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Wall Street Women Tour For Hughes Sparks Suffrage Debate
Wall Street's wealthy women depart New York by deluxe train to tour the West preaching how to vote while facing internal criticism from suffrage leaders. The voyage, funded by the Hughes alliance network, includes high society sponsors and powerful names from Morgan, Vanderbilt, Hearst, and Roosevelt circles, highlighting class and political tensions shaping the campaign.
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Wall Street
New York
Colorado
Nebraska
Missouri
Kentucky
Women's Committee
National Hughes Alliance
Women's
Hughes Alliance
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Edward J. Harriman
Theodore Roosevelt
Rumsey
Robert Bacon
House of Morgan
Roosevelt
France
Bernand IL. Ridder
New York Staats Zeitung
Wilson
W. H. Crocker
California Mining and Railroad
Train Fund
Daniel Guggenheim
Smelter Trust
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Harry Payne Whitney
Maude Wetmore
Rhode Island
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Theolore Roosevelt
Nicholas Longworth
Congress
Ohio
West
Republican
Train Fund Committee
Hughes
Junket
E. T. Stotesbury
Philadelphia
J. P. Morgan & Co
H. O. Eavemeyer
Sugar Trust
Standard Oil
Phoebe Hearst
William Randolph Hearst
Mra