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Suffragist, founder of the National Women's Equal Suffrage Association of Hawai'i.

Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett was born into the Hawaiian royal family in 1861. After the overthrow of Queen Lili'uokalani in 1893, the Committee of Safety moved to establish the Provisional Government of Hawai'i, which shortly transitioned to the Republic of Hawai'i. The Newlands Resolution to annex Hawai'i to the United States was approved by the U.S. congress and signed by President William McKinley in July 1898. The Organic Act of 1900 established the Office of the Territorial Governor, which was a position appointed by the U.S. President. Hawaii's status as a territory of the United States continued until 1959, when Congress passed and President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Hawai'i Admission Act. Hawai'i residents voted to accept the statehood bill, and on August 21, 1959 Hawai'i became the 50th State. The Territorial Period describes the historic era from 1898 to 1959.

Suffragists in the states saw this as an opportunity for this new territory to grant women the right to vote.

In 1899, Susan B. Anthony and other members of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) wrote the "Hawaiian Appeal," asking Congress to give Hawaiian women the right to vote "upon whatever conditions and qualifications the right of suffrage is granted to Hawaiian men." Dowsett, a supporter of the annexation of Hawaii, did not support the "Hawaiian Appeal" because she felt that it would be better to petition Hawaii's territorial government for civil rights.

In 1912, Dowsett founded the first Hawaiian suffrage organization, the National Women's Equal Suffrage Association of Hawai'i (WESAH). She modeled her group after NAWSA. In her efforts to spread the idea of suffrage across the islands, she invited suffragists and members of NAWSA from the mainland to come speak to their group. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of NAWSA, came to the islands on two different occasions. In 1912, Catt and Dowsett worked together to make the WESAH Hawaii's NAWSA affiliate. She returned in 1918 to speak to the group and to encourage the want for suffrage. Many other NAWSA members came to the islands for the same purpose as Catt.

Impressed with the Hawaiian women's eagerness to vote, NAWSA convinced Congress to place the women's suffrage issue under the jurisdiction of Hawaii's territorial legislature in 1918. This led to many mass protests throughout 1918 and into 1919 about suffrage from women of many different racial backgrounds because of the racial diversity in Hawaii.

Although the 19th Amendment was passed on June 4, 1920, it did not apply to the women citizens of Hawaii because it was considered U.S. territory, not a state. Because the 19th Amendment also prohibited federal and state governments from disenfranchising women, on August 26, 1919, Hawaiian women were granted the vote and the work of the WESAH had paid off.

Source: https://nationalwomenshistoryalliance.org/2020-honorees/

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Suffragist, founder of the National Women's Equal Suffrage Association of Hawai'i. Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett was born into the Hawaiian royal family in 1861. After the overthrow of Queen Lili'uokalani in 1893, the Committee of Safety moved to establish the Provisional Government of Hawai'i, which shortly transitioned to the Republic of Hawai'i.

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Chapter 7

Re-Franchising Women of Hawaiʻi, 1912–1920: Politics of Gender, Sovereignty, Race, and Rank at the Crossroads of the Pacific

