reported to
national headquarters, where it will be given attention at once."

A letter from Governor Cox to Mrs. Catt said: "I am very much
gratified at the news that you are to remain in Tennessee for the
ratification campaign. It gives me added reason for expressing
confidence that the Legislature will act favorably, which will greatly
please the national Democratic party." In addition he sent Miss Charl
Williams, a member of the Democratic National Committee, to Nashville
with the message that if necessary he would himself come and fight for
it. On August 7 at the request of Will H. Hays, chairman of the
Republican National Committee, Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton,
vice-chairman of its executive committee, came to assist.

Urged by President Wilson, Governor Cox, George White, chairman of the
National Democratic Committee, and Senator Pat Harrison, its chairman
of publicity and speakers, U. S. Senator McKellar came with his
valuable help. Miss Edna A. Beveridge of Maryland and Mrs. Lydia
Holmes, president of the Louisiana Suffrage Association, came to
assist Mrs. Catt. Miss Sue White, Tennessee chairman of the National
Woman's Party, assisted by Mesdames L. Crozier French, Walter Jackson,
Frank Phillips, Miss Anita Pollitzer, Miss Betty Grim, Parley P.
Christensen and others, also opened headquarters and worked for
ratification. Since there were so many committees at work it was
decided to appoint a general chairman and Miss Charl Williams was the
wise choice.

From the time the special session was called anti-suffragists gathered
in Nashville from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico, many of them paid
workers. Everett P. Wheeler, a New York lawyer, president of a
so-called American Constitutional League, formerly the Men's
Anti-Suffrage Association, came and formed a branch composed of men
prominent politically, who used every means known to influence
legislation; sent speakers into the districts of friendly legislators,
promised rewards, used threats, and charges of bribery were so
insistent that Judge D. B. DeBow ordered a grand jury investigation.
There was no depth to which some of the men trying to defeat woman
suffrage did not descend.[175]

Mrs. James S. Pinckard of Alabama, president of the Southern Women's
Rejection League; Miss Josephine Pearson, its Tennessee president;
Miss Mary G. Kilbreth, president of the National Anti-Woman Suffrage
Association, with many of their followers were at work with the
legislat