sage personally delivered to the Legislature in which he
said:

A government "of the people by the people" can not and does not
exist in a commonwealth in which one-half of its citizens are
denied the right of suffrage. The women of Kentucky are citizens
and there is no good or just reason why they should be refused
the full and equal exercise of the sovereign right of every free
people--the ballot. Every member of this General Assembly is
unequivocally committed by his party's platform declaration to
cast his vote and use his influence for the immediate
enfranchisement of women in both nation and State. Party loyalty,
faith-keeping with the people and our long-boasted chivalry all
demand that the General Assembly shall break all previous speed
records in ratifying the Federal Suffrage Amendment and passing
all measures granting political rights to women.

By agreement, a Democrat, Senator Charles M. Harriss, presented the
resolution for ratification in the Senate, and a Republican, Joseph
Lazarus, in the House. On Jan. 6, 1920, the first day of the session,
it was passed by a vote of 30 ayes, 8 noes in the Senate and 72 ayes,
25 noes in the House. The affirmative vote by parties was as follows:
In the two Houses 39 Democrats out of a possible 65, and 63
Republicans out of a possible 73. That any measure should pass on the
first day of the session was unprecedented in Kentucky legislative
history. Democrats were in control of the two Legislatures--1914 and
1916--which defeated the full suffrage measures. Democrats were in
control of the Legislature in 1918 which undoubtedly would have passed
a resolution for a State amendment, a Presidential suffrage bill, or
would have ratified the Federal Amendment had Congress acted in time.
The leaders of both parties by this time had seen a great light!

The delegates who had gathered in Frankfort for the State convention
were entertained at a buffet luncheon by the local suffrage
organization, went in a body to the State House and had the
gratification of seeing the Federal Amendment ratified. A
glorification meeting was held that night at Lexington, twenty-five
miles away, at which Governor Morrow told why the new women voters
should enter the Republican party and Judge C. S. Nunn and Senator
Harriss, leader of the Senate, told why they should enter the
Democratic party. The latter were introduced by former Senat