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HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN, TUESDAY OCT. 1 5, 1912.
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THE
HIGH
COST OF
EXTENDING TO SCHOOLSi TOO
A Honolulu business man w
hose
nrivate
chlldren attend one of the
schools here was complaining the
other day of the many financial
demands that are being made, on the
children almost' every day. In speak
ing of this he made several compari
sons of the school days at the pre
sent time and those of forty years
ago. There is no ddubt whatever"
said he that there are many Jmprove
ments in the educational system; still
if some of the folderols were put
aside the fchildren 'would probable
do quite as well. V
-When I went to school we did not
have to pay what are now called
class . dues, and dues to most every
school organization. The other day
my little girl came home and asked
for a dollar and a half, to pay for a
-subscription to the ichool paper, i
thirty cents far her class dues rand
some other dues for one or two of
the school organizations. Naturally 1
gave them to her, but not without a
bit of grumbling. I confess., I asked
her why she went' into all these
things and she' answered that to have
standing in school a pupil must enter
Into all the. athletics, and subscribe
to any. paper that Is published. I
was sorry for her because she was
afraid to be the only one to revolt
against- such , conditions, still ; I. could
not really blame her. J sincerely-wish
that some; of the-- faculty, members
would take ' the ' matter In hand . and
do something to stop such things
Nor was this ' all that he said ;- for
he , seemed to feel -rather bitter , on
the subject Being -a fair minded man
he said ..that he would naturally , give
his little girl the money but also that
he knew that there are some of the
f children .in-that same school who are
I unable ; to meet - all - such . demands.
1 Parents,1 when they are. able "to. do , bq
IE? VCICE
In her final concert last night the
Countess Eleonor de-Cisneros gave
to the Honolulu public1 that ""Which
I will be long remembered. ' With each
I number, given . last night, ' the , range
end tone of her marvelous voice In
? creased and Improved, and in the end
lIItLlililGMn
shr responded to r the burst of ap
plause with ?HabaneraM of f Bltefs
' Carmen. X r. Jvv
; Paul Ihifault again caught up', the
, f heart strings :of his audience " with
the sweet tenor voice employed In
f several . ballads, . - and the ' hush that
i went oyer the house even .before the
. first; note had' been' uttered, "must
have been pleasing to the great art
,' 1 1st Opinions heard; after the concert
., . r differ, widely-as to which selection he
- ..was best in.'-, .AWy;.. .v. c.
James Liebling, the master of the
'cello, was again -at his best, and his
: . ; rendition of Popper's arrangement of
the, "Rhapsodic . Hongrolse' brought
0 t forth' tLunders of applause, and .his
' encore, showed- the marvelous cun
V tings of fingers that are complete
masters' of- strings;.-..;;;: v-Uv
. Much of the success of the two con-
certs Is distinctly , duo to Mrs. - L.
..Tenney Peck, th& accompanist She
; played ' faultlessly twenty-four' times.
Honolulu certainly ; has shown, its
Vj appreciation of the. art of . music and
melody. The Opera House .was filled
tjp the doors." .s , , . .;'
THE HAWAII.
The Hawaii's program was excep
tionally fine4 last night and the house
; was packed. : All those who " want to
V1 know how to vote on November Z
! ' i must see the J film 'The "Vote That
. : Counted," and learn something of the j
1 .
Can you Ibagljie a more practical article. than a Toaster, a Per-,
n colator, a Chafing' Olsh or an Iron? No flame, no. combustion no
vitiation of alr yt absolutely reliable, saying nothing of the conve
nience and satisfaction they bring you.
TOASTERS ..,$5.00
V IRONS -..:mo
CURLING TONGS 3.50
DISC STOVES ... 40
And others too numerous to mention.
1 Dimond & Co., Ltd,
53-57 KING STREET
Established 1890
THE HIGHEST STANDARD OF WORK MAINTAINED IN ALL DE-
PARTMENTS. '
, 777 KING STREET , J. ABADIE, Proprietor PHONE 1491
LIVING IS
send their little ones to the best
i schools and. the most select but when
there are so many financial demands
made upon them by the student body
there is often more than one heart
ache. ;
In the private schools here : the
tuition is not small and often parents
have to deny themselves many little
luxuries to send the children there.
Each year there are more demands
made on scholars by the scholars and
the parents are becoming more re
bellious. The teachers too demand
many accessories from the children.
There is an abundance of paper that
must be bought every week, ever so
many . school books9 and copy books.
Many of the latter are not even half
filled at the end of the year. A family
In moderate circumstances can hard
ly stand this If there are many ! child
ren to be educated. Thirty to forty
years ago the. children were supplied
with the school books and at the end
of 'each fcchool year the books were
J neatly , wrapped in . packages and re-
Mi.uJ i. Ik. ..kl'LA..J A 1
turueu iu iuo isvuwi, wnry. iu muse
days the board, of ed u cation .was . able
to supply, the books .but now.'the texts
Are changed ;o often that the board
of r education; can ' not., afford It any
more than, can the parents. ' ;r :t ?'
; A few years aga even, a family
would buy books for the first" child
that entered " school and these -'same
books werepassed -to the other cbtldr
ren as - they ;. grew ; up. ; Now such"; a
thing Is almost ; Impossible 1 and the.
parents from some: reports are likely
to rise up. in rebellion.-! : :? ' '
Another thing that may be spoken
of Is the defacing of books by - the
scholars. Hideous pictures are drawn
on the fly leaf of the books and af
ter; a Yery Bhort period they are not
presentable. In this case the parents
as well, as the: teachers might find
a .remedy;-. . .- -:.
game, of 4 politics now that s electlou
is coming on.' -' . ' . . :
;.' The rest of the program ; was good,
especially "The . woman Hater," and
a scenic view., of, Palestine, which ; is
an educational picture and well worth
seeing. . .'. ' . . . . . :-V-V' i
-The second Installment , of ' fAlone
In New i York'- will be-shown on Wed
nesday evening and the title is f'Mary
In StageIand,n and all those who saw
the "first film should surely see' this
cne as it Is the. sam,e as a continued
Story.-J J ' y'- .'''K-l'y-S-'V:)
i
" ; The "Oahu Furniture Co. 'on
street opposite . the Young - building,
will hold a reduction sale of their line
of Koa furniture" beginning tbmorrow
fmorning and lasting until the ' end of
the . month. . . - '-. .;-'.,--,.
This firm carries the largest line of
Koa furniture in the city, all of which
13 hand-made' and ; manufactured in
their workshop on;Klng street Being
in need of "ready, cash, they have de
cided to dispose of their Btock -at 25
per cent i reduction, .which1; means ; a
big saving fdr anyone' who wants to
fix. up a.liouse.'. i. --
Koa furnitureris-extenstvely adver
tised onthe mainland and is used In
many of the leading hotels and pri
vate, families. It makes' ideal Christ
mas "presents !and thrifty buyers" will
attend this sale and make their, holi
day purchases now..f ;:;-:;;;'j
k The sale will begin tomorrow morn
ing and early buyers wilPbave Uhe
best selection to pick from. y
The. Sunset Mall of the Southern
Pacific was wrecked In Louisiana ow
ing to a spreading rail and eighteen
people" were hurt - ' ; -v
y ' -
OUR
are positively J- efficient -and
guaranteed In every
way.
PERCOLATORS ....... .$15X0
CHAFERS 1O00
TRAVELING SETS ..... 6.00
WATER HEATERS ..... 6X0
HONOLULU
mm
SALE
Electric
Heating
Devices
Laundry
SUFFRAGISTS IN
Mrs.. J. M. Dowsett Reads a
Paper on Votes for
Women
"Equal Pay for Equal Work. "Pro
tection of Juvenile Immigrants,1
"Pure Food . and Pure Milk," "Pro
tection of .Infant Life," "Appointment
of Police Matrons," "Children's
Courts and State Support of; Free
Kindergartens," -were among the sub
jects discussed yesterday afternoon
at a meeting of the Woman's Equal
Suffrage Association held in Hirano
Hall.
An address on these subjects,
which was read by Mrs. J. M., Dow
tvett for the purpose of demonstrat
ing to the. local association what the
suffragettes ? arft working for and
what they are doing, in other parts of
the world. The address in part was:
"The effect :- of Women's vote .in
every State has led to Improved leg
islatlon: .; affecting .. 'the; welfare o
homes and .children. Laws dealing
with drink, crime and vice have been
tightened ? up 1 and the ? greatest . vigi
lance Is. shown Jn ; thief protection of
infanl rife. .under i . the ; enfranchise
meat law- .women ; whd ;h)EtVe property
