December 31, 1912: Goal accomplished!
Three days after finishing a 13-day hike from the Bronx to Albany in support of woman suffrage, one more crucial task still remained for General Jones and her suffrage army when today began. They needed to deliver a message from prominent New York suffragists to Governor-elect Sulzer, asking him to explicitly pledge his support for “The Cause” in general and a Statewide suffrage referendum in particular.
Gladys Coursen went forward to ring the doorbell, and the Governor-elect’s aide answered. He quickly went to get his boss, who was quite eager to meet with the little band of hikers he’d been reading so much about. He gave them a warm reception, then they delivered their message, which was finally removed from the black oilskin bag that had protected it from the snow, ice, mud and rain they had encountered on their journey.
But by whatever name, the man who tomorrow will become Governor of the nation’s most populous State told the troops just what they had marched 160 miles to hear: Having pledged to do whatever he could to get the State Legislature to put a woman suffrage referendum on the ballot amending the State Constitution to eliminate the word “male” as a qualification for voting, and then to support the amendment’s passage by the Empire State’s voters, nothing more could be asked of “Just Plain Bill,” so the troops bid him a fond farewell. Afterward, he said: “I enjoyed their visit very much.
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