THE STORY OF THE WOMAN’S PARTY

BY

INEZ HAYNES IRWIN

ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS

NEW YORK

HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY

1921

iiiCOPYRIGHT, 1921, BY

HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC.

THE QUINN & BODEN COMPANY

RAHWAY. N. J.

iv“But with such women consecrating their lives failure is impossible.”

Last words spoken in public by Susan B. Anthony— her birthday, 1906.

“Most of those who worked with me in the early years have gone. I am here for a little time only and my place will be filled as theirs was filled. The fight must not cease; you must see that it does not stop.”

Susan B. Anthony.

viTO THE INSPIRED, DEVOTED, UNTIRING, AND SELF-

SACRIFICING MEMBERS OF THE WOMAN’S PARTY,

AND IN ESPECIAL TO THOSE WHOSE WORK CANNOT

FOR LACK OF SPACE BE MENTIONED HERE OR

WHOSE EFFORTS MAY NEVER EVEN IN THE FUTURE

BE PROPERLY APPRECIATED, THIS BOOK

IS ADMIRINGLY AND REVERENTLY DEDICATED.

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