Note 17 — Chapter II
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Resolved, That we hold a convention in every unorganized State and Territory during the present year, as far as possible, at the capital.
Resolved, That we consider the enfranchisement of the women citizens of the United States the paramount issue of the hour, therefore
Resolved, That we will, by all honorable methods, oppose the election of any presidential candidate who is a known opponent to woman suffrage, and we recommend similar action on the part of our State associations in regard to State and congressional candidates and further
Resolved, That the officers of this convention shall communicate with presidential nominees of the several political parties and ascertain their position upon this question.
Resolved, That all Legislatures shall be requested to memorialize Congress upon the submission of a Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, this to be the duty of the vice presidents of the States and Territories.
Whereas, The National Government, through Congress and the Supreme Court, has persistently refused to protect the women of the several States and Territories in "the right of the citizen to vote," therefore
Resolved, That this association most earnestly protests against national interference to abolish the right where it has been secured by the Legislature—as, for example, the Edmunds Tucker Bill, which proposes to disfranchise all the women of Utah, thus inflicting the most degrading penalty upon the innocent equally with the guilty, by robbing them of their most sacred right of citizenship.