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he thiﬁk we have a fighting chance to win the subm1eei on of
our amendment, but we are not mgu uin
Eleeee remember me to your Sisters, and write immediately, as you
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Very cordially your friend,

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MR5. JOHN B. PARKER. COR. SECY. KATE M. GORDON. PRESIDENT MRS. NELLIE NUGENT SOMERVILLE
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MR5, EMMA MADDOX FUNCK, REC. sEcy. LAURA CLAY. VICE‘PRESI AT LARGE MIss JENNIE LAUDERDALE. 2ND AUDITOR
1613 EUTAW PLACE. BALTIMORE, MD. LEXINGTON. KY. DYERSBURG. TENN.

MRS. Geo, E, CUNNINGHAM. TREASURER , ’ IDA PORTER-BOYER. EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
LITTLE ROCK. ARK. HEADQUARTERS New ORLEANS. LA.
332 BARONNE STREET
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TELEPHONE M 187 NEW ORLEANS. LA,.n_c.f§11§(ES§F;91 ,,, AMIQLWH

My dear Miss Clay:

Our time has so been taken up with this disgraceful rev
relative to the President's condolence message that I have had no time to
attend to my legitimate correSyondence. I want you to understand the atti—
tude of the club and my letter and the Official report gives a fair report.
At first I thought the delibe~etions of an executive committee had been given
by a treito member , for Mrs. Skinner the mover of the resolution to send the
message was found a few weeks ego givingte derogatory letter about the E~h Club
to the m mbers of the Legislature. But I believe now and we have pretty strong 6?
evidence that the saéd”?3the on his knees eaves drenping at the second meeting
was concealed eavesdro wing at this meeting. The men John Meehen caught
on his knees getting material for a half truth slender is the husband of the
Founder of the Women Suffrage Party end the leader of all the disgraceful
neupeper notoriety in e.melicious effort to discredit tie club and me particusler
137.

is things now stand the veracity of Id of the best vomen of New Orleans
is challenged by the Times—Picayune in fever of a sneak caught in the act of
eaves drOpping' to get materiel to use against a Women'S'orgsnizstion. .And
in order to get the official report of the Era Club published Without their
blue pencil on the noint of their renorter John Meehnn we he to nay 25 cents a
line. We believe the attitude of the Times Picayune has been largely instiga-
ted by the fact that the Era Club lately a pointed in a com ittee to investigate
an exnosition project , in.which the neWSpepers were all interested but which
disgracefully mulcted the working peOwle of over a hundred thousand dollars and
in which the publicity we demanded disclosed a dreadful condition of affairs.

The President of the club is s T-? special reporter. Jeannie end I
are very much criticized for indorsing her for the Presidency. The women is
canable of good presence and fine voice__ she had some bitter enemies , but
I never believed her dishonorable. About three or four months ago there was
circulated emonerthe club women seme dreadful letters sttack’ng her character.
Her friends felt that the best way to Show to s contemntible sneak who employed
anonymous means to blast character was to sh express our confidence by electin g
her ?resident of the most gonerful women's organization in the city. She will
I think be impeached . The svful part to me is that at the bottOm of the whole
thing is the treachery of the women of Yemen Suffrage Party. Miss Hutson the
reporter of th= Item who first published the lie based on 3 half truth of a
sneak reporter is s.member of the Party and will move heaven and earth to destroy
the club. I consider even more important than WOme suffrage the starting of a
movement to make nensnspers responsible for the information they take money from
the public. I have consulted the District attorney on whether I had s criminal
libel suit~w~ but the technicalities are all in favor of the papers. One is de—
fenceless.

I find that your letter is at home so cannot answer the points in
regard to dates. I have not yet secured the information that will definitely

 

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thing I have detennined uuon is to hold in Chettenoogs our annual convention. I
am trying to get Mrs Ruth Ncﬁnery Stuart to be one of our sneakers end to convert
"Sonny” into a suffregistsm_ of course 3 States Rights one. I think your sugges—
tion in regard to ﬁre hubberd excellent. Will write her to—morrow.
How Miss Clay I went to write you on my financial situation. The rat
nroofing of New Orleans will msha us do some work in this regsrd on three pieces
of nronerty thet will interfere with our income. Then the main dependency we have
is some stave stock end it is feared that this business will be seriously inter»
fered with on sccount of the nor in EurOpe our chief market. I have had a large
number of invitations to sneak , but I feel obligated to stick to this Southern
Conference work. In fact I give my entire dec at the office. In_dependent of the
Belmont donation I have pledged about 5000 dollars.* Do you think I would be
justified in paying myself a selery____ I here the authority of Mrs. Belmont to
Spend that money any way I see fit to do so. You remember the letter. Now my
position is this I would be only too glad to give my service s but certain
conditions make it very necessary to earn some money. Would I be justified in
nevi x nxself e elery and any money I earn sneaking for the conference I re-
turn to the Treasury of the Conference. Let me have your view point on this . Of
course if I was at liberty to say we had the ten thousand it would be somethin
for the Board to decide butihrs Belmont seems very positive about not hevinstthis
known. Kindest regards to your sisters.
Affectionetely,
Kate E. Gordon.

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KATE M. GORDON. PRESIDENT
1800 PRYTANIA ST.. NEW ORLEANS, LA,

LAURA CLAY, VICE—PRES. AT LARGE
LEXINGTON. KY.

