y the voting of the women at the
primaries, said: "Resolved, That the United States Senate is hereby
respectfully but urgently requested to act immediately and favorably
upon the woman suffrage amendment, which has already received proper
recognition by the House of Representatives; that such action is in
full accordance with enlightened sentiment which sees no reason for
further delay."

Unfortunately many friends, both men and women, were misled into
believing that it would now be possible to win a complete suffrage
victory in Texas, although 260,000 real American voters were away on
account of the war and thousands of aliens remained at home to vote.
Because of the delay in Congress on the Federal Amendment both Houses
submitted by unanimous vote an amendment to the State constitution. It
was handicapped by a "rider" which required full naturalization by
every foreign-born man before he could vote, instead of merely his
first papers as now. This ensured a negative vote from every alien. A
telegram to Washington summoned Mrs. Cunningham to return immediately
and take command of the campaign, for it would be a Herculean task to
manage one successfully in less than three months' time in a State
consisting of 253 counties and the vote to be taken May 24. It was
impossible for the State association to finance such a campaign and
the National Association, although disapproving of the referendum,
contributed about $17,000.

President Wilson sent a cablegram from Paris urging the voters to give
the amendment their support and the members of his administration used
their influence in its favor. The State officials championed it and
the party organization of the State and many in the counties put
themselves behind it. All of the daily newspapers but one in the four
largest cities advocated it. Almost every minister labored earnestly
for it, many of them preaching in favor of it. Many excellent women
engaged in the campaign, some of them even speaking on the street
corners. The district, city and county chairmen of the State suffrage
association totaled 400 earnest, active women with whom the
headquarters kept in close touch through letters, press bulletins,
telephone and telegraph. These chairmen were the medium through which
3,000,000 fliers and 200,000 copies of the _Texas Democrat_, an
excellent paper edited for the occasion by Dr. A. Caswell Ellis of
the State University faculty, reached the voters. More than ninety
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