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OHIO WOMAN SUEFRAGE ASSOCIATION

HONORARY PRESIDENT C CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
FRANCES M. CASEMENT ETHEL R. VORCE

Painesville 10321 Ashbury Ave., Cleveland
PRESIDENT

TREASURER
HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON ZELL HART DEMING
Warren

Warren
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT ‘ AUDITOP
T t
1814 33:15:) zipgllliveland MRS. ELLIOTT PENDLETON
’ . 1736 Madison Road, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati
SECOND VICE PRESIDENT

DORA SANDOE BACHMAN I MEMBER NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Eberly Building, Columbus ., MRS. 0. F - DAVISSON
l , 307 Central Ave., Dayton
RECORDING SECRETARY >
CLARA SNELL WOLFE 'i‘ ' ’
Oberlin

Miss Laura Clay,
Lexington, Ky.
Dear Miss Clay:—
‘Esther B. Bennett has sent $260.00 to our campaign.
I am writing and telling her that we shall use this religiously
in the organization of a county and shall do our best to have

it carry a county on the Kentucky border.

Things are coming on splendidly and we are more hopeful

of success each day.

Yours most cordially,

 

 OHIO WoMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION

HONORARY PRESIDENT _ CORRESPONDING SECRETARY

\

FRANCES M. CASEMENT ETHEL R. VORCE
Painesville 10321 Ashbury Ave., Cleveland

PRESIDENT » TREASURER
HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON ZELL HART DEMING
Warren ' .. Warren

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT I
' AUDITOR

1814 gif‘gg g: Pglllg‘eland MRS. ELLIOTT PENDLETON
" - 1736 Madison Road, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT
DORA S ANDOE BACHM AN MEMBER NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
MRS. O. F. DAVISSON

Eberly Building, Columbus
307 Central Ave.. Dayton
RECORDING SECRETARY
CLARA SNELL WOLFE
Oberlin

HEADQUARTERS: MASONIC BLDC., WARREN; CHIC
“ Sept. 26, 1914.
Miss Laura Clay,
Richmond, Ky.
Dear Miss Clay:—
I had Just answered your letter yesterday and now comes

this good news in regard to Kentucky financing one of our counties.

Isn't it perfectly splendid? I am as excited this morning as I

was at age five on Christmas morning. The mail is Just filled with

encouraging news and it does seem to me as if nothing could keep us
from winning now. Surely nothing.that is in sight. We are all so
well and so happy and have our job so in hand that not a minute nor
a cent is lost. Everything counts. I think that the national
officers are beginning to see how unfair Miss Shaw has been not to
count us as a campaign state from the beginning and they are going
to try to make our condition right. ‘Altogether'l am mighty happy
and I am especially glad to have Kentucky lend a hand.

Cordially yours,
HTU.B ’ '
W (Art/Lt Um W

 

  

 Richmond, ‘y.
Doc.28th, I914.
fly dear nrs.Upton,
I onelooe a receipt for the interest on the
Coalo note.
’I notice that you say about *illiams intoroot. that about the
interest on the Turner and the Bartholomew notoo.?
According to my book that I have here, the lost interest 1 row

oeivod from tho Bartholomew note woo in tugust 29th, 1913. I huvo

left part of my books in Lox ngton; and T uassick in had last finn-

nnxgx spring when the interest was due, and may havo noglootod to
mako the oropor entry in my book. But I havo not roooivod the Aug~

ust interoot.
4 . (j

‘ho last interest T received on the Turnor note tag in ipril

I914:

YOu must not lot your courage fail because you more fioPCntod in
Ohio at the fiovombor oloction, You got o splendid voto, and oars

Lain y soured the enemy, for they got out all tho voto agoinot

you.

I am new setting my hoyos on tho *oderol ‘pffrage bill. The
Congressional Committoo seemed to no onthusiaotio about t ht 4a$h~
ville, and promiood to work hard for it. If it . iu;;3s:ful it
will be of ~ great deal more importance than tho ‘onstitntifnal
Amendment, for it will holy " hs‘ u' to get suffrage, mhilat htho

amendment would not be phoned by the stntoo until at lanai 36

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roefly hafl the suffrage. If the federal oi zugo hill ouoooooo
can go to tork with strong help, and maybo you car

So keep your courage up, and know that all your fri

 

 put up a Splendid fight.

