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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mirana, post: 9990496, member: 79705&quot;]I really enjoyed the <a href="https://msmagazine.com/2010/10/10/october-10-1911-a-suffrage-cliffhanger-in-california/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://msmagazine.com/2010/10/10/october-10-1911-a-suffrage-cliffhanger-in-california/" rel="nofollow">Ms. article</a> about the Oct 10 election day. Yellow was the theme for all the banners. Women were out all day, handing out flyers, holding signs, and trying to convince men to allow their vote. So this button, on this captain, would have been worn all day while she organized.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Cars flying “Votes for Women” pennants were kept busy all day carrying sympathetic voters–all men, of course–to the polls. They rode past many blocks on which there was almost a solid yellow line of suffrage banners hung from houses, telegraph and telephone poles, and anything else to which they could be nailed or tied.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Then the papers said they lost. They immediately began organizing for the next election.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Said one suffrage spokesperson, Mrs. H.F. Henshaw, to the <i>Chronicle</i>:</p><p><br /></p><p>I don’t consider we are beaten because the vote does not seem to tally our way. It is really only the result of our first effort. We are not going to start over again, because we have never stopped. We are just always moving towards victory. I, for one, am delighted with the fine campaign we have made. It was a splendid piece of work, and if it has not brought victory today it is the brilliant beginning of another campaign which will surely bring victory at the next election, and that election will not be so far away.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>So this captain would have gotten straight back into it and planning, until she got the call that after all votes were counted, they had actually won. Even though San Fran voted 62% against.</p><p><br /></p><p>What an amazing piece of history you&#039;ve picked up. I&#039;m quite jealous![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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