s. Anna Laskey and Mrs.
Jence C. Feuquay. The officers elected were: president, Mrs. Biggers,
Indian Territory; first vice-president, Mrs. Woodworth; second, Mrs.
Anna M. Bennett; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Laskey; recording
secretary, Mrs. Louisa Boylan McLoud; treasurer, Miss Margaret Rees;
auditors, Mrs. Rebecca Forney and Mrs. Mary B. Green, all of Oklahoma
Territory, and Mrs. Mary C. Harvey of Indian Territory.

The second annual convention was held Oct. 26-28, 1905, at Chickasha,
Indian Territory. Mrs. Biggers, Mrs. Woodworth, Miss Rees and Mrs.
Green were re-elected. New officers were, Mrs. Minnie Keith Bailey,
Mrs. Cleo Ikard Harris, Mrs. Ida Wood Norvell, Mrs. Jessie Livingston
Parks and Mrs. Hattie Sherman. Vigorous protest had been made by women
throughout the Territories against the bill for statehood which had
been presented to Congress, classifying women in the suffrage section
with illiterates, minors, felons, insane and feeble-minded. The matter
was also taken up by the National Association. [See Chapter V, Volume
V.] Later when bills in the Territorial Legislature for a
constitutional convention repeated this clause a conference was held
with the officers of the W. C. T. U. and hundreds of letters of
protest were sent.

As a constitutional convention seemed near at hand Dr. Frances Woods
of South Dakota was sent by the National Association to organize in
Indian Territory. With the help of Mrs. Woodworth she secured hearings
before women's clubs and W. C. T. U.'s, addressed State Labor and
Press Associations and was invited to speak to a Farmers' Institute
300 miles away with her expenses paid. Miss Gregg continued the
organizing in Oklahoma, addressing an audience of 6,000 at the Grand
Army of the Republic encampment and speaking to teachers' institutes,
business colleges, country school house meetings and women's clubs.
One issue of the _Messenger_, the U. C. T. U. organ, was devoted to
woman suffrage. The membership increased; over 75 papers used suffrage
articles and much literature donated by the National Association was
circulated. The Oklahoma City Club, Mrs. Adelia C. Stephens,
president, was especially active in having the women register for the
school elections, in which they could vote for trustees, in order to
defeat the school book trust, and 600 did so.

In May Dr. Woods spoke at the annual meeting of the Woman's Relief
Corps in Oklahoma City and a resolution was passed favoring woman