in support of its social welfare program was the presenting of these
platform planks to the Presidential candidates of the two major
parties for their approval. Its representatives with a deputation went
to Marion, O., the home of Senator Harding, Republican candidate,
October 1 and to Dayton, O., the home of Governor Cox, Democratic
candidate, the following day. Each promised assistance in the event of
his election.

At the call of Mrs. Park, chairman of the league, delegates
representing national organizations which collectively numbered about
10,000,000 women, met in Washington on November 22. These included the
National League of Women Voters, General Federation of Women's Clubs,
National Council of Women, the Women's Christian Temperance Union,
National Women's Trade Union League, National Consumers' League,
National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teachers' Associations,
Association of Collegiate Alumnae, American Home Economics Association,
National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs. They
formed a Woman's Joint Congressional Committee and endorsed the
largest constructive, legislative program ever adopted. It was
arranged that all organizations might participate to the limit of
their specific field of work and purposes and at the same time all
possibility was eliminated of any being involved in supporting a
measure or a principle outside of its scope or contrary to its
opinions.

FOOTNOTES:

[146] The History is indebted for this chapter to Mrs. Nettie Rogers
Shuler, corresponding secretary of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association.

CHAPTER XXIII.

WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN NATIONAL PRESIDENTIAL CONVENTIONS.[147]

The courage and patience of the woman suffrage leaders in their long
struggle for the ballot is nowhere more strongly evidenced than in
their continued appeals to the national political conventions to
recognize in their platforms woman's right to the franchise. These
distinguished women were received with an indifference that was
insulting until far into the 20th century. To two parties, the
Prohibition and the Socialist, it was never necessary to appeal. The
Prohibition party was organized in 1872 and from that time always
advocated woman suffrage in its national platform except in 1896, when
it had only a single plank, but this was supplemented by resolutions
favoring equal suffrage. The Socialist party, which came into
existence in 1901, declared for woman suf