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...Catt has power and ability...
...this juncture, a remarkable personality came to the fore. Ask a dozen political women what woman is most fitted to be President of the U. S. and six will answer: Carrie Chapman Catt. She put the 19th Amendment into the Constitution. This widow of an Iowa newspaperman has probably presided over more congregations of women, has composed more intra-sex quarrels, than any other contemporary...
...Catt revealed a secret 35 years old. When first elected President of the Association, in 1890, she flung herself on a bed and cried for three hours...
Apprehension. Mrs. Catt, the leader, made the chief speech: "Why don't women vote? What's wrong with the political parties? Why aren't there more women in the Legislature? Why aren't women more effective in politics?" These were her sombre, rhetorical questions. Her answer: "I wish Mrs. Hert and Mrs. Blair would call a mass meeting to find out. . . . The old National American Suffrage Association will pay one-third of the expenses." Her other points...
Reformer to the end, Mrs. Catt made yet one more attack...