or v tneirf own havo practically ful
control over It subject . to some minor
restrain ta which" were Vdevlsed ,:mis-
laKeniy.ior.;. their, protection before
women . ; were enfranchised. . Women
voters '.have -not yet made any or
ganised "efTort' to alter - these laws, as
they feel , that; the ' unpropertied wo
men must be safeguarded first .
Anotner part - of the address wat
the ; argument;, . and;, agreement; that
conversation i has become . mort at
tractive since women : have -had the
vote. In some parts, of . the country
there are complaints from the publi
cans, who declare that men; now stay
at hbm$ to ,: talk - politics; .with their
wives and one mother , was heard to
remark; . "I never - used to be inter
ested in politics, but I am now, since
my- girls have. . such' .interesting ; dis
cussions w :m their father Z ; V v 5
The local organization, is beginning
to - be inflaetf ced by the bigger and
broader meaning of 'suffrage and al
though, the progress has been slow
up to this time, they are carefully
working; toward their: goal There
will be more ;of these addresses along
the same lines by; prominent .women
and, the . members of the association
hope to later bring" to this city from
the coast some of the V well-known
suffrage advocates and speakers. h 1 "
17. G. T. U.
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Christian' "Temperance , Union 8 be
ing held at. half after two o'clock this
afternoon at : the home of Mrs.' J. M.
Whitney, on Punahou ' street The of
ficers will 4 be elected at" this , meeting
and ! tne -reports of the year 'will be
read.'-.;- - '"v ':"v - - ,
The; literary P paper v on "The
Temperance - circulation' In Honolulu,'
as. Compared with the United States,"
will be read by. Mr; George Paty, sec
retary of the Anti Saloon' League,' in
Honolulu. ;;. ' ; ; : : tv; ;
HIT OF HAWAIIAN -
. iCTROUPE AT OAKLAND
OAKLAND, October 6.-Chinese
doing; a , Texas Tommy ; dance f form
a novel ' entertainment at the Oak
land Pantages Theatre for the week
which cocdmenced this afternoon.
The Chinese appear In an Oriental
extravaganza called ."Touring China
town.? There is ... the ;- usual punk
smell, the : shrill-voiced ; singing, the
gaudy ' colors and other .; accompaniments-to
Chinatown scenes besides
the Celestials who do the Texas Tom
my. v,..,
Sharing ' honors with" the Chinese
act is "Twilight in Hawaii," a pretty
singing; and. dancing act by natives
of the Hawaiian islands. One of the
girls dances the hulu-hulu, by the
way. . .
A Skin of Beauty Is a Joy Forever
DLL FEUX COCRAUD'S ORIENTAL
CREAM 03 UAGICAL EEAUTIFIER
RraoTM Tu, Pimpta,
Freckle, Moth Prche.
Bah, Md Skis Diswc.
SSl5 . . fClf 'bSJty.wdHe
M atCTiOD. 1.
ha stood t ten
of s ye A d4
ta k hmn t
taste It to boar tl
U proper" j made
AeCtpt Doccranter
(eit of simtttt
tint. Dr. L. A
8yr id to
tedr of tfc krat.
ton pfctiect) !
Ai foa Udit
irlU OM theo,
I reeommt4
tlmtmmAm Fmmt M tflK lM9t bAmfal of ftll t
kia pretMrat loot." t or ul by aU dmjunKj tad Fmct
fioodt Dcftlcra In U Uaiud SutM, CaMdft 6 Xarop.
'tm.KCPClS. fm, 37 Bral to Stmt In to
FALL MILLINERY
NOW IN '
Exclusive Yet Inexpensive Headgear
. MftS.. BLACKSHEAR
Harrison Blk Fort 8t, nr. Beretanli
;; fflLffiEni
Km g Tiiifi a rT r n n t n n n i
inid iriLiiiviuuiJ
BOYS
rim lirnnrr
nu- urn
"Hully gee, Willie, just cast your
lamps on the line of eats that they
are handing out to us for a dime.
Why, dis place has got Sing Hop's
lean kitchen faded to a gloom!"
This statement and many others of
general approval were heard at noon
yesterday in the boys department; of
the Y, M." C. A. It all came about
with the starting of a new feature by
the employed boys department of the
association in the fonn of a noonday
meal for boys who work in offices or
other establishments ' in ; town; '' This
new feature is under the direction of
R. M. Cross, secretary of the em
ployed boys' department and is prov
ing a great success.
A lot of boys who work around
town, eat in any place where they
can get food cheapest To overcome
this matter of improper eating and
bad associates, the employed . boys'
department of the association is now
serving a noonday lunch on the lanai!
of the boys' department for the lib
eral sum of ten cents, putting the
food out at cost for the accommoda
tion of the working boys. Those who
know the superior qualty of the food
that Is served in the cafteria will not
hesitate to believe that these lunches
for the boys are of the best that can
be bought, and for ten cents. The boys
can get - a big meat sandwich, a gen
erous cut of pie, and a glass of milk,
with; an occasional change to soup
and several hot dishes
' Yesterday noon there was a t large
number of .boys from the differentof
f ices and - other establishments about
town present to patronize the now
"cafe," - and already ; it - Is proving a
decidedly attractive feature.
BOY SCOUTS ARE
. GETTING BUSY NOW
'- Now that vacation days are over the '
boy scout patrols of; the city. areTbe
comlng active again After a long rest
during the summer. . The first ttunt ot
the season was held in' Manoa. valley,
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We received a special purchase that will
be if anything better values than those
offered at our Big Sale two months ago.
; TWs lot comprises Embroideries in
widths
Linen
and
Cotton
Linen
Cluny
No
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ttingha
m
j
Calais
Shadow
Hand
Made
Venice and Macrame Bands
Ratine Bands
Watch Our Windows
For This Big Display
The whole purchase will be placed
on sale
Monday
Morning
jit 1
PS
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J Absolutely Puro-
; tzso frc.-a Coycl CrzD
:' 0 Srcczi cf Tsriz '
lost, Saturday in the form of a scout
game called flag raiding On account
of an error in judgment on the part
of Scout Commissioner Wilder, - the
raiders, who were thirty-two in num
ber, failed to; locate the enemy, nine
strong! whereby he was deprived of
his scalp which consisted jOf a bunch
of blue ribbons, anifwhlch now adorns
the totom pole in the headquarterc ot
the winners, Honolulu I.-
Beginning this ' week regular meet
ings will be held at the clubhouse of
Honolulu V, and a long list ot HtttU
ties such "as Setting-up drill, life-sav
ing and fir,t-aid. ' The "Big Boys" will
to in for field engineering which in
eludes bridge making. wlndlasses,Iook
outs and so on. Betides their regular
scout decrees,; the Javelin Patrol wW
study first aid to the Injured. - Picnic
pi evention," flremanship and camper'
craft will to taken up byihe Harpoons
and . the ridcnU-t
t ; Messrs. Deverul and Barnes. will as
blstin instructing the different patrols
and - they 'are looking" forward to big
doings In forest and Held ; during the
coming season.
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and Edges
on1
, Oct 21st
GREAT PURCHASE
Torchons
Laces
Cotton
Bands
Lace
Sets
Cluny
Ymiimy
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are now on
;A.
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AMUSEMENTS.
EXTIBE CHANGE TOMGHT-:
-'r .i - ) t-A '. " f V '
' A T -1
r.lhrtvn ? FInrpnfP!
d't- I , w m w .
Jugglers, Singers, Dancersi : Come
dliiis. A whole show in themselres,
.
Doyle White
' Bef Ined Slogers.
-'i y- -'i - cr't -
All
-L V' -.
PRICES . . . 10c and 15c
At-, HA AM. t HA--.;:. ;
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T H E' 'T E R
YOU'LL KNOW what to do' on No.
vember 5; after you see -
"The Vote That Counted"
We dare' the politicians to be pres
ent Monday or Tuesday nights. The
film is sure Interesting for Just now.
THERE'S a good one for the girls,
too, .
"The Woman Hater"
You'll laugh.
STRONG, dramatic action In
"The Padre's Secret?
(A good reel's a-coming on the
China.)
ATHLETIC PARK
Baseball for Sunday
OCTOBER 20.
1:30 P. M. P. A. C. vs. STARS;
3:30 P. M J. A. C. vs. ASAHI.
Reserved Seats for center of grand
stand and wings can be booked at E.
O. Hall & Son's Sporting Department
(entrance King street) up to 1 p. m.;
after 1 p. nu, aUU. A. Gunst & Co.,
King and Fort
Star-Balletln Ads. are Best Business
mMu-mmumy
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New
pictures
Getters. v
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II!?h-Cliss Vocalists and Instrn
mcnttllsts. Other. Farorltts.
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First Run Pictures
Prices - I0c, 20c, 30d
4 -
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BEGAL SHOES
are made on the latest London, Pari
and New York Custom Lasts, t r
QUARTER SIZES , .. ;:
REGAL SHOE 8T0RE
Kino nd Bthl 8rt .
Fancy
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import
CUEIOS
Largest Pacific Souvenir
Store in the World
HAWAII & SOUTH
.. SEAS CURIO CO.
Young BuIIdinj

