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October Gtk, 1915.
La. 1T5}. Clay
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31:1 :33 Clay : “‘
This is to remind you that you
have an engagement to spear before the CHICAGO
POLTTTGAL EQUALITY u.QuJT Saturday, October 23rd;
at 2:00 P. M. in the Florentine 300m of the COngresa
Hotel. We hope you will be able to keep the engage—
,ment as we are all so interested in the Federal Bill
discussion.
One of our leading newszupcrs"1ha
Herald" has promised. to gsive us a story in the Sunday
edition so will you :zlease Send me some bits of . .
M otory connected with your interesting' eventful life?
71150 your pictu... I thin}: I can get enoug h informa
‘tion concerning the discussion from your
,lotters. ‘ An early reply Hill be greatlv appreci—
prBV;OUB
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5609 Wayne Ave ,VChicaoog'
Committee on Submission of ‘Voman Suffrage Amendment
Kentucky Federation of Women’s Clubs.
' Number of Electoral Votes in Sufirage States, 91
Campaign States. Goes
Vote in House Senate to voters
Massachusetts - — - 196—33 33— 3 1915
New Jersey - - - - 58— 0 17— 4 1915
New York - - - - 114— O 34— O 1915
Pennsylvania - — - 130—71 37—11 1915
Iowa 84—19 . 38—11 1916
South Dakota — -' - 57—40 29—15 1916
West Virginia — - - 76— 8 28— 1 1916
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MRS. JUDITH W. LOEWENTHAL, Rec. Sec'j’
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MRS. J. W. MCGRAW, GIencoe.
MRS. H. M. BROWN, Peoria
DR. LUCY WAITE, Park Ridge
MRS. MARY BUSEY, Urbana
MRS. MARGARET C. CARR, OttaWa
MRS. CARRIE A. BAHRENBURG, BelleOiIIe
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to have *he Convenfiion
I eneloae a copy of Judge Peelle‘s opinion.
re 388119 was formerlv of the Court of Ciaims at
WaaFaipIGn, D. C. and is now retired and 11 -W s a1
Chevy Chase, Mfl., where you can communica 06 with him
if you so deg ire.
We enjoyed having you with us so much at the
League and you have aroueed a great Ceal 0f luterest
in the Fefieral Bill.
I leave for Florida this Week where I expect
to spena the winter.
Very sincerely,
Kentucky (Equal Rights association
PRESIDENT ‘ , I, _' ; FIRST VICE PRESIDENT.
' ’ ‘ " MR5, EDWARD Ll HUTCHINSON. LEXINGTON.
MRS‘ DESHA BRECK‘NRHDGE' , SECOND VIcE PRESIDENT,
726 MCCLELLAND BUILDING. ’ I ,. > C‘ / MRS. CHARLES FIRTH, COVINGTONA
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LEXINGTON. KENTUCKY V , . :, ’-, _‘”’ THIRD VICE PRESIDENT.
I ." MRS, J. D. HAYS, OWENSBORO.
STATE HEADQUARTERS ' I .- , CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
__ I, r , r ' MIss LAURA CLAY. LEXINGTON.
TREASURER ,1” , l, . _~ ’ RECORDING SECRETARY.
' " -~ " v MR5. ROBINSON A. MCDOWELL, LOUISVILLE.
MRS. J. B. JUDAH.
2I15 MURRAV AVE..
AUDITOR. MR5. SAMUEL HENNING. LOUISVILLE.
STATE MEMBER EXECUTIVE COMMI'ITEE.
LOUISVILLE KY MRS. THOMAS J. SMITH. FRANKFORT
WHITE STAYES » FULL SUFFRAGE
SHADED - PARTIAL .
DARK ' - NO
Lexington. Ky.. Oct. 29, 1915.
Mrs. Elizabeth King Smith,
Lexington, Ky-
My dear Elizabeth:
I have hfen delayed by myflown and my mother's illness in
making my plans for our Equal Rights Convention, which is my apology
for asking you so late in the day to do me a favor in regard to it.
