<em>Davenport Demokrat</em>: Suffrage Amendment Defeated
1916 Woman Suffrage Amendment;
Report on voting trends in the following counties: Cerro Gordo, "Claron" [Clarion, county seat of Wayne County?], Clinton, Crawford, Decatur, Des Moines, Dickinson, Dubuque, Emmet, Floyd, Fremont, Greene, Grundy, Hamilton, Hardin, Henry, Ida, Jefferson, Linn, Lucas, Mahaska, Marshall, Mitchell, Page, Pocahont[a]s, Polk, Ringgold, Scott, Story, Tama, Wapello, Wayne, Webster, Woodbury.
Candidates: W.L. Harding, Cosson, Allen, Kuehnle, G.R. Moore, W.S. Allen, W.C. Brown,
Newspaper article with updates on successive ballot countings for the women's suffrage amendment. Results of the Republican primary for governor and for other state offices.
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<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110713052349/http://webbasics.iowajmc.com/cmmay/newspapers/demokrat.html">Davenport Demokrat</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lischer_House">Henry Lischer</a> Printing Company; <a href="https://qctimes.com/mansion-linked-to-legacy-of-german-americans/article_59894bce-55a4-11df-8de7-001cc4c002e0.html">Fred Lischer</a>; Oskar Lischer; Eduard Lischer
6 June 1916
State Historical Society of Iowa
Full June 6, 1916 issue of the Davenport Demokrat from the "Chronicling America" collection of the Library of Congress: <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84027107/1916-06-06/ed-1/">https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84027107/1916-06-06/ed-1/</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/suffrage/">Women's Suffrage in Iowa: A Digital Collection</a>, Iowa Women's Archive, University of Iowa
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microfilm newspaper collections, State Historical Society of Iowa
<em>Davenport Demokrat</em>: Vote Against the Women's Suffrage Amendment Tomorrow (Stimmt morgen gegen das Frauenstimmrechts-Amendment)
Constitutional Amendment on Woman Suffrage; Women's Rights; Women's Emancipation; Friedrich Schiller; Women's Role in the Household
Editorial appealing to (male) voters to vote against the constitutional amendment for woman suffrage. The editorial argues that granting women the right to vote will alienate them from their traditional role as homemakers.
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<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110713052349/http://webbasics.iowajmc.com/cmmay/newspapers/demokrat.html">Davenport Demokrat</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lischer_House">Henry Lischer</a> Printing Company; <a href="https://qctimes.com/mansion-linked-to-legacy-of-german-americans/article_59894bce-55a4-11df-8de7-001cc4c002e0.html">Fred Lischer</a>; Oskar Lischer; Eduard Lischer
4 June 1916
State Historical Society of Iowa
Full June 4, 1916 issue of the Davenport Demokrat in the "Chronicling America" collection of the Library of Congress: <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84027107/1916-06-04/ed-1/seq-1/">https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84027107/1916-06-04/ed-1/seq-1/</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/suffrage/">Women's Suffrage in Iowa: A Digital Collection</a>, Iowa Women's Archive, University of Iowa
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microfilm newspaper collections, State Historical Society of Iowa
Scott County
<em>Waverly Phoenix</em>: An Appeal to Men
Women's Suffrage
"The Women Who Do Not Want Suffrage" make their case why they should not be given the right to vote in the upcoming constitutional referendum on 5 June 1916.
