We submit these considerations in all candor to the men of this State. Ultimately the decision of this question at the polls is a man's question. We ask your cooperation....
Omaha, July 6, 1914.
Joseph H. Millard, ex-U. S. Senator and president Omaha National Bank. (Largest creditor of Willow Springs Distillery.)
John A. McShane, ex-Congressman and retired capitalist.
John Lee Webster, lawyer, representing Omaha Street Railway.
Luther Drake, president Merchants' National Bank.
John C. Cowin, prominent lawyer.
William F. Gurley, prominent lawyer.
William D. McHugh, lawyer representing Standard Oil Company.
Frank T. Hamilton, president Omaha Gas Co. and officer Street Railway Co.
William Wallace, former cashier Omaha National Bank.
John A. Munroe, vice-president Union Pacific Railway Company.
Frank Boyd, employee Omaha National Bank.
Gerrit Fort, Union Pacific Railway official.
Joseph Barker, insurance official.
Edward A. Peck, general manager Omaha Grain Elevator Company.
Henry W. Yates, president Nebraska National Bank.
Milton C. Peters, president Alfalfa Milling Co.
William H. Koenig, of firm of Kilpatrick & Co., dry goods merchants.
W. H. Bocholz, vice-president Omaha National Bank.
Fred H. Davis, president First National Bank.
Benjamin S. Baker, lawyer.
L. F. Crofoot, lawyer for Omaha Smelting Co. and Chicago & Milwaukee R. R.
E. E. Bruce, wholesale druggist.
George W. Holdrege, manager Burlington & Missouri River R. R. Co.
Fred A. Nash, President Omaha Electric Light Co.
Nelson H. Loomis, General Attorney Union Pacific R. R.
Edson Rich, assistant attorney Union Pacific R. R.
Frank B. Johnson, president Omaha Printing Co.
Thomas C. Byrne, president Wholesale Dry Goods Co.
Rev. Thomas J. Mackay, Minister All Saints' Church (Episcopal).
Rev. John W. Williams, Minister St. Barnabas' Church (Episcopal).
This Manifesto with the signatures is given almost in full because in language and in the business interests of the signers it is thoroughly typical of the open opposition to woman suffrage. The other classes who were opposed—the "machine" politicians, the liquor interests and those directly or indirectly connected with them—for the most part worked more secretly.
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The contents of this volume are so arranged that the reader will have little difficulty in finding the references desired. The first forty-nine chapters are devoted exclusively to the work for woman suffrage which was done in the various States of the Union through annual conventions, effort with the Legislatures for the submission to the voters of an amendment to the State constitutions which would fully enfranchise women and campaigns to secure a majority vote for it. There was also an attempt to obtain from the Legislatures laws which did not have to be approved by the voters, giving women the right to vote at Municipal elections and every four years for Presidential electors. In addition the women in every State constantly assisted the National American Woman Suffrage Association in its supreme effort to obtain from Congress the submission to the Legislatures for the ratifying of three-fourths of them of an amendment to the Federal Constitution which would give the complete franchise to all the women of the nation.