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MRs. STANLEY MCCORMICK. MAss. MR5. HENRY WADE ROGERS. CONN.
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CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
MRS. FRANK J. SHULER. NEw YORK MR5. T- T- COTNAM» ARKANSAS

RECORDING SECRETARY MRs. JAMES LEES LAIDLAW. NEw YORK

3° V'CE'PRES'°E”T MR5. HALSEY w. WILSON. NEw YORK
MRS. GUILFORD DUDLEY. TENN. MRS. ARTHUR L. LIVERMORE. New YORK

2ND VICE-PRESIDENT
MIss MARY GARRETT HAY. NEw YORK

4m VICE-PRESIDENT MR8. NONIE B. MAHONEY. TEXAS

MRS. RAYMOND BROWN. NEw YORK NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
5TH V|CE-PRESIDENT 171 MADISON AVENUE

MR5. HELEN GARDENER. NEW YORK
WASHINGTON. D. c. TELEPHONE. 4818 MURRAY H,LL MR5. HORACE C. STILWELL. INDIANA

MIss ESTHER G. OGDEN. NEw YORK
DR. MARY SAFFORD. FLORIDA

NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE pREss DEPARTMENT
PUBLISHING COMPANY. INc. CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE
Muss ROSE YOUNG. CHAIRMAN MRS. MAUD wooo PARK. CHAIRMAN

MISS ESTHER G. OGDEN. PRESIDENT 1-" MANSON AVENUE, NEW YORK Haioauuraas

171 MADISON AVENUE. NEw YORK 1626 RHODE ISLAND AVE.. WASHINGTON. D.C.

July 11 , 1915 0

Miss Kate Gordon,
1600 Prytania Street,
New Orleans, Louisiana.

My dear Miss Gordon:-

You misunderstood the import of 11w comment about the difference in
the different states. In state referenda, it becomes necessary for a state
like Louisiana to appeal to white men Only for the vote and you can have as
much race Opposition in your canpaign as you like, but in a state like New York
where the negro votes and where no one has yet come forward to prepose that
he shall not do so, it is necessary to educate them on the subject of woman
suffrage and its import. It would make no difference if a federal amndment
had never been preposed. An appeal which would bring success in one state,
would be sure to be quoted by the Opposition and do harm in another - that is
what I meant.

I am sorry that you thought m attack upon you was unwarranted. I
do not know that I made an attack. I merely attempted to show you that every
anti-suffragist in the United States is Opposing the federal amendment with
might and min at this. time and standing forstates' rights because they know
that that is the way to hold back the suffrage movement and I want you to know
that you are quoted by them everywhere in support of their position.

I note your two questions. I do not know what the Board of Officers
of the NatiOnal American Woman Suffrage Association will or may do, but I can
say that so far as I am personally concerned, I will use my utmost influence
to see that no assistance of any kinl or description is given to the Iouisiana
campaign. I sincerely believe that it was not an honest submission of an
ameniment. I believe the Democrats of Louisiana have submitted the question
for tlm sole purpose of making an appearance to the public of giving the women
of Louisiana fair play in order that they may seem to Oppose the federal amend-
ment conscientiously. As a matter of fact, they submitted the question in
Louisiana merely to Oppose the federal amendmnt and if I do not lose my guess,
they will see to it that your state amendment is voted down, good and hard.

I hope I am wrang and I hOpe that you may win the question. The liquor people
are no mere Opposed to a federal amendment than they are to a state amendment.

 

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, Miss Kate Garden, New Orleans, Louisiana. July 11, 191s.

They are Opposed to women and to woman suffrage and they to a man are Opposing
the federal amendment, because they know they can beat us out more successfully
in a state referendum.

Concerning your second point, I do not think that Ransdell will reverse
his position. He is a man with a man's backbone and a man's soul. He is, in my
judgment, one of the biggest men in the United State Senate today. If he loses
his position, it will be because the state is ignorant, bigoted, narrow—minded
and does not know a man when it sees one.

Concerning your third point, I would certainly be unwilling to join
a southern conference with a view to making any kind of a compromise as against
the federal amendment. I would be Opposed to doing this for the reason that
there are several states in the Union where it is absolutely impossible, by any
present known method, to enfranchise the women by a state amendment. The only
hepe of enfranchisement for women is by means of the federal amendment and there
is no compromise measure which could get the suffrage for them. I am for the
federal amendment too because it is the only possible way to get around the
obstructions which men have written into the constitutions of the several states.
It is because of this that such men as the President, see the necessity of acting
by the National method.

Secondly, I would not make any compromise at this moment, because in
our war for democracy abroad, it becomes absolutely necessary to set up the

principles of democracy at home and to do it as a nation, if we are to be regarded
as sincere by our Allies in the world war. The President has this vision and
Ins declared woman suffrage by the federal route a. war measure. I regret that

any woman who believes in woman suffrage cannot have that vision too.

The arousing of the race question by means of the federal amendment is
mere 'buncombe' for every state holds the right to set the qualifications for
voters under a federal amendment as under a state amendment. It was an interesting
scene the otlnr day when Senator Brandagee, a black Republican frOm Connecticut,
contended that the South must adhere to itstraditions and see to it that woman
suffrage did not come by the federal route. It was an interesting procedure,
when a southern senator arose and asked him the question, whether the states
would not hold itsright to fix qualifications, and he compelled Senator Brandagee
to confess that-fins would be true.

