cation was a question for the Legislature alone to determine;
that the platform on which he ran pledged the Democratic party
against it and that he could not ask the legislators to repudiate the
platform. Mrs. Hooker in vigorous language held him wholly responsible
for the action they took on it.

In the afternoon Representatives Cobourn, McBride, Shartzer, Demarco,
Jones and Gambrill spoke for ratification. The vote stood 64 noes, 36
ayes. The same afternoon Senators Metzerott, Gibson, Bartlett and
Robins earnestly urged ratification; Senators J. Frank Parran,
McIntosh and Legg spoke against it. The vote stood 18 noes, 9 ayes,
seven Republicans and two Democrats. In the House 32 of the 45
Republicans and 4 of the 56 Democrats voted in favor.

Undaunted by their defeat the suffragists gathered in front of the
State House and with colors flying and band playing martial airs
marched two by two around the Capitol, receiving many cheers and good
wishes from the spectators. A brief meeting was then held at which
resolutions of appreciation were passed for all the brave men who had
fought so valiantly for democracy.

Committees of both Houses had reported a resolution of definite
rejection, which the Senate passed, and a delegation of women from the
Anti-Suffrage Association, headed by Mrs. Gibbs, carried it to
Washington and presented it to the Acting Secretary of State, serving
formal notice that "the State of Maryland denies the lawful right and
power of Congress to propose the amendment for woman suffrage and the
validity of such an amendment as part of the Federal Constitution even
if ratified by three-fourths of the States."

The Maryland Legislature was by no means satisfied with its
demonstration of State's rights in defeating the ratification of the
Federal Suffrage Amendment but it undertook to interfere with the
rights of other States. On February 24 the House of Delegates voted by
54 to 44 for a joint resolution to send a delegation of seven
anti-suffrage members to West Virginia to urge its General Assembly to
follow the course of Maryland in rejecting the amendment. This was
adopted by the Senate with little delay and three of its members were
appointed to accompany four selected by the House. The next day two
resolutions drawn up by Mr. Marbury were introduced in the
Legislature. One was to "repeal, rescind and recall the resolutions
ratifying the so-called Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of
the U