ssociation. A number of notable speakers were brought to the State
and the subject was introduced in women's organizations. This year
through the San Antonio league a bill was introduced in the
Legislature but never came to a vote.

In April, 1914, the State convention was held in Dallas and Miss
Brackenridge was made honorary president and Miss Finnigan again
elected president. During the year State headquarters were opened in
Houston and the clubs were increased from eight to twenty-one. Miss
Pearl Penfield, as headquarters and field secretary, organized the
State work. The president sent letters to all the legislators asking
them to pledge themselves to vote for a woman suffrage amendment to
the State constitution. None of them had an idea that any of the
others would agree to support it and a considerable number in a desire
to "please the ladies" wrote charming letters of acquiescence. When in
January, 1915, they confronted a large group of women lobbyists,
experiences were hurriedly compared and consternation reigned among
them. "Uncle" Jesse Baker of Granbury, of honored memory, introduced
the resolution to submit an amendment to the electors. The Legislative
Committee were inexperienced but they worked with such zeal that it
received a vote in the House of 90 to 32. It was not considered by the
Senate.

Among those who worked with Miss Finnigan during the three months in
Austin were Mrs. Minnie Fisher Cunningham, president of the Galveston
Equal Suffrage Association; Mrs. Tex Armstrong of the Dallas
association; Mrs. J. O. Creighton of the Austin association; Mrs. Ed.
F. Harris and Mrs. J. H. W. Steele of Galveston; Mrs. David Doom, Mrs.
Robert Connerly, Mrs. L. E. Walker, Mrs. A. B. Wolfe and Mrs. R. H.
Griffith, all of Austin; Mrs William H. Dunne of San Antonio; Mrs.
Elizabeth Herndon Potter of Tyler; Mrs. W. E. Spell of Waco.

On Sunday afternoon, March 28, Dr. Shaw, the guest of Miss
Brackenridge, delivered a great speech in Beethoven Hall under the
auspices of the San Antonio Equal Franchise Society, accompanied on
the stage by its president, Mrs. Dan Leary; J. H. Kirkpatrick,
president of the Men's Suffrage League, the Rev. George H. Badger and
Miss Marie B. Fenwick, a veteran suffragist. Many converts were made.
In April the State convention met in Galveston and reports showed
twenty-one auxiliaries. Mrs. Cunningham was elected president, alert,
enthusiastic and bringing to the cause the valuable exper