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MEMBER NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN

Honorary President. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison Street, Rochester. N. Y.

Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL. 3 Park Street, Boston. Mass

President. Rev. ANNA HOWARD SHAW.
7443 Devon Street, Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pa.
Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Warren. Ohio.

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Auditors. {Dm ANNICE JEFFREY MYERS, 375 East 12in St, N., Portland, Ore.

Corresponding Secretary, KATE M. GORDON,
1800 Pryiania Street. New Orleans, La. Chairman Press Committee, ELNORA M. BABCOCK, Dunkirk, N. Y.

OFFICE 01“ NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS. WARREN. OHIO

THE PRESIDENT

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MEMBER NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN

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Corresponding Secretary. KATE M. GORDON.

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.Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Warren, Ohio.

OFFICE OF NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, WARREN. OHIO
THE PRESIDENT ‘

Portland, Ore., June 12,19063

my dear Miss Clay:

I was so surprised when I learned you were gone for I
wanted to have a chance to talk with‘you a little bit, but I did
not feel at all well either in body or mind any more than the rest
of us, and so the time went by.

I wanted to thank yen for all the splendid work you did
here; for your loyalty and devotion to the cause, which kept you
from.home for almost a year and yet which resulted in such a sor-
rowful defeat. If we felt personally to blame for it of course we
would be much unhappier than we are; but I think under the circum-
stances we did the best we could and so ought not to blame ourselves.
And yet I cannot help feeling that I would like to have had some
things a little different, so the t even if the real It had been the
same there would be no cause for complaint. However, what is done
is done and we have all learned a great deal by the experience.

I hope that I may he with.you in your State Convention this
fall and as soon as possible after I get home we may have a Business
Committee meeting and get things straightened out. I want to say,
that everywhere you went everybody was pleased witliyour work and
felt the: you did good. A letter this morning from Douglas County

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MEMBER NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN

Honorary President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY. 17 Madison Street, Rochester. N. Y.
President. Rev. ANNA HOWARD SHAW. c
7443 Devon Street. Mt. Airy, Philadelphia. Pa. Recording Secretary. ALICE STONE BLACKWELL. 3 Park Ctreet. Boston, Mass

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Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Warren. Ohio.

Corresponding Secretary, KATE M. GORDON,
1800 Prytania Street, New Orleans, La. Chairman Press Committee, ELNORA M. BABCOCK, Dunkirk, N. Y.

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THE PRESIDENT

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done earlier in he season in that county. 80 some feel grateful
even if others do not.

I trust that some day before long we may be in a victory togeths
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readily up to that time.
I feel as deep a regret as you do at having toy give up the work in Oregon £01 I
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opened last fionday.

I am 31ad the hot weather is over ior your sake andt mt we shall meet as I trust,
in Whrren.

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President, REV. ANNA HOWARD SHAW

7443 Devon Street Mt. A1ry. Philadelphia. Pa.

Vice President at Large. FLORENCE KELLEY,
105 East 22nd Street, New York City.

Corresponding Secretary, 1KATE M. GORDON,
1800 Prytania Street, New Orleans. La.

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regard to the position.

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Recording Secretary. ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass
Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Warren, Ohio.

Auditors‘ {LAURA CLAY, Lexington, K.
DR ANNICE jERFREY MYERS, 375 East 12th St., N., Portland, Ore.

Chairman Press Committee. ELNORA M. BABCOCK. Dunkirk, N. Y.

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which we received this A. id. from Mrs.

tion she has of the work c? ihe Situeiion in

work in that State.

tional and does not sug-

gest the possibility of tie Oregon Association undertaking the Work with any vigor.

