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INGEDRGIA
By MRS. MARY L. M'LENDON.
President of Georgia Woman Suffrage
Association,
Women have no form of suffrage in
Geéorgia. You ask: “Then why write
about it?” We answer: To show you
what we are trying to do, although
#adly handicapped "because we are
disfranchised.
The Georgla Woman Suffrage As
sociation was organized in July, 1890,
by Miss H. Augusta Howard, of Co
lumbus, Ga., who was the first presi
dent. Her mother and sisters were in
thorough sympathy with her from the
beginning. Not so were the men of
her family, but then that is not out of
the ordinary way of men. The en
franchisement of women does not ap
peal to men as a general thing.
Bhe Attends a Convention,
In 1864 Miss H. Augusta Howard
and her two sisters, Mrs, Maxwell and
Mps. Dußose, attended the conven
tion of the National American Wom
an Suffrage Associatlon, which was
held in Washington, D. C, in Febru
ary of that vear. It was decided that
fls national convention ghould be
held every other year in Washington
and the intervening years some other
place should be chosen, so that every
body would have a chance to attend
at one time or another. The three
Geéorgia suffragists invited the con
vention to hold the convention of 1895
in Atlanta, Ga. The {nvitation was
readily aceepted, and a new and
strong impetus was thus given to the
woman suffrage movement launched
in 1890,
We would be dereliet ilf we failed
to honor the brave little woman who
organized the Georgin Woman Suf
frage Association and stood by it un
flinchingly until she had proved be
yond peradventure that many Georgia
women were ready to work for equal
rights,
In the fall of 1895 Miss Howard re
signed, and Mre. Frances Cater Swift
was elected president of the Georgia
Woman Suffrage Assoolation. Then
followed Mrs, Mary L. McLendon,
Mrs, Gertrude . Thomas, Mrs, Kath
erine Koch. Mrs. McLendon was
elected president at the last State
convention, held July 9 and 10, 1913,
in Atlanta,
The first local organization was the
Atlanta Equal Suffrage Associntion,
organized March 21, 1894, Then the
Demorest, the Waynesboro, the Fitz
rerrkld. ”."; t/\tlzz;n:, t)ke anur:fluind
# PeKalH Wit Wites dHold s
Pnnn hl auxtliary % ti{l: A&curfiu
Woman SBuffrage Assoclation, Later
the Atlanta Poual Suffrage Assosiar
tion changed the nama to Atlanta
Clvie League, thinking by that means
to get more members, The faithfiu
few kept the beacon light burning un
ti] the suffrage wave came over the
entire country, and members of this
Civic League went to Wasghington to
march in the suffrage parade the day
before Woodrow Wilson was inaugu
rated President of the United States,
March 4, 1913,
The First State Convention,
The first convention of the Georgia
Woman Suffrage Association was held
in Atlanta November 28 and 29, 1889,
four vears after the National Amer!-
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i convention held in Atlanta. The wom
[en who came to this first Btate con
‘\'n-mkm to speak for suffrAge Were
{ Mrs, Virginfa D. Young, president of
i the South Carolina 8% Ee A -
'Hnn; Miss Frances E. Griffin, p -
dent of the Alabama Syffrage As
goclation, and Mrs, Claudia Howard
Maxwell, Mrs. l;o-rtru&e,,(‘. Thomas
and Mrs, 1. W. Parks, "'fi’""i'nf’ |
the meeting was held in the h of
the House of Representative -
though the Governor M&I fltufi“t“n
permit the officers of the Na 1
American Woman Suffrage Askocla
tion to hold a meeting In l!br&c’red
precints, becauge, he decla Y
would be unconstitutional!”
Four years afterward Utah_ and
| Idaho women had been enfran
'r-hhml, and Kansas women had
municipal suffrage rights, and
things looked different. Hon, Mariin
V. Calvin, of Richmond, Courfty, with
out any trouble, had a regolution car
ried which gave the Georgia Woman |
Suffrage Association the use of that
same hall.
“Nothing Succeeds Like Success.”
