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BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 1910-1912

PRESIDENT

MRS. PHILIP N. MOORE. 3125 LAFAYETTE AVENUE. ST. LOUIS. MISSOURI

FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT RECORDING SECRETARY TREASURER

MRS. JOSIAH EVANS COWLES. . GEO. O. WELCH. MRS. JOHN THREADGILL.
110! WEST ADAMS ST.. LOS ANGELES. CALIFORNIA FERGUS FALLS. MINNESOTA 922 NORTH ROBINSON ST.. OKLAHOMA CITY. OKLAHOMA

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MRS. JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN, . FRANK. N. SHIEK. MRS. L. L. BLANKENBURG.
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Lexingto n, Ky.
April I5th, 1913.
My dear Miss Ryan,
Please find enclosed a New York draft for one hundred
dollars. in payment for One share of Woman's Journal stock subscribed for

by the Kentucky Equal Rights Association at the St.Louis Suffrege confer—

ence. Please have the stack made out in the name of the Kentucky Equal

Rights Association; and send it to the state treasurer, Hrs.larfield C.
Bennett. Richmond, Kentucky, It is paid for by several subscribers, but
I will myself make the necessary memoranﬁa for the historical record of
gift to the Ky.E.E.A,

I would like to have a hundred subscription slips to the T.Journal,
if you keep them in stock. “e are going to make a systematic effort to
enlarge the circulation of the Journal.

Please give my kinﬂest regards to dies Blackwell, and believe me

Very sincerely yours,

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EDITOR-lN-CHIEF BUSINESS MANAGER
ALICE STONE BLACKWELL 03%“, AGNES E. RYAN

Any :4, 19l5

.Dear hrs. Brcclinridge:

In accordance With my letter of may l we‘
are sending you under separate cover receipt blanks
like the enclosed. These are to be used in giving
a receipt to those suffregists in your S‘ate who pay
any sum toward the purchase of a share of stock in
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July 29th, 1913.
Bear Trs.Breckinriﬂge,
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I answer first your circular letter of July
24th.
(I) I chverfully vote for Irs.T.L,ﬁutchison, of Lexington, for vice-
1t in place of Nrs.ﬁoury, resigned. Hy only-objection is that
do would be the fonrth officer from the one city of Lax‘ngton. If
othnns should make similar objection and 0.
nomination I suggest Mrs.Charles Firth, of Covington,
‘regman, of ishlanﬁ.
(2) I vote to pay ex ensas of speaknrs and literature for the
County Institutes.
{5) I am glossed that you hate Securqﬁ the services of Kiss Ora
Linms. I hope she will pTOVe EHCCOSSfﬂlg.BRd We may fina colstyno
amploymnnt for her as an organizer.
I vote to accept the invitation from the Coanntion anﬂ Public
League 0? Iouisvillo to hold our annuai meeting tiara. I res
tﬁon to select the ‘. between‘?lection in; :ni Thanks—
and I further add that I I it will not be necessary to take
th, which is-the time Miss Kate K.Gordon, of ﬂew Orleans, hopes

”ave a Governors' meeting in :iat city. She writes me that she

has written to ‘ou to join in this call for Kentucky; but that sh;

has not yet had an answer from you. I heartily approve of this
maeting; and I know Kiss Gordon has great ability to work up a meat

ing successfully, and in many ways such a meeting as she contemplates
Would give our cause an impetus in the South.Thare is going to be a
division of sentiment about the present preposed Uoman Suffrage

Lmendnont to the ﬁctional Constitution, and it would be just as well

 

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for the southern suffragists to know before the ﬁn. .s.n. convention
in Hashington the 1st of he center that out southern politicians
think of the gresent form of the proposed Amenndnt.