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Mrs. Wilhelmine Dowsett,

"I can speak for my Hawaiian sisters, and I can say that in every way the woman is man's superior. She will not only cast her vote fully as intelligently—she will vote, honestly. There isn't enough money in the world to buy her vote. And on the jury she will decide as intelligently, while there will be no question as to her verdict." April 25, 1913

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nONOLTOU STAB-BULLETIN, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1913.
7
: Beginning Saturday,
f ' April 26
sap A MPF
Two Yeeks Only
-. ' . " ' r ' . i '" '
Ia order to make room for new goods that will arrive shortly, we will hold an Immense Clearance Sale for Two Weeks beginning Saturday, April 26, during which
:' .. tim our stock wiU be marked down to ve
DRESS GINGHAM........... ..........10 yds. 70c
FOREST M I LL WHITE COTTON. . . ... . . ... 10 yds. 80c
HEAVY BROWN COTTON (1 yd. wide)... .10 yds. 65c
HEAVY FLAN ELL ETTE .10 yds, S5c
VICTORIA LAWN. ......... .1 ... .....10 yds. 60c
INDIA LINON
10 YARD LENGTHS
SHEETS
QUILTS
54x90 regular $ .65 . . .
63x90 regular - .80.....
72x90 regular .90.....
81x90 regular 1.00. ... .
....sale price .50
, ... .'sale price .65
. . . .sale price .75
sale price .85
Regular 1.00 .. ..... . . . : tale "pKct JS'
Regular 1.25 .-..sale pries 1.00
Regular 1.50 . . .... . ; . .. . ........ ..... .tale price- " 1.25
Regular 2.50 ....... ....sale price 2.00
Regular 3.00 ..................salt price 2.50
Regular 3.50 sale pries 3.00
Regular 4.50 ..sals price 3.75
Regular $1.25 piece... ..............
sale price -S5
41
Regular 1.50. piece. ............. sale price
no
Regular 1.75 piece.. ............. ...... .sale price 1-25
104. sheeting, regular 40c yd. ... .sale 'price .30
.EMBROIDERIES
Regular 15c, 23c and 25c yd;. sale price 10c yd.
if-." K c
yotrr requirements demand good qual
ify efficiency and economy in first cost
All our material is designed with an
expert knowledge o f exact : serwee con
diHonsi and is produced from the best
materials ad worIiniari$hip obtainable.
Let as-do your worrying
louse Yiring
Motor Inspection
Oar IVofft SpeaAs for Itself
Honolulu. Electric Co.
STA WLET W 3 PER MONTH
For any kind of Gasoline Engine
H. HACKFELD &. COM LTDW
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Fully forty women and as many
men ardently debated the question
of the women's enfranchisement at
the public meeting ield by the Oahu
delegation of the house In the hall of
representatives last night The great
majority favored equaL suffrage; only
a few, had the temerity to' openly p-
pose It and it seemed the consensus
of opinion that the least the legisla
ture can do is to adopt the concur
rent resolution .introduced by Speaker
Holstein the pther daj.- , . .
; vThis measure calls on congress to
grant & plebiscite, also a- $15,000 ap
propriation; to pay the expenses of
the. special election, that the voters
of the territory may say whether they
really want the. women, to have the
'privilege of the ballot
ast night's was a; notable t gather
ing of beauty and chivalry. intelli
gence and sincerity, full of interest,
with a number of surprises and really
worthy of a much larger attendance
than that accorded, r.
Mrs. Frear, wife of the governor,
led the feminine cohorts, , speaking
ably and convincingly. Mrs." J. M
"Dowsett. fired by opposltfondellvered
a hitter arraignment of man" in " the
abstract.1 She declared woman is far
superior to man every . time.
Judge A. S. Humphreys astonished
some, of his friends by confessing a
lifelong affection, for the cause. Also,
for the first time'1 In public, history,'
' he appeared at times to be at a loss
for words to adequately express his
feelings. At one point he brought out
this strong argument: - i;
"The fellow who blacks the gov
ernor's shoes : and doesn't : know
enough to make his mark, can - vote,
but the governor's wife, who is as
much a man a3 her . husband, cannot
vote." He added, on second thought:
D0n t misconstrue me. If the gov
ernor were to hear that remark, that
his wife is just 'as. much a man ,a&
he is, he would regard it as 'a very
high compliment, which it is."
; Speaker Holstein, though not known
to be a Scotchman, nevertheless dis-
1 layed the racial -canniness, remark-.
Ing that-"I hae me doots." He fraak-
. ly confessed he. didn't know whether
the women of the Hawaiian race were
ready for .the ballot. He thought '.It
would be well to pass his resolution
anyhow, and by the time congress
ordered the blebiscite the voters, of
Hawaii would be ready to say what
they thought about' it ,
Mrs. 1. M. Rhodes, of Seatt4e, toTd
how, the women of that city, ' enfran
chised, on their first election helped
the honest citizens to recall a notori
ous mayor and send a crooked chief of
jKjljce to tne federal penitentiary, and
how, in other ways they had helped
materially-: in cleaning up the city
and. the state of Washington.
Representative Norman K. Lyman,
'of HUo, struck fire when he arose and
announced that he was "still 6n the
I fence. ; He wanted, to ask a qucs-
.tion, : yy -,,y-yy
"Have the women thought ." ahout
what they will do he'n they get the
j right to vote?" he queried! "Do they
itealize. they wiil be subject to the
mandate of the courts, the same a3
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the man ? That they may be called upon'
to serve as jurors, sitting maybe for
days at a time? ' The men must, work,
and if the father is busy, earning the
living and the, mother is doing Jury
duty, what is to be done with the,
home, and ? the ihildren? , Have the
women thought about being forced to
leave their babies in the care of hired
nurses, or with the neighbors, for
days, at a time?? . . . .
Mrs'. Dowsett arose with an Indig
nant albeit a dignified rebuke. "I
can speak for my Hawaiian sisters,
and I can say that in every way the
woman is man's superior. She will
not only cast her vote fully as intelli-gently-r-she
will vote, honestly. There
isn't enough money . in the world to
buy her vote.. And on the jury shff
will decide as . intelligently, while
there will be no question ; as to her
verdict" Although urgently invited,
Representative Lyman declined to ask
more questions.
Representative Kawewebi, the only
Home Ruler In the house; when called
upon openly announced his opposition
to suffrage.. He said he exercised his
prerogative as a Home Ruler. .
Then arose for a brief-space the
question as to, the mysterious politi
cal affiliations of Senator Makekau,
of Hamakua. Makekau had intro
duced one of the' earlier - suffrage
resolutions" in . the upper . house.
Chairman Paxsoni asked Kawewehi If
it were not true i that Makekau is. a
Home Ruler. Kawewehi denied it
Paxson said he.kad- been- told by Ma-
kpka.li that such ;was the case. Kawe-
rwehl again denied It,; declaring Make
kau was the Republican, nominee. But
the point was; permitted to escape,
as beside the question. As a. matter
of fact , it- seems doubtful whether
Senator Makekau himself really
knows to which' party.' . he belongs,
though some said last, nght he was
endorsed by both,, prior to the last
election., v.- - ' "
Dr. Irwin intimated there was a
degree of insincerity in Speaker Hol
steln's resolution. He said the friends
of the house member knew congress
would not appropriate the 415,000
asked for, and that therefore tfcd reso
lution would receive no attention at
Washington.. By bringing up this
point Dr . Irwin cleverly diverted at
tention from himself, not announcing;
how he actually standa on woman's
enfranchisement It s'eems that the
Republican territorial platform, and
the Democratic - county, - platform
p!edgl to . support women suffrage,
but the Democratic, territorial plat
form was built without the plank, not,
I)r , .Irwin confessed, without . some
carcfut scheming and Hard work at
the convention. Being the only Demo- j -
crat in the house outside Oahu.JrwihJ
therefore regards himself In a class
a? he pleases on the subject.
Mrs. John Wilson. ex-Senator Dow
sett and several others, both men
and, women addressed the meeting elo
quently and with convincing force.
Toward the close, someone suggested
that a rising vote be taken to show
the preponderance of sentiment but
tnis was opposed as reaching no
gow end.
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the amount of $310 forfeited. r
Chief McDuffie and a squad of plain
clothes men descended upon the lair
of the Japanese at a laft hour, : and
after much 'difficulty succeeded in
gaining an entrance to the room where
the Japanese were engaged in wooing
fickle fortune by means ofa brisk 7-come-11
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The police officers secured much
evidence in the shape "of dice, money
and other articles. . , '
It is alleged ' that several offenders
caught in this raid were old-timers. In
some instances they were asked to put
up bail to the amount of $20.'
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Temperature 6 a. m., 71; 8 a. nr., 73;
10 a. m.; 71; 12 noon, 77. , Minimum
last night, 70, .. " ' -' ' ' ' ; '
Wind 6 a. m.; velocity 12, EL; 8 al
velocity 16, N. E.; 10 a. m., veloc
ity 14, N. E;; 12 noon, velocity 17. N.
E. Movement past 24 hours, 251 miles.
Barometer at 8 a. m., 30.07. Rela
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of little Pearl McGrew, changed hl3
plea when court opened this morn
ing and pleaded guilty to the chars?.
Judge Robinson at once dismissed the
jury and sentenced the fiend to
prisonment for life. .
The case," according to evidence in
troduced : yesterday, was pne of th a
most horrible ever tried In the local
courts. KawakamL: it . waa allege !,
had violated the little girl not cr.3
but : many, times during a period ex
tending over, half a -year. Yesterday
the little girl, her mother, her step
father, and Dr. A. N. Sinclair all tes
tified as to the guilt of the accuse 1.
Last night it was rumored, upon c;c 1
authority that City and County At
torney ,J. W., Cathcart would deniar.J
of the jurors the death penalty, ar.i
it is supposedly for this reason that
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HONOLULU STAB-BULLETIN,. FRIDAY, OCT. IS, 1912.
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SUFFRAGISTS HOLD SPECIAL
MEETING; PLANS FOR FUTURE
Under Leadership of Mrs. J. M.
Dowsett Interest Is Rapid
ly Increasing
A Kioial mfetinK of th- women
who are intore.stfd in woman's suf
fraRf in Honolulu was called at rh
home of Mrs. J. M. Dowsett yesterday
afternoon. The urjKse of this meet
ing was to adopt a constitution and
by-laws.
The meeting '.vas opened by the
president, Mrs. .1 M Dowsett. and
prayer was offered by Mr.-. Sarah Ka
li, (he vice president. Though there
are but few foreign-born women here
who are as yet actively interested in
this cause, the constitution and by
laws were read both in English and
in Hawaiian. ,
The first article the constitution
Kays that the suffrage organization
here shall be called the National Wo
men's Equal Suffrage Association of
Hawaii. The Hawaiian women are
anxious to vote and they are ready to
do all they can to gain equal suffrage.
One of the members said yesterday
that up to the present time the native
women haVe not known just what
steps to take and therefore have made
no progress but she said that with
Mrs. Dowsett as the president they
feel that the cause will surely ad
vance. All of the members are anx
ious to be active and want to arouse
Interest among all of the women in
the city irrespective of nationality.
The National Womans' Equal Suf
frage Association of Hawaii is to have
eight officers the president, two
vice presidents, a recording secretary,
a corresponding secretary, a translat-
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i ing secretary, a treasurer and an edi
1 tor of the official organ. The con.sti-
I tution is complete and prepares for
I the years To come. It is well drafted
jand the women themselves are satis
fied with it.
One of the first seps the suffragists
are to take is the house-to. house can
ivassing in the different precincts.
This will be done so that some inter
lest may be awakened in the Hawaiian
J women who have up to this time
j shown little interest in suffrage. Also
ja committee is soon to go around the
I island of Oahu with the purpose of in-
tf resting the women in the Koolau
j district.
! The women in Honolulu are sure to
I vote some time, and they hope that
that sometime will not be very far off.
I They are earnest, active suffragists,
inot suffragettes. There is a vast dif
ference in the meaning of these two
words, and they are often confused by
the people. The Pankhursts, who
have jecn in the limelight for some
time and are known as window
smashers, and who do not hesitate to
assault men, are suffragettes. They
believe in the militant suffrage. This
sort of thing does not awaken sym
pathy but, on the contrary, arouses
antagonism, regardless of the fact that
every great political reform has been
brought about by militant means. The
women of America and the women of
Hawaii are suffragists. They want to
vote because they feel that it is their
right but they have no desire what
ever to destroy property or people.,
The women are not working for suf
frage through any selfish motive, but
for the upliftment of the people and
for a better and greater Hawaii.
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est Spanish families of the coast a
family which has jossessed consider
able property in this section since ear
ly days.
Mrs. Dodson now contemplates pur.
chasing a portion of the beautiful es
tate formerly owned by the late Ad-
miral Ceckley. at Waikiki beach, and
; negotiations are already under way.
A mansion home is to be built on
the property, and Mrs. Dodson will re
side there during the winters. Her
son expects to finish his education in
the islands, and goes now to enter the
College of Hawaii.
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Special Star-Bulletin Correspondence J
WAILUKU. Oct. 15. The Baldwin
House kindergarten at Lahaina has
opened most successfully this .fall.
Over SO children of all ages have been
enrolled. This is a large number for
the kindergarten. It receives most
hearty support from all the parents of
Lahaina. The larger proportion this
year is, as usual, from the Japanese.
H. B. Penhallow, Geo. P. Cooke and
some others nominated at the recent
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Hugh Howell escorted the Maui
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"Dat lil pony" as John Hedges
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Three si t lands, handsome animals,
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Mistah Hedges is the gentleman
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The best thing about this act is that
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At a meeting of the Associated
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inent doctors of Brooklyn and Long
Island voluntarily pledged their
bodies after death to the dissecting
table.
It is difficult to convince a self-
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Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett. Photo circa 1918. Hawaii State Archives PP-71-2-014
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Born in 1861 at Lihue, Kauai in the Kingdom of Hawaii, Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann was the daughter of Mary Kaumana Pilahiulani, a Native Hawaiian, and German immigrant Hermann A. Widemann. Part of the Royal Hawaiian family, her father was a cabinet minister for Queen Lili'uokalani. Due to these connections, King Kalākaua and Queen Kapi'olan were present at her wedding to Jack Dowsett in 1888.

