Washington Women Send Their Case to the Nation’s Capital
Olympia’s Equal Suffrage Association names delegates to the national convention and seeks Robert Ingersoll for a Supreme Court appeal over women’s voting rights.
The Washington Equal Suffrage Association Thursday elected Mrs. A. H. H. Stuart, Olympia; Mrs. Chapman Katte, Seattle, and Mrs. Mabel Saxon, of Whatcom, to the national convention, which meets in Washington, D.C., on January 17. Efforts will be made to secure the services of Colonel Robert Ingersoll to represent the association in the case now before the supreme court, which was appealed from the territorial supreme court.
“Efforts will be made to secure the services of Colonel Robert Ingersoll to represent the association in the case now before the supreme court, which was appealed from the territorial supreme court.”
Washington Territory briefly granted women the vote in 1883, then lost it in 1887; this 1891 meeting shows organizers still fighting through the courts and national networks. The struggle over who counts as a voter remains a live civic question, and Olympia was a node in that fight.
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