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Prescott, Ariz.
Jan. 19, 1909.

My dear Miss Shaw:-

I wrote you a few days ago, and am writing again to urge upon

you the necessity on immediate action in sending us organizers. We

must organize quickly and call a territorial convention while the legis-
lature is in session in Phoenix, which will be for sixty days from the
18th of Jan. Nearly all of the legislators wives are spending the winter
with their husbands in Phoenix and there are several suffragists enmng
them. There could be elected delega es to the territorial convention,
which should be held in Phoenix before the legislature adjourns. In this
Way, we can secure representatives from nearly all of the counties and
make a good showing.

We Should have at least two to do this work quickly and well,
and those who are not afraid of a hard stage ride and a few hardships.
We are having beautiful weather now, but cannot depend upon it lasting
long.

I am working every day to get things into shape, so that the
work can be done quickly and well.

Faithfully,

(Signed) Frances W. Munds.

 

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Dear M155 Shawzn '

The W.C.T.U. made father and yr. Andrews balievo that thc bill
they intrcduced was my measura and that I knew all about it. It wafl nct,
and I did not know anything about it. jmrs. ?1ckler hsld us back from
coming here until after they had lntrcducaé tha bill. Fa her and Mr. A,
were greatly annoyad am the deceit, but the work had prcgreaaea we far
that they falt that ancther bill weuld aeteat both. Ere. J$Tfr1es, who
is very unreasonable when angry, expecth me ta make father and Charley
wiflhdrav their support from thw bill thay had intraéuced and put in a nun
1varsal suffrage bill. Thin would be impossible an§ impclitic, and we
would be ridiculed for our dissenticn. This bill will go through if wa
all work for it. I felt it better to qcmpronisa, to work far the bill
and than we, as an asscciaticn, aontrol the uampalgn &fter it is an.

This would be best far all ccneerned. . The W.C.T.U. will make such.t$rms
and be glad to. Th3 Legislature anew net cansidar it a W.C.T.U. measure,
for father suppcaed it was the Associaticn and has so cansiderea it. If
it is now left in the hands of the W.C.T.U., Hrs. Jaffries will work to
defeat it at the polls, and that is what ghe wants to do. The whiskey
men will also .- this is cur chance. Per the sake.cr the Causa, help
us to now keap it in the hands of the Afiscciaticn axd work far this meas-
ure. The W.C.T.U° have not done right, bgn the cause is at stake and
we must not antagonize these fither women. I can central tha situaticn if
you will keep Yrs. Jeffriaw etill. fic cue else can dc its firs. Fetti-
grow seems ta me just the one for President. firs. Simmcns (who ccntrcls
Hrs. Piokler) and yrs. Jeffries have made our troubleo Now if you will
help ua, I bfilieve South Dakcta is saved: I am all tired cut and about
sick, and if we dc net succeed in keeping Hrs. Jeffries from making any
more «canes, we will lose out.

Ycurn,

(Sign$d) Edith M. Fitch.

lrs. Fe is Very antagonistic to the church and.t¢ the WQC.T.U.

Can you rct qgiet Fer? Kg are deugaratfi. I agree with Yrs. P. that

 

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 Pierre, 3.3.,
Jan. 19,1909.

My dear Miss ahawz-

Mrs. Pitch and I sent you a télegram last evening which read:
”Telegram advising acceptalpe of taxpaying suffrage bill will help us.
Haw bill unadvisable.“ we want this.telegrmm from you to quiat Yrs.
Jeffriea, whc is a fine carresyonding sacretary but imycseible as a workw
er in a Legislature. The men in the Legislature tell us that the bill,
which is about to pass, is the only cut that can be gatten mm: through
new, and that if we will all conssnt tc it they think it will pass. The
bill provides that-all who own real eatate or any taxable prcperty can
vote. My expereinca in Eyoming ccnvinées me that it will give tke ballot
to 95 % of our.wcmen, an& it certainly pl&cez tbs ballot within the reach
of every wamgn.

