n in her seventy-fifth year,
spoke in every county of the state sixty in all. I spoke in forty, and
Mrs. Catt, as always, made a superb record. Miss Harriet May Mills, a
graduate of Cornell, and Miss Mary G. Hay, did admirable organization
work in the different counties. Our disappointment over the result was
greatly soothed by the fact that only two years later both Idaho and
Utah swung into line as full suffrage states, though California, in
which we had labored with equal zeal, waited fifteen years longer.
Among these campaigns, and overlapping them, were our annual
conventions--each of which I attended from 1888 on--and the national
and international councils, to a number of which, also, I have given
preliminary mention. When Susan B. Anthony died in 1906, four American
states had granted suffrage to woman. At the time I write--1914--the
result of the American women's work for suffrage may be briefly
tabulated thus:
SUFFRAGE STATUS
FULL SUFFRAGE FOR WOMEN
Number of
State Year Won Electoral Votes
Wyoming 1869 3
Colorado 1893 6
Idaho 1896 4
Utah 1896 4
Washington 1910 7
California 1911 13
Arizona 1912 3
Kansas 1912 10
Oregon 1912 5
Alaska 1913 --
Nevada 1914 3
Montana 1914 4
PRESIDENTIAL AND MUNICIPAL SUFFRAGE FOR WOMEN
Number of
State Year Won Electoral Votes
Illinois 1913 29
STATES WHERE AMENDMENT HAS PASSED ONE LEGISLATURE AND
MUST PASS ANOTHER
Number Goes to
State House Senate Voters Electoral Votes
Iowa 81-26 31-15 1916 13
Massachusetts 169-39 34-2 1915 18
New Jersey 49-4 15-3 1915 14
New York 125-5 40-2 1915 45
North Dakota 77-29 31-19 1916 5
Pennsylvania 131-70 26-22 1915 38
To tabulate the wonderful work done by the
conventions and councils is not possible, but a c
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