ere Mesdames E.
J. Warren, Cynthia B. Fuller, Henrietta J. Pinches, A. Barton Hepburn,
Julius Maltby, H. H. DeLoss, Carlos F. Stoddard, Henry Townshend,
Jonathan A. Rawson, T. S. McDermott, Ruth McIntire Dadourian; Misses
Emily Whitney, Mary A. Goodman, Mary Bulkley, Frances Osborn.

The names of the many women who gave devoted service to this cause
during this score of years can never be recorded.

CHAPTER VII.

DELAWARE.[27]

During the past twenty years the advocates of woman suffrage have
continued to suffer from the handicap peculiar to Delaware--no
referendum to the voters possible on constitutional amendments--and
therefore it never has had the advantage of a State-wide educational
campaign. An amendment must be passed by two-thirds of each branch of
the Legislature at two successive sessions and it then becomes a part
of the constitution. However, the State Equal Suffrage Association has
held conventions every year. Many distinguished advocates from outside
the State, including Miss Susan B. Anthony, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Catt, Miss Mary Garrett Hay, Mrs. Beatrice Forbes
Robertson Hale, Mrs. Maud Wood Park, Mrs. Frank A. Vanderlip and Mrs.
Borden Harriman, have been among the speakers. Prominent endorsers of
woman suffrage have been the State Grange, Grand Army of the Republic,
Ministerial Union, Central Labor Union and Woman's Christian
Temperance Union. The last is the only leading woman's organization to
give official sanction.

The annual State convention was held Nov. 6, 1901, at Newport, with
three clubs--Wilmington, Newport and New Castle--under the presidency
of Mrs. Martha S. Cranston. Dr. Shaw, vice-president-at-large of the
National Association, was the speaker and the presence of reporters
was an encouraging feature.

The convention of 1902 took place November 8 in Wilmington. Miss Jane
Campbell, president of the large Philadelphia county society, and
Henry W. Wilbur of the Friends' society, New York, were the speakers
from outside the State. During this year the W. C. T. U. and the
Wilmington District Epworth League passed suffrage resolutions. The
Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony was placed in travelling libraries.
Women were urged to pay their taxes "under protest." The Newport Club
petitioned that the word "male" be omitted from the new town charter
but without success. Governor John Hunn in his Message to the
Legislature said: "The time is coming when the par