Era. Fitch and I are getting Cu capitally together, ard I dc
not aver expect to meet a wuman mor¢ capable of wcrking in a legislature.
Her father‘in—law intraduced the bill in the Vouse 5nd has givén it his
entire attanticn, Her brcther-in~law (before hifi first wife died he
bore that relationship to her) has done.the same thing in the Sanatea
The Speaker cf the House is her personal friend. She has been wrrking
faithfully amcng these Ken fer mcnths ani had her wires all laid, Than
Hrs. Simmcns and Mrs. Ramsey, an behggfflcf the W.C.T.U., got on the ground
first and went to Mr. Andrews and Mr. Fitch mud got a tax suffrage bill
intreduoad betere we wera on the ground; The men were innacent victims,

and Hrs. Simmcns and Mrs. Ramsay smy they did not know they were using cur

men, but went to them because they introduced ether bills fer thsm last

year. Then Hrs, Jeffrias flew the traak, made a scene in the Legislature
on the ground that the Rational Suffraga Asscoiaticn would act endorse
anything but a universal $uffrage bill. or caursa, wa wauld rather have
that tea, but we cannot command a Legiglature and have to take what we

can get. Hrs. Jaffries is very unreasdnable, and we are haying for a
talsgram from yea that will quist her.

visa Bcwer is a dear girl, never does any harm and always some

 

 some good; but she is not a porsonal wnfqu, lacking olaarness and direct-
neaa in cfinversation. She has no initiative and is not a tercaful speak~
or or an organizer.

I have n&ver met our Fresident, and she did not annwer the cue
letter I wrote her. The District Preaddenta and Era. Jaffries have dene
the work that has been dons:m M153 Bewar is a W.C.T.U. woman first and
suffragigt aecond.

We arm arranging for filecting.a new President, but have our

hanas tan full juat new to attend to it. It must wait for the passage

or defeat cf cur bill.

I reaé ycur letters in which you kindly guaranteed 350.,for my
expenaas here. If yrs, Jeffries were am¢nable to reason, I cculd get
through here withcut spending more than_$25. My son had three gccd meat-
11135 in the Black 1.51113, and aeaured $56. monthly in pledges, but as I
knew the givers parsonally I expect to collect them. I am Just fifty
years old. I wish athsr women could have the hcncra of office, but I
[will dc a11.I can for auffrage in south Dakcta, ard even acceyt office
if a}: ccncsrned £661 that I &m just tks (mea

Thanking you always for all your kindnasses, and all the in-
apiratien cf ycur lattera.

Sincerely

(Signad) Fina D. ?ett1grewm

 

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Jenn. ӣ90

Dear Lember of th¢ Official Beard:-t

I arrived heme late Saturday night and all day Sunday marked
with my stencgrapher getting eff necessary letters Lc Sauth1akcta and
other impcrLLLL psintss

I cmc'LLL a cupies if $9M CT the Ecttsrm which Lil? aLuL ycu ZLL
301mlicaticn5 LLLQL the utfier incapacity cf “rs. Ficklar, ma ,ngid
and the fclh 4f 42 Ether Wfimfin in delaying aciigr, Lava braugLL LLvucs
The flxcusa that H. W.CQT.Y,K to:*? an unfair advantage cf LLsm, gwfi gei
their B111 in LLLLL‘ 1g Lat, 91,“, ..A a a very Law L11] (me; fhr W@€k& aga
they wrote me LI:LL yrs; .‘1‘ -' Lu- .\;-1 ~u-.,z. let LLL V.C.TGUQ 3p: in
their Bill anfi the suffragieta andcrse and wcrk fLr_1t. I immediately
wrofie prfitesting against it, urging that the saffragiats gut in LLeir
Bill Lwfi seek LLL cancraraticn of tha W.C.T,W,, but an an aficcuni
3L6 Wm“ 3 I, LLe leaderfi ifl LEE mavewenta' Thsy flelayed for Chi
=nctLer "nt 11 the F.C5T.E, had secured fire. FiscL’s fatLer :er L“:

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be in Arizona. Miss Chase has positively declined to go, feeling that

she is utterly unable to do so, and I think there could be nothing worse

for our cause than a sickly woman, and or a woman who was not well and
strongly balanced, which I fear is true of Miss Chase at present, talkingyvéz:
and interviewing men.

Now if you could go to Arizona, I should feel that the situa-
tion was in the hands of some one who could give us definite advice. If
you will go, I do not think we need stop to get a vote of the Official
Board, becaise I am sure that every one of them would be more than glad
to have you do so, and every day is just so much lost time. The Legis-
lature, as you will see, is in session only sixty days, and it began on

the 18th of Jan., so there is not a single day to be wasted in waiting.

