Women Will Vote by Susan Goodier Karen Pastorello

Author:Susan Goodier, Karen Pastorello [Susan Goodier, Karen Pastorello]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, United States, State & Local, Middle Atlantic (DC; DE; MD; NJ; NY; PA), Women, Political Science, Political Process, Campaigns & Elections, Americas (North; Central; South; West Indies)
ISBN: 9781501713194
Google: G0o4DwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2017-09-15T22:26:27+00:00

Suffrage and Patriotism

The New York State Woman Suffrage Party was the suffrage organization most supportive of U.S. involvement in the Great War. It established a Patriotic Committee that oversaw the staffing of Red Cross workers in stores, collected money for the United War Work drive, sold $35,000 worth of War Saving Stamps, and donated hundreds of knitted garments to the relief organization. The committee used preexisting district resources to assist with conducting the official state census, actually a county-based military census to determine the number of young men eligible for the draft. Narcissa Cox [Mrs. Frank A.] Vanderlip took charge in Westchester County, where her suffrage followers gathered information from virtually every house.76 Counties all over the state followed suit. Vira Boarman Whitehouse called the statewide effort the “most effective suffrage propaganda possible,” since suffragists could take advantage of canvassing opportunities to promote their cause.77 They used their patriotic endeavors to keep their enfranchisement goals alive during a time of intense distraction. Mainstream suffragists sought to convince voters that they deserved enfranchisement by connecting woman suffrage to patriotism.78

Suffragists often evoked military and patriotic themes in the years before and during U.S. involvement in the Great War. New woman Katerina Ely Tiffany, the president of the New York branch of the College Equal Suffrage League, carries a flag in a patriotic suffrage parade held on October 27, 1917. Image courtesy of the Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

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