ate Johnson, Charles Warner, former Congressman Hiram
R. Burton, Speaker Charles Grantland and others. These men argued and
pleaded with the Republican legislators to give the 36th and final
ratification of the 19th Amendment but without effect.

On May 28, twenty-three days after the resolution had passed the
Senate, it was sent to the Lower House. In the interval the Labor
Union of Wilmington passed resolutions unanimously calling upon their
three Representatives, McNabb, Mulvena and Mulrine, to vote for
ratification. President Wilson was assured that only three Democratic
votes were needed and he, therefore, telegraphed these three: "May I
not as a Democrat express my deep interest in the suffrage amendment
and my judgment that it would be of the greatest service to the party
if every Democrat in the Delaware Legislature should vote for it?"
Speaker Corbit was interviewed by members of the Republican National
Committee and Republican leaders from within and without the State and
strongly urged to stand with his party, but to no avail. The
resolution was read twice and a motion was unanimously carried that
the House resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole. Representative
Lyons here offered a motion to vote on the resolution, which was
defeated by 24 noes, 10 ayes. A motion was then put to adjourn until
12.30, June 2, on which day it had been previously voted to adjourn
sine die at noon, and it was carried! The House thus again placed
itself on record against ratification and ended all further
legislative action.

The causes that led to the defeat were briefly: 1. Factional
differences in the Republican party; antagonism toward Governor
Townsend; half-hearted interest and even treachery on the part of
certain Republican leaders. 2. Democratic opposition either because of
the negro question or for national political reasons. 3. Influence of
the liquor interests. The cost of the campaign to the National
American Suffrage Association was approximately $4,500. The financial
cost to the suffragists of the State could not be estimated and even
more impossible would be an estimate of time and labor during many
months. [Long list of names of workers omitted for lack of space.]

Following the final ratification of the Federal Amendment by the
Tennessee Legislature the Executive Board, which was in session at
Rehoboth, on August 27, 1920, merged the State Equal Suffrage
Association into the League of Women Voters and ele