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From our archives, 100 years ago

May Arkwright Hutton, Spokane’s famous suffragist, was headed to California to help the women there win the vote. Hutton had helped Washington women win the vote earlier in the year and she agreed to work in California for a month at her own expense.

However, Hutton had some tough words for some of her Eastern sisters, who had embarked on a “self-sacrifice campaign” of giving up ice cream and silk stockings to aid the California campaign. Hutton called that “maudlin sentiment.”

“If the women of the Golden State are anxious to get the ballot, they will work for it, like we did,” Hutton said. “… Our campaign money all came from the labor unions, the farmers’ unions, the granges and personal contributions. The same condition applies in California.”

She said that any money earned in a self-sacrifice campaign would be “a drop in the bucket” anyway.

Financing a suffragist campaign in such a manner would be as “foolish” as “attempting to support a church on pink teas.”

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