Illustration shows a torch-bearing female labeled "Votes for Women", symbolizing the awakening of the nation's women to the desire for suffrage, striding across the western states, where women already had the right to vote, toward the east where women are reaching out to her. Printed below the cartoon is a poem by Alice Duer Miller.
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- Summary: Photograph of five National Woman's Party members demonstrating, with banners, in front of the Lafayette Statue. Lucy Branham, center, is burning President Wilson's words.
- Cropped version of the photograph published in The Suffragist, 6, no. 36 (Sept. 28, 1918): cover. Caption: The Suffrage Demonstration, Sept. 16, 1918, in Front of the White House.