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that you shall fin date nfter corresponﬂing with speakers, etc. I
am not able to suggest what expense We should go to, as I have not
been keeping up with the state of cni treasury; but in thi use

am Willing to cast Wt'vote the same as yours, afte' ‘ . haze ons.d~

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ered the matter. is ior program, I suggest that you will have no tine
for any thing but business in the any sessions, and therefore you'h
should be careful about promising shy time to any one for adﬁresse
on any subject in the day. See that each officer and chairman has
a time assigned to report, and allow sufficient time for discussinn
of the form, etc., of our own propOSed Ameniment to the Ky. constitu-
tion. Also, the committee on revision of the ‘.E.A. constitution
must have time for report and ﬂiscu sicn of some revisions on the
first igzm, as it will affent the election of officers, which must.
take place the morning of the second day.
(5) I am pleases at the prospect of work done at the t- . fair,
and at the Blue-grass Fair in Leiington. I shall coriially vote
W th you What you think is necessary expenses.
And now to the a nnty Institutes at which I an to speak; I have
just received another letter from Hr.Thomss Pettit saying he had maae
a mistake in stating the ante of the 1dncational,$sso. in Owensboro
as October 18th. It is the Teachers' Institute , and the ﬁate is

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August 18th. In the meantime, I ﬂuVe accepted the invitation to

Lawrencehurg for August I8th. It is hteir County Court day; and I

think it better not to try to change that. I think if you have wrttten

anything to Owensboro after receiving my answer to you last letter,

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I would go, but not for the 18th. I ooulﬁ go for the 19th, start-
ing after my engagegcnt in Lawrenooburg. Hr. Pettit says they
would giVe me time in the evening, which would epable me to get there
in time on the Igtl. 1 shall not anSWer Hr.?ettit's last letter till
I hear from you again about it.
As to the date 3 ﬁt.Sterling, I Have no choice of dates; but I
have not yet receiVeﬁ any lettgr from Kr.Gooﬂwin, the County Eup't.
I have no cards nor literatyre. You baa batter send some to the
Post—Office, General Belivery., at Tt.$tqr1ing. I wrote to ﬁre

Bennett for some lﬁainbow Flyers, but hav9 not yet received

'»nd a good number of the oarﬁs, as I "1. _ o s elsewhere.
Carrie 0.
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in care of the Eational ﬁeaﬁquarters, 505 Fifth -venue, will no
doubt reach her pretty promptly.

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Aug.4th. 1913,
Dear Mrs.Brsekinridge,
As I die not get a letter from Mr.Goodwin,
of Mt.Sterling, I telephoned by long ﬂistance; anﬂ made an appoint-
ment for Thareﬂay morning. I went, was very cordially received; nae

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permission to form a neague. 1 got some names, which I enclose to
you. However, I was not able among these to get any one to serve
as Chairman.Mrs.Hary E.Schlegel was thpught to be the best person,
and she saiﬂ she was interested enough to he glad to do it, but she

w as already overburﬂened. Then Hrs.Emma D.Walker showed much inter-

est, but saiﬂ she was now in the country, and was going to move out of

the county soon? She took some cards and promisei to get more names

anﬂ try to find a suitable chairman anﬂ send to you.
My expenses were;
Long distance 'phone—~-~---—~~. 25.
Ticket to Mt.ster11ng $1.12
Return): --------- 1.12
'huses going ang coming -------- .85
Dinner ).\\ .50
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I receives your literature and earns. Mrs.Walker took charge of
the literature left over and eaiﬁ she would distribute it.

In sending this account to the treasurer you might also O.K.
the bill for the printing of the cards —————————————— 3%.50 amﬁ
about What my expenses were over donations
in going on the southern trip. I lost

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I note what you say about my engagement with the Cynthiana Club for
October let.
I have just written to Mrs.Rudy that I would come to Owensboro
for Eugust Igth.

I will keep track of the Institutes where I am to speak.

Fuur of the Richmond ladies offered to vote at the Primary on
August 3nd, and were refused because no preparations for the woman
vote had been made.

Also, I offered to vote in the rural district, and was refused
on the same gr.ound. W; did this in order to'have grounds for a
test case. My understanding of the decision already rendered is not
clear. It seems to me it left a chance fofﬁiillffwﬁﬁs§“When a women
was denied the opportunity to vote for a test case which would in-
volve the right of voting at the November election, and would apply
to the whole state. As you have talked with Mr.Allen, and can see
Judge Kerr, had you not better inquire about this point at once? If
such a test case would decide for the Whole state, we in Madison
are provided with data and are Willing to bring suit. But if we
can get a decision for Madison County only; we would probably not
think it Worth whilef I imagine this is a favorable county to try
“in because Judge Benton will certainly decide in our favor, sag he

wrote a public letter saying that is his opinion. In spite

the clerk did not provide ballots. If damages are accorded

would induce the clerk to carry the case to the Court of Appeals, es-

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’if he did so. Please let me hear about this as soon as you can cone
gsult our legal friends.

