with these three officers and Miss Edna Annette
Beveridge interviewed and polled members of the Legislature. Acting
for the association Mrs. Shuler divided the State and assigned the
districts to three national organizers, Miss Beveridge, who remained
three-and-a-half months; Mrs. Augusta Hughston and Miss Mary Elizabeth
Pidgeon, six weeks each, the National Association paying salary and
expenses and furnishing literature and printed petitions to members of
the Legislature. Suffrage societies were revived, public officials,
editors and ministers interviewed and much work was done.

On April 2, 3, a large and enthusiastic State convention was held in
Charleston at the Kanawha Hotel. Coming directly from the convention
of the National Association at St. Louis, Mrs. Catt, the president,
who had asked for a "working" conference with the State board, spoke
on the Federal Amendment at the afternoon session and to a mass
meeting in the Young Men's Christian Association Hall in the evening.
She was accompanied by Mrs. Shuler, who spoke at a dinner in the
Ruffner Hotel presided over by Mrs. Woodson T. Wills, vice-president
of the West Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs, and addressed by
prominent men and women of the State and by Miss Marjorie Shuler,
national director of field publicity, who had conducted a conference
at the afternoon session.

RATIFICATION. The Federal Amendment was submitted by Congress June 4,
and the pressing work for the State association was to secure its
ratification by the Legislature. Mrs. Ellis A. Yost was made chairman
of the Ratification Committee, whose other members were Mrs. Ruhl,
Mrs. Ebert, Mrs. H. D. Rummel, Miss Mary Wilson, Miss Margaret
McKinney and Mrs. Romine. An Advisory Board was formed of 150 of as
influential men as there were in the State, judges, lawyers, bankers,
officials, presidents and professors of colleges, editors, clergymen,
presidents of the State Federation of Labor and other organizations;
and the most prominent women in educational, civic and club work. This
list was printed on the campaign stationery. The last of December
Governor John J. Cornwell received a letter from Mrs. Catt urging him
to call a special session in January. He was known to favor
ratification and he had been kept informed by the members of the
suffrage association and the W. C. T. U., who had polled the
legislators and found a majority in favor.

The Democratic Governor called the Republican Leg