Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1920-05-08

work a general sort of promise by members
of congress that after the "justice would be
done them" When Mrs. Anthony demanded that
women be given equal rights with the newly-en-
franchsed black men, she got the answer, "This
is the Negroes hour
In 1869 were formed two national organlza-
lions: National Woman Suffrage association, with
Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony leaders and head
quarters in New York American Woman Suffrage
association with Mary A. Livermore, Julia Ward
Howe and Lucy Stone leaders and headquarters in
Boston. The line of division was this The for
mer wished to concentrate on the passage of
constitutional amendment the latter was in favor
of obtaining the suffrage through amendments to
state constitutions.
One day in 1872 plainly dressed woman wear
ing her dark hair brushed smoothly her ears
and coiled in knot low on her neck seated in
the front end of street car In Rochester, N. Y.
The sheriff stood in the of the car.
"Fare!" demanded the conductor, approaching
the woman passenger.
81 am a prisoner" she said 81 am travelling
under the escort of the sheriff He is in the other
end of the and you will have to ask him for
my fare"
This woman was Susan B. Anthony. For sew
eral years she had been trying to force an inter-
probation of the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments which would allow women to vote Her
arrest the result of her attempt to vote She
was tried and fined 800. She refused to pay the
fine and did pay, and she not sent to
Jail.
In 1875 Miss Anthony drafted the amendment
to the Constitution which has been ratified
In 1873 the amendment introduced in the
senate by Senator Sargent of California. 1t
defeated In 1887 and thereafter not even de-
bated in congress until 1914.
During the years the constitutional amend
ment campaign was making no progress the wom
many victories in the states. They Sc
cured full suffrage in Wyoming 1s69), Colorado
Utah and Idaho OS94), Washington 900, Cali
fornia GOLD. Kansas, Arizona and Oregon
(1912), Montana and Nevada (l914) New York
(1917), Oklahoma, South Dakota and Michigan
(191S). They presidential suffrage in Tli-
nois 1913), Nebraska, Rhode Island and North
Dakota G91D. Iowa. Wisconsin, Indiana. Maine.
Minnesota, Missouri and Tennessee 1910 and
Kentucky O920). Partial suffrage prevails in
many of the states. In Illinois, for example,
women vote for candidates for all offices not
mentioned by the state constitution.
In 1890 the two organizations united I'M
der the name of National American Woman Suf-
frage association, and work was pushed along
both lines of endeavor. Mrs. Stanton was presi-
dent until 1892. Miss Anthony served until 1900
resigning at the age eighty. Mrs. Carrie Chap
Gait was its head, 1900-1904. DR.. Anna How
ard Shaw. recently deceased. and possibly best
loved of all the leaders-a of transcendent
gifts and eloquence-was president until 1915
Mrs. Gait was then again chosen. Mrs. Frank Les
lie left large legacy to Mrs Gait to be used in the
work.
At the Chicago convention last February the
National American Woman Suffrage association
became the League Of Women Voters Mrs
Gait. who is also the head of the International
Woman Suffrage alliance which she founded In
1904. is honorary chairman; Mrs. Maud Wood
Park is chairman; Mrs. Richard Edwards of In
diana. treasurer; Mrs. Scion Jacobs of Alabama.
secretary. and there is board of regional d.
rectors
In 1912 the association formed a congressional
committee, with headquarters in Washington and
with some of its best trained and braniest women
10 charge.