On another sheet, I have made some comments upon your newspaw

per atticle, which I re)enclose.
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 I think this article is excellent. Especially the point about how
much women are already in politics is fine.
You will observe that I have nado one interlineation. including_
the W.C.T.U in the orcﬂit for improvements at the State university.
It is impossible to leave them out; for it was their Legislative Commit
tee alone which obtained the grant from the Legislatkne of money
for the Girls' Dormitory. For personal reasons the Committee from

the E.R.A. did not go to Frankfort that year, anﬂ notreprosentativc

from the Federation of Women's Clubs, either, acoorﬁing to my memory.

If this article is printed in Kentucky, the omission of the

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whether to pay Miss Adams and let her use her pass, or pay the
traveling expenses of other people. ‘She says she could go for
two weeks to Mrs. Hubbard in October, but not for a whole month.
Hrs. Hubbard is again not well and I eXpect that two weeks of Miss

Adams would probably be good to start her with. We might take

her for one month mgre and just ulet ger count 1n the time as she

gives daysf mrs. Harrison telephoned me this morning of a
letter she had from Miss Lloyd wanting her to come and speak in
several places in mason county. Mrs. Harrison is writi €Jher that
she can not pay her own expenses. 1 have asked her-if she would
like to have Miss Adams. In a case like this it is prohably a
good expenditure mm a few dollars for the State to send Miss Adams
Miss Lloyd has spent a good deal of her own money, and hasn't any
fund of the organization. I am almost beginning to believe that
it is good policy for the State to help to the extent of a few
dollars any person who is willing to make local effort. There are
so few such persons that we don't want to puur cold water on them.

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Headquarters: 726 McClelland Building,
LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY.
MRS. DESHA BRECKINRIDGFC, President

First Vice Pram/1211!, MRS. MASON MAURY, Louisville. Carmv/omimg Sucre/(123'. MISS LAURA CLAY, Lexington,

Sew/2d I’irr Prev/dun], MRS. MARY C. CRAMER, Lexington. /\’(‘¢‘or(/z'llg Sacralary. MRS. EMMA M. ROEBUCK, Newport, Ky.

T/n‘nl I’z‘rr Prat/(#111. MRS. N. S. MCLAUGHLIN, Covington. Treasurer, MRS. WARFxELD BENNETT, RICHMOND.

szc AIM/{Mr [Va/Mun! [fray/ire (ennui/[nu M155 BELLE ll. BENNETT.
Lexington, Ky, Sept. 12, 1913”

Dear Sirz~
There will be introduced into the coming legislature
a bill providing for a constitutional amendment to give full

suffrage to Kentucky women.

The subject of woman SHffrage is, of course, a :;36

issue everywhere and one which presumably every member if
Kentucky legislature will want to consider carefully.

The Kentucky Equal Rights Association, enabled
so by the generosity of Mrs. S. M. Hubbard of Hickman,
desires to send you the Woman's Journal for four months. his
paper founded forty years ago, is today the best publibaEiOn
on woman suffrage in the country. It gives the world New: of
the women suffrage movement: we believe that you will 31.:
interesting reading, and ask that you give careful attention
to the facts and arguments presented. We trust the' .
confirm in you what We hope is already a favorable " jféhﬁAb’Z
toward our cause. The Woman's Journal is a weekly paper;
should the issues fail to reach you regularly notidy me at Otce.

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Headquarters: 726 McClelland Building,
LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY.

MRS. DESHA BRECKINRIDGE, President
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First Vice Preside/ii, MRS. MASON MAURY, Louisville. Corrav/wua’z'ug Secreimj', MISS LAURA CLAY, Lexington,
Second Vim Pre.s7dmzl, MRS. MARY C. CRAMER, Lexington. [Recording Secretary, MRS. EMMA M. ROEBUCK, Newport, Ky.
T/zird Via! Presidml. MRS. N. S. MCLAUGHLIN, Covington. Treasurer, MRS. WAREiELD BENNETT, RICHMOND.

