ratified and he is the only man in the State who could have done it.
He had control of both House and Senate and when he went after
anything with all his force he did not fail to get it."

The last day of the session Mrs. Holmes, chairman of the Joint
Ratification Committee, went to Governor Parker and told him that she
would place the blame where it belonged; that the women had helped put
him in office and he had not stood by them, to which he answered: "Go
to it." She therefore issued a statement on July 15 saying in part:
"The responsibility for the failure of this Federal Amendment to
enfranchise 27,000,000 women, including those of Louisiana, rests on
Governor John M. Parker. This assertion is borne out by every woman
who lobbied at Baton Rouge and by all the fair-minded men. It was in
his power to secure ratification the day the session opened; it was in
his power the day Woodrow Wilson wired and asked his support; it was
in his power when Governor Cox sent his request. The women, who, in
their zeal for a broad-visioned progressive leader of clean, honest
characteristics, did all in their power to elect him Governor--those
are the women who in sorrow today must realize that it is the only
thing he stood for that he did not 'put across.'" ...

FOOTNOTES:

[57] The History is indebted for this chapter to Miss Kate M. Gordon,
corresponding secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage
Association from 1901 to 1909; president of the State Suffrage
Association from 1904 to 1913; president of the Southern States Woman
Suffrage Conference from its founding in 1914 to its end in 1917.

[58] The gaining of partial suffrage for taxpaying women and this
campaign are fully described in the Louisiana chapter in Volume IV of
the History of Woman Suffrage.

[59] For full report see Chapter III of Volume V.

[60] Among the accomplishments of the Era Club were the following:
Publication of the assessment rolls of New Orleans; admission of women
to the School of Medicine in Tulane University; first legislation in
the State against white slavery; the Southern States Woman Suffrage
Conference; equalized division of Tulane scholarships between boy and
girl students.

[61] Further matter on the Conference will be found in Vol. V, Chapter
XXI.

[62] Among those specially identified with legislative work were Mrs.
Celeste Claiborne Carruth, Mrs. McBride, Mrs. Hackenjos, Mrs. Fred W.
Price, Mrs. Wooten, Mrs. Wallace Sylves