A

“ishing you a Happy Few Year! I am

Very cordially your friend,

 

 Richmond, Ky.
' 1

Dec.24th, 1914.

Received fram Tarriet 3.Ugton, check for 158.80, interest finr Decemn
bar on note 0f iilliam ’ole for jBOOO/Qeef which ?I9CO/@o fislongs

to the trust of Laura 3.Bruce, and *IO0.00 to Laura Clay.

Trietee for 1.9.3ruoe.

 

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Imwwmfll Ded.23, 1914.
Miss Laura Clay,
Richmond, Ky.,
Dear Miss Clay:—

Coifiglosed find check for $58. 80 interest due you from

Williamrgsygyl on the $2000 mortgage at 6%‘with my 2% commission
of 2$ taken out.

I was perfectly stunned at the defeat and had worked
so awfully hard that I was fairly incapacitated. I seemed to
have no normal, moral or physical vigor and have sat around
half working, half dead and half alive for weeks. I have just
come to and have had to be in Cleveland one or two days on
suffrage business and have been devoting part of each day to
business affairs. I found on checking up yesterday that the
Williams interest had not been paid. This really is a bank
matter. The bank owns the property and makes the loans but
it does it through an agent I suppose to avoid some bank con-
ditions and banks are so greedy that although they make you
pay interest the instant it is due they do not pay it themselves
when it is due. I called them up yesterday and told them about

this interest so I will send it to you in a few days.
Our two Ohio delegates Miss duPont and Mrs. Vorce were
perfectly delighted with you at the National Convention. They

thought yogiggrgygigag.to Mrs. Bennett and accept Christmas

greetings from me, Cordially your
HTU. B L (J

 

 OHIO WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION

HONORARY PRESIDENT C CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
FRANCES M. CASEMENT ETHEL R. VORCE
Painesville 10321 Ashbury Ave.. Cleveland
PRESIDENT TREASURER
HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON ZELL HART DEMING
Warren
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT

3 I AUDITOR
ZARA du PONT z
1814 East 89 St., Cleveland MRS- ELLIOTT PENDLETON

1736 Madison Road, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati
SECOND VICE PRESIDENT

DORA SANDOE BACHMAN MEMBER NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Eberly Building, Columbus : . MRS. O. F. DAVISSON
' 307 Central Ave. Dayton

Warren

RECORDING SECRETARY
CLARA SNELL WOLFE
Oberlin

HEADQUARTERS: MASONIC BLDG, WARREN, OHIO

Jan. 27, 1915.
Miss Laura Clay,
Richmond,‘Ky.,

Dear Miss Clayz~

Your letter is here. I have written Miss Gordan about
the conference but have not heard from her. I will write again
and ask her to speak. Of course I wanted her to and the committee
would want 1- toland I will attend to this right away.

am glad you told me about Miss Ryan and Miss Blackwell.

No one was there from the Woman's Journal last time. I am purposely
not asking anybody outside of the Mississippi Valley this year to
speak. I am hoping this way to keep the fight between the Congress—
ional Union and the national Committee out of the conference. It
was awful last year. Miss Paul was there and she had no interest
whatsoever in the conference and did not come inside hardly but stayed
out in the rotunda and got members for her Union and talked over the
situation all the time. Her friends Mrs. Evans and so forth were
inside and were helpful. Mrs. Booth of the Congressional Committee
was just asset as bad or worse. She was not in the convention any

n o J n o 1
more than Miss iaul. There were conferences in their rooms and tney

were trying to work up national tickets and the spirit of it was

awful. I have told everybody every where we were not going to have

 

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that spirit in this conference. The truth is it is too much like

the national spirit. What I want to get at this time is some methods
of work. Something that will be good for campaigns. Let the
national people fight out their own troubles besides this sitting

on the edge of a vulcano is bad for nerves and bed for the work.

We don't need to have it any way. Everybody'cen't love everyhody

else of course but people can be straight even with enemies.

