ught Woman Suffrage to many countries
-- Women present from thirty-six, including five members of
Parliament -- Delegates entertained by the Municipality --
Treasurer's report tells of help of United States -- Congress
votes to continue the Alliance.

APPENDIX 872

Anti-suffrage Manifesto of Nebraska men.

SUFFRAGE MAPS 626-629

ANTHONY MEMORIAL BUILDING _Opp. page_ 442

CHAPTER I.

ALABAMA[1]

In 1902 Miss Frances Griffin of Verbena sent to the national suffrage
convention the following report as president of the State suffrage
association: "Two clubs in Alabama, in Huntsville and Decatur, are
auxiliary to the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The
State president did some aggressive work within the year, speaking in
many different towns before women's clubs and at parlor meetings. She
devoted much time to work of this character in Montgomery, hoping to
bring to bear sufficient influence upon members of the Constitutional
Convention to secure some concessions for women citizens. The results
were bitterly disappointing, for it not only refused to grant suffrage
to tax-paying women but it gave to the husbands of tax-payers the
right to vote upon their wives' property! Women in the larger towns
are taking an interest in municipal and educational affairs. Some have
been placed on advisory boards in State institutions, such as the
Girls' Industrial School, the Boys' Reform School and others. All this
means a gradual advance for the suffrage sentiment, a general
modifying of the anti-sentiment."

There were also short reports for 1903 and 1904, which, while showing
no practical, tangible results of the efforts of that earnest pioneer
worker, are interesting as evidences of the backward, unprogressive
spirit against which the women of Alabama have had to contend. These
reports mark the end of the first period of suffrage activity in the
State, which had been maintained by a few devoted women. The new era
was ushered in by the organization in Selma in 1910 of an Equal
Suffrage Association which was the beginning of an aggressive,
tireless fight. Miss Mary Partridge, after seeing the defeat of a
constitutional amendment for prohibition in Alabama despite the
earnest but ineffectual efforts of the women who besieged the polls
begging the men to