For it simply mean that the best, most intelligent and sweetest of New York women were bravely showing their eagerness to help make the world a better place to live in, so that all little children may have a better chance of growing up good and happy and strong.

[2]Rogers worked with Alice Paul, founder of the National Woman's Party, to establish suffrage groups under the name Women's Political Union.

In Putnam, they met with Edith Diehl, Marjorie Addis, Antoinette Hopkins, Helena Fish, Kate deForest Crane, and many more.

[3] The following is an excerpt from Elizabeth Selden Rogers's editorial, "Why We Withdrew," published in Women's Political World in 1915: A great deal is said of the value of co-operation of all societies and the economy of not duplicating work.

The two appealed to Rogers' brother-in-law, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, to ask that he assign military personnel to help keep order.

Stimson could take little action due to his position, but he was sympathetic to the movement and ordered the Fifteenth Cavalry from Fort Myer, Maryland, to bivouac on the western perimeter of Washington to help protect the suffragists.

In all this question the country should blame the President for failing to secure the passage of the Federal Woman Suffrage amendment and should uphold women who are fighting for American ideals of government.

On December 16, 1918, with Wilson in France to attend the Peace Conference to end World War I, hundreds of women marched through Washington, carrying lighted torches and purple, white, and gold banners.

"[14] The suffragists traveled to 15 major cities in the United States, including many in the more conservative South, believing that Southern support was the key to passing a suffrage Amendment.

A Suffragist article about the Prison Special described how their audiences in the West had “become a path of people freshly awakened to the deep importance of immediate national action.”[16] Rogers was born on July 23, 1868, in Astoria, Queens, New York.

[17] She was also the maternal granddaughter of Union Major General Amos Beebe Eaton and a descendant of Roger Sherman, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and signers of the Declaration of Independence.