rristown November 3, with Mrs.
Hannah Price Hardy president; one at Chattanooga December 9, with Mrs.
E. W. Penticost president.

By 1912 a new era had dawned with five of the largest cities organized
and affiliated with the State association. It held its annual
convention at Nashville January 10-11. Governor Ben W. Hooper
addressed it and stated that he was "on the fence" as to the suffrage
question. Mrs. Allen was elected honorary president and Miss Sarah
Barnwell Elliott president. Miss Elliott spent two months of this year
speaking in the State and she also spoke in Birmingham, in New York
and the Mississippi Valley Conference in Chicago. In December a
suffrage club was organized in Jackson with Mrs. C. B. Bell president.
J. W. Brister, State Superintendent of Schools, gave a suffrage
address at Nashville.

The State convention was held again at the Hermitage Hotel in
Nashville, Jan. 6, 7, 1913. The principal speakers were ex-Governor
John I. Cox, U. S. Senator Luke Lea, Misses Laura Clay of Kentucky and
Mary Johnston of Virginia. Mrs. Virginia Clay Clopton, as president,
sent greetings from the Huntsville, Ala., league, reorganized after a
lapse of thirty years with the same president. The main discussion was
whether to introduce a suffrage bill in the Legislature. Mrs. Margaret
Ervin Ford urged it, saying that, though it had small chance, it was
well to accustom the Legislature to the idea. The matter was placed in
the hands of Miss Elliott, Mrs. French, Mrs. Dudley and Mrs. Scott,
who recommended that no bill should be introduced. Mrs. Allen and Miss
Elliott were re-elected and Mrs. James M. McCormack was made
vice-president-at-large; Miss Clay and Miss Johnston spoke on the 10th
at a large meeting in Chattanooga and Miss Clay the following Sunday
in the Universalist church. On April 7 Miss Elliott and Mrs. Dudley
marched in Washington in a parade to the Capitol to interview the
Tennessee representatives in Congress on the Federal Amendment. This
year Miss Jeannette Rankin of Montana, an organizer for the National
Association, came to assist. By October the State membership was 942
and fifteen newspapers were reached regularly with suffrage matter.
Booths were conducted at many of the county fairs and a "suffrage day"
was given at the Memphis Tri-State fair, when the outside speakers
were Miss Clay and Miss Kate Gordon of Louisiana. The _News Scimitar_
issued a suffrage edition.

A second convention met in Mo