“THE Rt. Rev. William Croswell Doane, [Episcopalian] Bishop of Albany, in closing his address to the graduating class of St. Agnes’ School, said: ‘I cannot count it necessary and perhaps it is not wise for me to caution you against the loudly shrieked call to give women the right to vote and to be voted for. I am disposed to think that the quiet and decent appeal of a few of the so-called suffragists will be so drowned in the sort of howling-dervish performance of the so-called Suffragettes that they will fail of any effect. At any rate, the argument should be addressed rather to legislators than to you, except so far as one is justified in saying here to you that your womanhood will gain nothing by suffrage, and is losing every day in its dignity and its true influence by the hysterical clamor which is employed in the pursuit of this chimera.'”
—- The Anti-Suffragist, September, 1909
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