uarters group. Miss
Martha Haywood did invaluable work as publicity chairman. A booth with
literature, posters, etc., was established in the Yarborough Hotel.

Among the prominent men who during the struggle for ratification
strongly urged it were: Secretary Daniels, Gen. Julian S. Carr; Col.
Wade Harris, editor of the Charlotte _Observer_; J. W. Bailey,
collector of Internal Revenue; Clyde R. Hoey, member of Congress; Max
O. Gardner, Lieutenant Governor; J. C. Pritchard, Judge of the U. S.
Circuit Court of Appeals; Dennis G. Brummitt, Speaker of the House;
ex-Governor Locke Craig, A. W. McAlister and many others. Senator
Simmons, who was asked to come to Raleigh to assist in the fight,
refused to do so but issued another statement that, although he had
always been opposed to suffrage and his position was unchanged, he
realized that its coming was inevitable and believed that it would
help the Democratic party to ratify. Later, in response to a request
from the Raleigh _News and Observer_, he stressed the point that,
since the rest of the country was practically unanimous for
ratification, he feared sectional antagonism might be aroused if North
Carolina did not ratify. Mr. Bryan sent a message urging
ratification. Mrs. Daniels came to Raleigh to assist personally in the
struggle to ratify.

On August 10 the session convened. The outlook was encouraging but the
enemies had been busy and the very next day a "round robin" signed by
63 members of the House was sent to the General Assembly of Tennessee,
where a bitter fight on ratification was in progress, which said: "We,
the undersigned, members of the House of Representatives of the
General Assembly of North Carolina, constituting the majority of said
body, send greetings and assure you that we will not ratify the Susan
B. Anthony amendment interfering with the sovereignty of Tennessee and
other States of the Union. We most respectfully request that this
measure be not forced upon the people of North Carolina."

On August 13 the Governor, accompanied by Mrs. Bickett, Mrs. Daniels
and Mrs. Jerman, appeared in person before the joint assembly in the
hall of the House of Representatives, where the gallery was crowded
with women, and began his address by saying: "From reports in the
public press it seems that sentiment in the General Assembly is
decidedly against the ratification of the amendment. With this
sentiment I am in deepest sympathy and for the gentlemen who ente