the
Maryland and Iowa Anti-Suffrage Associations, sent urgent telegrams to
defeat ratification, which were read to both Houses. Attorney General
Freeling made a strong State's rights argument against it but the
resolution was finally passed on February 27 by a vote of 84 to 12 in
the House and the next day in the Senate by 25 to 13. Senators Fred
Tucker of Ardmore and J. Elmer Thomas of Lawton sponsored it in the
Senate and Paul Nesbitt of McAlester and Bert C. Hodges of Okmulgee in
the House. Governor Robertson signed it February 28. Attorney General
Freeling immediately started a petition to refer this action to the
voters. The decision of the U. S. Supreme Court that there could be no
referendum of Federal Amendments ended this final effort.

The Ratification Committee, with a feeling of gratitude to the
National Suffrage Association for the generous assistance that had
been given to Oklahoma affiliated the State with this body and it was
represented at the next national convention by a delegation of eight.

In 1920 Mrs. Lamar Looney was elected to the State Senate; Miss Bessie
McColque to the House and Miss Alice Robertson to the Lower House of
Congress.

FOOTNOTES:

[145] The History is indebted for this chapter to Mrs. Adelia C.
Stephens, president of the State Woman Suffrage Association, and Miss
Katherine Pierce, chairman of the Ratification Committee.

[146] History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV, page 888.

[147] The following testimonial was gratefully offered: Mrs. Ida
Porter Boyer by her tact and never failing kindness not only won the
love of the suffragists of Oklahoma but the respect and confidence of
all others who knew her. By her tireless energy and unselfishness she
did a work which contributed very largely to the final success that
came later. Signed, Kate H. Biggers, president State Suffrage
Association; Jence C. Feuquay, first vice-president; Adelia C.
Stephens, corresponding secretary; Ruth A. Gay, chairman finance
committee.

[148] Other State officers through the years were Mrs. N. M. Carter,
Mrs. Julia Dunham, Dr. Edith Barber, Elizabeth Redfield, Mrs. J. R.
Harris, Mrs. Narcissa Owen, Mrs. A. K. McKellop, Martha Phillips,
Minnie O. Branstetter, Mrs. Roswell Johnson, Lucy G. Struble, Carrie
K. Easterly, Kate Stafford, Dora Delay, Ellen McElroy, Edith Wright,
Mrs. Lee Lennox, Mary Goddard, Mrs. John Threadgill, Blanche H.
Hawley, Mrs. A. S. Heany, Mrs. Clarence Davis, Mrs. Carl Willia