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Woman Suffrage State Headquarters 563-564-565 Parrott Building San Francisco
Vote for the Woman Suffrage Amendment November 3 Telephone, South 273
State Central Committee Miss Mary G. Hay, Chairman Mrs. Ellen C. Sargent Mrs. Nellie Holbrook Blinn Mrs. Mary A. Swift Mrs. Mary S. Sperry Miss Susan B. Anthony
Joint Campaign Committee Officers: Mrs. Ellen C. Sargent, Chairman Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper, Vice-Chairman Mrs. Ida A. Harper, Cor. Secretary Miss Harriet Cooper, Rec. Secretary Mrs. Mary S. Sperry, Treasurer Mrs. Mary A. Swift & Mrs. Sarah Knox Goodrich, Auditors
Sept. 19 1896 My Dear Mrs Stanton
Haven't Miss Hay and Mrs Sweet come out in fiery colors? Think of these envelopes glaring the Post Office in the face as they stamp, stamp piles & piles of them at each end of their route?
We now have the prestige of all of the political parties inviting all of us to speak on their platform side by side of their regular stump orators which is something we never had before in any of the Eleven suffrage amendment campaigns
Then the state annual meeting
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of the Christians - the Baptists & the Methodist already held - passed strong resolutions in our favor and the Congregationalists & Presbyterians meetings are to come in October & we are pledged that good resolutions will be adopted. Then in 50 out of the 57 counties - Clubs are formed in nearly every voting precinct in this city there 300 election precincts - and only 150 of them have clubs organized & hard at work making a poll of our friends or our enemies
The first poll with a majority against us - came in this morning - every one before has had a majority of 2 & 3 to 1 for us !! But what a long drawn out agony of suspense it is! It does seem that one must carry the [?]
But my dear I am awfull put to it to get my Sunday articles for the Examiner I do wish your ["Jimmy Grind"?] order would come to you & be obeyed
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and that you would send me some short articles on whatever point you feel will help make the rank & file of the Democracy see & believe it their duty to vote for "Amendment No. 6" - Oh how I have longed for you at my side to put into your matchless sentences the words that wait the sages - none of the going women are good, clear, crisp writers - Mrs Harper answered these objections - but how unlike your answers. Still no one here could do them better or stronger. I wonder if you get the Sunday Examiner My orders are to have a copy mailed to you every Monday morning. Well I think of dear Edmond M. Davis - about the two of us together being an invincible team I feel every day like Sampson shorn of his locks -- without you
Yours of the 19th with Hattie's card
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is here. you will have received report of Mrs. Stanford's not feeling like asking for any more R.R. passes So we shall have to give up having Hattie unless the R.R. Courtesy can be obtained at that end of the line. I should be so glad so proud to introduce her to a San Francisco audience as the representative of her noble mother whom all admired & honored here a quarter of a century ago. But when she arrives in October have her hold herself ready to start for if it should be possible to get the Committee to pay her expenses I will send a telegram to you instanter They are just going wild over Mrs Colts eloquence, hearts & fower and what wouldn't they do over our Harriet? Your letter to the Gold Dem. [Nominee is?] [good?] In due time the W.J. will [bring?] yours to McKinley Remember Frank Birds saying in 1881 - as we sat in that hotel parlor waitg for the [banquet?] to be announced. "Mrs Stanton Blackwell is an Ass" and all his stuff to women about their position toward the parties proves Mr Birds assertion Truly yours Susan B. Anthony
