s and political campaigns, still the woman
question is rising on our horizon larger than a man's hand; and some
solution ere long that question must find." Theodore Roosevelt, when a
member of the New York Legislature, voted for a woman suffrage bill,
saying he had been converted by seeing how much the women accomplished
with their school ballot at Oyster Bay, his home. When Governor he
said in his message to the Legislature of 1899: "I call your attention
to the desirability of gradually enlarging the sphere in which the
suffrage can be extended to women." There is reason to believe other
Presidents would have expressed themselves favorably had political
exigencies permitted.

The only Vice-Presidents on record as advocating and voting for woman
suffrage are Hannibal Hamlin, Schuyler Colfax, Henry Wilson and
William A. Wheeler. Such action is likely to mean the personal loss of
votes and injury to one's party, with no compensation other than the
consciousness of having done right, as women can give no reward.
Under these conditions it is surprising that so large a number in the
Congress and State Legislatures have sustained the measures for the
enfranchisement of women.[499]

CHIEF JUSTICES OF THE U. S. SUPREME COURT.

Chase, Salmon P.
Wake, Morrison R.

Practically all of the State Supreme Court Justices of Colorado,
Idaho, Utah and Wyoming, where women have exercised the suffrage for a
number of years, and of Kansas where they have had a municipal vote
for fifteen years, are strong advocates of woman suffrage.

UNITED STATES SENATORS.

Allen, John B. Wash.
Allison, William B. Iowa.
Anthony, Henry B. R. I.
Baker, Edward D. Ore.
Baker, Lucien Kas.
Banks, Nathaniel P. Mass.
Beveridge, Albert J. Ind.
Blair, Henry W. N. H.
Bowen, Thomas B. Col.
Brice, Calvin S. Ohio.
Brown, B. Gratz Mo.
Bruce, Blanche K. Miss.
Burnside, Ambrose R. I.
Burrows, Julius C. Mich.
Cameron, Angus Wis.
Cannon, Frank J. Utah.
Carey, Joseph M. Wy.
Carpenter, Matthew H. Mich.
Chace, Jonathan R. I.
Chandler, Zach. Mich.
Cheney, P. C. N. H.
Clark, Clarence D. Wy.
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