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President Rev. Anna Howald Shaw. Moylan. Pa. ‘ Recording Secretary. Alice Stone Blackwell.
Firs! Vice President, Rachel Foster Avery. Swanhmore. Pa. 6 Beacon Street, Boston. Mass.
Second Vice President. Florence Kelley, Treasurer, Harriet Taylor Upton. Warren, Ohio.

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information that you had gone to Arizona
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get your letter aqi shall be interasted in the
of the work. I trust you will be able to find
write me as thin33 develop.
I am enclosing herewith check for
your bill rendered. Please receipt bill and
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distribution or simply a little for your own
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election officers , in judging whether a voter can read and write, which
opens the way for party corruption. I shall stay in Phoenix till our bill
is definitely dispose* of. Miss Gregg went to Santa Fe Febr.20th, and is
there working with Mrs.Bolles in the Legislature. She found that other
parties had introduced a school suffrage bill and one to allow women to vote
in local option contests. She thinks there is no chance of etting a full
suffrage bill. But I will leave her to tell the B.C. the situation there.
how that S.Dak. has submitted our amendment there will be a temptation

to send Miss Gregg there rather than have her organize in Arizona till the

Seattle convention which is what I advise and ask the Official Board

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to do. Arizona must come in next session, or all signs fail. We have been
talking about organizing ever since I have been here; and if we Gail to do
so we show weakness which is detrimental to us where we have shown real
strength in the Legislature. This is a hopeful field in many respects; and
if we can win here it will supply that Democratic stimulus to our cause
upon which you know I lay much stress. We ought to organize now that
Miss Gregg is in the far west. The organization we had 6 years ago, though
now disbanded, enabled me to gather a respectable committee promptly under
whose auspices we are working in the Legislature now. Without it my work
would be a farce. Please observe the headlines of this sheet.

I will observe the suggestions you make in yo r letter and do my

to follow them.

I we Id like to write longer, but other letters must be written,

Good—bye. Please remember me to your sisters.

Cordially yours,
Laura Clay.
P.S. I think that we should help with money in S.Dakota, and keep Mrs.Fitch,
Mrs.Bettcgrew and Miss Bower in the field; and perhaps send Miss Penfielf.
But let Miss Gregg stay in Arizona.

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Duaimgember of the BusinessCﬁbmmftteeEF

In view of the fact that we have:diecuaeed
organization a great deal I send the enclosed 00py of'&_
letter from Miss Gordon ﬂf'Iowa. In a former latter to
Miee Shaw and me Miss Gordon had almething to say on this
same subject and in replying I suggested that she have her:
plan formulated and ready to present at seattle. It is
be cause she 33! .aaye in her letter, as you will see”
that Iowa may not be represented at Seattle, that I send
you cepy of her letter» -

YOure most truly
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Presidcnl. Rcv. Anna Howard Shaw. Moylan, Pat
First Vice President, Rachel Foster Avery. Swarlhmorc, Pa.

Second Vice Presidenl, Florence Kelley.

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All right about the typewriter. I ﬁhink you rere
mighty good to go to Arizona,and take up things tiere. I‘had
hoped Tie Chase might go there. It would be “God for her.

I wish I knew how much trutli there is in ﬁne statemenﬁ
that Aria he does non care much :for S,arebood and inat w'cked
men are pushing it. Ecrveridge is nq11n~ imIer stnﬁement publicly,
and I Ixalieve FM? is‘st i7ijght. _ '

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Warren Ohio Apr 28th 1909

Dear Miss Clay,

I am writing this letter myself so do not blame
any one with the errors.
I do not know about those Norman Schools but I will find out for
you in a few days and let you know. Mr Carey will know.
I thank you for the“railroeds.
It was as I thought the same old combination against us.
By the way someone has said that a man who proposed that we should
work at Washington and let the Arz. legislature go Voted against us
after pretending to be for us. Can this be so? If it is it
shows justﬁilly prepared we are to cope with the ordinary legisla
tor.
I am sorry that the report in frogress was not oorrest but you see
1 felt it very important to get it in that number'and I had only the
press clippings. Elizabeth asked me about it at the time but i ‘
showed her the cliy;ings and told her I did not dare to add hr St
Charles name. 7
Mrs Obenchagn wrote us a year ago that she could not do the press

work for thé/time and we have not been sending her anyarticles.

