e positions to use their votes and
their influence for all measures granting political rights to women."

The Federal Suffrage Amendment was submitted by Congress June 4. Both
organizations urged their claims at the Democratic State convention in
September and the platform contained the following plank:

We favor the ratification by the Legislature of Kentucky at its
next session of the amendment to the Constitution of the United
States extending to women the right of suffrage and we urge our
representatives in the Legislature and all executive or other
officers to use their votes and influence in every legitimate way
to bring about the ratification of the same. We pledge ourselves
to support in the next General Assembly, if the Federal Amendment
has not become operative by that time, the submission of an
amendment to the State Constitution granting suffrage to women on
the same terms as to men and when the amendment is submitted to
support it at the polls as a party measure.

Every candidate for the nomination for Governor had stood on a
suffrage platform and the successful Democratic candidate, Governor
James D. Black, defeated at the election by Edwin P. Morrow, was a
staunch and life-long suffragist. When he was filling out Governor
Stanley's unexpired term and he received a telegram in June, with all
other Governors of Southern States, from the Governor of Louisiana,
asking him to oppose ratification of the Federal Amendment, he gave to
Mrs. Breckinridge a ringing interview for use in the press to the
effect that he would not oppose it. Governor Morrow, a Republican, had
always been a friend of woman suffrage in whatever form it was asked.

Kentucky suffragists could easily remember when they could poll but
one vote in Congress--that of John W. Langley. When in 1919 the final
vote was taken on the Federal Amendment but one of the State's ten
votes in the Lower House, that of A. B. Rouse of Covington, was cast
against it. There was one vacancy. Senator George B. Martin voted for
the resolution and Senator J. C. W. Beckham against it. He had voted
against it in February, when, having passed the House, it was lost in
the Senate by a single vote.

RATIFICATION. The November legislative election in 1919 resulted in a
Republican House and a Democratic Senate. The Republicans caucused and
agreed to vote for ratification. Governor Morrow urged it in a
vigorous mes