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Published by The National Women's dec Union League of America
Mn. Raymond Robina. Fleeidenl
TELEPHONE
, ‘_ RANDOLPH 2834
ALICE HENRY - - - — Emma I; , AUTOMATIC 41-888
s. M FRANKLIN Ass'T Eon-on _- '

FRANCES SQUIRE POTTER
MRS. [DA V. KAPP

BUSINESS MANAGER

DEPARTMENTAL EDITOR
RO0M1310,127 NORTH DEARBORN STREET

CH'CAGO October 2 11
Dear Miss Clay,

Thank you very much for all the trouble you have
taken. Please do not think that because I live in Chicago today
I have Always lived there. Remember I come from a country_where
houses may be fifty miles apart. I do not anticipate learning
all about the varied conditions in one fwo weeks. I am not so
foolish. But I do know city industrial America so thoroughly
that I thought I could not do better that try and supplement th
that knowledge by that of some other phase of American life.
Surely, you will admit, a commendable enough desire. I am an
easy person to entertain, too. I just take what comes along.

The only thing I wanted to be sure of was that I should not

have just the same sort of things coming alon as I have all the

time. I am sure you have many Kentuckys, I shall be content if I

see one of them.

As to the Constitution, as I think I said before I
am not at all an expert on constitutions. But there is a great
deal I do not like abou these amendments. I am sure an Eastern
Board will be resented. At the same time I do not think that
at the stage our movement has now arrived , decisions by corres~
pondence are satisfactory. Many things are then never brought up
at all, from the hopelessness of dealing properly with them by
letter. I would compromise on four meetings a year, and see that
we have the money to make such meetimgs possible. I do not at

all think that the time has passed for a National Organization.

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my letter in Woman’s Journal of September 9. That a national
organization is so important that it should be made permanent
that tlus on . can the organization of women for that equality
of which the vote is only a part , be made effective intensively

or extensively.

Believe me

Yours cjrdially

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President,
MISS HARRIETTE J. HIF TON
1823 H St. N. W.

Vice-President
DR. MARGARET S. POTTER
l9 Fourteenth SI. 5. E.

Member ofzhe National Executive Board
MRS. HELEN RAND TINDALL
|3|5 Clifton 51. N. W.

OF THE. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Member of the National American Woman Suffrage Associaiion

Corresponding Secretary Treasurer
MISS ABBIE R. KNAPP MRS. CARRIE E. KENT
I930 Eighteenth St. N. W. 26 T 5!. N. W.

Recording- Secretary Auditors
MRS. J. M. BRADLEY MISS AUDREY GOSS
I738 ESL N. W. MRS. L. AVEIHLE

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Oct.7th, I9Il.

My dear Mrs.0benchain,

I have just receiveo your letter, ano though T

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am pressed with the work which comes before conventions, T am writing a few

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lines to beg you to go to louisville for the corvenfions, for the EV.d.a.n

also holds its convention Oct.25th, in The Seelbaoh Red Room.

tunity. I suffered for years with nervous orostration and never found that
a little trip fatiguefl me any more than staying at home. If you fear the
noisa and publicity of the hotel, I would aflvise you to get a room in one
of the boarfiing houses mentionefl in the ”.Fournal, afid go nun sit in the
hotel parlors whon you fool like meeting 390318,

I hope you will represent the Bowlin53greon
convention.

pring certainly to see you at Louisville,

I am mosfi cordially yours,

 

 Richmondo Ky.
Oct,7th, 1911.
Dear Member of the Official Board,
. I eupyoee all of you have received copies
of the answers from flies M ;. fre.fiennett and His, Shaw to my letter
lept.I2th. The first part of my letter did not require answering;
but Miss Shaw made comments njcn it to which a sufficient nnsnn reply is
to ask the members of the Foerd to read again I es fi;ew‘s letter of
August 30th and minezefrficptztfixhv?egt.Gth, and mine of Celtolgtho
In Mice Hhew's letter of fiept.29th she refers to several timesD witha
out mentioning what they werep when the Board accepted and expended gifts
in the way ehe prcyoeed to do in her letter of Sept.6th. As I do not
recall such an instance in the years I have been on the Board it never
occurred to me that any one thought there was a precedent for such a props
osition; and as I em not aware of it if there is a record of one I do
not admit that there is e precedent in any form which should effect my
duty to use my own judgment about entering official objections, or to make
entering objections inconsistent with official propriety or perfect coure
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Mrs.Belmont‘s pledge any material time before the information was conveyed
to the distant members of the Board, This surprised me, for I had certain-
ly supposed that the members at headquarters communicated to each other
important business information. Miss Shaw argues that the facts were so
necessary an inference from Hrs.Belmont's promise of support of headquara
tors given at Seattle that it was needless to mention it to the members

