Vote

Clara looked over at me and saw that there were tears running down my cheeks. “What’s wrong, Maude?” 

I shook my head. “Nothing is wrong, Clara. You and I just voted. It’s the first time in my life I felt like I mattered, that I had some say about what was going on. Things couldn’t be more right.”

The Presidential Election is next Tuesday night. Every time I walk into a voting booth, I think of my shy and quiet grandmother, Maude Foley. When women got the vote in 1920, she and many other of the women in Kennett, Missouri defied their husbands to cast a ballot. Luckily, my grandfather sputtered, but would never raise his hand to her. Some other women weren’t so fortunate.

Only three years earlier, in June of 1917, 33 women, some of them elderly, were arrested for picketing the Woodrow Wilson White House asking for the vote. They were thrown into the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia and beaten and abused throughout the night.
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After three nights, they were released. They returned to the picket line.

In November, they were arrested again along with 250 more women. There were more beatings and even torture. There was no three day release this time. They were held indefinitely and fed food crawling with bugs and maggots. Those who refused to eat were force fed with a hose.

After two weeks, a court found they had been illegally arrested. They were freed and returned to their work.

When I vote, I am never alone. Alice Paul, Carrie Chapman Catt, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone and thousands of others, including my grandmother, who worked and suffered to give me that right stand with me. I could not be there without them.