 Let's start with some of the people involved here. There's Carrie Chapman Catt, a veteran of the movement in her 50s, using the charm offensive. Let mother vote. We raised you after all. Won't you thank the lady you have loved since you were small? There's Alice Paul, an eager radical in her 20s. I don't want to have to compromise. I don't want to have to beg for crumbs from a country that doesn't care what I say.