Suffrage Ballot Instructions: How to Vote for Woman Suffrage.
[Suffrage]. How to Vote for Woman Suffrage. Syracuse, NY, 1915.
Broadside, 6 ¼ x 12”; printed on recto only; gently creased from folding. In a specially made cloth slipcase.
A rare and fragile handbill distributed to illustrate what a ballot cast for woman suffrage should look like: beneath the formal voting instructions there is a printed “X” in the “Yes” square for Amendment One: “Shall the proposed amendment to section one of article two of the Constitution, conferring equal suffrage upon women, be approved?” A clarification is printed at the foot of the handbill: “Remember ‘Woman Suffrage’ is submitted as Amendment One on the ballot which is officially called the ‘Constitutional Amendments and Proposition Ballot’ and has nothing to do with the ‘Revised Constitution’ which is on another ballot.” A slogan is emblazoned across the bottom of the leaf: “Justice First. Give Mother A Vote.”
Also printed on the handbill are Amendment Two, regarding the Legislature’s power over interest rates; and Proposition One, regarding the issuance of bonds for the improvement of the Erie Canal, Oswego canal and the Champlain canal.
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