resolution, the editor of The Times wonders if the leaders of the National Womans Party, who have been much bolder than the leaders in NAWSA, should have been invited to the ceremony to receive a brass inkstand. The Times editorializes that it will be difficult to get thirty-six states to ratify the Amendment. read clipping The New York Times, June 7, 1919 President Wilson congratulates Carrie Chapman Catt on the suffrage victory in the Senate. read clipping The New York Times, June 7, 1919 Carrie Chapman Catt urges the governors to call special legislative sessions to ratify the Federal Suffrage Amendment before the 1920 presidential primaries and general election. read clipping The New York Times, June 8, 1919 Sunday Magazine Women are some of the chiefs (sachems) in the New York City Democratic Party political machine known as Tammany Hall. read clipping The New York Times, June 11, 1919 Front Page The Illinois, Wisconsin, and Michigan Legislatures are the first to ratify the Suffrage Amendment. Governor Smith of New York calls a special session of the Legislature to vote on the Suffrage Amendment. Ohio is expected to ratify the Amendment soon. The governor of Maine calls a special legislative session for October. read clipping |