Five short years later, pro-American interests, with the assistance of US Marines, overthrew Queen Lili'uokalani and established the Republic of Hawai'i. The former island nation was annexed to the United States in 1898. With the introduction of this new territory to the Union, the mainland suffragists turned their eyes towards the Pacific to see if any progress could be made.

Written by Susan B. Anthony and other officers of the NAWSA, the "Hawaiian Appeal" of 1899 asked the US Congress to give Hawaiian women the right to vote "upon whatever conditions and qualifications the right of suffrage is granted to Hawaiian men." While Anthony and others wanted all women to have voting rights, they were especially concerned about non-Christian Native Hawaiian men gaining that power before the white and Native Hawaiian women of the territory. The Hawaiian Appeal received criticism from almost all corners. Local women, like Dowsett, felt that petitioning the territorial government for greater civil rights was the way to go.

In 1912, Dowsett founded the National Women's Equal Suffrage Association of Hawai'i (WESAH), the first Hawaiian suffrage organization. Modeling its constitution on that of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), they invited mainland suffragists to speak to the group. One of these women included Carrie Chapman Catt in 1918, who spoke in positive terms about the group after the meeting.

Thanks to the efforts of women like Dowsett and WESAH, President Wilson signed a bill allowing the residents of the territory to decide for themselves. Gathering both Native Hawaiian and white suffragists at the capitol building on the morning of the Senate vote on March 4, 1919, Dowsett declared:

"Sister Hawaiians, our foreign sisters are with us. Senator Wise asked us yesterday if the so-called 'society women' were leading us, and we told him that this was not so. We are working all together, and we want the legislature to know this. And we must also remember our Oriental sisters, who are not here today but who will also unite this great cause."'

