Note 104 — Chapter XVI

Call: Our cause has been endorsed in the platforms of every political party. In order to determine how most expeditiously to press these newly won advantages to final victory this convention is called. Women workers in every rank of life and in every branch of service in increasing numbers are appealing for relief from the political handicap of disfranchisement.... Unmistakably the crisis of our movement has been reached. A significant and startling fact is urging American women to increased activity in their campaign for the vote. Across our borders three large Canadian provinces have granted universal suffrage to their women within the year. In every thinking American woman's mind the question is revolving: Had our forefathers tolerated the oppressions of autocratic George the Third and remained under the British flag would the women of the United States today, like their Canadian sisters, have found their political emancipation under the more democratic George the Fifth? American men are neither lacking in national pride nor approval of democracy and must in support of their convictions hasten the enfranchisement of women. To plan for the final steps which will lead to the inevitable establishment of nation-wide suffrage for the women of our land is the specific purpose of the Atlantic City Convention.

Anna Howard Shaw, Honorary President.

Carrie Chapman Catt, President.

Jennie Bradley Roessing, First Vice-President.

Katharine Dexter McCormick, Second Vice-President.

Esther G. Ogden, Third Vice-President.

Hannah J. Patterson, Corresponding Secretary.

Mary Foulke Morrison, Recording Secretary.

Emma Winner Rogers, Treasurer.

Helen Guthrie Miller, } Auditors.

Pattie Ruffner Jacobs,