State conventions were held, some
times with the help of the Rev, Anua
{ Howard Bhaw, Mrs, Carrie Chapm in
l(‘ntl and Miss Laura Clay—the ia*t
one in 1913, and the speakers wére al’
'Cmrma women, It is no trouble for
the program committeés to get na
tive-born men and women to speag
out in fav.r of woman suffrage now
adaye, and they are n.'.r-k!‘ngr?'n to Join
the greatest movement for the uplift
of humanity that has been known in
the nineteenth and twentieth cen
turies.
The firet effort made hy the Georgla
Woman Suffrnge Asseciation for the
enfranchisement of wngnon was in
1895. Mr. Charles A. Read, a member
of the Atlanta Equal Suffrage Asso
cintion, auxiliary to the Georgia
Woman Suffrage Agsocintion, formu
lated a bill asking that the word male
be eliminated from the Constitution,
It was presented by the State presi
dent and members of the Atlanta
Fqual Buffrage Assoclation. Nothing
wns ever heard from it, and in 1888-99
similar attempts were made, but sig
| nally failed, 18 no man could be found
[ln father the bill.
. In 1908 Hon. Claude Paytop, of
‘Wurth County, Georgia, introduced
the bill in the House to add “and fe
male” after the word “male,” but it
naver left the committee room. !nl
1011-1812 Mr. Peyton again offered a |
hill to the same effect, but it becnme]
the butt of ridicule with the commit
tee to which it was referred and nev
er appeared for a second reading. No
ots:r man has made an effoft to help
ths women to get where they can
help themeelves. In 1894 the W. C.
T. 17, with the suffragists of Atlanta,
with petitions appeared before the
City Council of Atlanta and askéd
that the department of police matron
be created with appropriate salary.
This request was never complied with
until 1808 Then the State Euffrage
As=oclation sent a petition to the
Legislature asking for a pollce ma
tron in every city in Goor%la ot 16,000
or more inhabitants. THis petition
wae ignored by the Legisltl\,tqfa be
cause tha petitioners wert all women,
A Fhhomitted was dvp lr%'ed th flm;
out w’hnt propartian Ft e laXes 0
the Htate was jevied on the preperties
of the wamen of @Georgia,
Tha cemmittes faund (t (o he 18
per cent, Bllls and resolutions were
preased on the attention of the Legis
lators in 1898: To exempt the prop
erty of women from taxation until
they are permitted to vote, claiming
that “taxation without representation
fe tvranny” in 1898 as it was con
ceded to be in 1776; also to raise the
age of consent from 10 years to 18;
and again a bill for police matrons
in citles of 10,000 or more inhabitants,
We have asked continually that the
University of Geor(? be opened to
women, ! e
We have asked continuously that
women become » members of the
boards of c¢ducation; that women
be placed on the staff of physicians
of the State Lunatic Ayslum; that
women be made eligible to the office
of president of the Georgla Normal
and Industrial College. We have
begged that women be permitted to
practice law in Georgia; that mothers
be made co-guardlans with their
hugbands of their minor children; that
women he permitted to be notaries
public; that girls of 18 be permitted
to enter the textile department of the
Btate Technological School.
We have begged time and again for
a decent chjld Jaber law and A com
pulsory eduecation law in Georgla,
which would take the children from
mills, factories, mines and stores, and
the streets, and put them In the
schpolhouse, and all these things have
been refused to the women who have
only the right of petition in Georgla,
except that a woman physician has
been admitted as a member of the
staff of physicians in the State Lu
natic Asylum, and last year mothers
were made co-guardians with their
husbands of their minor children,
Women can now serve as notaries
publie,
" The age of protection biN intro
duced by Representative C. 8. Reid
Doecember 15, 1002, was defeated by
T yeas, 1T nayy. The W. € 7, V.
and suffrage women requested Mr,
leid to move for reconsideration on
November 16, and it resulted in the
hill being voted down by a larger
majority than the day before, Mr,
Feid thought it wedl that his bill was
defeated, since it only asked that the
age of consent be raised from 10 to
12 years, The suffragists asked that
it be rcaised to 18 ycars, and the W.
