National American Woman Suffrage Association
BRANCH OF INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE AND OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN
Mrs. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, President
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, 171 MADISON AVENUE
TELEPHONE, 4818 MURRAY HILL
NEW YORK

1st VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Stanley McCormick, Mass.
2nd VICE-PRESIDENT
Miss Mary Garrett Hay, New York
3rd VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Guilford Dudley, Tenn.
4th VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Raymond Brown, New York
5th VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Helen Gardener, Washington, D. C.

NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE
PUBLISHING COMPANY, Inc.
Miss Esther G. Ogden, President
171 Madison Ave., New York

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS
CHAIRMAN
Mrs. Charles H. Brooks
Wichita, Kansas
SECRETARY
Miss Katherine Pierce
112 N. Broadway
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
PRESS DEPARTMENT
Miss Rose Young, Director
171 Madison Ave., New York

TREASURER
Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers, Conn.
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
Mrs. Frank J. Shuler, New York
RECORDING SECRETARY
Mrs. Halsey W. Wilson, New York

DIRECTORS
Mrs. Charles H. Brooks, Kansas
Mrs. J. C. Cantrill, Kentucky
Mrs. Richard E. Edwards, Indiana
Mrs. George Gellhorn, Missouri
Mrs. Ben Hooper, Wisconsin
Mrs. Arthur Livermore, New York
Miss Esther G. Ogden, New York
Mrs. George A. Piersol, Pennsylvania

October 2, 1919.
Mrs. Lillian H. Olzendam,
Woodstock, Vermont.
My dear Mrs. Olzendam:-
I do think your mission has brought excellent results and
augurs well for a special session, keep the ball rolling and I am
sure you will arrive.
We have had a report from Mrs. Pelley and she too seems to
have been doing excellently well. She writes now about going to a
few places by train but seems to think that the money might be more
usefully spent in sending you around. I do not know how the matter
stands except our relations to Mrs, Pelley. I hope your peregrinations
are not to stop but that you will go ahead with the matter and deliver
the legislature. I feel sure you can. It would be an interesting
thing to pull off the special session without the Governor if meanwhile
he is still obdurate. I would not give out any hints of this kind.
Sometimes Governors change their attitude. This Governor may surprise
you. The feeling inside of the Republican Party is growing more and
more determined to push ratification and that influence may get even
the Governor of Vermont after a time. If you can get the legislature
behind you there is no knowing what may happen next. He is not very
polite to women, I believe, so I think it an excellent idea that you
have the men have the first interview with him and probably they had
better finish the job. All you care surely is to get the ratification
through.
Let me hear from time to time how things go.
Yours cordially, .

Carrie Chapman Catt

President