Sentence examples for suffrage platform from inspiring English sources

In 1867, he campaigned unsuccessfully to become a delegate to the New York Constitutional Convention of 1867-1868 on a suffrage platform, and in 1869, was elected unanimously as the first president of the American Woman Suffrage Association.

With the Republicans unwilling to embrace black suffrage in their platform and the Democrats opposed to it, Stevens feared Democratic victory in the 1868 elections might even bring back slavery.

At the Republican nominating convention in 1872, the Party split into two, but neither faction added a suffrage plank to its platform.

Stevens did not attend, and was dismayed by the exclusion of African-American suffrage from the party platform as radical influence began to fade in the Republican Party.

He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1839 on a platform calling for universal suffrage and popular sovereignty.

Suffrage as Part of a Political Platform For many years the campaign for women's suffrage continued.

Later when word leaked out that suffrage had been added to the platform, one yellow parasol began to wave followed by another and another.

By 1916, the atmosphere was finally shifting, and women were urging for suffrage to be included in the platform of a major political party.

Morrow encouraged voters to "Right the Wrong of 1915" and ran on a progressive platform that included women's suffrage and quelling racial violence.

The scalawags met in convention and adopted the name the "Liberal Republicans" and a populist platform for universal amnesty, universal suffrage, economic reforms, and an end to the so-called Clayton dictatorship.

The delegates overruled the chairman's holding that the question was out of order and overwhelmingly voted that the "land, air, and water" plank and a plank explicitly supporting women's suffrage should be considered "part of the platform".