February 7, 1911: The benefits of women's suffrage were clearly demonstrated today.
Three months after women in the State of Washington won the ballot, those who live in Seattle used their first votes to provide what many political experts are saying was the margin of victory needed to recall the Mayor for misconduct and widespread corruption.
CARTOON: From the January 22nd edition of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, it satirizes the Gill Administration as being openly corrupt. Gill stands on a platform of “Civic Indecency,” “Open Gambling,” “Thuggery,” and “Graft.” “Wappy” refers to Chief of Police Wapperstein, dismissed for misconduct by a previous mayor, but re-hired by Gill. The Seattle Times, a rival paper in support of Gill, is represented as a feather in his hat.
The campaign to win woman suffrage in Washington was led by Emma Smith DeVoe. Tutored in suffrage work by Susan B. Anthony while living back East, DeVoe worked on the National American Woman Suffrage Association’s Organization Committee. She put the skills she learned there to good use after moving to Washington.
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