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Mrs. Elliott H. Pendleton V Miss Bettie Wilson Mrs. Frank H. Simpson

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Mrs. Hamilton Bell
Mrs. Moses ButtenWerser (JL‘ WM
Miss Edith Campbell
Mrs. Arthur T. Cobb
Mrs. George Dittman
Mrs. Louise Eastman
Mrs. Henry N. Hooper
Mrs. Fenton Lawson
Miss Mary} MacMillan
M'ss Emilie McVea
M 5. Bernard Pollak
Mrs. Carl Rankin V
. E. R. Stearns
. A.- G. Strong
. F. C. Tattle
. Geo. B. Twichell
. Stephen Wilder
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no yam ihink it pagaibla far yen to get awe of your lead—
ing nﬁwagagera ﬁu pay far a aynéioate Sautharn latter an woman Suffrags.
I find that the ﬁaele Smuﬁh is wafully xgnuramt 3? the history at wnman
ﬂuffrage, and m onmpariaen 4f “0% and ﬁﬁﬁﬁ, 5huwing aha impravad status
of woman ﬂuﬁﬁ in the light 4f camgarisun with tha womaﬁ of fifty years

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ago; is a? travenﬁeus $ervice in making canvarts, both of man and wgmen,

Wiﬂﬁ Anhhany uxeé ts ﬁff that ghe canﬁidﬁred Iaa Rusted
3&39er's weakly letters, that were carried an for a number of yearﬁ in
the weu ¥ork Sun at ”123 Anﬁhcny'b eagenue, had a great anal as a; Wiﬁh
mat only making converts, but in caucatihg bwlievwra t9 enable them to
argue tke aufxrage quﬁsﬁicv.

aeaira ig.ta WYitﬁ a ﬁﬁﬁklg lattwr and, if possible?
m&k& tha ‘ . ~ gay fer the expﬂnse af thia ﬁnifrage wurk. The
WeW'ereau& mes ﬁemocrat will gladly Lake aach a letter ané, accnrdn
ing ta its aditcr, §£.5C a wa&k 13 a vary FﬁﬁSQHablé aum ta ask far it.
If a number of pmywrs in a Stase‘woqld pay for it, we cauld make it at
a chaayer rata, but peggibly onﬁ leaéing ygpwr iaaturing it wonlﬁ d0
tha graatest &ﬁuﬂﬂt a? gaodg If a auffiuien; numbér af payers wuulﬁ
aubxcribc ta it, I scald afforﬁ saihavc ﬁxpertﬁ, like if . Harper and
Erw. Beyur, Gcc&aionally prayara iattera.

. I haliéve there is a Southern viawgaint that wnly a South-
arner can give ans which will giva Lo theae lattmra a lanai ouiaring
that will he 0f valus. Take, far inﬁtanCﬁ, Maryland aha Ennisiana an&
the granﬁfathar ClﬁU$6¢ What a wealth cf aypcrtunity is being 103% in
net chewing my in bath 0? these Stateg haw men 0i the yailtician txpe
preza. to Cfﬁﬁté an ignor&nt eléctorate raﬁhar than to emiranchiea ﬁdu~

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.rtellignnt women a5 Lag bml&nce in_preaurving white ﬂupremaﬂayﬁ
* P ﬁixtwanah amandmant 1% amethu: miﬂc that #e cauld eXylcit
_vutharn Viewgoint. The agraaﬁing uf tha infanuatian that Vsnb

Southern State, wag the fifﬁt to accurd an wemen the rimht ta
vota as ‘uman h¢ingg, up a dumucratic baﬁia, whﬁn the Snane game widews
with children cf ahhaoi age the yowér an vute an achmol matters. @han
thare iﬁ’tha inﬁereating infﬁrvmtinn aboui Hannah nee Corbin and the
wnmen 3? $58 connniaa 0f Ruwam and Tecklanburg 9: Earth Carolina, anﬁ
ﬁargarez‘Mrmntu- a1 Santhernera, aha in Favalutianary times Endorﬁed
the grinuiﬁla 0f wuman suffrage.

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fare, pcmmnally 3% same 53? 3131.3“ Iiisnxiirlg editara and a8}: whethwr the???
wauld he willing t0 fake wank cogy. ﬁhwg might teat it fur a manth 9?
six waaka. I think, howevar, it will requira personal attention at 10¢
081 women #0 aecure a reaaanawiﬁ number uf paperﬁo

Weuld you kindly 13% me hear from yen &s goon as pcbaiblﬁ
upon theae two point$ thaﬁ are aubmittaa in theme :wu lettara.

Youra c¢rdially,

Kata 3. Gordon,
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I have reed with great interest 3Cur letter. I wish I
oculd i eel like you~~ that suffrage will he here for all of us in five
years. T}~e is but one we; thnt I see wherein that could he possi—
ble, and test would he thrOugh ever3 pol iticel party taking an active
stand ori Gee questi (1:.

I had elreed3 discussed my committee the edvisahili~
ty Cf organizing e Southern States' ri oMfTToVH conference on the
liries of the Mississippi Valley cm mifer ith no president and no
con stifuzicn. I would rather have had 5 mt» e ccmple te or ganizetion,
if I crn-d have had you at the head of it. But I re elize that gour
hands will he full wit.h a campaign in prospect in Kentucky, and I im—

PtC t eke 3:0u Cit of Kentucky would remove the most active force
8.,ste .

I am greatly interested in the clipping vou sent me. I

shall seine legal advice and discuss this phase of the ouestion at

conference. I would give anything under the sun 11‘ Mrs. Bennett
oCnld cone and present it to us, and I am going to send her e tele~
gram toniqht :o tha.t effect and ask her tC leave her friends for a
while to the ender mercies oi other members cf the family and join
us In our delinereticns.’ I feel deeplyt he are at danger oi any mends~
tor3 amendment, unless we could make the Hifteenth Amendment only ap~
plicahle for Federel elections. The discriminations against the South
in more Ways than one should make all of us hesitate to force a Na—
tional Amendment, which csn, if the lesso ons Cf the pest are worth any-
thing, be made to work ver3 disaonntwceCuslv for a section. Not
only from this vieWpoint, but I view with eleim the reopening of all
kinds of of suhterfuges resor rte d to tC get erund the negro woman vou
ting. In the constitutions oi the South, designed to preserve white
supremacy, we have such an awful boomerang in the understanding and
grandfather clauses. what excuse has kept us back at e rate that on~
ly those woo are in touch with the situation can feel the influence of.
It has oeen a verit ehl egoel for literacy among the negroes and a goal
for 1111 terec3 on the part of the white, and, if in order to get around
the same suhje t, women sui’frsge has to es the excuse for a little
more of crooked political conditions, I can see the point oi view of
the many who would regard it as d doubtful oenefit. I, of course,
went it at en3 cost, but, ii in the mesntime I can get the peoyle of
the South roused to see their duty, that seems to me to be the most
important thing before me today. But it,is a disheartening job at best.

I do not expect to go to the convention of the National
American Women Suffrage Association.

I would he delighted to he with you all in Louisville end
enjoy your State convention. Many thanks i‘or ‘our kind invitation to
'be your guest.

- cordially yours g:
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