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she refers as willing to take ihe Presidency With the consent of

very easy to understand how hopeless

the task is when ihere is such a feel~

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rs. Porter, the’lady to whom

firs. Dnniwey, is a

very nice liiile woman but one not at all familiar with our work and in no sense able

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and mailing of

in the folding

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mous in voiing in favor of
advisiLg the Oregon women
suggestions in ihe letter

received Mrs. Coe'shis A. M.

telegram to Miss Poase and every day's delay was a great

I fihink it

thai was really the cause of ihe refusal of

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tures and that men were signing fictitious names,

encumberent and perhaps a lit 19 heuaer.

of

to coniinue

to Mrs. Coo and

was absolutely necessary fio

they signed but since that

till I feel that she will grasp ihe situation as well

She did a great deal to help

the leaflets during ihe last meeting of the campaign.

ihe ousimi ecanmiiteea, all of the members were unaniv

Pease as far as ihe National is concerned and

the work. Miss Clay and Vi es ”lacxweil offei red

I had nedefiomfi but sent the leiter before I

The letter ought to go to Mrs. Coe as I had sent ihe

hinderance.

refer to the newspaper contention, because

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certed eciion in regard ho ie. we all deplore the necessity of giving up the petition

work in Oregon. Personally, I think ii is one of fihe greatest blows we have had.

The position the Oregon Society has placed us in since the campaign, is in my mind, worn»

than the defeat itself and I do not think We should pass over it without making any
reference to it in our lather he that body. We have all done the best we could to
help them and fihey simply would not be helped. Neither would fihey do anything ‘hem~
selves.

If that had been ehe only letter which had been eonfi cue and I had not written
several others to Mrs. Coo and several others of the Oregon SocietV, hedging them to
cease eheir contezhion and be shop all present athacks, yet I ' kept on just the some
and paid no etionfiion to hhs appeals nofi only of myself and Mrs. thon huh several who
are on the ground and are doing their very best. I fihink to pass it over and noi pay
any atiention to it, would be poor policy. The letter has gone and I did refer to it
and shall be very sorry if any member of the commitfice thinks it was not a Wise thing
to do.

There is one fihing I cm trying ho find out and fihet is wheiher or not ihe names

been been collecfied on the petition will be good after the new secretary of State
comes into office. If they will, they can beheld and utilized if the petition work

8 taken up next year.
Mre. Blackwell suggests and if I believe ii could be done, would heartily agree

with her, bhei ihe petition work might be pushed by the National and then let us step

our work. Under proseni circumstances, I do not believe any amounfi of psuhing could

secure chose names before the first of January. Conditions are so strained and this
A. H. another Oregonian of Sunday, SeptrMber 8th has been received in which Nrs. Dona“

way has resurrected an old lecoure and has read she says, at the request of some women

from wood River and its bifiternoss is something unthinkable. I blink the only dizaiu

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 we had our first meeting Saturday afternoon, to begin work anew. It was

a very good meeting: Kiss ?oaoe has done good work and T foel that you couldn't have

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a batter or moro oompotent workor in the field than Miss J They have had to unro

out so fiany nomeo that at present they havo only 900 and something vorifiod, with

about 1000 moro names to go over. S you see there is a great lot of work to do.

Fred paot oxporionoo, we know correct names oro hard to got. It takes time. If you
fool y u can afford Hiso :ease at $65 per month and will promise her Work through the
school year, she will give up her school, othorwise she must teach. I don't think

you could do better than hoop Miss Peaso, as it must be someone who can he dopendod
upon to give their entire time to the work; If you wish to keep Miss Peaso at $65 for
the year or ten months, wiro me at onoo and I will let her kDOWo Her school begins a
week from to~day, September 17th.

I have been looking hard for a new President. Thought of Mrs” waldo and Hrs.
Dyo of Oregon City. Mrs» Waldo has givon her time to the Grange and Mrs: Dye says
sha cannot and that it should be a Portland woman. Also tried to get Dr. Pohl but
she has her hands fullg

Saturday I saw Mrs. Potter, you remember her at headquarters and at the Heilig
Theatre, her husband is a very tall slim man with black hair, they are people of good
standing anf she has promised to be Presidext if elected. This is agreeable to Mrs.
Duniway also. We all expect to work just the same, although not holding office.

