The Women's Vote Gets Its Own Newspaper
Washington's Equal Suffrage Association launches 'Votes for Women,' a monthly that will follow the cause from Seattle to the far corners of the earth.
Seattle, Oct. 13. — "Votes for Women," the official organ of the Washington State Equal Suffrage Association, will make its appearance this week. The new publication is to be a monthly and aims to cover not only the local and the national field thoroughly, but also the progress of the cause in foreign cities.
“The new publication is to be a monthly and aims to cover not only the local and the national field thoroughly, but also the progress of the cause in foreign cities.”
Washington women won the ballot a little over a year after this notice ran, becoming the first state in the twentieth century to enfranchise them — and they did it with their own press. The lesson that a movement needs a medium of its own is one every modern campaign relearns. The Miner, printed in a town whose women would be voting by 1910, carried the announcement as a plain matter of news.
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