he final convention of the Woman Suffrage
Association was held in Columbus and with its work finished the State
League of Women Voters was organized, with Miss Amy G. Maher as
chairman.

The devotion, the efficiency, the self-sacrifice of the suffrage
workers in Ohio will never be known. Their strength lay in their
cooperation. To give their names and their work would fill all the
space allowed for this chapter but one exception should in justice be
made. Elizabeth J. Hauser from her childhood days until the Federal
Amendment was ratified gave her life to woman's enfranchisement.
Painstaking, fearless, unselfish and able, she labored cheerfully, not
caring for praise or credit for the things she accomplished. A good
executive, organizer, legislative worker, speaker and writer, she was
a power in the counsels of the suffragists. To her more than to any
other woman do Ohio women owe a debt of gratitude.[141]

From the first gathering of Ohio suffragists in 1850 until Tennessee
spoke the last word in 1920, few years passed when some suffrage
measure was not asked for and few Legislatures went out of existence
without having considered some legislation referring to women. In 1894
a law gave them the right to vote for members of the boards of
education. In 1904 and 1905, the Legislature was asked to submit to
the voters an amendment to the State constitution giving full suffrage
to women but the resolution was not reported out of the committees. In
1908 it was reported but no vote was taken. In 1910 it was defeated on
the floor. This was the experience for years.

Periodically attempts had been made to revise the State constitution
of 1851 without success but the Legislature of 1910 provided for
submitting to the voters the question of calling a convention, which
was carried in the fall of that year. The convention was to be
non-partisan. The suffragists interviewed the delegates on putting
woman suffrage in the new constitution and the poll was complete when
the convention opened. The moment the president was chosen, the
suffrage leaders asked for a friendly committee and from that time to
the very last moment they were at work. The proposition for a woman
suffrage clause was introduced Jan. 22, 1912; a pro-hearing was held
February 8; an anti-hearing followed by a public meeting was had
February 14 and the following day it was favorably reported out of
committee by a vote of 20 to 1.

Interests, vicious and commercial