By the way I am getting to think that no letters‘%$ of value
in our work since we can not write all the/truﬁ// whole matter.
You seem to think thet the W. C. T. U. secured the submission of
the amendmentfi) We are keeping quite still about it but Mrs
ritch who knew the inside says that it was the votes of the liquor
men who brought it about.

You see in the beginning it was Mrw Fitch who started things
by interesting her men folks. Before we got our bill ready the W

C. T. U. stole our thunder and introduced the taxpaying suffrage bill

which was lost. They were out of it when the pres ent bill was

passed and Mrs Fitches men and fiiend s gotit through with the votes

above referred to. The trouble in South Dakota is a renewal

of the old old fight. It does seems as if there ever was a fight

any where in our ranks as_&£ it bobbed up serenely on all occasions.

I do hope Mrs Stewart can straighten this out. It is placing

me in a bad place for I am to raise the money for it and unless

1 know whether we are to have a campaign there pretty soon i can

not raise it. March and April are good months for getting money an d

May and june people are getting ready to go away and are not so flush.
I feel so sorry that I can not go to Seattle. The doctor says

that father is safer than he has b en for a year because he is fee

bler and consequently has not so much‘blood pressure still I do not

like to put such a distance between us. I think it is to be a

critical time . Miss Shaw says that she wants the headqaurters

moved to a city. that she wants frogress a weekly and altogether

there will have to be,a lot of steady nerve and calmness. I

felt as she had been so origigéi of me this last year that if she

wanted another treasurer she frank and say so. She says she

does not. .In many way: I hate to give up entireté suffrage work
but I am not out out for faultfinding. I am patient myself and

I know no two persons could ever do better work than Elizabeth

and I have done . However I feel that whichever way it comes

out will be best.

By the way I am opposed to having only one auditor, as per Miss Black
wells plan. I think two eerson should know about the books.

I am enclosing bill

Cordially Yours,

HM J

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Wepartmmt of Tublic Enstruction

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HARRIET T. UPTON
CARRIE HARRINGTON
5. c. IDDINGS C. E. CAREY. SUPERINTENDENT
H. H. SUTHERLAND
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DORA A. KALE. CLERK Warren. Obie,
Apr. 50, 1900.

"creel? 1 ‘C'illCEE‘; irtc::.irj.,r is rode

to you inder Jr‘s April 97th, are public
schools in the sense that they are supported by public monies
apzropriated for school purposes. They are not, howerer state
schoo 8. They belong to the respective cities in which they are

located and each one is a part of the public school system of the

city in which it is located, and is for the purpose of training

teachers for service in the local schools. The e: 'ficieioy of the
city normal training schoolsgis necessarily in keeping With the
efficiency of the general public school system of thot city.

The schools referred to in Columbus, Dayton and Toledo are of good
grade. It is probable that more city normal training schools

are principled by women than by men. This may be due to the fact
that toe at’endaooe at such sch 0.18 is almos t exclusively by
women.

We have two nor‘n ' f g ‘ 01" in Ohio sup-
ported by the state, one at Athens and one at Oxford. They are
both wrincinlod by wen. State nonrsl schools are usually
principled by non. Their faculties. however, are apt too

more W’JTTQT! than men.

JUwMJ/nmw Very sincerely yours,

WM 258%

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(Member National Council of Women and International Woman Suffrage Alliance)

President. Rev. Anna Howard Show. Moylan. Pa. _ 7N Recording Secretary, Alice Stone Blackwell.
Finl Vice President, Rachel Foster Avery. Swarlhmoxe. Pa. W 6 Beacon Street. Boston, Mass.

Second Vice Presidenl. FlorencC Kelley. . Treasurer, Harrie! Taylor Upton, Warren. Ohio.
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June 7,1909..

Miss Laura Clay,
Lexington, Ky.
My dear Miss Clay,
Realizing that it is very important for us to be ready

for the thinas which are to come us at Seattle, I am writin
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you in regard to the removal of Headquarters. Miss Shaw

is just home from EurOpe. She is plunged deeply into the
work and in a few days goes to Canada for the Council, and
will be home only a few days before she proceeds to Seattle.
It makes me shiver when I think of her doing all that work.

I cannot see my way through what I have to do, but then I

can do it quietly in my own home or office and not have the
buzzlof open meetings. Miss Shaw wrote me sometime ago and
she wrote the Business 00mmittee as well that she thought
Headquarters ought to be moved. Now I am trying to have an
estimate made of how much it will cost to have such Headquar~-
tors in New York, in Philadelphia, Chicago and Washington.