 

 I will send out a letter tc the Official Board, but I assure

you votes enough in advance, because Nrs. Avery, Mrs. Upton and I, with
your vote if ycu are in favor of doing it, would make one-half of the
Board, and I am sure every other member will agree. If ycu can go, will
you not telegraph Mrs. J. L. MUnds, Prescott, Arizona, immediately, be-
cause you see she is really planning some kind of wcrk; but in order tc
carry it out she will need same one right by her side, and I beg of you
to go at once.

Faithfully,

 

 Fort Pierre, ,
Jan. 23, 190;.

Shaw:-

Miss Gregg's presence here at this time can never be estimated

in mcnev t is wcrth evervthin: to the suffraee cause “11 over the Ufited
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states. Nrs. Fitch has been trying to '~ - us tc give in to her and her
“Ififfifl; ard endorse this W;C.T.U. tax paying bill which Miss Gregg tells
her would be a dangerous thing t0 dc. Mrs. F. is almcst crazy with an»
thor ty and responsibility. It was only last Apr.,I think, that she be-
den tc be promoted ta the presiding cffi~
tcc much for her. She almtst shock her
fist in Mi s Gregg's face at the close cf cur meeting and teld her she
wanted her te understand that ex” we for Scuth Dakcta women iirst, the
National and W.C.T.U. afterwards. I think Miss Gregg showed a little
feeling teen she tcld her we did not need that pounded intc cur ears tc

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understand it. flies Gregg has seen very yetient with us and I think will
lead us out all right. I hope this tax paying bill will be defieated in
the House, then we will gc ahead with cut full '1. 'er' bi l, which Hrs.
Fitch tells us will never get cut of Ccmmittee, which will be better than

think Miss Gregg till keep you infcrmed While
here. If thi- " dces ‘ass the chs , then cur legislative work is
done, fer it is W.C.T.U. measure pure and simple, and I might add silly
and unjust.

Sincerely years,

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National Headquarters, Warren, Ohio

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2nd Vice President at Large. FLORENCE KELLEY.

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 New Years Day 1909
my dear Miss Clay,-
This is my first letter in the year 1909 and it brings
to the very best wishes for a good and successful year.

I As it is a holiday for every body here but myself and my stencg—
raphor is away I am going to try to answer the letter I received from you
this merning as I want toy to get it as soon as possihle. Your wish not
to have Miss Penfield before March is a most satisfactory one for she feel
that it is impossible for her to leave Indians before then without doing
injury to the work there.

I understood that you wanted her the middle of
Janna ' and wrote her so and she greatly regretted it. The mistake must
have been mine and I will write her at cnce that she may remain there unti
that time. When I hear frcm her again I will write you definitely in
regard to the date.

I agree with you that it would be a great help if Miss Gordon could
go to washingtcn if we undertake the work there and I will write her at
once andsee if she wlil go or if she can go. Mrs Avery will do all she c
can to help and give all of her spare time to it.

I will write you later,at greater length.
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uaa them mad égan wLLE tenzg.
We haLa rec -Qi:ad a raquaat T ca ‘zz. Liafiall at aka LiQtrict
Suffruga ALfisefiaciQn 56 Ls,i.?j w w?' 1 «- "g; : cur raama. The
first maatiag 1a ta he halé i; q-QEA 3,1 3 i Avsry gramfied FQrmissicn
t9 hula tkin mafitlag until flfi u' hr,. further fr“): the 02119131 thrd.
X Lavfi alaa wriatan Jru. ?iwfi«33 than I has as doubt but the
efficial Litard zauir ha wixiigg is “evaj. *.Lx I: hcla tkair regular Kfiflt-
ingn in L‘a Lufififikfirhflrfi. L.‘3; cs.3i :3 c:cc.sd to iham 3:
any lvcml elm? Lutmhlizhlnfl LcaumrQ‘.Lgv L; if» " 5 a- ; km: L13 mare it
can ha ufiéd er meaninga aha hetxer. f;a a u : ~La his ch LLCHQEt the
aderagzua cf flitLQ zf at” LiQLrict Q? ,5 raw-w ' ¢,* b9 Elmfi tfi hfild
ta meatisvs r -e:$. RQR a}.ia Lma21~ 32. g‘w. rza r wcu}€.n2nt to 62;: ~1¢
“v heia ant acma ixaucnman: ta the )863L2$e$ Kcmcn tr Cfimfi therw, and
pranahly tVQrc avg 'ther achciLiiauu that Lani? taut tn held fieetinga
t}: arfi: 8.1 89 . -
Isa fiuéfii mi r. 1b u;“a “3&3 terms ahcalu we permit thaw to ”fiat?
1L; fiistricn suffruce eamen are sharing qutfi as interest in tha Leadw

