The dominant party in the approaching election must be convinced, and through it all other parties, that opposition to suffrage is inexpedient.
All parties will be convinced when they see that their opposition costs them votes.
Our fight is a political one.
We must appeal for support to the constituency which is most friendly to suffrage, that constituency being the voting women.
An attempt must be made, no matter how small, to organize the women’s vote.
An appeal must be made to the women voters in the nine suffrage states to withhold their support from the Democrats nationally, until the national Democratic Party ceases to block the suffrage amendment.
This is non-partisanship in the highest degree, as it calls upon women to forego previous allegiance to a party. If they are Democrats in this instance, they must vote against their party. If the Republican Party were in power and pursued a similar course, we would work against that party.
The party which sees votes falling away will change its attitude.
After we have once affected by this means the outcome of a national election, even though slightly, every party will hesitate to trifle with our measure any longer.
All candidates from suffrage states are professing suffragists, and therefore we have nothing to lose by defeating a member of the dominant party in those states. Another suffragist will take his place.