I want you to make a little talk at one of our afternoon sessions, I
think now at the Wednesday afternoon one, on the School Suffrage for
Women. 1 am writing Miss Mary Scrugham by this same mail asking her
to speak on Why the Schools“need the fitmen as Vbters- I thought that
the two of you could supplement each other and it Would be awfully
nice to have you as the representative of the woman Who isn't now
in the Schools who is interested in them,and her to speak from the
point of the schools which need the outside interest- There won't be
a great deal of time for anything at our sessions, but I should like
what I have to be live. Please telephone me that you will accept,
“so that I can go right ahead with getting my program ready for the
printer the first minute I can find for that. If I am not at the
office Stella will take the message. Saturday night and Sunday you
can get me at my mother's, 255.
I think it is perfectly splendid of you to make the school
race. I hope you are going to win this time, but if you don't you
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must simply be ready to let us run you again when we begin in time
to do our job better-
Counting on you to help me aut with my program - for you
as one of the features will add very much to the interest — I am
cordially yours,
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(Mrs. Desha Brecklnridge)
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pinion on it that you fluid me 1'4; 1 ”u, had given you.
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my tfip a , "}E0 VnTy mtch; and I feel encofiraged by
yeah interest in fine B
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o.iices, iquucn they be, of senator and Representative in Congress,
but prescribe their qualifications as to age, citizenshi , &c.,
%eav:ng to the Legislature of each state (Art. 1, Sec. 4% the right
0 prescribe .the times, places and manner of holding elections"
therefor, subyect however to the further provision that "Congress may
al any time mahe or alter such regulations, except as to the time and
p ace of choosing senators." out another provision of the Constitu-
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says: . and the electors in each state shall have the Qualifications
requiSite for the electors of the most numerous Branch of the State
Legislature." Hence by necessary implication, if not in the terms,
the constitution reserves to each state the power to prescribe the
qualifications requisite for electors for Representatives in Congress.
H . Senators were then and until quite recently elected by the
Legislature of each state.
The question is therefore, whether, under the Constitution
Congress have the power to enact into law the Bill there pending,
giving to women, who are citizens of the United states and otherwise
s the qualifications required of men in the several states,
, right to vote for Senators and hepresentatives in Congress. That
is to say have Congress the power to prescribe qualifications for
electors in the several states for Senators and hepresentatives in
Congress, different from that prescribed by the State Legislatures.
By the 15th Amendment of the Constitution negroes, other—
wise qualified, thereby secured the right to vote in the states,
not alone because they were negroes, but oecause they were declared
to be citizens of the United States under the 14th Amendment
(Slaughterhouse Cases 16 Hall, 36.71) And the right of citizens of
the United States to vote, the 15th Amendmait declares, "shall not
be denied or abridged by the United States, or by any State on
account of race, color or previous condition of servitude."
By Art. 4, Sec. 2 it is declared that "the citizens of
each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities
of citizens in the several States"; while by Art. 14, Sec.'l, “All
persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the
jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United states and of the
State wherein they reside", and further that "no State shall make or
inforce any law which shall abridge the privrleges or immunities of
citizens of the United States."
It would seem therefore that as women are, and were Before
the adoption of the 14th Amendment, citizens of the United States
and of the State wherein they reside and our Government derives its
just powers from the consent of the governed - the citizens — that
women, equally with men, should be entitled to vote. This it seems
to me is not only in harmony with the spirit of our Representative
form of Government and our Constitution but is in harmony with the
principle announced when the Cargo of Tea was thrown overboard in
Boston Harbor.