Our treasury is very low. W6 paid out $56 plus for postage this summer and have
paid Miss Pease $3562. This take all we have and we still owe Miss Pease $100. Now,
I understand you aro to help pay Miss Pease for her work_this summer. If you will
send her direct or to me, a check for $100 we would be even. If you cannot, we will
do the best we can to get it a little at a time. Wish you would write mo about what
yOu expect to do in this matter.

We feel we should get the names all in by the first of January, before the legisu

laturo meets. This is important but without the entire time and help of Miss Peasa,

 

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?ortland, Oregon.

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MEMBER NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN

Honorary PreSident. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N. Y.

President, REV. ANNA HOWARD SHAW,
7443 Devon Street, Mt. AirY. Philadelphia, Pa. Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass

Vice President at Large, FLORENCE KELLEY.
105 East 22nd Street, New York City. Auditors’ {LAURA CLAY, Lexington, Ky. 1

Corresponding Secretary, KATE M. GORDON, DR. ANNICE JEFFREY MYERS, 375 East 12th St., N., Port and, Ore.
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Sept. 10th, I906.
My dear Miss Shaw,
I am glad to get your letter this morning, announcing

the call for the business meeting, which I think is necessary. I trust
you have returned refreshed in body and spirits. My health is.excellent,
though I have had a trying summer on account of the heat in Lenington,
. where T have been compelled to remain on account of my building. However,
the weather now promises to be less hot. V

I see nothing now to pretent'my being on hand the morning of the IIth
of‘Ootober. You do not state where you expect the meeting to be held, wheth-
én in fiarren or ?hiladelphia. ?erhaps you are leaving that for a later de-
‘cision. I think ”arren is best, because since the Press work is now done
there, as well as other departments, I think the Business Com. Shenifix
should take every Opportunity to inform itself personally of what is need-
ed for the greatest efficiency, so as to give as intelligent Opinion as

possible at the convention. Not that I think four days is ample for this,

but it is better than no visit at all»

You ask me to write about things» I have nothing to say now that may
not as well be said at the meeting, except about Oregon, there there seems
so much iisturbance that instant action may seem necessary at any time. I
have written continually to Hrs.Upton that I believe we ought by all means
to keep our hold on the petition work till the petition untiixtt'ismfiled
with the Secretary of State. Unless we help, I fear the Oregon people will

not get it done. If it is not done now, we lose all the enthusiasm of our

 

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expensive campaign, together with_what organization we have been able to.
effect. After the petition is in, I am willing, if the factions have not
quieted down, to leave Oregon far awhile; we are not really needed there
till the spring of 1908.3ut it seems ruinous to me not to get the petition'
in as speedily as possible, whether all the Oregon peOple wish it or not.
I have nothing'et present to say about Oklahoma, except that I am one
who thinks the campaign there should be as vigorously pushed as it is in
our power. I am hopeful of that territory as of any other field we now hav

before us.

I wrote to Miss Lucy on Saturday, in answer to one of here that I

did not think demanded-ananswer till her return.
Please give my love to her and also to Mrs.Avery, and believe me

Always cordially yours,,

 

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MEMBER NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN

Honorary President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison‘Street, Rochester. N. Y.
Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass

President. REV. ANNA HOWARD SHAW,
7443 Devon Street. Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pa.
' Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Warren, Ohio.

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Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Warren. Ohio.

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 IBI N. till €t., Lexington, Yy.
sept.14tn,‘ieoe.
fly deer xiss Shaw,
I em in receipt-of your letter of the
have already sent e telegram in answer to questiOn Hosxliid
‘quiesoe in your recommendation to the National to discontinue our support
of the work in Oregon3but it is with great grief that I do so. Nothing!
but the outrageous dissensions there, and their injurious effects on the
temper of the peeple reeoncile me to this course. I mey say, in addition,
that I do not think lies Peese.has an adequate idea of how to get those
petitions. I observe that she h.s never sent out bu about 4000 petition
sheets. Our experience teaches that 50,000 or 40,000 should have teen sent
out. many persons Will get five or six names who will not persevere and
get a Sheet of twenty nnumes full. But I fear there is no one eteileole
in Oregon who can oontnoh the conditions which have~deve10ped there.And
that being the case, I consent tith pain to cease our efforts for awhile.
I beg that you will make a point of urging that they will continue the pe-
titiozing, thet they will take good care of the names already secured, and
that careful investigation he made whether or not the name of the Sootete-
o .:rt of the legality of the petition.
gram I asked that all reference to the neWSpepor contro-