While many in the territory, like those on the mainland, were against granting the right of suffrage to Asian women, Dowsett included them in her vision of Hawai'i's future. The bill passed the Hawaiian Senate that day, but a fresh battle was waiting in the House. Instead of granting women's suffrage immediately, the House decided to put it to a vote of the Hawaiian electorate in 1920. Furious with that response, Dowsett and 500 other women of "various nationalities, of all ages" poured onto the House floor with banners demanding "Votes for Women." Forced to reckon with the demonstrators, the House held hearings the next day for proponents and opponents to make their case. Standing alongside Dowsett were a wide variety of Hawai'ian women including Princess Kalaniana'ole and Lahilahi Webb, former lady-in-waiting to Queen Lili'uokalani's court.

A month later, the House had not budged and the suffragists of Hawai'i were losing their patience. Regrouping, Dowsett and her group began to lobby directly to the U.S. Congress through the territorial representative, Prince Kūhiō. They also began to create grassroots groups throughout the territory to prepare women for the vote when that opportunity arrived. Hawaiian women became enfranchised along with their mainland sisters when the 19th Amendment became part of the U.S. Constitution in August 1920. As residents of a U.S. territory, however, their elected representation was limited.

It would take another 39 years for Hawai'i to become the 50th state in the Union, and for the residents of Hawai'i, both male and female, to gain full US voting rights. Dowsett did not live long enough to see that day; she died December 10, 1929. She is buried next to her husband in Oahu Cemetery, Honolulu.

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Born in 1861 at Lihue, Kauai in the Kingdom of Hawaii, Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann was the daughter of Mary Kaumana Pilahiulani, a Native Hawaiian, and German immigrant Hermann A. Widemann. Part of the Royal Hawaiian family, her father was a cabinet minister for Queen Lili'uokalani.

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Suffragists You Need to Meet: Wilhelmina Dowsett (1861-1929)

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Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann was born in Lihue, Kauai, on March 28, 1861. Her mother was a native Hawaiian chieftainess who was part of the Royal Hawaiian family, and her father was an immigrant from Germany who was a coffee planter and served as a cabinet minister to Queen Lili'uokalani. Widemann married Jack Dowsett in 1888. A few years later, she watched as the U.S. Marines landed in Hawaii and overthrew her Queen. In short order, the Republic of Hawaii was established and then, by 1893, annexed as a territory of the U.S.

The National American Woman's Suffrage Association under Susan B. Anthony quickly seized on the opportunity to advocate to the U.S. Congress for Hawaiian women's equal suffrage in their "Hawaiian Appeal" of 1899. Dowsett and other Hawaiian women criticized this appeal as misguided because they thought it was more appropriate to directly petition the local government for civil rights.

Dowsett established the National Women's Equal Suffrage Association of Hawaii (WESAH) in 1912, while Carrie Chapman Catt was visiting. It was the first suffrage organization in Hawaii. The WESAH was inclusive of all women of the islands, regardless of heritage or race. The WESAH formally became affiliated with the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1913. Catt spoke highly about the Hawaiian women's suffrage activism. She returned to the islands again in 1918, to encourage them to move forward.

The Hawaiian Senate approved the woman's suffrage bill in 1919, but the House of Representatives resisted approval, even after Wilhelmina Dowsett had organized a parade of over 500 women of all ages and nationalities to march on the House floor demanding "Votes for Women." White male legislators feared that Native Hawaiians would have more power to regain control of the legislature if women had the right to vote. After several demonstrations and a month of waiting for the House to vote, Dowsett began organizing and lobbying the U.S. Congress directly. Simultaneously, she and other suffrage activists organized groups of women across the islands to prepare them for the day when they won the vote.

Ultimately, Hawaiian women won the right to vote when the 19th Amendment was ratified. As a territory, however, Hawaii's elected representation was not on par with mainland states. Full representation and full voting rights for both women and men of Hawaii would not occur for another 39 years, when the territory became the 50th state to join the Union. Sadly, Wilhelmina Dowsett, after years of political leadership, did not live to see full voting rights achieved in her homeland. She passed away December 10, 1929.

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Wilhelmina Dowsett established the National Women's Equal Suffrage Association of Hawaii (WESAH) in 1912, the first suffrage organization in Hawaii.

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Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett was a Hawaiian suffragist and political leader.

Born on March 28, 1861, to German coffee planter and cabinet minister Hermann A. Widemann and Hawaiian chieftess Mary Kaumana Pilahiulani, Dowsett grew up during the last years of Hawaiian independence. Due to her father's position as a cabinet minister, her 1888 wedding to Jack Dowsett, a businessman and politician, was attended by both King Kalākaua and Queen Kapi'olan.

After the United States overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy and annexed the island during the years of 1898 to 1900, Hawaiian women began to take an interest in gaining the right to vote. On the eve of Carrie Chapman Catt's 1912 visit to Hawaii, Dowsett founded the Women's Equal Suffrage Association of Hawai'i (WESAH). WESAH became an official affiliate of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in 1913. Hawaiian suffragists showed great skill in agitating for their cause, impressing NAWSA leaders and holding several mass demonstrations in 1919.

Momentum for Hawaiian suffrage stalled in early 1920 after territorial legislators disagreed over the specifics of who would be granted suffrage and when. Many of the white, male legislators worried over the potential for Native Hawaiians to take back political power if woman suffrage were passed. Frustrated with the delay, Dowsett and 500 other suffragists flooded the House floor equipped with "Votes for Women" banners. WESAH continued to agitate for suffrage until the 19th Amendment was enshrined in the Constitution on August 26, 1920. However, Hawaii's political power was limited until it gained statehood in 1959.

Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett died on December 10, 1929, after decades of leadership in Hawaii politics.

"Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett (U.S. National Park Service)." National Parks Service. U.S. Department of the Interior, August 16, 2019. https://www.nps.gov/people/wilhelmina-kekelaokalaninui-widemann-dowsett.htm.

Yasutake, Rumi. "Biographical Sketch of Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett." Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920, Women and Social Movements Database. https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/d/1010026889

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Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett was a Hawaiian suffragist and political leader. Born on March 28, 1861, to German coffee planter and cabinet minister Hermann A. Widemann and Hawaiian chieftess Mary Kaumana Pilahiulani, Dowsett grew up during the last years of Hawaiian independence. Due to her father's position as a cabinet minister, her 1888 wedding to...

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In honor of the 2021 National Women's History Month theme: "Valiant Women of the Vote: Refusing to Be Silenced," our Kūkahekahe cultural conversations column shares the mo'olelo of wāhine aloha 'āina (patriotic women) whose efforts to restore the monarchy and retain the rights of Native Hawaiians became a fight to achieve women's suffrage and the restoration of women's political power in the late 1800s and early 1900s. To learn more about these meʻe wāhine, follow Kaʻiwakīloumoku on Instagram and Facebook!

The traumatic shift of power and governance in late 19th century Hawai'i greatly marginalized the critical role that women played in leadership and daily life. Women had different, even greater rights in many ways under the Hawaiian form of governance. Increased western influences eroded the foundational capacity of Hawaiian women to provide the social and political balance that was central to Hawaiian society. For example, the promulgation of certain laws, such as in the Constitution of 1887 (the Bayonet Constitution) conspicuously excluded the mention of women, then specifically limited rights to certain classes of men in the later years of the kingdom.

The January 17, 1893 overthrow of the monarchy, and the dubious establishment of the Provisional Government in Hawaiʻi resulted in immediate and profound change. Leaders of the "P.G." barred women from voting in order to diminish the overwhelming power of the native vote. At the time, Native Hawaiians and other non-white men and women formed a large portion of the population and remained loyal to the monarchy. In specifically disenfranchising women and non-white kingdom citizens, the Provisional Government modeled its governance on similar laws in effect in the United States.