But at this point we are confronted with the ruling of the
Supreme Court in the Case of Minor v. Happosett, 21 Wall, 162, wherein
it is held that neither the Constitution nor the 14th Amendment made
all citizens voters and that though women wereequally citizens with
men subject to taxation, it was no violation of the Constitution for
a State to confine the privilege of voting to male citizens; that
the right of suffrage was not necessarily one of the privileges or
immunities of citizenship before or after the adoption of the 14th
Amendment. This decision still stands without qualification or
modification in any subsequent decision. Therefore under the
Constitution as thus construed by the Supreme Court, the power to confer
or withhold suffrage is lodged in the several states; and if they
refuse to confer suffrage upon women, their only remaining remedy is by
an amendment’to the Constitution of the United states prohibiting such
States from denying the right on account of sex.
I am therefare constrained (a any that I do n61 believe
that the Congress have the congtifiutional power to pass ihe Bill
referred to, much $3 I woulfl like to see the queStian tested.
hespawtfully submitted,
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NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION
Branch of International Woman Suffrage Alliance and of National Council of Women
President 3rd Vice-President Recording Secretary
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw Miss Katharine semen; Davis Mrs. Richard Y. FitzGerald
505 Fifth Avenue, New York 145 East 35th Street. New York 7 Greenough Ave.. Jamaica Plain, Mass.
lat Vice-President . Treasurer lst Auditor
Mrs. Stanley McCormick Mrs. Walter McNab Miller
Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers
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505 Fifth Avenue New Yor 505 Fifth Avenue, New York Columbia, Missouri
2nd Vice-President 2nd Auditor
Mrs. Nellie N. Somerville Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Medill McCormick
Greenville, Miss. Mrs. Orten H. Clark 500 Diversey Parkway. Chicago, Ill.
Kalamazoo, Michigan
NATIONAL AFFILIATED SOCIETIES CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE
College Equal Suffrage League Chairman, Mrs. Medill McCormick
Miss M. Carey Thomas, President Vice-Chairman, Mrs. Antoinette Funk
Bryn Mawr.Pa. ,, / am . ’ = ' I Headquarters,
Men’s League for Woman Suffrage Munsey Building. Washington. D. C.
James Lee: Laidlaw, President
26 Broadway. New York PUBLICITY DEPARTMENT
Chairman, Charles T. Hallinan
'2 C 'V I 7 I 5‘ V r _ Press Bureau, Miss Clara Savage
NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE , , , % , , so 5 Fifth Avenue’New York
PUBLISHING COMPANY. Inc. ' - ' ': ’. -
President, Mrs. Cyrus W. Field ’ ‘1 EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
505 Fifth Avenue. New York
warm; grams. FULL surrnaam BEADED grams. Mrs. Charles Forster Camp
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Telephone’ 4818 Murray Hill FRAGB; DARK STATES. N0 SUFFRAGE. 505 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK
Novanber 8, 1915
Miss Laura Clay,
%Kentucky Equal Rights Asso.,
Lexington, Ky.
My dear Miss Clay:
I presume you have received a letter from Miss Kate Gordon
severely criticising me for a letter published over my signature
in the WASHINGTON HERALD, discussing somewhat critically certain
aspects of the work of the late Henry B. Blackwell. I should
appreciate it if you would kindly read the enclosed copy of the
letter I have sent to Miss Blackwell,explaining what must have
seemed to her and to many a piece of publicity as uncalled for
as anything could be. Miss Marshall may or may not haVe been
entirely innocent in printing my letter Without my consent.
I can only say,as I have said to Miss Gordon, that the distinction
between "a letter to the editor" and a publicity man's letter re-
garding publicity material is one well understood in most offices.
Very sincerely yours,
(Eliégugnxrwflliwi#L:§:Q§Leeelle~
Chairman Publicity Department.
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MRS HARRIETTE TAYLOR TREADWELL, MRS. HARRIETTE TAYLOR TREADWELL
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MISS JENNIE F. W. JOHNSON, Auditor " MR5 ALBERT H SCHiymER
MRS. CHARLES E. NAGELY
MRS. GRACE WILBUR TROUT, Oak park
Enterinwnm MRS. MARY BUSEY, Urbana
MISS KATE J_ ADAMS, press MRS. CARRIE A. BAHRENBURG,, Belleville
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CHICAGO
I wish to advise you of the unanimous
action of the new Board of Lirectors at its first
meeting concerning the Federal Bill in which you
are so deeply interested.