We are going through the Senate and we are going to secure ratification
and we are going to do it despite the unfortunate attitude of the Louisiana

suffragists.
Yours truly,

President

 

 NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION

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

MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT. PRESIDENT

3 IST VICE-PRESIDENT
MRS. STANLEY MCCORMICK. MASS.

2ND VICE—PRESIDENT
MISS MARY GARRETT HAY. NEw YORK

30 VICE-PRESIDENT
MRS. GUILFORD DUDLEY, TENN.

4TH VICE-PRESIDENT
MRS. RAYMOND BROWN. NEw YORK

’STH VICE-PRESIDENT
MRS. HELEN GARDENER.
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RECORDING SECRETARY
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MRS. NONIE B. MAHONEY. TEXAS
MISS ESTHER G. OGDEN. NEw YORK
DR. MARY SAFFORD. FLORIDA

MRS. HORACE C. STILWELL. INDIANA

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 January 2, 1919.

my dear President:-

At a recent meeting of the National Board of Officers a

national budget for the coming year of $95,000 was adopted. The
amount expended this year was $95,579.14.

The Press Department The Data Department, The Citizen
(deficit), the rent for the Washington house and some of the ex-
tras there, are all borne by the Leslie Commissions The total
amounts to about $80,000 per year and the National American Whman
Suffrage Association is relieved of these financial responsibili-
ties.

The beget adopted therefore is solel to be used in sup-
port of the New York Headquarters, the annua convention expenses,

the congressional work, literature for the Legislatures and rati-
fication necessities.

The officers who must meet the bills of the National
Awsociation as they rise and keep the ”home wheels thurning" have
made a very careful study of the situation. Knowing that each
state will be taxed for its own campaign, we have decided to 11 ht-
en the load of the state presidents asmuch as possible. we rea ize
however, that if the states on account of their own necessities
should repudiate their responsibility toward theNational.Campaign,
ghe end ofOur struggle will not be as near as we believe it should

e.

Enclosed you will find a bulletin on "Monday Raising" and
a sheet settingg‘xx forth the amount assigned to each state for
the year beginning December.l, 1918, the amount which the states
paid during the past year from December 1, 1913 to December 1,1918
and the amount due on last year's pledge. Several of the states
are delinquent in the payment of that pledges, as you will see
from the list. The amount assigned to each state is a modest sum
totalling $52,420. This will leave the National officers the re-
sponsibility of raising $62,600.

In the amount assigned to the several states, the due of
each state are included; that is the dues of each state will be
made to apply upon its pledge. 0n the other hand pledges secured
by National Officers or the National Finance Committee from any
state cannot apply upon the pledge of that state. Naturally, if
the National officers are to raise $62,600 they will be oblkged
to do it from contributors within some of the several states

Will not each state please accept cheerfully its assign-
ment herein made and raise the amountas soon as possible?

When the amendment passes the Senate as we utill hope it
will do before January 15th, you will be able to say that you
believe you are making the last appeal for aid for the woman suf-
frage cause. This ought to bring many pledges in sheer relief
from further responsibility.

Cordially yours,

(Signed) Carrie Chapman Catt,
President.

 

 'NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION.
171 Madison Avenue, New York City, N.Y.

suing}; NUMBER pg

H Issued by
MRS.CARRIE CHAPMAN GATT.

SUBJECTP‘ ,
MONEY RAISING. January 2, 1919.

From east and west, north and south, state presidents are
sending in their piteous acmplainti of no money with.which to work.
The story is the same in nearly every state. The workers have given
their time and their money to various war activities; every pocket—
book is flat and the suffrage work is languishingzfir needs offunds.

The National Association has always conscientiously considers
ed that state associations ought to have the right to secure pledges
from the people in their respective states, and that the state asso-
ciations out of their funds should support the work of the National
Board. Therefore, when you are poor, we are poor. When you have no
money with which to work, it follows that we shall shortly have no
money for our work. Ahead looms up the largest campaign we hwe ever
known, and probably the greatest demand for money in all the history
of the movement will be made upon us who at this moment are holding
the official positions in the suffrage administrations, national and
state.

The situation must be faced boldly. In Connecticut and Mis-
souri there have been luncheons; in @onnecticut $15,000 was raised
in pledges, the lar est sum the women there have ever secured at one
time. In Missouri 7,000 was raised, and I believe this was the
largest sum the women there ever raised at a suffrage meeting. What
Connecticut and Missouri have done, other states can and.must do.

Arrange a dinner, luncheon or other public meeting and with

the intent of using the occasion for your money raising climax. Make
your program attractive enough to bring out a good attendance

Beginn the preparation by'mafing up your own budget and add
to it your assignment on the national budget. Assume a portion to
be raised by personal pledges; assign a portion to each countr.

The success of securing pledges at such public functions de—
pends upon careful preparation. A thoroughpgoing campaign for pledg-

es mu t be made beforehand. The wisest and the best inf rmed workers
must e sent to talk with people in person and to persuade them to

make pledges for the state and national campaigns. Not only the
amount, but the method of expenditure should be stated to thepeople
to whom you appeal. You should set women at work on this problem
in every county in the state.

A good plan for making the money raising of the meetirg a
bit spectacular and interesting is to have a large map of your state
placed_on a sheet in a conspicuous place at the dinner. This map
should have the counties delicately outlined and if the geography
of your state is so complicated that you may be unfamiliar wfh the
location of your counties, the name of each county should be