October 31, 1915: Despite being a Sunday, this was no day of rest for any New York suffragist.
With Election Day coming up on Tuesday, the offices of the Woman Suffrage Party, Empire State Campaign Committee and Women’s Political Union were open early and crowded at all times. Even the WPU’s tiny but mobile “Suffrage Shop” somehow managed to host a total of about 1,000 people at various times during the day, while the final poll-watching class was going on back at its headquarters.
According to Catt: “We have made no ‘wild guess,’ we have ‘framed up’ no false statement. We canvassed. We found our million women.” Catt’s organization has gone to a great deal of trouble to gather these statistics. Many communities have been canvassed house to house, and the Committee has maintained booths at 98 county fairs, the State Fair and numerous expositions.
Carnegie Hall continues to be a focal point of the New York campaign, as the anti-suffrage rhetoric of last night was replaced by equally strong oratory in favor of suffrage this evening. “The cause of equal suffrage is one additional symbol of the history of a great movement of the awakening, the revolt, the uprising of women against centuries of wrong and injustice,” Rabbi Stephen S. Wise said, “for repression and suppression are wrong and injustice.
He then addressed another anti-suffrage argument: “In the face of this great calamity of war, how can men say that government could be made worse by the participation of women?”
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