After discussing the merits of the bill
w th the possibility of an Illinois lobby to work
On the bill in the next session of Congress, the
Board finally decided that we would endorse the
idea of the Federal Bill and continue to study and
look into that form of legislation.
As you may be aware, Mrs. Trent is at
present in Florida and before leaving would give us
no assurance that she would do any immediate work
for suffrage. She seemed to realize the need of
complete rest and change for herself for a while.
Heedless to say we regret her decision as we feel the
need of her presence and activity all the time.
. We are planning to send a full delegation
to the National Convention. Our delegatiOn this year
will be much smaller than formerly, but we hepe to
have a full quota of Illinois women, whom we hope you
will meet and get better sequainted.
I personally hope that the old direct methods
of securing suffrage may be readopted at the Convention.
With very best wishes, I am,
Very sincerely yours,
Cor. Sec'y.
Miss Laura Clay,
Lexington, Ky.
NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION
President
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw
505 Fifth Avenue, New York
lst Vice-President
Mrs. Stanley McCormick
505 Fifth Avenue. New York
2nd Vice-President
Mrs. Nellie N. Somerville
Greenville. Miss.
NATIONAL AFFILIATED SOCIETIES
College Equal Suffrage League
Miss M. Carey Thomas. President
Bryn Mawr, Pa.
Men’s League for Woman Suffrage
James Lees Laidlaw. President
26 Broadway. New York
NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE
PUBLISHING COMPANY, Inc.
President. Mrs. Cyrus W. Field
505 Fifth Avenue. New York
Telephone, 4818 Murray Hill
3rd Vice-President
Miss Katharine Bement Davis
145 East 35th Street. New York
Treasurer
Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers
505 Fifth Avenue. New York
Corresponding Secretary
Mrs. Often H. Clark
Kalamazoo. Michigan
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FRAGE; DARK STATES. N0 SUFFRAGII.
Branch of International Woman Suffrage Alliance and of National Council of Women
Recording Secretary
Mrs. Richard Y. FitzGerald
7 Greenough Ave.. Jamaica Plain, Man.
lst Auditor
Mrs. Walter McNab Miller
Columbia, Missouri
2nd Auditor
Mrs. Medill McCormick
500 Diversey Parkway, Chicago. Ill.
CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE
Chairman. Mrs. Medill McCormick
Vice-Chairman. Mrs. Antoinette Funk
Headquarters,
Munsey Building. Washington. D. C.
PUBLICITY DEPARTMENT
Chairman, Charles T. Hallinan
Press Bureau, Miss Clara Savage
505 Fifth Avenue, New York
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
Mrs. Charles Forster Camp
NATIONAL HEAD QUARTERS
505 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK
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November 11th, 1915
miss Laura Clay,
Kentucky Equal Rights Association,
Lexington, Ky.
My dear Miss Clay:
I felt many times that I should have Written you during the summer,
but as you know perhaps, I went into the campaign work, and I found that I sim-
ply had to lay aside everything but the most immediately pressing correspondence
until after the vote was taken.
I want to ask you first if you will not send at your very earliest
convenience to Mr. Hallinan at Munsey Building, Washington (he will be there
until after the convention) a 300 word statement upon what we call the Clay
Bill -- as a. matter of fact, the Elections Bill ~~ giving the constitutional
argument upon the right of Congress to control the election of senators and rope
resentatives. This will appear with other articles in the Convention Issue of
the News Letter. We planned first to have it contained in the last issue of
that letter, but as our Convention Issue is going to be more of a feature, we
decided to reserve it until that time.
I regret exceedingly to inform you that I have not been able to get
favorable statements from laWyers concerning it that I had hoped. I am having
a copy of the bill mailed out to you from Washington asking Dr. Shaw, Miss Black-
well and Misa Kate Gordon to write statements to appear in the same issue.
