ms. The annual convention was not held in Macon,
as intended, because there was so much sentiment against it in that
city. This year women in the Methodist Church South became active to
secure laity rights, which had been granted to women members in the
North, East and West after they had worked years for it, but the
bishops in the South were bitterly opposed to it. Mrs. Mary Harris
Armor, the well-known national organizer and lecturer for the W. C.
T. U., and four years president for Georgia, joined the suffrage
association.

The National Association's petition to Congress had been distributed
throughout the State for signatures and returned to Washington. In
1910 letters were written to President Taft, to the members of
Congress from Georgia and to Governor "Joe" Brown, as requested by Dr.
Shaw, national president. Senator Clay and Representatives W. C.
Brantley, S. A. Roddenberry and W. C. Adamson were the only ones who
could spare time to answer. Atlanta was to have an election for a
three-million dollar bond issue on February 15, Susan B. Anthony's
birthday, and the Mayor and president of the Chamber of Commerce had
appealed to the City Federation of Women's Clubs to "make the men go
to the polls to vote for bonds." The suffragists distributed broadcast
a poster headed by a cartoon by Louis Gregg representing women of all
sorts, armed with brooms, umbrellas, rolling pins, etc., driving the
men to the polls.

Over 6,000 pages of suffrage literature were distributed in the State,
a considerable amount of it to young people engaging in debates or
writing essays. Dr. James W. Lee and Dr. Frank M. Siler, Methodist
ministers of Atlanta, fearlessly expressed themselves in their pulpits
as in favor of the enfranchisement of women, regardless of the fact
that Bishop Warren A. Candler was bitterly opposed to it. Dr. Len G.
Broughton of the Baptist church and Dr. Dean Ellenwood of the
Universalist also declared themselves as favoring equal rights in
Church and State for women. Judge John L. Hopkins, one of Georgia's
foremost lawyers, who codified the laws, proclaimed himself a believer
in equal rights for women in a letter to the _Constitution_. In June
when it was again proposed to revise the charter of Atlanta, a
committee from the Civic League went before the charter committee and
presented a petition asking Municipal suffrage for women. Later at a
meeting of the city council the petition was brought up for
consideratio