Cordielly yours,
BTU/B //
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 OHIO WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION

HONORARY PRESIDENT CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
FRANCES M. CASEMENT ETHEL R. VORCE
Painesville 10321 Ashbury Ave., Cleveland
PRESIDENT
HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON
Warren
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT 7 '
AUDITOR
1814 3:1:29 :1: P%Ili::elancl MRS. ELLIOTT PENDLETON
* " ‘ 2736 Madison Road, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT MEMBER NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
DORA SANDOE BACHMAN ' ' ‘ ‘ ‘ '
- - " MRS. O. F. DAVISSON
Eb 1 B ld , C 1 b .
er y 111 mg 0 um uS i 307 Central Ave, Dayton
RECORDING SECRETARY _

CLARA SNELL WOLFE
Oberlin

TREASURER
ZELL HART DEMING
Warren

HEADQUARTERS: MASONIC BLDG, WARREN, OHIO Jan , 14 , 17115 ,

efififie

Laura Clay,
Lexington, Ky.

Miss Clnyzm
Your letter in regard to the Mississippi

Valley Conference is here and I will answer it in a

day or two. I am going to Cleveland in the morning

for a committee meeting and I may be delayed in ane~
wering some Raye. I went to acknowledge receipt of
the $85.00 which you sent for the Mieeieefrpi Valley
Conference. You Certainly are generous ae.well as

thoughtgul.

Lovingly y ours,

HTUzT

 

 fichmand, Ky.
Jfifl.l2th,l915.
fly fiebr firw.fipt®n,

Yaur lfittfir by thm 1&3t mail ranged me te the
remembrance tnat I was en the ,regram Com. @f the 'iss.V.Canfer¢nce.
What deas fra.”arpar want t3 talk about? If it 1% nbthimg
which will le&d ta cantrovarsy I think mg had bettar give har all

the time she wants, as gas 13 an intarb ting speaker.

‘ I supgasc, a3 twday ii the time sat fgr the CfinSiC&Tfitjflfl in

Cengfaga 9f the sndell reaeyuti n, that that muttar will be settlcd

\cne way wr anethar, bafere the :_nfbrwnc&.
I will mbke my few suggritians by number.
(I) The dates ygu mantign seam tx ma vary'gued.
(2) I think this 18 the physechblegiebl time fer the auffragistfi to
briflg befora tha public_that wemam.$uffraga nguld help Lhfi causo
a! universal paace, by nitibnal arbitrabi n uni a pregar belies
farcé; tharafwre, I think we ghenld prbvide fer an interesting dis—
cubzibn an «mace and rbitratian.
(3)1 believe we sheuld fully discuss Faderal Wuffragc as n Con~
greas’wnal made at precedure. Thu Natibnal adaptbd a rasolutien
ta that effact; and Trs.McCormick and firs.Funk teld me thy were
much in faver @f it. I think we sheuld have a lawyer, if bebsiblc,
whe wauld give us the cenatitutibnal sida bf the questinm. I
was teld by flr$.0atharine ‘.McCulloch, at the Tashingtbn canventien
that she baliovod it was osnstitutibnal. ”erhaps Mrs.Funk harm
isglf weuld give a speech abcut it.
I fael myself at a disadvantage by not having been present

at tna imat year's Lenfercnce; therefere, I am only geing to make

 

 OHIO WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION

HONORARY PRESIDENT CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
FRANCES M. CASEMENT ETHEL R. VORCE
Painesville ‘ ‘fi ’ 10321 Asllllgury Ave., Cleveland
PRESIDENT , 2 , I. YTREASUREJL
HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON ," ' I" t ' 'ZELL HART DEMING
Warren 9. i 'J i. If Ex.“ WaILI'EII-i“ I
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" 1736 Madison Road, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati
SECOND VICE PRESIDENT
DORA SANDOE BACHMAN
Eberly Building, Columbus
RECORDING SECRETARY
CLARA SNELL WOLFE
Oberlin

MEMBER NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
MRS. O. F. DAVISSON
307 Central Ave, Dayton

Miss Laura Clay,
Richmond, Ky.,
Dear “iss Clay:—

You know you, Mrs. Pyle and I were elected the officers
or the program committee of the Mississippi Valley Confer—
ence. Our campaign Was so exhausting and the after work so
heavy that I have done little or nothing about it. Now it

is high time we were at it for they want the conference to

be held the 7th, 8th and 9th of March. It will be in Indian—

apolis. Let me hear from you right away in regard to any
suggestions for the program. I am enclosing a copy of a
letter which I am sending tolhe presidents of the States.
The only thing that has transpired in regard to the program
is that Mrs. Harper has asked to speak and she says she
does not want to have any little ten minutesneither. I
have written her nothing has been done about the program
and that she will hear from us later.