I have just read Dr. Shaw's letter to you of November 10th. There is
but little I can do beyond saying this. I am very anxious indeed that if. the con-
vention this year endorse the National in working for the federal bill, and. I
shall be glad to assist you in any way in presenting this properly to the con:—
vention, I Wish that it might be handled entirely by the National. I explained
to you at length last summer in Chicago the difficulties we were facing under
Miss Laura Clay ~2— 11/11/15
the circumstances of the federal society. The controlling measure simply meant
that our hands were tied except in a very limited way. Of course we could not
under any circwnstances put ourselves in position of rushing in and introducing
a measure which has generally belonged to another organization. That is what the
Union is trying to do with our federal amendment this year, but I do feel that
owing to your long devotion to this phase of the federal work that a letter from
you to the President of the federal society at Washington, Mrs. Morton (I will
have sent from our office in Washington her full name and address. I am not able
to recall it at this time) suggesting that they do not introduce the federal bill
until after our National Convention which would be most helpful and that would
give us an opportunity during convention week to take up with these women the
feasibility of letting the National Congressional Committee handle the matter
exclusively.
I am going to be in Washington the 15th and 16th of this month accord-
ing to my present program, then I will be absent for a week or more. I should
like very much indeed to hear from you during my stay in Washington and to receive
your assurance that we may look for your article in season for its appearance in
the News Letter. I expect to be in Chicago about the 19th and will make a report
of anything you have to say to me with reference to the federal bill to Mrs. McCor~
mick who has been deeply interested in that measure ever since she came into the
work and has urgently continued it whenever I have seen her and by letter to let
no opportunity escape to push it to consideration, and we are both hoping that the
next congressional committee may have its hands untied in the matter of doing a
little real work upon it.
I wish when you write me that you would give me a word about Mrs.
Breckinridge. The reports concerning her health are very alarming. I do not
feel that at this time she should be burdened with letters of inquiry. I trust
her illness is not so alarming as was first reported.
With regards to Mrs. Bennett, I am K
Yours very sincerely,
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Nov.13th.,1915.
. Miss Laura Clay,
Lexington, Ky.,
‘ My Dear Miss Clay:~
” The Chattanooga Equal Suffrage Aaseciation adds a cordial
invitation to that of the Tennaaaee Equal Sufifrage Association
in requesting your presence at the Stats Convanston'to be nelu
> at Chattanopga, December 9th. , day an-cz evening.
Wb’have arranged the ta according is the wishes 03
those women tho will be enroute to Richmond and “aéhinntoa, anfi
. gtgo-all auffragiata making thane trips to stop-over in a fitn-
nooga and help us ta give Chattanooga ths booze it needa.
You will pleaaé notify both the Garmengondiflg‘Seorefialias
of the State Associatian ané of the Chattanooga Leaguc,a§neerntng
yofir intention, as soon a: you are fully degided.
Antiéipating an early aaceptanee, I am "
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President, Mrs. B. B. VALENTINE, 2338 Monument Avenue. Richmond, Va.
HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS
MIss MARY JOHNSON
WARM SPRINGS, VA.
MRs. KATE LANGLEY BOSHER
RICHMOND, VA.
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MISS ELLEN GLASGOW
RICHMOND, VA.
MRs. KATE WALLER BARRETT
ALEXANDRIA, VA.
MR5. LOUISE COLLIER WILLCOx
NORFOLK, VA
ACTIVE VICE-PRESIDENTS
MRs.J0HN H. LEWIS
LVNCHBURG, VA.
MRS. WALTER J. ADAM!
NORFOLK, VA.
MRS. C. V. MEREDITH
RICHMOND, VA.
MR5. STEPHEN PUTNEY
WYTHEVILLE, VA.
MRS. J. ALLEN WATTs
RCANOKE, VA.
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WHITE STATES, FULL SUFFRAGE; SHADED STATES, PARTIAL
SUFFRAGE; DOTTED STATE, PRESIDENTIAL, PARTIAL
COUNTY AND STATE, MUNICIPAL SUFFRAGE;
DARK STATES, NO SUFFRAGE.
