RD07577

January 15th, 1918.

Hon. C G. Sherwood,
Clark So. Dak.

My dear Mr. Sherwood:—

Your letter to Mrs. Hipple, in answer
to request for your approval of the federal suffrage amendment,
has come into my hands to be placed on file, and I note what
you say in regard to the picketing and I feel that I muet
write you, at once, thanking you, first, for your support of
the amendment, and, secondly, loosing no time in assuring
you that your opinion of the women of Washington in regard to
the picketing, is the opinion of all good suffragists, also.

The National Organization, of which
we are a part, is very much opposed to the picketing, and
has publically denounced such action. At the time it was
oing on, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, the president, appealed
by letter and in person to the women to discontinue the
same. This crowd of women who have been doing picketing,
represent the Congressional Union, which is composed of
women who were dissatisfied with the long and tiresome
campaigns and the disappointments connected therewith, so
they organized themselves into this body, known as the Con-
gressional Union, and their tactics have been in direct opposition
to any thing that the best womanhood of the land stand for
in the suffrage work. I can not but believe, however,
that they are sincere and we must give them credit for that,
but their actions have been a source of a great deal of
disappointment and chagrin.

As I have said, I felt that I could-
n't have one whose opinion we value, believing that these
unwise actions had been a part of the general suffrage move-
ment.

Sincerely