Women's Antisuffrage Committee ("Die Frauen, die kein Stimmrecht fordern")
Waverly Phoenix
Waverly Phoenix
May 17, 1916
State Historical Society of Iowa
<a href="https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/suffrage/">Women's Suffrage in Iowa: A Digital Collection</a>, Iowa Women's Archive, University of Iowa
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microfilm newspaper collections, State Historical Society of Iowa
Waverly, Bremer County, Iowa
<em>Waverly Phoenix</em>: The Women's Suffrage Amendment
1916 Women's Suffrage Amendment
The Women's Suffrage Amendment
The referendum on women's suffrage will take place together with the June 5th primaries, in which voters will nominate candidates for state and county offices for the later November election. Should the measure be approved, the state constitution will be amended to grant suffrage to all women in Iowa. We can easily surmise why such an important referendum was not postponed until the November election. In November, when the presidential election takes place, nearly the entire state will turn out to vote. During a primary, however, only a fraction of voters, even a small fraction, will turn out at the polls, and since all friends of women's suffrage will vote, the amendment will pass much more easily than with a high voter turnout. The suffragists in the state legislature have slyly brought this referendum before voters during a primary election rather than a general election. Such an important matter should have been placed on the ballot when nearly every eligible voter would go to the polls. But no, that didn't suit the all-powerful yes-men and suffragettes who completely dominated the last state legislature, and so the matter was scheduled to come to a vote at a time when there is certain to be a low voter turnout, anything but a full turnout that might be a representative measure of opinion among all citizens.
Next year's Prohibition referendum will likely depend on the result of the women's suffrage vote. This second referendum will decide whether the current Prohibition nonsense shall become constitutional, i.e., whether we'll be rid of temperance or not. Without women's suffrage, there is at least the possibility of a victory for personal liberty; with women's suffrage, absolutely not. For this reason, it would be quite useful if the liberals and opponents of the political equality of the sexes would rouse themselves more often than they have up to this point, if the failure of this referendum is of any concern to them at all. They have all the more reason to do so, since the suffrage camp has the more favorable prospects at the moment. The majority of candidates for governor, even the so-called Democrat, Mr. Meredith, have declared their support for women's suffrage, and the majority of aspirants for state offices have done the same. The petticoat supporters, moreover, are conducting a much more vigorous campaign, both in the open and quietly, than the opposing side, which has hardly lifted a finger, with the exception of a few sensible women who are opposed to being dragged into politics.
There are only a few weeks left until June 5th. If public momentum against the proposed women's regime is to develop, then it's time to act. If there is to be any hope of victory over the suffragists, then we must work towards generating the largest turnout possible, for therein lies apparently the only chance of heading off the coming storm. The apathy of the masses towards primaries must be overcome, so that as many citizens as possible, not only the proponents of women's suffrage, make their way to the ballot box.
(Iowa Reform.)
Waverly Phoenix
17 May 1916
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<em>Waverly Phoenix</em>: Why We Are Opposed to Woman Sufrage
Woman Suffrage
13-point editorial why women should not be granted the right to vote.
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Waverly Phoenix
Waverly Phoenix
17 May 1916
State Historical Society of Iowa
<a href="https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/suffrage/">Women's Suffrage in Iowa: A Digital Collection</a>, Iowa Women's Archive, University of Iowa
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German, with English translation
newspaper article
microfilm newspaper collections, State Historical Society of Iowa
Waverly, Bremer County, Iowa
News Summary: Iowa Suffrage Amendment Defeated; Republican National Convention; death of Yuan Shikai, President of the Republic of China
Constitutional Amendment on Woman Suffrage; 1916 Republican Convention; Charles Evans Hughes; "America First"; Robert Lansing; James W. Gerard; tornadoes in Arkansas and Missouri; China; Yuan Shikai
Overview of state, national, and world news
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<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110713052349/http://webbasics.iowajmc.com/cmmay/newspapers/demokrat.html">Davenport Demokrat</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lischer_House">Henry Lischer</a> Printing Company; <a href="https://qctimes.com/mansion-linked-to-legacy-of-german-americans/article_59894bce-55a4-11df-8de7-001cc4c002e0.html">Fred Lischer</a>; Oskar Lischer; Eduard Lischer
7 June 1916
State Historical Society of Iowa
Full June 7, 1916 issue of the Davenport Demokrat from the "Chronicling America" collection of the Library of Congress: <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84027107/1916-06-07/ed-1/">https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84027107/1916-06-07/ed-1/</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/iwa/suffrage/">Women's Suffrage in Iowa: A Digital Collection</a>, Iowa Women's Archive, University of Iowa
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Scott County; Chicago; Washington, D.C.; China