full and equal suffrage for women in
both State and nation."

By a vote of the local societies it was decided not to call a
convention during the war, as every woman was engaged in war work, but
monthly board meetings were held in different towns in 1917 and 1918,
keeping the busy women in touch with suffrage work. During the
Legislature of 1919 other organizations seemed desirous of pushing the
suffrage work and the association voted to give them a free hand. It
assisted the effort for the ratification of the Federal Amendment by
sending letters and having resolutions passed by organizations. It has
at this time (1920) 29 affiliated societies, 500 dues-paying members
and over 6,000 non-dues-paying members.

INDIANA. PART II.[46]

During the early years of the present century there was no definite
campaign for suffrage in Indiana but the partial success of repeated
efforts to influence the General Assembly to pass various suffrage
bills showed a large body of interested if unorganized favorable
opinion. The State had never been entirely organized but there were
several centers where flourishing associations kept up interest. In
1901 the State Woman Suffrage Association under the presidency of Mrs.
Bertha G. Wade of Indianapolis engaged chiefly in legislative work but
it gradually ceased effort. There were attempts toward its
re-organization in the following years, assisted by the National
Association, but interest proved to be not sufficiently keen or
widespread.

The Indianapolis Equal Suffrage Society, organized in 1878 under the
direction of Mrs. May Wright Sewall, had never suspended activities.
Dr. Amelia R. Keller was its president in 1909 and in order to
stimulate interest and give an outlet for the energy of its members,
assisted by Mrs. Grace Julian Clarke, Mrs. Felix T. McWhirter, Mrs.
John F. Barnhill, Mrs. W. T. Barnes, Mrs. Winfield Scott Johnson and
Dr. Rebecca Rogers George, she formed the Women's School League on
October 1, "to elect a woman to the school board and improve the
schools of Indianapolis." Dr. Keller was made president and the other
officers were, vice-presidents, Dr. George and Mrs. McWhirter;
secretary, Mrs. Julia C. Henderson; treasurer, Miss Harriet Noble;
directors, Mrs. Clarke, Mrs. Barnhill, Mrs. Arthur B. Grover, Mrs.
Johnson, Mrs. Linton A. Cox, Mrs. Laura Kregelo, Mrs. Edgar A.
Perkins, Dr. Mary A. Spink, Miss Belle O'Hair and Miss Tarquinia Voss.
Many of these names becom