Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1896 — Woman Suffrage In California. [ARTICLE]

Woman Suffrage In California.

“It would not at all surprise me,” says a California man, “to see California added to the list of woman’s suffrage States inside the next year. A perfectly organized campaign has Just been opened to secure the adoption of an amendment to the State constitution next fall, giving women the right to vote, and making ability to read and write one of the requirements of a voter. Work along this line was begun in real earnest last summer, when the woman’s congress was held In San Francisco. A careful canvass was made of the counties of the State, fiftytwo in number, and the dissemination of literature and speechmaking has been going on ever since. California has always shown a liberal spirit toward women, and they have now almost every right the men have, except the right of suffrage.”