ll reconsider the vote by
which it rejected the legislation extending the suffrage to women? Our
party is so distinctly pledged to its passage that it seems to me the
moral obligation is complete.--Woodrow Wilson."

[168] Mrs. Frances Fort Brown of Nashville left a bequest of $3,000 to
the National American Woman Suffrage Association and its board of
officers appropriated enough of it to pay the expenses of this suit.

[169] The History is indebted for this chapter to Mrs. Margaret Ervin
Ford, president of the State Equal Suffrage Association.

[170] Mrs. C. B. Allen organized the Memphis Woman's Party within the
State Association and became its president and Mrs. Ford organized it
in Chattanooga with over 400 members, was elected president and ward
organization started there. Nashville had the first through ward
organization, due to Miss Matilda Porter.

[171] The lists of the many officers of the association during the
years are unavoidably too imperfect to be used without doing injustice
to those omitted. In Mrs. Ford's strong desire to give full credit to
all the men and women who were actively connected with the work for
woman suffrage in Tennessee she sent lists so long that the lack of
space made it absolutely necessary to omit them.--Ed.

[172] The gold pen used by Governor Roberts in signing the bill was
one used by Dr. John W. Wester when drafting the first anti-liquor
bill ever introduced in the Tennessee Legislature, in December, 1841.
With it also Governor Rye signed the Lookout Mountain Suffrage Bill.
It belongs to Mrs. Ford, grand-daughter of Dr. Wester.

[173] Anti-suffragists from all over the State bombarded Governor
Roberts with threats of defeat for reelection should he persist in
pushing ratification, many of whom were his strongest friends and
supporters. At the special elections during the summer held to fill
vacancies in the Legislature several suffragists were elected, among
them M. H. Copenhaver, who took the seat of Senator J. Parks Worley,
arch enemy of suffrage. T. K. Riddick, a prominent lawyer, made the
race in order to lead the fight for ratification in the House.
Representative J. Frank Griffin made a flying trip from San Francisco
to cast his vote for it.

[174] Mrs. Catt, Mrs. Upton and Miss Shuler did no lobbying in the
State House.

[175] After Mrs. Catt returned to New York she said: "Never in the
history of politics has there been such a nefarious lobby as labored
to bloc