I was surprised when I added up a day or two ago and found
that we are paying at the rate of $3000. a year for our Head~
quarters in Washington at the present time and this does not
include the petition work. Now we voted to have those Head~

quarters in Washington and some of us did not realize how

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much it was going to cost nor that it would be done so
quickly. I am so concerned about the future of the Heady
quarters that I want it in black and white what the expense
is to be before we do any voting.

Then, too, we must find someone who can do the press
work and some one who is capable to take charge of the lit—
erature and edit Progress. I am Opposed to taking Headquar—
ters to any city where we have not a National officer. No
person in this world could have had or ever will have such
competent help as I have had, and yet I would not be willing
and the office force would not be willing to do what they
have done without someone in authority standing back of them.

Naturally New York is the place for such Headquarters
But there are dreadful fact one there, there is Miss Hay who
will eventually boss whatever we have there; and there is
Mrs. Mackey with her superb Headquarters which will outdo
anything we can afford to do in the National way.

I am Opposed to Washington because there are three
months in the year when active work cannot be done because
of the heat. We have learned in our own rural Headquarters

that the summer time is a very active one in the way of lit~

erature, because so many rural clubs work harder and do more

in the summer than in winter. To have Headquarters in a
place where we would have to pay for full time of clerks
and where those clerks could not half work, and where the
local peeple who stand back of the Headquarters would be out

of the city, to me would be foolish.

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I believe that since the President and the First
Vdce President of the Association are in Philadelphia,
and since Philadelphia is near enough New York and near
enough Washington so that either can be reached in a few
hours and easily by telephone, that Philadelphia would be
the place for the Headquarters.

some peOple have thought of Chicago and it may be
that when we are so far west the western people will prevail

and we will have it at Chicago. This would suit me perfect—

ly if Mrs. Stewart could have charge of it. I consider

Mrs. Stewart the coming woman. I think she will sometime,
if her health holds out, be President of the Association.

If it went to ?hil&delphia, Mrs. Boyer could do the press
work and could edit Progress. She could take care of the
Headquarters too. Of course it would cost a good deal to
have her because she is very extravagant, but possibly if
Miss Shaw and Mrs. Avery watched carefully, that would be a
good solution. Anyway, I want you to think about this all
carefully before we get to Seattle. ”Father, is in such
condition that the Doctor thinks I can leave him with safety
and he also thinks that I will have to have a vacation at
some kind so there is talk of my going instead of Elizabeth.
I am writing this letter, however, to you on the supposition
that I am not going.

Cordially yours,

m Wm w W

Warren, Ohio, August 9/1909

You said you did not want to bother with the diaft
until you had reached home, and so I am sending it to you now.

I am wondering how you feel about the Washington
convention and the situation out there, as you look back upon it.
For some time I congratulated myself upon the fact that the
National body was so judicious, calm and kind, but I believe
the truth of the matter is that we were so overcome after
the awful squabble in the State Association, that we behaved
without really knowing why.

It is terribly hot here, and presume it is in

Kentucky also.

Cordially yours 771 /{/%¢/
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Aug.I6th, I909.
My dear Mrs. Upton,

I hereby acknowledge the receipt of $60.00, in pay:
ment of eemieannual interest in Bruce notes for $1900.00 and to me for
$100.00 in eludeﬂ in the $2000.00 note.

Yea, I was finally pretty well eatisfieﬂ with the result of our cone
vention in Washington. At first I was much afraid our coming had injured
the situation; but talking with friends of the cause afterwards leads me
to believe our convention eerveﬂ the purpose of clearing the atmosphere
and helping and encouraging practical unanimity and a working unﬁerstande
’ ing among tie suffragists. Whethegrtggtdivision will finally destroy our
hopes of succeee I am not able even to give an Opionion; but I do feel
confident that ourxpznxnxxxn presence there was beneficial.

I am 313 so oppresseo with writing in this hot weather hat I hope
yet will permit an answer to a letter from Elizabeth Hanger in this. Tell
heﬁgthat Dr.Louise Southgate has been regularly appointed our Press Sup't
13nd that it was definitely decided so short a time before I left for the
oogyention that I had not time to write to her, especially as I thought
sheégas going to the convention herself.

¥t Miss Shaw's-accident distressing? Surely she has a great deal to

'.lease let me hear news from her from time to time, as I do not

supposeréii can dictate a letter to me myself. I am now in Richmond, and

letters 1 reach me more promptly if ﬂirected to an here.