 | “Votes for Women”. The mile-long line of women stands silently on both sides of the street leading into the convention hall. read clipping The New York Times, June 17, 1916 – Front Page – At the Democratic convention: “The galleries looking down on the convention were filled with women and bright with yellow sashes, yellow ribbons, yellow parasols. … The galleries ruled the convention and the women ruled the galleries. It was like the French Convention of the Revolution, and the women with the rollcall blanks, noting down their enemies and the way they voted, suggested the knitting of the women of the Reign of Terror. … It was the first time that one of the great cheering demonstrations of a national convention had been a woman's cheer, the first time a gallery menace to a national convention had been a women's menace. … a session the like of which has never been seen since the first national convention was called to order in 1832.” read clipping The New York Times, June 17, 1916 – The Democrats include a statement in their platform that recommends suffrage for women. read clipping The New York Times, June 17, 1916 – The women of both NAWSA and the Woman’s Party are united in anger regarding the Democratic platform, which only “recommends” individual states adopt suffrage without mentioning the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. read clipping |  |
