the name of Mr. Fouts be added because he had introduced a
full suffrage measure, and it became the Reynolds-Fouts Bill. Miss
Hauser, editor of the _Bulletin_, official organ of the State Suffrage
Association, said in it: "We had just witnessed a perfect exhibition
of team work and a demonstration of loyalty to a cause and to each
other by members of opposing political parties that was heart warming.
We had finished the suffrage fight in Ohio as Mrs. Upton had always
wanted to finish it, with love, good will and harmony in our own
ranks, and, so far as we were able to judge, with nothing but good
will from the men with whom we had worked since the present stage of
the contest was inaugurated in 1912."

The suffragists believed the fight was over, not so the opponents.
They at once secured referendum petitions on both ratification and
Presidential suffrage. In 1918 the Home Rule Association (the liquor
interests) had initiated and carried at the November election an
amendment to the State constitution providing that Federal amendments
must be approved by the voters before the ratification of the
Legislature was effective. This was designed primarily to secure a
reversal of prohibition in Ohio but also to prevent ratification of
the suffrage amendment.[143]

In collecting their petitions the same old tactics were employed. The
personnel of the workers was largely the same, with the addition of a
State Senator from Cincinnati as general manager. The money to finance
the campaign came principally from that city and this time members of
the women's Anti-Suffrage Association were contributors. The saloons
were now closed and pious instructions were given not to have the
petitions circulated by saloon keepers or bar tenders. Nevertheless
nearly 600 of them were circulated by men who had been connected with
the saloon business, some of them now conducting soft drink
establishments, and the signatures were plainly of the most illiterate
elements.

The State Suffrage Association persuaded the National American
Association to attack the constitutionality of this referendum in the
courts and suit was accordingly brought. Eventually it was sustained
by the Supreme Court of Ohio and was carried to the U. S. Supreme
Court by George Hawk, a young lawyer of Cincinnati. It rendered a
decision that the power to ratify a Federal Amendment rested in the
Legislature and could not be passed on by the voters.

The Legislature in an adjour