C. 7T 10 to 21 Yaars,
In 1913 Hon. R. B. Blackburn intro
cuced a bill to ralse the age of con
sent to 12 years. It was referred to
its friends, Representatives Black
burn and Wright, who were in favor
of raising it to 14. The bill to admit
pirls of 18 to the textile department
of the Technological School was read
twice in the House, but “never again.”
The bill to admit women to the State
University was not even considered
by the Legislature,
Until 1857 a hushand had the right,
given to him by a law taken from the
smttute bookseof England, to beat his
wife.
In 1857 this law was amended. The
wife can prosecute the hushand. In
1866 a law was enacted allowing a
married woman to own property, but
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i srsaniiss REE THS IRT]E e
not including any wages she might
earn,
“The married woman’s property
act” was introduced by Hon, Beverly
A. Thornton, of Muscogee County,
Georgia, and it has been a godsénd to
the women of this State,
In November, 1895, when Hon. Wil
liam H. Fleming was Speaker of the
‘ House of Representatives, he offered a
Bil which he sald “wag to complete
Mho good work hégun with the mar
ried woman's property act of 1868 by
making a wife's Jabor, as well as her
acquired property, her own.” It passed
the House by 98 veas, 29 nays, but
was killed in the Senate.
As the law now stands, a married
woman in Georgia can control her
earnings only if a sole trader, with
her husband’'s consent by notice pub-
Ilshed in the m{wru for one month, or,
if living separate Yfrom him. If 4 hus
h Hand die Intestate, leaving a wife an
children, the wife may tflect to take
down a life interest in one-third of
the real estate or shé may take a
child’'s share of the whole estate ab
golutely, unless the shares exceed
five in number, when she may have
one-fifth, How outrageous'
~ In December, 1884, Representative
Martih V. Calvin, a béliever in the
right and expediency of giving women
the ballot in Georgla, introduced and
carried through the Legislature, un
der most unfavorable pressure, a bill
to render women eligible to employ
hent in the Statehouse.
Women are weary of begging.
Sometimes they suceeed in getting
what they want, but more often they
d 6 not succeed, and are made to fe-l
their inferfor position, classed as they
are with the disfranchised lunatics,
crlmlng;ls. ,?;\nha' rsnslnors, allens and
aupers it!l 1889 the solong of
3‘.o3‘{& ‘:tf mn. uout-tdcr lt‘m mf':* ;E‘
¥ warthy of a college eatiadr
m;;l and suptained t‘ the ‘:m.
e State Nerma! Schoe! and the
Narth Geargla Agrieuliural Cellage
(hoth white), the Georgia State In
dustrial College (colored) and the At
lanta Unjversity (white and colore®)
are co-educational, and there is no
trouble that I have heard of. Be
cause the women can not enter the
State University upon any terms, they
are deprived of the highest educatpn
al facllities the State affords. They
can not study law in the university,
‘but thef' can go to some other State
university or they an take a two
years course in the law school of
Georgla, but they are deprived of the
privilege of making their living by
practicing law in Georgla. The same
objections were made to women phy
siclans, but that has been overcome,
although it required a long time to do
ft. The thing to do is to glve the
women the ballot, and in that way
put them on an equality before the
law with men, and all these inequall
ties will disaprear like mist before the
sun.
If women had votes this inequality
would not exist. It is the pleasure
and the business of the woman suf
fragist to bring these matters to the
attention of the men and women of
to-day. We are delighted that Mr.
Hearst has given this issue, March 3,
to the suffragists for this purpose.
The whole State Is allve and anxious
to see women have an even chance
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THM ATLANLIA ULUMIIAN AND NILWD.
with men in pursuit of life, liberty
and happiness, which is said to be
guaranteed 16 every citizen of the
United States of America. 1 stated
in the beginning that women have no
form of suffrage in Georgla, and it
does seem, judging by the past, that
it is useless to ask the men of Geor
gia to remoye the consuming outrage
and indignity of disfranchisement
which has been placed upon the wom
en of the Empire State of the South
since she entered the sisterhood of
States.