Hastily yours,
HTU/B .

 

 OHIO WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION

HONORARY PRESIDENT
FRANCES M. CASEMENT
Painesville

PRESIDENT
HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON
Warren

FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
ZARA du PONT
1814 East 89 St., Cleveland

SECOND VICE PRESIDENT
DORA SANDOE BACHMAN
Eberly Building, Columbus

RECORDING SECRETARY
CLARA SNELL WOLFE
Oberlin

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Warren

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1736 Madison Road, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati

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HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, ()hin
MAMIE L. PYLE. South Dakota
LAURA CLAY, - Kentucky

VVARREN,OHHLFeb. 26, 1915

Miss Laura Elay,
Richmond, Ky.
hear Miss Clay:-

The tepic "Woman suffrage in the South "
will occupiy the last hour of the morning session of
March 8. At this writing there are three Speakers, you,
MissGordon and Mrs. Jacobs. I suggest that you each
speak fifteen minutes leaving fifteen minutes for ques-
tion. Mrs. Jacobs isn't absolutely sure she can get
away in which case you and Miss Gordon would divide
the three quarters of an hour.

I want you also to Speak at the dinner on the
evening of Monday. We are going to have six toasts
and I want you to respond to "We of the South“.

I think the conference is going to be fine. I

certainly have done my best to put a good Spirit

into it and keep that Spirit there. It seems to me

it would be bliss to have one suffnige convention
with the old time Spirit.

Miss Blackwell's doctor says that she needs
the change and so she is coming. Isn't that sphendid?

You and she and Mrs. McCulloch and I will have a good

time anyway. Gordie lly My urs, cry/KW

 

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nxehington, L. b., Feb- 17. 1915-

Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton,
masonic Building,
Warren, Ohio.

my dear Hrs. Uptonz~

I am Very much surprised at your letter of Feb.
15. Do I understand that you expect to put the Congressional Com~
mittee on trial? If you do, please let me say that we do not sub~
mit ourselves for any such purpose. he are willing and anxious to
discuss all matters of policy and to serve the women of the states,
but we are not on our defense in any sense of the wdffl word.

You are quite mistaken when you say that a large number
of the campaign states of last year m if you meant last year ~
disapproved of the blacklist. I have heard of no disapproval from
any of them except Ohio.

I am perfectly willing, and have no doubt that Mrs. McCor~
mick will be, to make a full explanation of our report on Congress—
men. This will not be a matter of general statements, and it will not
have to be given an acid test to determine its truth or falsehood.
the congressional records, the records of caucuses, the records of
committees, and the public ddcuments disclose certain iacts about the
various memhe s. he compiled this information concerning, I believe,
every member of Congress and sent it out to the women of the various
states forizheir enlightenment, believing ourselves to be their agents,
and knowing of no reason why they should not know what the public may
know if it cares to about their delegations in Congress. The records
of certain of these men were particularly significant in their rela~
tion to suffrage, and the newspapers naturally enough took hold of them
and christened it ”the blacklist", so I am unable to guess how we might
be called upon to "prove it”. The records, documents, etc., that I
have mentioned are not private; anyone may verify the truth or falsi~
tv of our report who cares to do so, so I do not understand what you

gv‘mEn'by "getting at the truth of all these matters". I did not know

that there was any question at all as to any of them. I did not know
that anybody's truth nor anyhody'o veracity was in question. I Was
under the impression that the controversy regarding the so—called black—
listing has grown not out of whether we made true or false statements,

but as to whether or not it was policy to publish the records of cer—
tain of these members.

I have not the slightest intention of making any general
statements that may be misleading. On the other hand, I do not espect
to go into any meeting and have it assumed beforehand that I am a
liar or anything approaching it. I will say quite frankly that your
letter is a good deal of a mystery, and I am not quite able to make
out what you are driving at. I have received one letter from you
saying that hrs. McCormick and myself will be asked to lead some dis—
cussion. This inexplicable letter of february 15 follows. Bossibly
you have written one in between that would make it clear. I have not

 

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received it if you have.

Your letter strikes,me, Mrs. Upton, as being not as you
suggest, ”plain but not personal“, but on the contrary, personal
but not plain. YOu say you”talk to peoole but no: about them".
I fio not understand What you.ere talking to me about in your state—
ments about falsehoods, truths, proof, eto., anfl I do not appreciate
innuendos or remarks as unpleasant as yours,

Very truly yours,

Antoinette Funk.