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MRS. JOHN B. PARKER, COR. SECY. KATE M. GORDON, PRESIDENT MRS. NELLIE NUGENT SOMERVILLE
1520 AUDUBON $12. NEw ORLEANS 1800 PRYTANIA ST.. NEW ORLEANS, LA. IST AUDITOR. GREENVILLE. MIss.

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MRS. EMMA MADDOX FUNCK, REC. Secy, LAURA CLAY. VICE-PRES. AT LARGE MISS JENNIE LAUDERDALE, 2ND AUDITOR
1613 EUTAW PLACE. BALTIMORE. MD, LEXINGTON. KY. DYERSBURG. TENN.

MRS. GEO. E. CUNNINGHAM. TREASURER ' IDA PORTER-BOYER. Exzcunva SECRETARY
LITTLE ROCK. ARK. HEADQUARTERS NEw ORLEANS, LA.
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TELEPHONE M 187 NEw ORLEANS, LA...;§QQ§§H§E$.Q 8: 1,9,lé_9__191l_

Miss Laura Clay,
Richmond, Va.

My dear Miss Clay:—

1 note that you are to hold your Kentucky State
Convention the 5,6 and 7 of November, and I am writing to
know at what point. It does not seem practical to carry
out our original itinerary before the Convention as both
Richmond and North Carilina feel they could not prepare for
a meeting with their Convention dates fixed for the 9 and
10th. I am wondering if your Convention was at no too dis«
tent a point from ROanoke, that one night of your Uonvention
might be turned over to the Southern Confe'ence.

I have a promise from Ruth McEnery Stuart, and
with Mrs. Helen Gardner and Mrs. Belmont a very attractive
program could be arranged. At any rate would you immediately
let me know whether such a plan would meet with your approm
val? Make no engagement for the 10 and llth of November ,
for I am awaiting news “ from Chattanooga to know whether
they will entertain our Southern Conference at that time.

We are only a few hours away from Nashville, and can readily

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I have just received the following telegram
from Alice Blackwell;"0an you meet Miss Addams, Mrs, Catt,
and me in Boston: September sixteen, seventeen or eighteen

for informal ease conference to promote harmony between

Congressional Union and National Association with View to
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better unify work after National Convention. Wir‘e Journal
collect." I wonder what it means. Of course, I am not

going as I cannot afford such an expensive trip and also as

my policy is not to meddle much with this National business,

I think it wiser not to go. The truth of the matter is,

I think the National publishing that black list puts them
actually'inthe same position that the Congressional Union
occupies and finds them advocating exactly what they denounce
in the Union.

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MRS. JOHN B. PARKER, KATE M. GORDON, MRS, GEO. G. CUNNINGHAM,
Corresponding Secretary, President, _ Treasurer,
1520 Audubon St., New Orleans, 1800 Prytanla St., New Orleans, La. Little Rock Ark.

MRS. EMMA MADDOX FUNCK. LAURA CLAY, MRS. NELLIE NUGENT SOMERVILLE.
Recording Secretary, Vice—President at Large, lst Auditor,
1613 Eutaw Place, Baltimore. Md. Lexington, Ky. Greenville, Miss.
MISS JENNIE LAUDERDALE,
. 2nd Auditor,
”A government 13 not yet complete that Dyersburg', Tenn.

withholds from its most enlighlencd women
what it freely gives to its most benighlea'
men. ” Thomas jefferson.

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My Dear Fellow—Suffragist:

A strategic position is held by southern suffragists. With the
concentration of effort for a Nationbl Amendment the point of resistance will
be the south. In the south the Democratic Party alone determines political
policies, and the crux of the whole situation consists in making the Party
live up to its traditions on States Rights and under which cloak it is
hiding in its opposition to a National Amendment.

This means that a tremendous whirlwind campaign must be carried on
in the south in the next two years to educate National, State and Local
leaders of democratic opinion, that the democratscn?the South cannot straddle
the question of woman suffrage in the next National Platform. If we force
the issue we have the party at bay on a fundamental principle——state rights——
and upon which position the democrats of the enfranchised states can make a
vulnerable attack for the preservation of party integrity.

By virtue of the race issue which is involved, the movement must by

the very nature of things be under the guidance of southern women. Southern
women must throw the gauntlet that declares, that if southern democrats do
not preserve woman suffrage as a state right, we women who believe as
unalterably as do the men in the expediency of a state defining its own
electorate, will be forced to appeal to the men of other sections to secure
for us our inalienable and greateSt of all rights, the birthright of citizen-
ship through a coercive National Amendment.

This propaganda must be spread through the 5700 news agencies of the
south by a capable Press Agent; thro a series of State and Legislat
Conferences; thro resolutions before the business leagues of the south; thro
selected literature. With Headquarters established in New Orleans, I believe
we will accomplish the most important suffrage work of any now in progress
in the United States. It is a flank movement of essential importance for any
effective result from the National Amendment agitation.

By virtue of the unorganized condition of the south I appeal to the
suffragists of the United States to help launch this important work. There
certainly must be 1000 suffragist in the United States who will pledge to
give or raise $100 payable in four years, at $25 a year. If 2t sufficient
number of pledges are secured I will borrow a sufficent sum to launch the
movement immediately. May I appeal to your generosity to help us avail our-
selves of an opportunity which is of vital importance to every well wisher
of the suffrage cause.

Hoping for an early and favorable reply, I am

Cordially and fraternally

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