ted to organize in her district.
This year for the first time a hearing was granted before the House
Committee on Constitutional Amendments. Mrs. Felton and Mrs. Rose
Ashby spoke for the association, Mrs. Cheatham and Mrs. Frances Smith
Whiteside for the Woman Suffrage League. The association distributed
40,000 pages of leaflets, fliers, newspapers, etc.; about a dozen of
the leading newspapers were supplied with local and national suffrage
news and members of the Legislature with suffrage literature. In 1900,
when the first National W. C. T. U. convention was held in Atlanta,
woman suffrage was a forbidden subject at all temperance meetings in
Georgia. In 1914, when the second was held, Mrs. McLendon, president
of the State Suffrage Association, was selected to welcome the White
Ribboners in behalf of the suffragists of the State.[35]

The annual convention of the State association was held July 21, 22,
in the ballroom of the Hotel Ansley, beautifully decorated for the
occasion. Miss Kate M. Gordon aided largely in making it a success.
Mrs. Annie Fletcher of Oldham, England, visited Atlanta this year and
spoke on the suffrage situation there. Mrs. Georgia McIntyre Wheeler,
a practicing attorney of West Virginia, helped greatly in securing the
Woman Lawyer Bill. Atlanta and Waycross suffragists applied to the
city governments to grant women Municipal suffrage. The association
did not parade on May 2, as requested by the National Board, but the
president made a suffrage speech on the steps of the State Capitol and
members sold copies of the _Woman's Journal_. The Rev. A. M. Hewlett,
pastor of St. Marks Methodist Church South, accompanied Mrs. McLendon
and Attorney Grossman to Cox College in March and by invitation of its
president they gave addresses in favor of suffrage for women before
the student body. There was a growing sentiment in favor of it among
clergymen of various denominations.

The State convention was held in Atlanta Nov. 15-20, 1915, at the same
time as the harvest festival, and the first suffrage parade took
place, led by Miss Eleanor Raoul on horseback. Mrs. McLendon followed
in the little yellow car which once belonged to Dr. Shaw, driven by
Mrs. Loring Raoul. As a protest against taxation without
representation Dr. Shaw allowed it to be sold for taxes and it was
bought by Miss Sallie Fannie Gleaton of Conyers, who walked behind it
in the parade. The suffrage carriages were decorated with yellow,
tho