Representatives, and one-sixth of the electoral vote. More than
3,600,000 women have a vote in Presidential elections. It is
unthinkable that a national government which represents women,
and which appeals periodically for the suffrages of women, should
ignore the issue of the right of all women to political freedom.

"We cannot wait until after the passage of scheduled
Administration reforms . . . . Congress is free to take action on
our question in the present session. We ask the Administration to
support the woman suffrage amendment in Congress with its whole
strength."

This represented the attitude of the entire suffrage movement
toward the situation in the winter of 1913. At no time did the
militant group deviate from this position until the amendment was
through Congress.

It was difficult to make the Administration believe that the
women meant what they said, and that they meant to use

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everything in their power and resourcefulness to see it carried
out.

Men were used to having women ask them for suffrage. But they
were disconcerted at being asked for it now; at being threatened
with political chastisement if they did not yield to the demand.

In spite of the repeated requests to President Wilson that he