Sta/c {Vern/rm [Va/rand] Exam/lire Col/121177166, Miss BELLE H. BENNETT.

Lexington, Ky. Sept. 5, 1915
Miss Laura Clay,
Richmond, Ky.
My dear Miss Laura:—
Thank you for your letter, which I am in receipt of on my

return from Shelbyville this morning. We organized there with Hrs.

Luther Willie as President. Counting the cards that you got signed,

there are in all now about thirty-three members. I spoke both
agternoon and evening. It is certainly up-hill work in many of
these Kentucky towns. I have Just dictated a letter to Mrs. Firth
explaining that we can not pay eXpenses of the other two ladies to
the fair. I have also dictated letters to some of the Cincinnati
peOple, whether the right ones or not I am not sure, to see if
they would take Max Eastman.

I feel we must, if possible, have a distinguished Speaker
from the outside in Luuisville. The weakness of our organization
is going to show pretty plainly then and the Louisgille papers,
both mr. Watterson and Mr. Knott, are going to be quick to call
attention to it. About the only thing I can think of to make the
meeting impressive and to make our coming legislators believe that
we are to be reckoned with at all, is to have sufficiently attract—
ive evening meetings to draw a large crowd of Louisville people,
using the Opportunity, of course, to get members for the Louisville

Association and strengthen it in every way possible.

 

 Miss Laura Clay ------ 2

Do you know anything of Helen Ring Robinson as a Speaker?

I had a long talk last week with Mrs. S. M. Hubbard, of
Hickman, at Monteagle, Tenn. Mrs. Hubbard, as she wrote me
before going to Honteagle, wants an organizer for October and
is willing to pay all expenses of having her in her section of the
State for a month. I have not been able since my return from
Tenn. to take the matter up with Miss Adams, as she has been out
of town every day that I have been in town, but I doubt if she
would be able to leave her school work to go there. At present
she is going back to Harrodsburg for Saturday and Sunday usually.
Also, I think we might get someone for Hrs. Hubbard who would be
more effective, as I don't believe she minds the cost. Who was
the woman that you spake to me about last Spring, who you said
was going to Oklahoma, and how would I address her? Can you

suggest anyone elese? Would you prefer Hrs. Stewart or Miss

(grimm, if we could get either one of them, or is there someone

else in Chicago that you think better? I should like awfully to
provide Hrs. Hubbard with an organizer for the month of October,
which might insure some sort of a delegation from that end of the
State at our State meeting.

On my return last week I found a letter from Hrs. Hubbard,
of Covington, wanting us to finance the following: A recent issue
of Collier's, it seems, has a very excellent account of the Illinois
fight. She and Mr. Hubbard believe that it would be well to send
it to the legislators. They would be willing to do all the work,
and calculate the cost at about $50. mr. Hubbard is the best

friend we have when it comes to real aid on the political end of

 

 Miss Laura Clay ------ 5
the job. He is at Frankﬁort a great deal for his railroads, and

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already thinks he has a line-up on the Hesse? Seeing Mrs.

Hubbard's interest in the work and her anxiety that we do
something, I wrote her last week inmediately on my return home
asking her if she would finance the trial subscriptions to the
Woman's Journal for the hold-over legislators and the candidates.
This would cost probably a little over $50 also. I believe it
the mgﬁgfvaluable of the two things. But I also enclosed Mrs.
Hubbard's letter and asked her if she would likewise be willing
to finance that. In case she declines either or both of them,
what is your Opinion about the State Association doing it? Do
you think our emergency committee has power to vote either one
or the other, or must I have a vote of the board? There is no time
to be lost now on either job, so if you think it must go to the
board give me your vote on both propositions in your reply.
The Collier's article will only be particularly valuable while
it is fresh, and we can not now get the whole four months of the
Woman's Journal to the legislators before they reach Frankfort.
Knowing the press there,I don't think any one of them will ever
look at it except before they leave home.

Mrs. Hubbard was surprised to learn that the $1,000
she had given was not to be used until the bill had passed the
legislature. She evidently thought it was being used right now
and was anxious to find what we were doing. was there a written
statement of the way it was to be used accompanying the gift?

I believe it is going to be many years before we are a campaign
State. I have absolutely no hope of it passing the legislature
this year, though I am going to work as hard as possible for it,

 

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