MIss ROBERTA WELLFORD, RECORDING SECRETARY
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.
MR8. ALICE OVERBEY TAYLOR, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
RICHMOND, VA.
MR5. E. G. KIDD, TREASURER
RICHMOND, VA.
MRs. JOHN S. MUNCE, AUDITOR
RICHMOND, VA.
MRs. G. HARVEY CLARKE, PREss CHAIRMAN
RICHMOND, VA.
STATE HEADQUARTERS, RICHMOND, VA.
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Presidenl, Mrs. B. B. VALENTINE. 2338 Monument Avenue. Richmond. Va.
HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS
MRS. KATE LANGLEY BOSHER
RICHMOND, VA.
Mlss MARV JOHNsON
WARM SPRINaa, VA.
MISS ELLEN GLASGOW MRS. KATE WALLER BARRETT
RICHMOND, VA. ALEXANDRIA, VA.
MRS. LOUISE COLLIER WILLcox
NORFOLK, VA
ACTIVE VICE-PRESIDENTS
MRS. JOHN H. LEWIS
LVNCHEURG, VA.
MRs. WALTER J. ADAMA
NORFOLK, VA.
MR5. STEPHEN PUTNEY
WYTHEVILLE, VA.
MRs. C. V. MEREDITH
RICHMOND, VA.
MRs. J. ALLEN WATTS
ROANOKE, VA.
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SUFFRAGE; DOTTED STATE, PRESIDENTIAL, PARTIAL
COUNTY AND STATE, MUNICIPAL SUFFRAGE;
DARK STATES, NO SUFFRAGE.
Mlas ROBERTA WELLFORD, RECORDING SECRETARY
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA.
MR8. ALICE OVERaEV TAYLOR, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
RICHMOND, VA.
MRs. E. G. KIDD, TREASURER
RICHMOND, VA.
MRS. JOHN S. MUNCE, AUDITOR
RICHMOND, VA.
MR5. G. HARVEY CLARKE, PREss CHAIRMAN
RICHMOND, VA.
STATE HEADQUARTERS, RICHMOND, VA.
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PRESIDENT, MRS. JAMES M. MCCORMACK I, VICE PRESIDENT AT LARGE
7 S. M'LEAN aLVD., MEMPHIS ., Mlss SARAH RUTH FRAZIER
‘THE CEDARS." NORTH CHATTANOOGA
VICE PRESIDENT. EAST TENNESSEE
MRS'C E LUCKY KNOXVILLE ' - , ‘ '1 VICE PRESIDENT. MIDDLE TENNESSEE
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MRS. JOHN E. TURNEY . . . . NASHVILLE
VICE PRESIDENT. WEST TENNESSEE
MRS. A. S. BUCHANAN ..... MEMPHIS ‘ . ':- .’ ’ RECORDING SECRETARY
n ' . _ MRS. DAVID MERRIWETHER . . KNOXVILLE
TREASURER ' . , _
MISS CATHERINE J. WESTER .4, I ’/"I. . ”°"°“““ ”ES‘DENT
4%."” m“ . MRS. J. D. ALLEN ....... MEMPHIS
426 JAMES BLDG.. CHATTANOOGA
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CHAIRMAN OF LEGISLATION
MISS MARGARET H. ERVIN, JR.
426 JAMES BLDG.. CHATTANOOGA
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WHITE STATES. FULL SUFFRAGE: SHADED STATES PARTIAL
SUFFRAGE: DOTTED STATES. PRESIDENTIAL. MUNICIPAL
AND PARTIAL COUNTV SUFFHAGE: DARK STATES NO
SUFFRAGE.
CORRESPONDING SECRETARV; MRS. MARY P. MCVEIGH
I619 CENTRAL BANK BLDG., MEMPHIS
November 15, 1915.
