Congressman 1: We dont need women voting in South Carolina. We know how to take care of our women.
Lucy : Be a good listener. Dont interrupt.
Congressman 2: The majority of intelligent, refined, educated women in our country dont want it, and thats a fact.
Lucy : Dont lose your temper.
Congressman 3: Since you are suffragists, you wont mind standing. Congressman 4: Im with you. Im for it. Im going to vote for it. Now dont
bother me. 00:30:06,871
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00:31:03,817 Based on Alice‟s instruction to lobby the Congress, Lucy continued by
collecting volunteers to ask support from congressmen. She instructed them about what should they do and should not. The volunteers were supposed approaching
congressman friendly like learning the name of his children and praised his policy. The ways of traditional lobbying and petitioning are mainstays of
NAWSA. They begged the authorities to promote women issue on suffrage. However, this attempt was failed as no congressman supported woman suffrage
case. Yet, this activity was supplemented by other more public actions including parades, pageants, street speaking, and demonstrations.
4.3.4 Establishing National Woman’s Party NWP
Alice felt discomfort with the elders‟ prejudice statement that the budget Alice
collected from art gallery was suspended to be unauthorized expenditures which NAWSA planned to investigate. She also felt that her principals were different
with them. Therefore, she decided to split from NAWSA and formed a new party for the same goal
. Lucy‟s statement to persuade Alice to resign and leave NAWSA for her own campaign is illustrated in the following dialogue:
Lucy : Did you hear that? Investigation of our finances. Good. Great, let them keep their Congressional Committee. We can run our own
campaign. To hell with NAWSA.
00:41:45,002 - 00:41:54,744 Firstly Alice was doubt splitting from NAWSA, but Lucy‟s idea
succeeded made up her mind. Finding no reason to keep walking on NAWSA track, Alice formed
National Woman‟s Party and be the leader of it. She handled the party with her own rules and tactics to achieve women suffrage. The
established party tends to be more militant as the young generation desire to achieve suffrage as soon as possible. They were tired to wait for either the
president or Congress never responded the issue even in moderate ways. Alice : The National Womans Party is composed entirely of women and
does not align itself officially or unofficially with any existing political party. The NWP does not put forth a candidate for
election. We are a single-platform party dedicated to the passage of the following constitutional amendment; The right of citizens of
the United States to vote... or any state, on account of sex shall not be denied or abridged by the United States...
00:44:23,694- 00:44:53,282 From Alice‟s speech above, she mentioned about NWP which was
prepared to continue her struggle in gaining suffrage. Differ to NAWSA, NWP composed entirely of women. It committed to battle with any parties that refused
their movement. Moreover, the party sued the authorities to legalize women suffrage into a passage in constitutional amendment. Through NWP, Alice did
more actions than words like picketing the white house that will be explained in the following point.
