Petition from the Women Voters Anti-Suffrage Party of New York

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Description

This petition urges the Senate not to pass a Federal suffrage amendment giving women the right to vote (the 19th Amendment). It lists reasons why women should not be franchised nationally, including that the country “should be spared the harassing of its public men and the distracting of its people from work for the war” in “this hour of peril.”

Copies of this petition were sent from different parts of New York State.

This document was digitized by teachers in our Primarily Teaching 2017 summer workshop in Washington, D.C.

Citation

This primary source comes from the Records of the U.S. Senate.

National Archives Identifier: 74884412

Full Citation: Petition from the Women Voters Anti-Suffrage Party of New York; 9/2/1918; Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents which were Presented, Read, or Tabled during the 65th Congress; (SEN65A-K11); Petitions and Related Documents That Were Presented, Read, or Tabled, 1789 – 1966; Records of the U.S. Senate, Record Group 46; National Archives Building, Washington, DC. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/document/women-anti-suffrage/, February 6, 2026]

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