hised by the
Federal Amendment they did not make a campaign for it but as
registration is necessary four months before election and the
ratification did not take place until two months before this one, they
were not able to vote, Mississippi and Georgia being the only two
States that denied this privilege.

FOOTNOTES:

[100] The History is indebted for this chapter to Mrs. Lily Wilkinson
Thompson, an officer in the State Suffrage Association from its
organization until its work was finished.

[101] Besides those mentioned the following served on the official
board: Mrs. Jimmie Andrews Lipscomb, Mrs. Nella Lawrence Lee, Miss
Mattie Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Annie Kinkead Dent, Mrs. Ella O. Biggs, Mrs.
Alma Dorsey Birdsall, Mrs. Durrant, Mrs. Edith Marshall Tucker, Mrs.
Mary Powell Crane, Miss Ethel Clagett, Mrs. C. C. Miller, Mrs. T. F.
Buntin, Miss Estelle Crane, Miss Nannie Herndon Rice.

CHAPTER XXIV.

MISSOURI.[102]

When the last volume of the history of woman suffrage was written in
1900 Missouri was one of the blackest spots on the suffrage map and
there was little to indicate that it would ever be lighter. The able
and courageous women who inaugurated the movement in 1867, Mrs.
Virginia L. Minor, Mrs. Beverly Allen, Mrs. Rebecca Hazzard, Miss
Phoebe Couzins and Mrs. Sarah Chandler Coates, were no longer living
or past the age for strenuous work. A few women kept up a semblance of
a State organization, met annually and in 1901 Mrs. Addie Johnson was
elected president; in 1902 Mrs. Louis Werth and in 1903 Mrs. Alice
Mulkley, but there was great apathy among women in general. From 1903
to 1910 no State convention was held. In St. Louis, which comprised
one-fourth of the inhabitants of the State, there was no visible
organization working for woman suffrage. The largest and most
influential woman's club refused to allow the subject on its programs.
During the decade to 1910 only one speaker of national prominence came
into the State--Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, the president of the
National American Woman Suffrage Association--and evidently at the
national headquarters Missouri was considered too hopeless to
consider.

The movement was only smoldering, however, and needed but a spark to
burst into flame and that spark came from afar--from the torch held
high by the "militant" suffragists of England. In no State perhaps was
there more bitter invective hurled at them than by the press and
people of Missouri b