_‘ L _s;ee+Equal Suffrage Association will hold its eighth
annual , . a at Chattanooga December E§wl9l5, as guest of the
Chattano Ca _ : Suffrage Associatioi. 5
Because of the generous hospitality of Chattanooga suffravists
we are permitted to rt d ’ it-t’ W + ' W ' c
. . ; e- en invi a ions to workers in the cause from
adJOining states to be With us on the occasion of our state meeting.
So, ue_are writing to urge you to come to us on December fiflfyand to
parti01pate in the prcgram of the open meeting to be held oh the
evening of the convention.
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¢ _ no southern state has better prospect for the enfranchisement
oi its nemen in the near future than Tennessee, and it is of the uta
most importance that a state-wide campaign for WOman suffrage be
inaugurated and pushed fOrward with efficiency and Vigor.
. We are laying great stress on the importancewdf this vear‘s
meeting; there we shall be able to measure our strength“ there we
shall discover what is most needed to broaden and quichén the srfw
frage cause in this commonwealth, hence we are most desirous otlco—
operation Wlth workers who not only have contributed greatlv towards
the development of the cause in their own state but Whose names have
been written high on the scroll of the Hetional's history ’26 we are
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hoping to have +he rleasu ' '
_ g ‘ e uh . re of your presence and the a r'“ ' '
counsel during the coming meeting. ‘J dvantdge Of your
Awaiting the pleasure of a reply at an early convenience. we are,
Very respectfully yozrs,
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MARY RUTTER TOWLE
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
IBROADWAY, NEdeRK
TELEPHON E 203 RECTOR
Nov. 17th, 1915.
Miss Laura Clay,
726 McClellan Building,
Lsxinmton, Ky.
Dear Miss Clay:-
I am writing as legal adviser for the National
American Wsman Suffrage Association to ask if you will kindly
help us cut in the matter of a bequest left the Asssciation
by Mrs. Mary J. Cogmsshall of Des Nbinss, Iowao
By the terms of ths will the monsy is left to
the Naticng; Woman Suffrage Asscciation, and ths administrator
insists that bsfors paying the monsy over he must have proof
of ths merger of that association with the American Wcman Suf-
frage Association. As no Hfinutss of either association are
available, covering the period of ths merger, it occurred to
me that the administrator might accept as proof affidavits from
members of the two sarlisr associations as to the proceedings
of the meetings at which the merger was voted on and of the sub-
ssqusnt first msetinq of the present aSScciaticn.
The substance of what was done at these meetings
is given in the Woman's Jaurnal in the issues of December 1,
1888, pass 382, January 26, 1889, page 28 and March 1, 1890, p.
68, and with these to guide me I have prepared the enclcsed af-
fidavit. I think it very unliksdy that you can sign the af-
fidavit just as it is, but I am enclosing it an the chance, think-
ing that perhaps if the necessary changes are not too radical
yau may find it possible to adapt it by means of erasures and in-
terlineations. It must, of course, be sworn to bsfers a notary
public, and it might be a gosd thing for him to attach a county
clerk's csrtificate, thsugh if this is not convenient it is possi—
bls that ths administrator would accept it without.
It would be a grsat favor if you could do this
for us. I am sending a similar affidavit to Hon. William Dudley
Foulke, in the hope that ha can recall at least a portion of the
proceedings of these meetings. I had the pleasure of meeting
you at the Washington Ccnvention in 1915, but you have attended
so many conventicns that, of course, you would not remember a cam-
MARY RUTTER TOWLE
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
IBROADWAY, NEWYORK
TELEPHONE 203 RECTOR
Miss Laura Clay;
arative novice in suffrage activitie like . self.
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Hoping ta hear frem you at you: canvenience,
I am,
Ycurs vezy sincerely,
PRESIDENT
MISS PAULINE V. ORR
COLUMBUS
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
MRS. ANNIE K. DENT
YAZOO CITY
SECOND VICE PRESIDENT
MR8. MARY P. CRANE
EELZONI
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
MRS. L. C. PE