The men of Georgia valued the bal-
Jot and all that it brought to them in
the past, and when they were dis
franchised, after the close of the Civil
‘\\'ur between the States, they were
willing to give to the negro men, once
their slaves, the elective franchise
which they had enjoyved exclusively
for so many years before they de
cided to go to war to try to keep the
negro a slave always, If it is not a
Msgrace to he disfranchised as men,
tell me when I complain of my sad
condition, why did men in 1869,
Southern men at that, why did they
“make haste quickly” to ratify the
fifteenth amendment to the Constitu
tion of the United States and force
the ballot on the negro man who had
never even asked for it? The answer
is easy to the women of the South
who lived in those troublous times.
Our poor brothers just could not get
along without the ballot, the right
preservative of all rights. They had
lorded it over the white women and
the negro men and women until it
had become second nature with them,
and théy could not exist without ft—
at least, it looked that way to us
women wheo hadn't known anything
but disfranchisement all the davs of
gzpr lives, fll‘:fi&i w)l't‘h the negro me’n
And %omen i th# Iynatics, erigmi
mf*l, mfl:u. minors ;ax :fioni. \%v
did they gn de like the men Q:.va
eming, whe ntunato have sta hl“
{f the woman su "'E. plank cou
not remain in the Constitution eof
Wyoming? That happened in 1869
also, and for 44 years the women of
Wyoming have been voting and hold
ing office,
“Without Suffrage
Nation Is Oligarchy.”
By MRS. SUSAN W. FITZGERALD,
Recording Secretary of the National
~ Woman's Suffrage Association.
'~ What is a democracy? A demoec
racy is a form of government where
the final power rests in the people.
Not a part of the people—that makes
an oligarchy or a monarchy—but
where it rests in the whole people.
Are the men of this country the
whole people? No! But as long as
the men alone are the source of pow
er of the government it is not a gov
ernment for the people by the people;
it is not a democracy. ;
This is the day of progress. A
country must progress or it will fall
behind and another will take its place.
A democracy can not progress un
legs its people are growing in intel
ligence and moral force. We who
believe in democracy claim that the
use of the ballot is the chief means
of developing in the citizens this in
telligence and moral force. The vo-
men are deprived of this great means
of development and, therefore, must
fall behind. €Can the race advance
and develop as it should when one
half hangs like 4 millstone about thé’
neck of the other half? Give women
the vote and let them grow with the!
men.
Southern Leader
Sees Victory Ahead.
By MRS, DESKA BRECKINRIDGE,
Second Vice President National
Woman Suffrage Association.
The Supreme Court has ahknow!-]
edged that women are citizens; the
Supreme Coyrt of Canada has ac-,
knowledged that women are people,
and the men of this nation are be
ginning to realize that we do consti
tute a part of the human family.
1 beljeve that constitutional amend
ment granting suffrage to women
wounld be of advantage to my State
and also to the other Southern States.
The State of Kentucky has an hon
orable record in the matter of
democracy. When we wrote our first
constitution we threw off the tradi
tions of Virginta. We did nét believe
that citizenship shounid be dependent
uponß a?y acrodent of birth or inheri
tance of wzalth or educational oppor
tunity, we based suffrage on man
hood alone. In the same way the men
of my State when they wrote the first
school law in 1838 made the first step
of any English-speaking people in
‘the modern movement for the eman
cipation of women; yet, I have to ad
mite that the men of my State are
~lassing the women legally and po
litically with idiots and criminals,
They are awakening to the fact,
however, that i nmany ways they
need tk}&(help of their women. I be
ljove t Kentucky and all of the
Southern Statés need tremendously
the help of their women.
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Indiana Women Push
Battle for Ballot.
By ANNA DUNN NOLAND,
President Indiana Equal Suffrage
Association,
Indiana has never given women
even limited suffrage. This is not be-
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