Five Issues of The Woman Voter.
[Suffrage, NY]. The Woman Suffrage Party. Five Issues of The Woman Voter 1912-1913. New York: The Woman Suffrage Party, [January, 1912-December, 1913]. Five issues of The Woman Voter, “official organ of...The Woman Suffrage Party A Union for political work of existing Equal Suffrage organizations in the City of New York.”
Small folio: 8 x 11”; printed gold wrappers (stapled); mild overall wear with occasional dampstaining; the fourth and fifth issues showing the most wear with the fourth dampstained at the covers and the fifth heavily chipped along the fore-edge; about very good.
Edited by Mary R[itter] Beard, and subsequently by Floren E. Woolston. The five issues: (1) January 1912, Vol. II with cover cartoon by Mary Wilson Preston. Featured articles: Helen G. Ecob, “Ballot and Bullets”; George Foster Peabody, “In Support of Suffrage”; Mary Beard, “Mothercraft”; Kate Stephens, “A Narrow Section of a Narrow Life” with editorials, accounts of local suffrage events under “Assembly District Notes” and a listing of the “Official Directory of the Woman Suffrage Party.” (2) April 1912, Vol. III, No. 3; featured articles: Miriam Allen de Ford, “A Government of the People”; Hilda Ripley, “The Englishman in His Castle”; “All the Antis Answered A Symposium”; and Mary Mitchell, “At the Sign of the Purple Skirt.” With an advertisement for a “Great Suffrage Parade May 4th” directing inquiries to Leonora O'Reilly (“Our section includes: The Woman Suffrage Party / The Collegiate Equal Suffrage League / The Wage-Earners' League / The Women’s Trade Union League / The Socialist Women”); a piece entitled “Suffrage in March” (touching on the recent Triangle fire), and a calendar of suffrage events. (3) Holiday Number, Vol. III. No. 11, cover design by Frances Elmer entitled “Party Progress”; featured articles: John Haynes Holmes, “The Little Tin Plate”; “John Sherwin Crosby, “Woman’s Right to the Ballot”; “Mother Goose as a Suffragette”; Sarah R. Parks, “Wage-Earners” and Mary H. Flagg, “How They Vote.” Lead article gives an account of a torch light parade on November 9th celebrating four new suffrage states (Arizona, Kansas, Michigan and Oregon) and reprints a cartoon from The Evening Sun commenting on the parade. (4) April, 1913, Vol. IV, No. 4 with front cover announcing “March For Suffrage Great Woman Suffrage Parade Up Fifth Avenue, N.Y. City...”; featured articles, Lowell Brentano, “A Plea for Equal Enfranchisement”; Gertrude Barnum, “War and Peace in the Ladies' Garment Trade,” “The Suffrage Book-Shelf.” The focus of the issue is on the May 3rd parade: “This spring we march as determined women entered upon a campaign for victory.” The parade is to be organized by assembly district and by borough and marchers are asked to “wear white if convenient, with yellow badge.” One advertisement offers “A Suffrage Gardenia”: “This is the attractive little flower with the 'Votes for Woman' ribbon attached which so many of the Suffragists wore in Washington Inauguration Week. The complete flower sells at 15 cents each. Order early for the parade.” (5) The Woman Voter and The Newsletter, Christmas, 1913, Vol. IV, No. 12 with a drawing by V. Kent Roberts of a man and woman in classical garb, holding up a globe of the world, captioned “Why Not Equal Suffrage?” Featured articles: Harriet Burton Laidlaw, “Recruiting Victims for the Trade in Souls?”; Gertrude Foster Brown, “To Suffrage Clumbs Throughout the State”; “Mrs. Alfred J. Eno, “Queensborough” (illustrated with halftones); Sarah Rush Parks, “A Merrier Christmas in the Shops,” a list of “Holiday Books” and a calendar of suffrage events (i.e., the Woman Suffrage Party, the Political Equality Association and the “Equal Franchise Society”). The issue looks ahead to the New York state referendum in 1915 on woman suffrage with the lead article emblazoned “Victory 1915.”
While published by the New York Woman Suffrage Party, an affiliate of the NAWSA, The Woman Voter encompasses the Political
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