{"id":963,"date":"2014-08-12T15:24:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T19:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/?p=963"},"modified":"2014-08-12T15:24:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T19:24:55","slug":"the-suffragist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/?p=963","title":{"rendered":"The Suffragist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I was fortunate to be able to purchase an issue of The Suffragist<\/em>, dated August 29, 1914. The Suffragist<\/em> was the \u201cWeekly organ of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage,\u201d published in Washington DC, and sold then for the princely sum of five cents a copy.<\/p>\n

Leafing through the eight pages of this treasure brings one back in time exactly one hundred years, and yet some things remain unchanged. An article on page two tells us that the Progressive Party in NY has decided not to endorse Mr. Harvey D. Hinman for Governor of New York State because he \u201cdid not represent Progressive principles.\u201d Mr. Hinman, an ardent anti-suffragist, had originally received the endorsement of the Progressive Party by Theodore Roosevelt, but when the former President learned of Hinman\u2019s feelings regarding suffrage he joined his colleagues in retracting the endorsement. Hinman subsequently withdrew from the governor\u2019s race.<\/p>\n

Page six gives us the Treasurer\u2019s report, with such expenses listed as \u201cSale and rental of costumes, $70.27,\u201d and lists in detail the expenses incurred for travel for demonstrations and training organizers. Balance on hand was $62.89. The last page lists the names of sixteen new subscribers, recruitment of whom the editor feels is crucial to the cause.<\/p>\n

The front cover of each issue is graced by a cartoon by artist Nina Allender, who sketched political cartoons<\/a> for the National Woman\u2019s Party (NWP) from 1914 to 1927. According to the Sewall-Belmont House web page, Allender \u201ccreated a suffragist image labeled the Allender Girl, who was young, slender, and energetic\u2014a capable woman with an intense commitment to the cause. Allender used her illustrations to present a spectrum of women: feminist, wife, mother, student, and activist.\u201d More about Allender can be found at:\u00a0www.sewallbelmont.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"USAWsuffragist\"The Sewall-Belmont House in Washington DC also has a rich collection of Allender\u2019s art, as well as copies of The Suffragist. Browsing such primary sources brings us close to the movement and to the men and women who worked so hard for its success.\"allender\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently I was fortunate to be able to purchase an issue of The Suffragist, dated August 29, 1914. The Suffragist was the \u201cWeekly organ of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage,\u201d published in Washington DC, and sold then for the princely sum of five cents a copy. Leafing through the eight pages of this treasure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3G1zV-fx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}