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
Letter and Envelope : Laura B. Morgan, Legislative Committee of the Washington Woman Suffrage Council, to Mrs. Albert Norton Wood. August 22, 1914
Funk, Antoinette, -1942
Morgan, Laura B.
Political activity
Prohibition
Temperance
Washington Woman Suffrage Council
Wood, Edith Elmer, 1871-1945
Written on Washington Woman Suffrage Council stationery.
Morgan, Laura B.
1914-08-22
1 p.
English
DOCU.1914.03a
DOCU.1914.03b
DOCU.1914.03c
Washington, D.C.
Article on woman suffrage introduced in United States Senate by Hon. James E. Martine, Senator from the state of New Jersey. February 25, 1915
Senator James Martine, of New Jersey presents an article from the District of Columbia Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage presenting with facts on the negative impact of women voters in states where women were granted the right to vote.
The essay addresses the impact of woman suffrage on taxation, prohibition, schools, working women, war, rural communities, failure of women to vote when given the ballot, and the idea that woman suffrage is undemocratic.
Martine, James Edgar, 1850-1925
Washington, D.C. : [s.n.]
1915
DOCU.1915.11
14 p.
English
DOCU.1915.10
Clipping : "W.C.T.U. Leaders Besiege Congress: White Ribboners Seek Action on Bill Barring Shipment of Drinks in Dry States." [December 16, 1912]
Gordon, Anna A. (Anna Adams), 1853-1931
Hoge, Sara H.
Prohibition
Stevens, Lillian M. N. Ames, 1844-1914
Temperance
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Article on the lobby efforts of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) for the Kenyon-Shephard bill, which would prohibit the shipment of alcohol into "dry" states.
The newspaper is not identifed and the year is written on the clipping.
12/16/12
English
Washington, D.C.
Article on woman suffrage introduced in the United States Senate by Hon. Thomas B. Catron, Senator from the state of New Mexico. February 19, 1917
Anti-suffrage
Catron, Thomas Benton, 1840-1921
Constitutional amendments
Women--Suffrage--New Mexico
Article, written by Senator Thomas B. Catron, in opposition to a federal suffrage amendment.
Contents include:
Failure of women to vote when given the ballot
The women's vote for president
Taxation and woman suffrage
Prohibition and woman suffrage
Schools and playgrounds
Vice not suppressed where women vote
War and woman suffrage
Wage-earning women and woman suffrage
Woman suffrage undemocratic
Woman suffrage not an inherent right
Women as office seekers
Rural communities and woman suffrage
Women as jurors in woman suffrage states
Feminism and socialism
Woman suffrage and divorce
Woman suffrage unjust
Population, not territory, counts
High cost of woman suffrage
Defeats of woman suffrage
Opinions of eminent men against woman suffrage.
Catron, Thomas Benton, 1840-1921
Washington, D.C. : Government Printing Office
1917
16 p.
English
DOCU.1917.12
Broadside : Vote yes on the Woman Suffrage Amendment. Ohio Woman Suffrage Association. [1914]
Campaign literature
Constitutional amendments
Elections
Ohio Woman Suffrage Association
Referendum
Women farmers
Women--Suffrage--Ohio
In preparation for the November 3rd referendum, the Ohio Woman Suffrage Association published this flier with statistics on the number of "farm women" and "organized women" in support of suffrage, and a copy of the amendments that would appear on the ballot.
Ohio Woman Suffrage Association
Warren, Ohio : Ohio Woman Suffrage Association
[1914]
1 p.
English
DOCU.1914.09
Leaflet : Women and the liquor traffic : why female suffrage would not aid the cause of prohibition. April 4, 1896. [Circa 1896-1900]
Albany Anti-Suffrage Association
Anti-suffrage
Gambling--Law and Legislation
Prohibition
United States--New York--Albany
United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
Women--Suffrage--New York
Women--Suffrage--Wyoming
Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York (Albany, N.Y.)
Letter to the editor of the New York Times by author identified only as "E.S.C." The author argues that granting women the right to vote will do nothing to further the enforcement of "legislation aimed at the betterment of the human race," including prohibition and gambling laws.
The letter has been 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.
E.S.C.
[Albany, N.Y.] : [Women's Anti-suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York]
[Circa 1896-1900]
1 p.
English
DOCU.1000.51
Leaflet : Prohibition and Woman Suffrage. March 16, 1897. [Circa 1897-1900]
Albany Anti-Suffrage Association
Anti-suffrage
Crannell, Elizabeth Walker Shaule, -1936
Elections
Prohibition
United States--New York--Albany
Voting
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.)
Brief statement written by Mrs. W. Winslow (Elizabeth) Crannell refuting the suffrage argument that women voters would work for "prohibitory liquor laws." She reviews Colorado election statistics that appear to demonstrate that very few votes were cast for the Prohibition candidate, in 1895 when only men had the vote and again in 1896, after women were granted the right to vote.
Most likely reprinted for distribution by the Women's Anti-Suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York.
Crannell, Elizabeth Walker Shaule, -1936
[Albany, N.Y.] : [Women's Anti-suffrage Association of the Third Judicial District of the State of New York]
[Circa 1897-1900]
1 p.
English
DOCU.1000.66
Flier : Is there any question about the liquor interests opposing woman suffrage? Ingham County Equal Suffrage Association. [1913]
Anti-suffrage
Constitutional amendments
Elections
Ingham County Equal Suffrage Association
Liquor industry
Prohibition
Voting
Women--Suffrage--Michigan
Response by the Ingham County Equal Suffrage Association to anti-suffrage papers being distributed by saloon keepers and breweries in advance of the April 7, 1913 election. The message was to vote against the woman suffrage question because it would ensure state wide prohibition and shut down businesses.
Woman suffrage was defeated in the 1913 election. Michigan women were granted the right to vote in presidential elections in 1917 and in 1918, Michigan voters approved the state constitutional amendment granting suffrage to Michigan women.
Ingham County Equal Suffrage Association
Michigan : Ingham County Equal Suffrage Association
[1913]
1 p.
English
DOCU.1913.12