In view of the fact that the party has had a Suffrage plank since 1872, when it began to be, this does seem like a turning of the back rather than of the cold shoulder.
Woman-Suffrage plank, which had been stricken out when it was decided to make prohibition the only issue.
The woman-suffragists of the Prohibition party left the rock- ribbed champion that had put a Suffrage plank in every platform for years, in order to go with Free Silver and Populism of the most extravagant type.
At the national Republican convention in Chicago the Kentucky member of the Resolutions Committee voted for the suffrage plank in its platform.
Strenuous effort was made to have a majority of the members of the Constitutional Convention pledged to vote for a suffrage plank but it succeeded with only about a third of them.
Many letters were written to Republican and Democratic delegates asking them to vote for a suffrage plank in their platforms.
He attended the Republican national conventions year after year trying to get a suffrage plank and in 1872 secured a mild one in the national platform and a strong one in that of Massachusetts.
They were visited by a number of Republican delegates, many of whom were thoroughly in favor of a suffrage plank in the platform and of giving the ladies seats in the convention.
Miss Anthony was allowed ten minutes before a sub-committee to present the argument for a suffrage plank.
This party has retained the woman suffrage plank in its State platform since 1889.
The delegates to the presidential nominating conventions had been appealed to by letter for a suffrage plank in the platform but without result.
By the press throughout the country the adoption of the plank was hailed as "a victory of supreme importance," and as guaranteeing a suffrage plank in the Democratic national platform, which could not have been obtained without it.
Trouble came thick and fast, however, when the Republicans, the dominant party in the state, held their convention; and a mighty struggle began over the admission of a suffrage plank.
There was also a Mrs. Judith Ellen Foster, who, by stirring up opposition in this Republican Club against the insertion of a suffrage plank, caused a serious split in the convention.
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