quartars, :36 Hrs. Sir; ml} and Lisa fiillstt have cantributad ruck tcaard

the furfiiahinms. Yrs. Tinéall, Lbs has brckan my housekeeping, hQQ can~

tribated mQQk tcwgrd furnishing :La kitchan Qua the heusakcid.%crkinn_part
cf the builéing, while 33L; aillent haw cantibthd Q yianc mad I believe
is ts furnifih a éetk Qnd scmfi ctker things. firm. Avery centrihuted, bo-
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of the building which will be opened to ..:-the use etcmbm, as we will want
some uniformity in it and nct have it 3. mm hedge-pcdge mess.

Yrs. Avery feels that the District pccple ghculd be permitted
to held their regular meatings there until the 11311: Eaticnal Convention
without any additional charge excert the «Zonati one which the members are
making tcwara mmmmng the Emma. Pleasse let me know at one. in order
that I may dafinifiwly answer Nrs. Tindall and give her yqur views on the
matter.

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Jan. 8, 1909.

Dear Member of the Official Board:-

I have just returned from New York where, as you know, I debated
with Mrs. Gilman, and although a large majority of the audience voted in
favor of my side of the question, I personally feel that Mrs. Gilman had
by far the best of the argument and should have had the vote; but the main
object was accomplished, I suppose, and that was a nice sum of money for
the women's Trade Union League which, I hope, will make them feel kindly
toward the Suffrage Association.

On the following morning I had a long interview with Mrs. Catt
and Mrs. Kelley over the petition work which seems to be progressizgifiell.
Mrs. Kelley is particularly pleased with the help it. has given the sur—
frage work in the organizations with which she is allied in New York.

Mrs. Catt, Mrs. Avery, Mrs. Kelley and I will have a final interview in
regard to the subject on the morning of the 16th When arrangements will

be perfected to have the work of collecting, sorting and storing the pe»
titions done in the Congressional Suffrage Headquarters in Washington.
Mrs. Catt sails for England the 15th of February and can do nothing toward
the petition work after the first of the month, when it will have to be
turned over to us.

I also had an interview with Mrs. Blatch, which I will report
on a separate sheet.

Later in the day, by invitation of the mananging editor, Mr.
George H. Sandison, and the assistant editor, Mrs. Kate Upton Clark, I
went to the office of the Christian Herald, a religious paper having 220,
000 regular subscribers but which circulates 500,000 copies Weekly. The
editor and owner of the paper came into the office while I was there,
and the other editors seemed very anxious to have me make a favorable
impression on him and enlist his intnfiest. I did my best and the only
feasible result was that he said if I could convince the managing editor
that active interest in the woman suffrage movement on the part of the
paper would help our cause, and not injure the interests of the paper,

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suffragist, and so is the assistant editor, but the real underlying motive
of this sudden interest in our movement is the liveness of it abroad and
the revived interest in NeW'York, and they want and hope to increase the
circulation of their paper by siding with us. They are willing to do a
lot of real suffrage work toward that end.

I asked the editor to state definitely what he wanted us to do
and how he thought we could cooperate with them. He talked over a lot of
the most impracticable things which were sure to win if we only tried than
which we have tried hundreds of times, but the one thing he urged us to
do was to go into the most favorable State and put forth all our energies
there. I asked him to prepare a letter which he would like to have me
submit to the Official Board, stating his views. I assured him that we
would do everything in our power to cooperate with him. I told him of
the plan Which is being worked up by Miss Gordon to reach the ministers
of the various denominations, and he said he would print the leaflet in
full in the Christian Herald when it was ready and make such an appeal
as Miss Gordon would write and do] all he could to arouse the readers of
the Christian Herald, of them he said there were fully a million. He
also said he would publish letters ixmm if we would writefii the paper,
taking up some point of the suffrage movement and writing a little letter
upon it; but he seemed very anxious that all of our letters and articles
should not be antagonistic, that they should be based upon justice with an

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appeal to the chivalry of men. He seemed to think that we did not think
of thatbefore,- that it was an entirely new idea. He said men were so
just and chivalrous that they needed only to be appealed to. His logical
male mind did not suggest to him that if men, as a whole, were either
just or chivalrous we would not have to make the appeal nor would we have
been driven.to x;;;;asuxty years campaign. Nevertheless, he and his pas
per are allies which we must win and hold if we possibly can.

