Suffragist, The, Vol. VI, No. 1-47; The Woman Citizen, Vol. II, No. 6-Vol. III, No.31; The Woman Citizen Vol. IV, No. 21. TWO LARGE CLOTH SLIPCASES.
[Suffrage]. 1918 Issues of The Suffragist, Vol. VI, No. 1 through No. 47 and The Woman Citizen, Vol. II, No. 6 through Vol. III, No. 31, and The Woman Citizen, Vol. IV, No. 21, December 13, 1919. Washington, DC: National Woman’s Party, January 5, 1918-December 14, 1919; New York: The Woman Citizen Corporation, National American Woman Suffrage Association; January 5, 1918-December 28, 1918; and December 18, 1919.
44 issues of The Suffragist and 41 issues of The Woman Citizen owned by Republican Senator William E. Borah. Forty-four issues of The Suffragist and forty-one issues of The Woman Citizen owned by Republican Senator William E. Borah. The Suffragist: Issues — Vol. VI, Nos. 1-47, lacking 44-46; The Woman Citizen: Issues — Vol. II, Nos. 6-25 (January 5, 1918-May 18, 1918), lacking Nos. 9, 15 (covers only present) and 16; Vol. III, Nos. 1-31 (June 1, 1918-December 28, 1918), lacking Nos. 7, 12, 14, 21, 23, 26, 27, and 29; and Vol. IV, No. 21 (December 13, 1919).
Edges darkened and dusty; the front cover of one issue of The Woman Citizen heavily browned; some issues show dampstaining (one or two issues severely so); overall wear. Issues of The Suffragist, due to lesser quality paper, show more overall wear, dustiness, etc. than issues of The Woman Citizen. Senator Borah has underlined passages, pencilled brackets, written comments and otherwise responded to the text in a number of issues. About very good to very good. In custom-made clamshell boxes.
William Edgar Borah (1865-1940), lawyer, reformer and U.S. Senator, arrived in the freshly-minted state of Idaho in the 1890s, a greenhorn lawyer with no practice but great ability. Within a relatively brief time, Borah established himself as an able lawyer, representing important mining, timber and ranching interests. He met, courted and wed Mary McConnell, the daughter of Idaho’s Republican governor. (Marriage, however, did not curb Borah’s urge to dally. Throughout his Washington years rumors circulated about Borah’s personal life, especially around his well-known affair with Teddy Roosevelt’s lively daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth.) The young lawyer first tried for a seat in the Senate in 1902, but the Republican Old Guard, miffed at his earlier defection to the “Silvers,” managed to snatch the nomination away from him. Four years later he succeeded and served in the Senate from January, 1907 until his death in 1940. Though nominally a Republican, Borah repeatedly proved himself a maverick. He voted for the creation of the Department of Labor and the Children’s Bureau, but opposed the income tax. He was an avowed enemy of the trusts, despite his enormously successful career as a corporate lawyer. For many years he played a prominent role in foreign affairs as an advocate of isolationism and chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (from 1924 on). Borah opposed woman suffrage and, once Republicans committed themselves to suffrage, found himself singled out for defying the policies of his party.
The Woman Citizen and The Suffragist were the two most important suffrage journals of the day. The Woman Citizen, the official newspaper of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, had evolved out of venerable The Woman’s Journal established by Lucy Stone in the 1870s. The Suffragist, the organ of Alice Paul’s newly created National Woman’s Party, looked to a far briefer career than its counterpart.
Alice Paul and her colleagues left the NAWSA in early 1915 intent on pursuing more radical tactics and a tougher political line than Carrie Chapman Catt and the NAWSA. Catt wanted to assure the public that suffragists, like other Americans, were patriotic and, though a pacifist, she urged suffragists to do their part once America declared war. A shrewd politician, she sought support from Democrats and Republicans. By contrast, Alice Paul refused to support a war for “freedom” abroad when women lacked political rights at home. Paul and her supporte
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