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...Crane (It is a rare pleasure to have our request granted for the publication of this extract from a letter of Charles R. Crane to his daughter, Mrs...

...and the Chicago headquarters demanded one hundred thousand more...

...they recognize the difference between men who are in the progressive group because they are really concerned with making progress, and the other group which merely wanted to use the movement to get into office...

...We are fortunate to have as the head of our great Neutral State, a man with such a mind and...

...What hope there is in the solidarity of women working for a New Order in the world for Peace, according to the definition adopted by the Woman's Peace Party, "A condition of organized living together among nations...

...And this happened, too, in a campaign where the more, aggressive wing of the suffrage workers was organized in support of Hughes, because of his more satisfactory stand on the Susan B. Anthony Amendment...

...They feel that he may be the one who can force or aid peace, when the time comes...

...She countered with: "Would it not be a great public gain if Jane Addams occupied Lorimer's seat in the Senate...

...And it is the cleanest and best-conducted the country has ever had...

...Whenever there has been talk of women for high official position, it was natural for our thoughts to turn to Miss Addams or Dr...

...It is a good sign of the times that such an experience could happen...

...So President Wilson is re-elected without any kind of obligation to the Tammany machine in New York, the Sullivan machine in Illinois, or the Taggart machine in Indiana...

...She dresses in good taste, and is said to be very fond of the domestic side of life...

...It was all a part ofs the same movement which began to develop in the West...

...Josephine Bradley...

...such a spirit as President Wilson...

...McCormiek has been a good leader and has been loyally supported by all of the organizations...

...Miis Rankin is a graduate of the University of Montana and of the School of Philanthropy in New York...

...In knowledge, understanding, and breadth of view on all public questions, she will have few rivals on the floor of the House of Representatives...

...She is an able and convincing speaker, and excels in debate...

...As you know, the warring peoples were fearfully concerned about the President's re-election...

...At the time of the Lorimer contest, a young woman was asked by an opponent of suffrage the hackneyed question: "How about women holding office...

...Mr, Crane's intimate relationship with the progressive movement and the present Administration, his large contacts with men and affairs, his political wisdom, and his gift of expression, make his comments upon the election results exceptionally stimulating and valuable.—B...

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...And when their attention is captured, and you ask them to follow the history of the suffrage movement on The Map;—-how it began out in Wyoming and spread slowly to adjoining states until now it occupies a solid West, stretching in wedge-like shape from the Pacific to the Mississippi—why, many of even the most stubborn and hard-headed opponents just gasp—and yield to the inevitable...

...And Europe sees it...

...C. L.) ^PRESIDENT WILSON, Senator La Fol-^ lette, and Judge Lindsey all stand for humanity and progress...

...But there is certainly impelling fitness in the fact that the first woman elected to Congress comes out of the great, free, progressive West, where the women of the United States were first given the vote...

...She has an attractive personality, impressing one first of all as quiet, self-possessed, and well-poised...

...If the people had not been able to see nor to prize one so fine as Wilson and his splendid fight and great achievement for them, it would have been a great blow to democracy...

...With all the- power and malignity of the campaign against him during the last three years his light was not entirely obscured by the 'poison gas.' And he has never yielded, nor let down, nor been dismayed...

...Since there is so much conflict between feeling and thinking—and where passions are aroused, and daily growing, as they are in Europe today—it is at most impossible for anyone to see clearly...

...Men who find no appeal in the reasons and principles involved are startled by the fact demonstrated in black and white on The Map —the fact that women are' already voting in forty-nine per cent, of the land that constitutes the United States — excluding Alaska...

...Following the 1916 election, The Literary Digest telegraphed inquiries to leading editors in the West asking their opinion as to what factors were most potent in determining the result...

...There will no longer be cause for such ignorance at the capital of the United States...

...What tremendous encouragement and appeal the situation offers...

...Of course, some of the best and finest of our men and women were with us, like Miss Addams, Miss McDowell, Miss Wald, President Eliot, and others...

...Perhaps the one greatest asset for suffrage in Miss Rankin's election is the publication to the world that men and women of the far West have the same political rights...

...It is remarkable how much President Eliot's expressed opinions (in his Atlantic Monthly article) were prized and sought after...

...A woman from the great state of Montana will occupy a seat on the Republican side of the House of Representatives in the Sixty-fifth Congress...

...He has been the calmest of all during this campaign...

...The replies were varied, of course, but they seem to agree pretty generally that the women of the West voted for President Wilson on the ground .that Jie had kept us out of war...

...Giving afTaue consideration to the fact that the West is politically more progressive than the Bast, everybody must admit that the majority of the women supported the President and his policies, and that if they had not done so the result would have been different...

...The daughter of a Montana pioneer, she knows and loves the West...

...They were opposed to needless war, and endorsed President Wilson's policy of patient waiting because it has kept us out of the awful fray...

...Fifty thousand copies of this were printed...

...There they know what it means...

...In the midst of the world conflict, the women of the West voted their conviction on the supreme issue at stake...

...When Montana was placed on The Map as an equal suffrage state, a large share of the credit was given to Miss Rankin, whose ability as a campaign speaker and genius for organization had already made for her a national reputation as a suffrage leader...

...It is a fine testimonial to the clairvoyant power of the American people: it gives one much confidence in the future of democracy...

...But she is cosmopolitan in her interests and in her sympathy with all that makes for human welfare...

...How can Congress longer refuse to pass the Susan B. Anthony Amendment when constantly reminded by Miss Rankin's presence in the House of Representatives- of the injustice of denying the same political advantages and opportunities to the women of the East that the women of the West enjoy...

...Jeannette Rankin is equipped to render the highest services in Congress, aside from her service to the suffrage cause...

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...It is a wonderful change in our affairs to have the election determined, not by the old states of New York and Indiana, but by the progressive West...

...And now the most casual observer must see that the Suffrage Map has taken on a NEW significance...

...Jeannette Rankin A SUFFRAGIST who was trying to impress *"* upon a Congressman the importance of considering the vote of women in the western states where they were enfranchised, was astounded to hear him retort: "You don't mean to tell me, do you, that there are any states in the United States where women vote...

...And he has received a million more votes than Taft and Roosevelt received together, with all of the money power and most of the PresB against him...