However, women in Hawaiian society had long exercised significant political power and were important leaders in the ʻohana, community, and kingdom. Women were monarchs, kuhina nui or regents of the kingdom, landowners, governors, ambassadors, members of the House of Nobles, and kāhuna, skilled specialists in every occupation imaginable. Thus, the absence of voting rights and the explicit right to hold political positions among Native Hawaiian women was not only ironic, but also deeply unjust.

Following the overthrow, prominent women of Hawaiian society used their influence and standing to affect change for the good of the lāhui and were major players in efforts to restore the monarchy and protect Native Hawaiian rights. Ka Hui Hawaiʻi Aloha ʻĀina o Nā Wāhine (The Hawaiian Patriotic League for Women) was founded by Emilie Kekāuluohi Widemann Macfarlane, Abigail Kuaihelani Campbell, and Emma Nāwahī; all were from powerful chiefly families.

They formed the hui leadership and helped to organize the 1897 petition drive that collected over 38,000 signatures protesting the possibility of annexation to the United States. These efforts successfully stopped the advancement of a treaty of annexation in the U.S. Congress in 1898, which led the United States to circumvent its own and international laws to annex Hawaiʻi, with the outbreak of the Spanish and American War as justification.

In the same vein of safeguarding the rights of the lāhui, efforts to restore women's political power began in these years when Hawaiʻi was made a republic and continued into the territorial years. Robert Wilcox and Prince Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole both introduced unsuccessful bills for women's suffrage in 1891 and 1915. Women's suffrage became further entangled in politics when Hawaiʻi became a territory in 1900. The Organic Act created a territorial government which also limited its ability to grant suffrage to any part of the population.

In addition to sexism, American and white racism against Native Hawaiians, Asians, and other nonwhites in Hawaiʻi was the largest obstacle to suffrage. And, as in Guam, the Philippines and Puerto Rico, suffrage for women was further complicated by virtue of Hawaiʻi being claimed as a U.S. territory.

In 1912 the prominent judge and scholar Emma Metcalf Beckley Nakuina and fellow suffragist Wilhemina Widemann Dowsett formed the National Women's Equal Suffrage Association of Hawaii (WESAH), a multi-ethnic coalition that was the first of its kind in Hawaiʻi. Through speeches, petitions, rallies, and countless columns written in Hawaiian and English newspapers, prominent and powerful Hawaiian aliʻi women mobilized their peers and supporters to push for the return of women's votes in the islands.

Organizers and supporters included many of the most well-known and respected women in the islands: Emma Ahuena Taylor, noted scholar and genealogist, was very active in the suffrage movement. The involvement of so many powerful women in Hawaiian society influenced notable suffragists from the U.S., who in turn introduced a bill in 1918 to Congress that allowed the Territory of Hawaiʻi to hold its own vote for suffrage. In 1919, attempts to pass a suffrage bill in Hawaiʻi were met with resistance, and supporters once again held rallies and drives.

Women's suffrage in the territory was finally regained in 1920 with the passage of the 19th amendment by the United States government. The first woman to register to vote was Johanna Papakaniau Wilcox. For women, the right to vote represented the beginning, not the end, of the struggle for pono in Hawaiʻi.

E ka ʻohana Kamehameha, when we think about nā poʻe aloha ʻāina, those patriotic individuals who loved their land and their nation, we must remember the incredible women whose political and civic engagement helped to shape and safeguard the rights of our lāhui, and whose legacies still live in each of us today.

Women arrived early at the clerk's office to register to vote for the first time after working to achieve women's suffrage in Hawaiʻi for decades. Honolulu Star-Bulletin, August 30, 1920.

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When the 19th Amendment was finally ratified on August 18, 1920, some women in Hawaii wasted no time in submitting their names to fill seats in government. But, as Healoha Johnston, curator of women's cultural history at the Smithsonian's Asian Pacific American Center (APAC), explains, these women didn't realize that the right to vote didn't automatically guarantee that women could also hold office.

Their confusion was understandable. After all, women in Hawaii had held key positions in government for generations. Before the U.S. annexed it as a territory in 1898, Hawaii had been an independent country with a constitutional monarchy. Women were ambassadors, judges on the supreme court, governors and monarchs.

"That's where their minds were," says Johnston. "They were already ten steps ahead of the vote. They were absolutely ready to occupy those positions." As it turned out, it took five more years and an amendment for Rosalie Enos Lyons Keliʻinoi (1875-1952) to be elected and become the first woman to hold office in the Hawaiian Territorial Legislature.

As host Lizzie Peabody explains in the most recent episode of , a Smithsonian Institution podcast, the achievement of the 19th Amendment in Hawai'i was a complicated and confusing win. "We tend to think of the 19th Amendment as the moment women gained power in America. But in fact, it was a moment when some women-Hawaiian women-regained a small portion of the power they once held," Peabody notes.

On Sidedoor, learn how women's suffrage came to Hawai'i

For the people of the U.S. territories Guam, the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Hawaiʻi, the fight for votes for women was closely connected to the fight for territorial independence. Even though women could vote in territorial elections, citizens of U.S. territories could not vote in presidential elections. (Hawaiians, men and women, were only able to vote in presidential elections when the territory became the 50th state in 1959.)

The long history of Hawaiian women in government can be traced back to the traditional Hawaiian conceptions of power, says Kālewa Correa, APAC's curator of Hawaiʻi and the Pacific. Native Hawaiians understand that -spiritual energy, which can be gained and lost by a person over time-could only be traced through one's mother. "Historically, women held an immense amount of power," Correa explains.

With James Cook's arrival to the islands in 1778, European contact ushered in an era of deadly disease, marking a period of intense crisis for Native Hawaiians. By some estimates, up to 95 percent of native Hawaiians died in the half-century following Cook's arrival, Correa says.

Hawaiians responded by creating a constitutional monarchy, intent on preserving their native culture and sovereignty. By 1890, the country had more than 80 embassies worldwide. "As an independent country, we're going around the world and creating diplomatic relationships with other countries," Correa says. "And women played an integral part in all of that."

Queen Emma of Hawai'i visited President Andrew Johnson's White House in 1866 to promote Hawaiʻi as an independent nation. In 1887, Queen Kapi'olani was on her way back to Hawaiʻi from a trip to Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee when she stopped by the United States National Museum (now the Smithsonian) in Washington D.C. There, she donated a waʻ a, or canoe, "as a gift between two nations," emphasizes Correa. "That demonstrates the kind of power she had," he says.

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Queen Liliʻuokalani was elected in 1891 as the first and only queen regnant of the Hawaiian Kingdom and shepherded the country through a period of intense growth. But her rule was cut short in 1893, when five white American and European businessmen-mostly foreigners who had made their fortune on Hawaiian sugar plantations-overthrew Liliʻuokalani in a coup d'état and established a provisional government.

As Johnston explains, these new rulers strategically barred women from voting, in part to curtail the power of the Native vote. Native Hawaiians and other women of color formed a large portion of the population still loyal to the Hawaiian monarchy-and therefore posed a serious threat to this new system, in the eyes of the white rulers. As Johnston tells Peabody, the colonialists and U.S. forces argued, through racist logic, that Native Hawaiians were incapable of self-rule.

For some women living through this upheaval, such as Judge Emma Nakuina, this new system created an ironic paradox, Peabody points out. Nakuina was a prominent Hawaiian judge, but could no longer vote on territorial matters.

