vote in the Senate was 43 ayes, 1 no,
with 5 absent; in the House 98 ayes, no negative, with 15 absent. It
was to be voted on Nov. 2, 1920. Before that date the Federal
Amendment had been submitted by Congress and ratified by thirty-seven
Legislatures.

RATIFICATION. The Legislature met in special session Dec. 2, 1919, and
ratified by the following vote: Senate, 41 ayes, 4 noes with 3 absent;
House 102 ayes, 6 noes. Nevertheless the vote on the State amendment
had to be taken on Nov. 2, 1920, and it stood: Ayes, 129,628; noes,
68,569. Thousands of women voted at this election.

On April 1, 1920, the State Votes for Women League met and was
re-organized as the League of Women Voters, with Mrs. Kate S. Wilder
of Fargo chairman.

FOOTNOTES:

[137] The History is indebted for this chapter to Mrs. Emma S. Pierce,
vice-president of the State Votes for Women League.

[138] A field worker for a philanthropic organization, who had a room
in a hotel in Bismarck, the capital, next to one occupied by the
representative of the liquor interests, heard him send a long distance
telephone message to Mrs. Young for her and the Judge to come on the
first train, as they were needed. She heard another one say: "If the
d----n women get the ballot there will be no chance of re-submitting
the prohibition amendment."

CHAPTER XXXIV.

OHIO.[139]

The history of woman suffrage in Ohio is a long one, for the second
woman's rights convention ever held took place at Salem, in April,
1850, and the work never entirely ceased. Looking back over it since
1900, when the Ohio chapter for Volume IV ended, one is conscious of
the wonderful spirit manifested in the State association. Other States
did more spectacular work and had larger organizations but none
finished its tasks with a stronger spirit of loyalty and love for the
work and the workers.

The State Woman Suffrage Association was organized in 1885 and held
annual conventions for the next thirty-five years, at which capable
officers were elected who were consecrated to their duties. From 1899
to 1920 Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton was president, with the exception of
the three years 1908-1911, when the office was filled by Mrs. Pauline
Steinem of Toledo. During the first twenty years of the present
century but one year, that of 1911, passed without a State
convention.[140] For over twenty years the State headquarters were in
Warren, the home of Mrs. Upton.

On May 4, 5, 1920, t