. H. Dean made speeches and voted to try to arrange it,
but the other five members voted against it. Mrs. McLendon then went
to the chairman of the County Democratic Executive Committee and he
refused to take any action, saying, "Our committee is only the agent
of the State committee and must obey its mandates." Then she and Mrs.
Julia H. Ellington, Mrs. Jane Adkins and Mrs. Nancy Duncan called on
the tax collector and asked to be allowed to pay their State and
county taxes and to register. They were sent to the chairman of the
Registration Committee and he also refused to enroll their names. Then
they went to the polls September 8 and were told, "No women voting
here."

Mrs. McLendon telegraphed to Bainbridge Colby, Secretary of State, who
answered: "The matter to which you refer is not within the province of
this Department and I am not in a position to give you any advice with
regard thereto." She next asked Governor Dorsey to call an extra
session of the Legislature to provide some way for the women to vote
in the general election, but he said he could not. Then she went to a
full meeting of the State Democratic Executive Committee, held
September 16, but no chance to be heard was given her. The next day
she attended a meeting of the Fulton County Commissioners, who
declared their willingness but their inability to do anything. She
then called on Attorney General R. A. Denny, who advised her to go to
the polls and make the effort, saying: "The 19th Amendment is above
the laws of any State." Women in Georgia, however, were not permitted
to vote at the Presidential election two months after they had been
enfranchised by this amendment.

LEGISLATIVE ACTION. The first request for woman suffrage was put
before the Legislature in 1895, the last in 1920, and in the interim
every session had this subject before it, with petitions signed by
thousands of women, but during the quarter of a century it did not
give one scrap of suffrage to the women of the State. From 1895 bills
for the following measures were kept continuously before it: Age of
protection for girls to be raised from 10 years; co-guardianship of
children; prevention of employment of children under 10 or 12 years
old in factories; women on boards of education; opening of the
colleges to women. Year after year these bills were smothered in
committees or reported unfavorably or defeated, usually by large
majorities. In 1912 a bill was passed enabling women to be