Shortly after the overthrow, Nakuina and her protegee Wilhelmina Dowsett began organizing for women's right to vote on the islands. Dowsett, the daughter of a German immigrant and a Native Hawaiian woman with royal ancestry, spearheaded the fight for suffrage in Hawaiʻi. As a member of a wealthy family with ties to high society, Dowsett leveraged her connections to create the National Women's Equal Suffrage Association of Hawaiʻi in 1912.

In the following decade, Dowsett and a multi-ethnic coalition of Hawaiian women organized speeches in churches, created petitions and held rallies. They wrote countless columns in Hawaiian newspapers, which circulated around the islands and became a key space for communicating about the suffrage debate, Johnston says.

When the 19th Amendment finally passed, it was in part thanks to the tireless organizing of these Hawaiian women. Yet Dowsett and others knew that suffrage was just the beginning. Johnston points to one newspaper clipping as a small, but poignant example-a letter to the editor in The Garden Island, dated to August 24, 1920 and titled, with the hint of a threat, "The Chance to Get Even."

In it, the letter-writer encourages women to wield their now-regained political power wisely. "When the women of Kauai get the vote and come to the polls for the next election, they will doubtless recall how relentlessly some of the members of the last legislature fought the [women's] suffrage bill," they write. "...[T]hese obstructionists were warned that the day would come when the women would get back at them. [...] That time has come, and some of these same men are now in the field looking for votes. Now is the time to remember them!"

This clipping stands out to Johnston, in part because "it has this very determined and self-possessed voice," she says. It's a good example of the attitude that many Hawaiian women took to the fight for suffrage. "They realized [the vote] was a point of entry into a larger political structure. And they were very savvy about all of it, because they had existed within the political structure before," Johnston says.

These women saw suffrage as one key part of a larger fight-for Hawaiian independence, and the ability of women to participate in their home's future. "This was a way to have a voice again in determining Hawaiʻi's future, and determining the rights of the people. [...] There's this recognition that, political power will come after the vote," Johnston says. "This is just step one."

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Biography of Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett, 1861-1929
By Rumi Yasutake, Konan University

Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett was a suffragist in Hawai'i who headed the Woman's Equal Suffrage Association of Hawai'i (WESAH), the first woman suffrage organization formed in the islands at the time of Carrie Chapman Catt's visit to the islands in 1912. This was the organization affiliated with the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) with Catt's assistance.

Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann was born in Hawai'I to a German planter father, Hermann A. Widemann, and a Native Hawaiian mother of the chiefess rank, Mary Kaumana Pilahiuilani. Her father was a successful coffee planter on the island of Kauai and occupied high-ranking offices in the kingdom government. He was once known as a "devoted royalist" supporting Queen Liliuokalani in resisting U.S. annexation.

In 1888 Widemann married John "Jack" Dowsett, descended from a British sea captain who settled in Hawaii in 1828. Racially-and-culturally-hybrid Wilhelmina K.W. Dowsett mediated U.S.-colonized Native Hawaiian women and demographically-minority white-settler colonialist women by generating a woman suffrage movement in post-annexation Hawai'i. Dowsett, along with her sister Emilie Kekauluohi Widemann Macfarlane, were also active in the Daughters of Hawai'i, an organization of white settler women of missionary heritage and Native Hawaiian women to preserve the kingdom's high culture, to which both groups of women belonged.

Hawai'i became a U.S. possession in 1898 and a territory in 1900. When the Hawaiian Organic Act written on Capitol Hill depriving women citizens in the islands of suffrage, racially-hybrid Native Hawaiian women, especially those born to a non-American father and Native Hawaiian mother of the chiefess rank, took leadership roles in generating a woman suffrage movement. On the occasion of Carrie Chapman Catt's visit to the islands in 1912, they formed an organization, for the suffrage cause. With Catt's assistance, it became Hawai'i's affiliate of NAWSA in 1913. Since then, mainland NAWSA members visited the islands to promote and to report about woman suffrage activity in the islands. Their reports, such as those written by Alice Locke Park of Palo Alto in 1915 and Almira Hollander Pitman of Brookline MA in 1917, impressed their readers with Hawai'i's territorial legislators' readiness for woman's vote. Accordingly, NAWSA leaders successfully pressed Congress to place the woman suffrage issue under the jurisdiction of Hawai'i's territorial legislature in 1918.

Encouraged by such developments, Hawai'i's woman suffrage movement thrived. In 1919, a series of mass demonstrations were held drawing women of various racial and ethnic backgrounds. Nonetheless, deliberations in the two-house Territorial Legislature dragged on with the all-male legislators quarreling over how and when to grant women suffrage. Thus, momentum for woman suffrage eroded.

It was during this period that Hawai'i's political, economic, and civic affairs were under the oligarchic rule of the minority white men of missionary heritage. Native Hawaiians constituted the clear majority of voters, but white men and women shared "settler anxiety" towards Native Hawaiian women, who numerically and politically exceeded white women. These white men and women were also concerned about the surging numbers of children of Asian immigrants with birthright citizenship who would soon reach voting age. Accordingly, while white men and women in power appeared to be supportive of woman suffrage, their main concern was how to avoid or at least delay non-white voters' victory over the white male oligarchic rule.

Meanwhile, the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibited federal and state governments from disfranchising women, and on August 26, 1920, Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby extended the amendment to be applied to women citizens in Hawai'i.

Dowsett, presumably due to her German heritage, made especial efforts in war-relief and war-support movements led by white settler women of missionary heritage during WWI. After the war, she successfully generated racially-mixed mass women's demonstrations for the woman suffrage cause.

Sources:

Allison Sneider, Suffrage in an Imperial Age: U.S. Expansion and the Woman Question, 1870-1929 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), 104-14.

Ida Husted Harper, et al., eds., The History of Woman Suffrage IV, 1900-1902 (New York: J.J. Little &Ives Co., 1922), 381-82. [LINK]

Ida Husted Harper, et al., eds., The History of Woman Suffrage VI, 1900-1920 716-18. [LINK]

Alice Park, "Moving Towards Women Suffrage," Pacific Commercial Advertiser, 3 March 1915, in Alice Park Papers Scrapbooks, Book 1, 108. Huntington Library, San Mateo, California

Rumi Yasutake, "Re-Franchising Women of Hawai'i, 1912-1902: The Politics of Gender, Sovereignty, and Rank at the Crossroads of the Pacific," in Gendering the Trans-Pacific World, eds. Cathy Ceniza Choi and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (Amsterdam: Brill, 2017), 114-39.

Patricia Grimshaw, "Settler Anxieties, Indigenous Peoples, and Women's Suffrage in the Colonies of Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii, 1888 to 1902," Pacific Historical Review 69, no. 4 (2000).

Lawrence H. Fuchs, Hawaii Pono "Hawaii the Excellent": An Ethnic and Political History (Honolulu: Pess Press, 1961), 152-81.

Refer Bell, Last Among Equal: Hawaiian Statehood and American Politics (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1984), 45.

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Biographical Sketch of Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett

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Biography of Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett, 1861-1929 By Rumi Yasutake, Konan University Wilhelmina Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett was a suffragist in Hawai'i who headed the Woman's Equal Suffrage Association of Hawai'i (WESAH), the first woman suffrage organization formed in the islands at the time of Carrie Chapman Catt's visit to the islands in 1912.

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Women Ask Vote and Right To Use It At Municipal Elections

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"If these women of olf Hawaii were capable of framing and passing laws, surely the educated women of today were equally capable of performing similar acts, said most of the speakers"

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Bill to grant women suffrage denied by representatives

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