
Participate in Elections

[li‘rom the Providence Journal]

It is new information to most peo-
ple in this section of the coun~
‘ try that aliens vote in some States.
This is brought: out by the intro.
duction of a bill in Congress to prevent
alien enemies from voting, the purpose
being to enact it into law before the
next November election.

Ten States are named by Chairman
Flood of the House Foreign Affairs Com-
mittee author of the bill, in which aliens
have the voting privilege, and 250,000
is the estimated number of alien one~
mics so qualified. Stimson‘s digest of
State Constitutions names thirteen
s States where “males of foreign birth, of
’- t.hc age of twenty—one, who have taken
lout their first papers" may vote. The
States in the Flood list are Alabama,
Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan,
Missouri, Nebraska, Oregon. South Da-
kota, and Texas. Stimson adds VViscon—
sin, Colorado and North Dakota,,'though
since the publication of his work the law
in these States may have been changed.

The Situation as to Vote Regulation

The issue calls attention to the fact,
on which opponents of woman suffrage.
of course. lay stress, that the voting
privilege is primarily a matter of State
regulation, not Federal. As a result. of
the emancipation of the slaves, the Fit—
teenth Amendment to the Federal Con—
stitution was adopted, forbidding the
States to deny or abridge the privilege
on account of race, color or previous
condition of servitude. But except for
this, the Constitution does not dictate,
and, indeed, confides the election of sen~
ators. representatives and the President
to a. diverse electorate as regulated by
State laws.

It. is entirely possible that there may
be qualified alien enemies enough in.
som‘e'of'"th‘e'eongre’S‘Siona’l drstri'cts, in
the States where aliens vote, to influ—
ence the result at the forthcoming elec-
tion. But it may be a question if Congress
can forbid their participation by an act
of legislation.

The States could not shut them out,
because the privilige is fixed in the sev-
eral Constitutions, and there is not time
to amend the fundamental law. But,
also, the Constitution of the United States
provides that for the election of repre-
sentatives and senators in Congress, the
”electors in each State shall have the
qualifications requisite for electors of
the most numerous branch of the State
lilcgislature." Those entitled to vote for
members of the House of Representa—
tives in a State appear to be qualified to
vote for members of Congress. The in—
tent seems to be that the qualifications
shall be identical, and in practice they
always have been.

 

Congress May Disqualify Voters

The Flood bill declares that “no per-
«on not a citizen of the United States,
’who is a subject of a State or nation
with which the United States is at war,
( shall be permitted to vote at any elec~
tion to be held for President and Vice
_ President, or for Senators of the United
States or members of the House of
Representatives.” The construction put
upon the constitutional provision, that
electors for the Federal representatives
shall have the qualifications of electors
for State representatives, may be that it
does not establish the right of the latter
to vote for Federal officers but only re—
strains Congress from creating an elec—
torate in enlargement of that of the
several States. 111 other words, Congress
may assume the right to refuse to ac-
cept State qualifications, though it can—
not create new ones——it may disqualify,
but cannot qualify voters for the pur-
pose of a national election.

It is evidently highly desirable that
alien enemies be prevented from voting,
and regardless of whether or not they
could “throw” an election in any district.
For Germans and Austrians to be per-
mitted to line up with American citizens
at the ballot bOlX, at this time. especially
for an election of any part of the Gov—
ernment of the United States, would be
scandalous.

 

 Miss Laura Clay—3 March 50, 1918.

I could hardly get there before the middle of April even though
released from here immediately, as since my husband's death I have
decided to break up my home and this together with some business
affairs will occupy at least a week or ten days in Centralie, Pa.
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new Orleans. Sent. 6, 1918.

are. Ida Porter Boyer.
135 Farmer Street.
Detroit. Mich.

My dear Penney.

How can I thank you enough for those splendid
posters you sent me. In fact, until they came. I had no idea
of the existence of some of theme from the fact that the
price list sent me by the National is for'1917, and evidently
these are later contributions. it is three weeks since I gave
the order for the maps to be grinted and I have not heard
from them yet. They are evidently not rapid transit in the
publicity department.

I am enclosing Mice Clay's letter. and you will
appreciate the armed truce that exists in order that his
Honor. Bob Ewing, can be let down easy. firs. Holmes asked for
a private interview with Jean and me. but we refused. who lady
is such an almighty liar. that we w0uld not take the chance
of a private conference.

30 you can imagine the delight we felt in hav-
ing the Woman Suffrage Party represented by Ethel Hutson. a
Mrs. Lamb that figuree under the pseudonym of the "Self-Start-
er, as she undertakes to set in motion every kind of activity
that is possible to lead to nowhere, and are. Holmes in con-
ference with us.

Ehere is one thing“that the Joint campaign
committee of the La. State suffrage Association and the
Woman Suffrage Party has clearly proven. and that is that they
have not one single bit of organization, no money. and they
have not the first idea how to launch a campaign; and that
is the reason after their failure in the Legislature to pre-
vent submission. they went back to Red Cross and knitting.
Mrs. Holmes again come forth when Gallinger died. and the
chances for a Federal amendment submission became slimmer.

There was sent to the La. State Suffrage Asso-

ciation anonymously a copy of an invitation sent out by the

 

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Woman Suffrage Party for a called executive meeting to re-
ceive some information sent out by Mrs. Catt. and the person
to Whom it was sent was especially urged mBOt to mention this
fact. It proves to me that Mrs. Catt as National president
allows two organizations to exist in a State. solicits money
and recOgnizee as to a certain point, but uses the other
party as the medium to receive special instructions. That's
an honorable role to play. I mentally ap010gize for some of
the things that Mary Kay got the credit for.

I have written to Miss Clay and asked her to
come to us in October. I would not care to have her sooner.
because September is so often a hot trying month. I want her
here to share in the victory with us. far I feel sure we are
going to be victorious.. a; we went out no w_and campaigned
against women suffrage. Yon. of course. apereciate what it
means to have old Ewing on our side.

I send some of my bulletins. You will be glad
to know that they are being splendidly used, and that we are
getting editorial support. 0n Labor Day. when the parade pass-
ed we shook our "Votes for Women" flag, and received from the
marchers an ovation. which Evie Harris says is incorrect .En-
glish. and should oe described as a demonstration.

By putting hiss Clay's letter and this letter
together. you will have all the political news. I am quite
of the opinion that the Antis have summed us up correctly.
and that won on do not want to vote. The apathy. the indiffer-
ence. the little understanding of suffrage as a basic right
appalis me. the nearer I reach the goal.

If for any reason we do not get our ballot
in Rovember. tlxen I will withdraw from any future ac tivity.
Naturally. the lederal amendmentitee will be vindicated. I
would rather.see my right arm withered in its socket than to
raise it in behalf of vitalizing the 15th amendment. and above
all destroying- that safeguard of our liberty, State sovereign-

ty.

When the Michigai campaign is over, don‘t you
want to come down to How Orleans and Join hiss Clay. who I
hope will as here and rest up? Maybe by that time. the La.
Anti-’2 ubeiouloeis League or the Southern Conference will need
ybur activities.

Affectionately.

 

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