Women Challenges during Suffrage Movement
As the movement for suffrage began to rise in Nevada, women began to face greater challenges that prevented them from fighting for their beliefs of voting. Many women did not have faith in the idea that women should obtain the ability to vote, and to enforce this ideas some of the women would create conflict to prevent women from reaching the polls. Males discriminated those women that fought to gain their rights, because they thought it was their responsibility. Women also had to face the law of the state and nation that prevented them from reaching the ballot, and ancient ideas that had been traveling to the present day, which determined that women would never be intellectual voters.
Nevada Bloomer's Case
On August 14, 1888, woman suffrage was declared unconstitutional in the Supreme Court of the Washington territorial. A Spokane saloon-keeper wife opposed suffrage. Bloom had arranged to have her ballot rejected and proceeded to sue them. On August 4 the territorial Supreme Court decision was said, it ruled that suffrage law annulled because Congress had not intended to give the territories authority to give women the right to vote. The suffrages raise $500,000 to appeal the decision of the court, but Bloomer refused to cooperate. The decision of the court made woman suffrage unconstitutional.
The document above is a newspaper article in the Nevada Bloomer's case. First paragraph missing.
Male Citizens point of view in Suffrage
Many males in Nevada claimed that the right to vote was a birthright. For the man women’s suffrage violated the vision of the founding fathers of a republican government. The men believed that the founders feared that if a woman could vote it would bring an “excitable and emotional suffrage” to the republic and it would end up destroying it. This types of men were more impulsive in taking a public stand to prevent women from reaching their ballot. Also books such as "How it Feels to be the Husband of a Suffragette," would give details on how horrible life is when a woman becomes more independent, by leaving the man at home to take care the kids and homes.
The document above contains a couple pages in the book "How it Feels to be the Husband of a suffrage."
Legislated opposition
Legislated cases such us the Nevada Bloom, help prevent any women from voting in the State of Nevada. The bill that would give women the right to vote in 1911 was not pass in the senate (16-2) and in the assembly (31-13) many still thought that this was not a women rights, because this will bring more duties and that women would not be able to handle such responsibilities. Jim Crow form in the Southern States and moved to Nevada, people that believed in this law would prevent men and women that are black to be able to submitted their ballot and would make these people move to West Las Vegas.
Women against Women Suffrage
A wealthy married woman, Mrs. Arthur Dodge, started the national Association Opposed to Women Suffrage. She thought that women could be more useful to the community without the ballot. About ninety percent of the women did not want suffrage, because this meant competing with men and eighty percent of the women that did not want to vote were already married and believed that their votes would affect the their husbands decision. Many women also believed that if they fought for their suffrage they would lose their feminism that would affect their religious believes.