Women Voters Vote Against Wilson He Opposes National Woman Suffrage

1916. Women Voters Vote Against Wilson He Opposes National Woman Suffrage, 1916, a political broadside issued by the National Woman's Party during the presidential election campaign urging enfranchised women in western states to leverage their ballots in support of a federal suffrage amendment. Addressed to the approximately four million women who had secured voting rights in states including Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Washington, California, Arizona, Kansas, Oregon, Montana, and Nevada, the text calls upon them to vote against President Woodrow Wilson, who "refused to support the federal amendment and declared his personal opposition to it." The broadside reflects the National Woman's Party's strategy of electoral pressure, transforming state level suffrage victories into national political leverage in advance of constitutional reform. Issued at a pivotal moment when women's voting power could influence a closely contested national election, the document captures the tactical escalation of suffrage activism from petition and persuasion to organized partisan opposition.

Women Voters Vote Against Wilson He Opposes National Woman Suffrage. National Woman's Party. No place: 1916. Broadside. The appeal situates western women voters as agents of nationwide change, framing their ballots as instruments to secure equal political rights for women across the United States. Although Wilson won reelection in 1916, sustained political pressure by suffragists contributed to his public endorsement of woman suffrage in 1918, and the subsequent passage and ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1919-1920 while he remained in office. As a campaign artifact produced in the heat of electoral contest, the broadside documents the intersection of gender, federal constitutional reform, and presidential politics during the final phase of the suffrage movement. Pencil notation "1916" in upper right corner not affecting text; otherwise clean and well preserved. Overall condition: near fine.