 

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not opprove of it and Ohio does not approve Goes not make it at all

certain that it is not Wise.

The Conferunoe would not wont you or ore. Moflormiok to make a
report on the congroeomen. That is something xiehya which e committee
heloiogint to fihe national organization woulfl make at a national con-
vention. what we went at this wooferenoe is light on all toyioe which
have anything to do with State organization ano Etefie campaign work
and for that reason thio Gangreerional matter is brought up because
states have legieleifire work to flo one the national legislation effects
in a certain way the work of the Etete legislative ooomitiees and in a
certain sense has to do with organizetion anfl has to $0 with conwaigns.
what I meant by Afiproving anything was I thought you might want certain
iota one might not think to bring it, I oo not know ee you will but I
was simply trying to have you know that me as a Conference wanted all
facts one wenteé everybofiy reeay to euhetontiote thooe foote.

So for es I know nobody is accusing enybofly ona I ueei the word
truth in a sense of feats. .

I am eorry thot you should thin? of me as you.epporently do,
or as you apparently did when you wrote that letter, namely that as
chairman of the Program committee of a great meeting collea to con-
sider-methode I would &0 anything which was not perfectly straight-
fOrwerd, honorable for all portioipomfis in that Cooferenoe.

I hooe you will forget that you hove thought that or that
you wrote me as you dia goo maybe someday When you know me youreelf
you will not be able to then remember it. As for me I have simply
washed it off the slate.

I was just about to write you to ask you to spook on the

advisability of party alliance. I want you to leafl that fliecuesion

 

 and ifi comea on Tuasflay. The hour is not ywt set but I will but

you know later. I do not know whether I told you fihat I forwarded

dianapolis

your sketch anfl year photograph to the press chairman in In

anfi I am'very much obliged to you fox senfiing it promptly.

Yours tryly,

 

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INDIANAPOLIS, MARCH 7, 8 and 9, 1915

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HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON, Ohio
MAMIE L. PYLE, South Dakota
LAURA CLAY, - Kentucky

VVARREN,OHHL Feb. 17, 1916.

Miss Laura Clay,
Lexington, Ky.
Dear Miss Clayz~
gfl I am enclosing two or three Calle if you know where
Miss Eliot of Tennessee.lives do write her and urge her to come to
conference. The regular folks in @Bnnessee are not paying any attention
‘to my letters. I‘do want a representative from them so much.
I am sending you the block of the program as it is
now laid out. Look it over and make any suggestiong you can. The two
most important discussions are the two in Which you are interested, the
southern question and the National Legislature.
I really wanted to have the dinner on Tuesday night
so all the delegates would be there for the one evening meeting, but
for some reason or other the local people did not like Tuesday night,
said Monday was better, find I thought they ought to know and have
their way since I was not sure it would make any difference with us and
since they'were going to a lot of expense.
At Des MOines our conference was farily Spoiled by
the fussing between the Congressional Committee and the Congressional
Union so that I determined to have a free discussion on everything
and If I can arrange it not to have any special recommendations on

any of the things.

Do not know_how that will work out. Mrs. miller

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pf Missouri, who was elected to the National Board has invited Mrs.
Field of the National Publishing company. I have written and told her
that we were not going to have anybody from outside thecyalley, but
as she had invited Mrs. Field, of course, we could not very well with
draw the invitiation. I told her that personally I liked Mrs. Field
very much. The beauty of the Mississippi Valley conference in the
past has been its democ atic spirit and we do not want to have too many
“ational officers there changing that spirit. Do you agree with me
about that? You see this year they elected three officers in the
valley and I think that they elected two of them because of the Miss—
issippi valley Conferrnce and Mrs. McCulloch agrees with me. Mrs.
Clark of Michigan and Mrs. Miller of Missouri . Mrs. Breckenridge is
got going to be there, she is going away on a trip with her husband.
Please upon receipt of this read carefully this skeleton
program,make any suggestions and return right away and please sand me

one of your good pictures. You gave me one and I just loved it and

somebody teased it away from me in the Ohio campaign. I have nothing

but an old front iiew of you and I do not like it nearly so well.

Cordially yours,

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