He gave me this week's paper damp from the press with their
first suffrage article, and it certainly is a good one. It is an inter-
view by Lyman Beecher Stowe with six members of the United States Senate

from the four enfranchised States. Their pictures are in a row across

the top of the page and they are a fine looking lot of men and the inter-

 

 views are splendid. There is material for a first class leaflet which
could be made from it and could be credited to the Christian Herald. I
will send a cOpy to the Literature Committee. I know of nothing better

which could befall us than the support of this paper, because it goes

into the ranks of the conservative people whom we, as an Association/so

far at least, have not been able to reach.
Yesterday’s New York Evening Journal had a splendid suffrage
cartoon which would make a first class poster and also good for a postal
card. One side of the picture represents two politicians, big and port-
ly, smoking cigars, with their hands in their pockets and their backs
turned toward the bulletin board and a woman; the woman comes up to about
their knees and they do not see her and they are not reading the bulletin
board. 0n the other side of the picture are the same two politicians and
a woman holding in one hand her declaration of what her vote will go for
and in the other hand her vote. She stands as tall-as the politicians
and they have drapped their cigars in the street; have their hats off and
are bowing down to the ground. Underneath the first picture is the in-
scription "This is about the size of the woman trying to talk moral truths
to politicians when she has no vote." 0n the other side "Things will
be different when women can vote and throw worthless officeholders out
onto the sidewalk, as they soon will." I think if we get an Opportunity
to use this cartoon it will be a good thing for us.
Faithfully,

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My interview with Mrs. Blateh was id regard ta tho New York work
and conditions which are now arising thare through Mina Ray's influence,
for dho is doing in New York oxactly that she did in the Hatlenal Asso-
ciation,- attacking every wnman whom she thinks stands in her way whom
aha ca£:::ntrol. They are passing through a similar experience ta that
of gene or the National Officers 3 few years agc. The results, hcwever,
promise to be mare sericus, as the tremble seems ta be taking the form or
antagonism to suffrqgists and suffrage leagues who will act come into
the Suffrage Society.

Mrs. Catt aviaently does net recognize the true reason of the
refusal of the College League, the self Supporting League and Mrs. Hack-
ay's Society ta Join the Interfhrban. She thinks it 13 dislayalty to or-
ganizaticn and antagonistic to existing methods of werk, but the true
reaaon is Miss Hay. She is in absolute central of the Interurban Head~
quarters; speaks of it as "my society" ete.; runs its maetinga; calla
wasting: Whenever the wishes to an certhin things and fail; to notify
1 member: and aoc1¢tios belonging which she cannct coerce or flatter intt
voting whatever dhe wants. She is there, as she has been everywhere,
the disrupting force, and Mrs. Blateh and cthara feel that she is bank at
the recent attack on Mrs. Blateh in the NeW'Ycrk press, which is trying
to create dissatisfacticn in the Self Supporting League. Thay are utter-

ly at a 1033 to knew what to do. hrs. Blateh suggests that the best

thing to be done wculd be to have me, a: Natlpnal President5.rra. Gros-

aott, as State President, and herself, as a worker in the heaeue Scciety,
go to some a! the 1¢aalng New York suffragists and exylaln the whole sit-
uation of his: Ray's relation to the suffrage work. I am perfectly will-
ing to dc 1t 1! 1t 13 thought advlsablc. I hate to an Era. Catt'a ac-
count.

Mrs. Catt 1: going to take her ta Europa with her an& I auppese
the experience at Capenhagen will be repeated over again unless we také
sons official aétlon to defend our dalagaten and the Natienal Association
from.her misrepreaditatlcns. It ls a.great pity that Mrs. Catt forces us
eithur to accept hiss Hay er ilso fall to enlist herself peracnally in
cooperation with us in aur work. I had hepad we were done with thin

matter forever, but it look: new as though W0 had a worse case on our
hand: than befaro. I would like ycur advise as to what I would better 30.

 

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