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Manuscript/Mixed Material Opinions on Elihu Root on Suffrage

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Title

  • Opinions on Elihu Root on Suffrage

Names

  • Miller, Anne Fitzhugh (Author)
  • Mauer, Minnie T. (Author)
  • Howard, Harold Shafter

Created / Published

  • February 27-March 9, 1909

Headings

  • -  Peace
  • -  Miller, Anne Fitzhugh (1856-1912)
  • -  Root, Elihu
  • -  anti-suffrage arguments
  • -  Mauer, Minnie T
  • -  Clippings

Genre

  • Clippings

Notes

  • -  Discussion in three papers on Elihu Root's 1894 address include Springfield Republican reprint of Anne Fitzhugh Miller's letter; Harold Shafter Howard of Newburg argues that suffrage is a spiritual right that should be decided at bar of justice; Minnie T. Mauer of Waterloo disagrees with Anne Fitzhugh Miller that Root has changed. She agrees with him that unrestricted suffrage is dangerous because it would allow uneducated as well as educated women to vote.
  • -  Extract of Elihu Root's New York Peace Dinner speech implying that women can influence peace without suffrage

Medium

  • clippings

Call Number/Physical Location

  • JK1881 .N357 sec. XVI, no. 3-9 NAWSA Coll
  • series: Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911; Scrapbook 7 (1908-1909)

Source Collection

  • Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911

Repository

  • Rare Book And Special Collections Division

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Online Format

  • image
  • online text

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection.

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Chicago citation style:

Miller, Anne Fitzhugh, Minnie T Mauer, and Harold Shafter Howard. Opinions on Elihu Root on Suffrage. February 27-March 9, 1909. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/rbcmiller001997/.

APA citation style:

Miller, A. F., Mauer, M. T. & Howard, H. S. (1909) Opinions on Elihu Root on Suffrage. February 27-March 9. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/rbcmiller001997/.

MLA citation style:

Miller, Anne Fitzhugh, Minnie T Mauer, and Harold Shafter Howard. Opinions on Elihu Root on Suffrage. February 27-March 9, 1909. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/rbcmiller001997/>.