of the Boo rd. As far as I am concerned such an argument is altogether

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My dear Visa Wifton,

I have delayeé answering your lettar of €01,5th for
several days, because l have wantafl uu.e,iir aefinite to wyite. gits
Blackwell is with me new, helping to await fine Katiunal books. the as well
as I is much exerciSea by the gragoseg revisinn 0f tan canntitution; uni I
wanuei‘her advice before wrifiing Ls you. 5 nave iiscumsal the changes
prOposen ¥%d we be I1 ieve some concacsfona ”5‘1 7 , '2 * made to chess

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the).n a revision. We have studied the Subject, and haVe

when Ina Official Board meéts in Ioui “V1336 e, which will he Inasdny, fiat.

17th, we will Study oafi the best comyromiwe gossible. If both sides .un
be satisfied, well anfi goofi. Ifl that case no duubt the edmpromises will
eifiher be firinteé or typemwritten for the inlegaies. Therefore, I think
you might save the eernse'of having both the old anfl new OOESu itutions
pfintefi. The: iational will certainlv have both of t}1ose urantea in some
form. which‘will do for comparison. Then} we will likely also have this
which we may Cfl. compromise Gory of changes.

:ersonally. I have resolved in any circumstances to be slow in taking
-State action. If the changes made are fair anfi just, of course all will

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lexcept of perSIlas 50n over the Rtutes; anfi therefore the States ought to

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 STATE EQUAL FRANCHISE LEAGUE 0F MARYLAND.

OFFICERS VICE-PRES‘TS AFFILIATED LEAGUES CHAIRMEN 0F COMMITTEES

President—Mrs. Wm. M. Ellicott, Montgomery County, . Organization, Peace and Arbitration;
714 St, Paul Street. Baltimore. Mrs. Geome H- Wright Mrs. W. J. Brow

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' ‘ ‘ Forest Glen, Md' 1710 Tenth Street Baltimore.
Vice-Presxdent—Mrs. Cheek/[12.l fluffigwland. Equal 31%??? flefififigogallimore» Legislation;
Corresponding Sec'y—Mrs. 0. Edward Janney, 1021 St. Paul St., Baltimore. Mary BartleEtzt 1?);de
825 Newington Ave, Baltimore. H. _ i as 0 . -
laibot Count). . ' ‘ iNSWEEEB‘e . a “W,
Recording Sec’y—Miss Clara T. Waite. ‘ Mrs Phlhp Lee ’Iruvers. ' .WM sail-“H.- Webb-Fe Ice
1503 Eutaw Place. Baltimore. Easton, Md. r. - 2.508.N Charle: St. Baltimore.
Treasurer—Mrs George M. Lamb, Junior Suffrage League of Baltimore: Publi tinny _ _ 1...,
Govanstown, Maryland. Miss Margot Kirk. . “a... .. _ "2 «“-

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1‘03 I‘enLh St” Walbmok. 608 S. Ann St, Baltimore.

Auditors: .
Mrs. R. Henry Holme, . Frederick County, (“"Di itt‘Litel'ature:
1517 McCulloh St., Baltimore. Miss Ruth A. Long, ‘1 i L""‘)""""'m§TYrmank F—‘R-ai'riey

MisiRfigggcleownltlglonieu Co Md Frederick, Md‘ 1318 Linden Ave., Baltimore.
5 . . ‘ ' .. .

817 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Md.
October 12I 1911.
Mrs. Mary ”are Bennett,
Corresponding Secretary N. A. n 9. A., Ye” York.
My dear firs. Dennet :

The State Equal Franchise Léaque of Haryland was f