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News article about President Howard Taft's speech at the National American Woman Suffrage Association convention in Washington, D.C., where he was hissed at by the audience after voicing his opposition to women's suffrage.

Two articles:

The first is a review of the campaign for women's suffrage in Michigan as the election approaches. The article includes a statement by the Michigan Equal Suffrage Association.

The second is an editorial by Charles R. Evans, in…

Illustration of a woman speaking to a man in a crowd of people. In the background is a woman standing on a platform with her arm raised, speaking about votes for women.

Illustration by Ellison Hoover, appeared on page 707 of Life Magazine, entitled "Some (as yet) untried ways of winning the vote." Features five vignettes of women using militant tactics to persuade men, including violence, hitting a man in the face…

Published in the Ladies' Home Journal in 1911, this survey of prominent women of the time indicates that the women interviewed were largely opposed to woman suffrage. The magazine was on record in opposition to women's right to vote.
Women quoted…

James H. Fairchild was the third president of Oberlin College from 1866 until he retired in 1889. Fairchild was an abolitionist and argued for social reforms including temperance and coeducation of the sexes. He did not support woman's right to…

Flier distributed by the New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage emphasizing woman's duty to her family and her children.

This flier, published by an unidentified organization, refers to an upcoming Ohio election where presumably voters will cast ballots for or against a woman's suffrage amendment. The writer refers to a new ally of the "suffragettes," known as "General…

Anti-suffrage leaflet that attempts to link the suffrage movement with pro-German, Socialist beliefs, and argues that this is a tactic used by Germany to weaken the United States.