J.C.T.U. be omitted. Tnile your remarks were just enough‘in

/

themselvee,I think a letter uhich purports being the expression of the

versy end the

views of the Business Committee should be absolutely impersonal, and free

from supervision of any thing thich has notubeen done with the assent of

the national representative or of the auxiliary state association. Besides,

 

 the situation there is so complicated that I believe the oreateet care
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should be exercised that not one word which ehould aha

fuel to the fires of

dieeension ehell proceed from any of the fiational officers.

q

I enclose my votes on.the voting Slip.l am greatlv

come to —neinuee that I muu' * stag work before 1

d.
1

I hope you will not be quite OVervhelmed with all

piled ngon you.

Cordially yours,

grieved that it has

1he petition is filed.

the work that is

 

 National American Woman Suffrage Association
MEMBER NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN

Honorary President. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison Street, Rochester. N. Y.

President. Rev. ANNA HOWARD SHAW R A
7443 Devon Street Mt Airy.Phi1adeiphia, Pa ecording Secretary, LICE STONE BLACKWELL, 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass

Vice President at Large, FBCgRENCEzféEngY. N Y k Ci L C L Ky
asi n treet. ew or iv. AURA LAY. exington,
Auditors. {DR- ANNICE JEFFREY MYERSy, 375 East 12th St., N., Portland, Ore.
Corresponding Secretary, KATE M. GORDON

1800 Prytania Street New Orleans. La. Chairman Press Committee. ELNORA M. BABCOCK. Dunkirk. N. Y.

Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Warren, Ohio.

OFFICE or NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, WARREN. 01110
THE PRESIDENT

ML. Siryy Sept;‘ 13, 1906.

Deer Member of the Business Combitteo:
Since dictating fihe former letter a letL r h5e COme to me from

f

hrs. Upton which she sent to different members of *he Busine55 CommiLLe etecin h, E
5

5uggeeted fihat one should take charge of Lhe Oklahome campaign'and’fiheo I would help
her in any Viiy Z oou ulfi

Hrs. Upton eviden .ly miF Junierefioou just wh5t I (ii.d say to her, ii? I had
no? the remoteet hope that ehe could take charge of t}1e Oklahoma campaign. No one
could do that who did not 30 Lo Oklahoma and whole I aould ra her have r5.. Upton
with Lhe feeling which she has in regard Lo the possible success of our cauee in

that State as ~ helper for Mrs. Vigoer, than any one else, I know ii is absoluoelj

impos 51 ibis and therefore I would never Lhink of ouw5eetins

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3 it. Whah I did wani was
the' she should take charge of the COFFESJOdeuo b fiueoh the Nafiional Association
and Oklahoma.Ae I am L0 be in the field it will be practically impeasib 18 for me

to do ii, becauee l tters which come from Oklahoma should be answer prompi 1y flor :ho
next three months and any euggestion that is to he m5de no the Okl hom5 p ople should

immediately 9 some out, both of these conditionsa "e impoa5ille while 1 3m in the

field unless some one who he rt headquarters or he s a home oi‘i‘ice can do in.

I hated even to eu;geet fizhis :0 “rs. Upton, 0i c5uez I knew what had

GHOUgh 50 do mfibhoufi it, but it has L0 be done and I do not for the life of me

who else could do 1L. If Hrs. Avery were familiar with Lhe conditions and had been
in touch with Lhe work for the last year or two, she would gladly .0 it, but 55 it
she could not possibly be helpful in the mafiter owing Lo her lack of information.

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BuL 1n 4his letfior to me Mrs. Upion says she .rLll keep tre.ck 01' the oorle Tonoence

unill Lhe Bus m1 058 Commi tee mee eting, at which time iL will have ‘:o no se 5.5155 After

 

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