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"Votes for Women" Courtesy Minnie Fisher Cunningham Collection Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library Opposition to woman suffrage took a variety of forms. The organized liquor interest was strongly anti-suffragist, fearing that enfranchised women would vote in prohibition. Women anti-suffragists organized the Texas Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage in 1916; it was led by Mrs. James B. Wells, the wife of the political boss of South Texas. |