Broadside : Logic for the business man. New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association. [Circa 1915]
Business
Campaign Literature
Constitutional amendments
Elections
New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association
Women--Suffrage--New Jersey
Appeals to businessmen by making the argument that voting for the woman suffrage amendment is logical and "good business."
The presence of the imprint of the National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company indicates that the National American Woman Suffrage Association distributed the broadside and the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association reprinted it for the 1915 referendum campaign in New Jersey.
New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association
Plainfield, NJ: N.W.S. Publishing Co., Inc.
[Circa 1915]
English
DOCU.1000.117
Broadside : Women voters Wilson opposes suffrage in Congress where he has great power. National Woman's Party.
National Woman's' Party
Presidents--Election
States' rights (American politics)
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
White House (Washington, D.C.)
Women--Suffrage--New Jersey
Campaign flier against reelecting President Woodrow Wilson, issued by the National Woman's Party.
In 1916, the National Woman's Party chose to oppose all Democratic congressional candidates on the policy of "holding the party in power responsible" for failure to pass a federal suffrage amendment. President Wilson, who was seeking reelection, advocated for suffrage in New Jersey as a state action. The NWP responded vocally by sending organizers into 12 states to lobby against the Democratic Party candidates. Wilson was reelected in the 1916 elections.
National Woman's Party
Washington, D.C. : National Woman's Party
[1916]
1 p.
English
DOCU.1916.14
Clipping : "German Speaker is Entertained by Suffragists / Mrs. Clara S. Laddey, of New Jersey, delivers address"; "Women Walk Through Mud to Boost Suffrage / Brave angry elements to deliver addresses at Linwood." [The Bay City Times] [1913]
Bay County Equal Suffrage Assocation
Elections
Jennison, G.B.
Laddey, Clara Schlee
New Jersey Woman's Suffrage Association
Politicians
Women--Suffrage--Michigan
Women--Suffrage--New Jersey
Three newspaper articles:
"German Speaker is Entertained by Suffragists" details an address delivered in German by Clara S. Laddey, president of the New Jersey Equal Suffrage Society to the Bay County Equal Suffrage Association.
"Want Suffrage Amendment Put Before People" is a brief article on G.B. Jennison, whose wife is the president of the Bay County Equal Suffrage Association, requested the suffrage amendment be printed on the ballot machine.
"Women Walk through Mud to Boost Suffrage" is an account of a group of Bay City Equal Suffrage members whose automobiles got stuck in the mud as they were making their way to a suffrage event in Linwood, Michigan
[Bay City, Mich. : Bay City Times Co.]
[1913]
English
Michigan
Clipping : Harper's Weekly. Women at the polls in New Jersey in the good old times. November 13, 1880
Ballot
Elections
Women--Suffrage--New Jersey
Hand colored engraving by Howard Pyle, appeared on page 724 of Harper's Weekly, entitled "Women at the Polls in New Jersey in the Good Old Times." The illustration shows women casting votes at a municipal election, referring back to the period from 1797-1807, when New Jersey women were enfranchised.
Harper's Weekly was an American illustrated political magazine published from 1857 until 1916 with fiction, news, illustrations, and essays related to current events.
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911, artist
New York : Harper & Brothers
1880-11-13
1 p.
English
New Jersey
Envelope : Senate United States Part of Cong. Record-Free Article on woman suffrage introduced in United States Senate by Hon. James E. Martine, Senator from the State of New Jersey. February 25, 1915
Martine, James Edgar, 1850-1925
Ross, Clinton, 1862-1920
United States. Congress (64th : 1915-1917). Senate
The envelope was created to distribute the referenced article. This envelope is addressed to Clinton Ross, Glenmary, Owego New York.
Martine, James Edgar, 1850-1925
1915
DOCU.1915.10
1 envelope
English
DOCU.1915.11
Flier : Billy Sunday on Votes for Women. 1915
Liquor industry
Methodist Episcopal churches--New Jersey
Prohibition--New Jersey
Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935.
Women--Suffrage--New Jersey
Flier issued in New Jersey prior to the October 1915 election where citizens voted on a suffrage referendum. At that point, no eastern state had yet adopted voting rights for women.
The flier features several short articles highlighting pro and anti opinions on women's suffrage, including including evangelist, "Billy" Sunday, former city counsel Jim Nugent, New Jersey Methodist Episcopal Church, and the liquor industry. Anti-suffragists argued that women would crack down on the liquor trade.
The measure lost 58% to 42%.
1915
2 p.
English
DOCU-1915-03
New Jersey
Flier : President Wilson says . . . Co-operative Suffrage Committee of New Jersey. [1915]
Ballot
Constitutional amendments
Co-operative Suffrage Committee of New Jersey
States' rights (American politics)
Voter registration
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Women--Suffrage--New Jersey
Reprints a statement by President Woodrow Wilson in support of woman suffrage in New Jersey as a states' rights issue and not a federal issue. The flier demonstrates the way the initiative will appear on the ballot along with information on New Jersey voter registration regulations.
The referendum failed to pass at that time. New Jersey ratified the 19th amendment on February 9, 1920.
Co-operative Suffrage Committee of New Jersey
East Orange, N.J. : Co-operative Suffrage Committee of New Jersey
[1915]
1 p.
English
DOCU.1915.36
Flier : These New Jersey officials and prominent citizens are for woman suffrage. Are you? New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association. [1915]
Constitutional amendment
Elections
New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association
Referendum
Voting
Women--Suffrage--New Jersey
List issued by the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association to demonstrate existing support for the woman suffrage amendment to be voted on in the upcoming election on October 19, 1915. The list included Thomas Edison, John Cotton Dana, several Congressmen, State Senators, local officials, judges, mayors, local newspaper and magazine editors, and heads of local businesses.
The referendum failed to pass at that time. New Jersey ratified the federal suffrage amendment on February 9, 1920.
New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association
New York : National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, Inc.
[1915]
1 p.
English
DOCU.1915.26
Flier : Women vote in the yellow states, why not in the state of Massachusetts? 1915
Constitutional amendments
Elections
Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association
Presidents--Election
Referendum
Women--Suffrage--Massachusetts
Color flier speaks directly to the men of Massachusetts and argues that Massachusetts women should have the same right to vote for President as the women in the twelve states that granted women suffrage. Small map along the top indicates the states that have full suffrage, partial suffrage, presidential suffrage, and "man suffrage."
Massachusetts voters rejected the referendum, along with New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. On June 25, 1919, Massachusetts became the eighth state to ratify the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote.
[Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association]
[Boston, Mass] : [Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association]
[1915]
1 p.
English
DOCU.1915.30
Boston, Massachusetts
Leaflet : Chicago Chronicle, July 10, 1896 : Oppose woman suffrage; Mrs. Crannell endorsed. [Circa 1896-1900]
Anti-suffrage
Democratic National Convention. Committee on Resolutions
Chicago (Ill.)
Speeches, addresses, etc.
United States--Politics and government
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.
Women--Suffrage--Colorado
Women--Suffrage--New York
Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York (Albany, N.Y.)
Reprint of an article from the Chicago Chronicle with endorsements of Mrs. W. Winslow (Elizabeth) Crannell's address delivered the day before to the Committee on Resolutions at the Democractic National Convention, held in Chicago.
The article was reprinted by the Albany Anti-Suffrage Association, more formally referred to as the Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York.
Chicago Chronicle. (Chicago, IL)
[Albany, N.Y.] : [Women's Anti-suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York]
[Circa 1896-1900]
2 p.
English
DOCU.1000.63