November 1, 1915: Election Day is tomorrow, so this final full day of the New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts suffrage campaigns has been an incredibly hectic one.
In fact, for two volunteers at the Manhattan headquarters of the Women’s Political Union, it’s unending, because Elizabeth Collins and Marian Tompkins are still there even at this late hour. They will be sleeping on cots until 3:45 in the morning, when they’ll begin to call poll-watchers and the Union’s numerous volunteers, who will be stationed 100 feet from polling places with literature, and answers to any questions undecided voters may ask about equal suffrage.
Instructions to official poll-watchers who will be stationed inside the polling places have now been printed by the Women’s Political Union. Among the rules are: “Don’t bubble with exuberance at the polling places; be merely pleasant. Don’t wear fluffy ruffles. Make yourself small; most polling places are limited in space. Don’t get in the way of legitimate business, but tactfully obstruct illegitimate business.
“The politicians, they tell me, have refused to predict,” Reverend Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, says. “Well, I am not afraid to predict victory. It has been a most remarkable campaign—easily the most remarkable campaign I have ever been through, and I have been campaigning for 40 years.”
But while some of the old, established politicians may not be sympathetic to our cause, suffrage certainly seems to have the support of the young. A straw poll was taken at Columbia University today and the vote was 431 for and 121 against. Ninety-seven of those student votes came from women, and all were in favor. Suffrage should get good press coverage in the future, as journalism students voted for it by 30 to four.
Bearing that fact in mind we believe you will vote ‘Yes’ on Amendment No. 1 so that Pennsylvania may have, in addition to the strength of her manhood, the full service of her womanhood. We believe this because we have absolute faith in your sense of fair play, and in the spirit of faith and comradeship, we rest our case in your hands.
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