Haight and Miss Ames, who had been in
Jefferson City for over three months, met for final consultation.
Senator Stark responded to a telephone call and promised to be in his
seat the next morning. It was found it would be impossible for Senator
Gray to arrive on time. They were in despair but a savior was at hand.
Democratic National Committeeman Edward F. Goltra offered to charter a
special train to bring Senator Gray, a Republican, to Jefferson City
in time to cast his vote. This offer was gladly and gratefully
accepted and the Senator left Caruthersville that night. The next
morning all the other Senators were in their seats, the opposition
complacent and confident that the bill could not pass. While Senator
McKnight was reading a telegram from the National Suffrage Convention
in session at St. Louis urging the immediate passage of the
Presidential suffrage bill Senator Gray quietly walked in and took his
seat! The opposition, out-witted and out-generaled, threw up their
hands and the bill was passed by a vote of 21 to 12, some of its
former opponents voting for it. On April 5 in the presence of the
board of the State association it was signed by Governor Gardner.

FOOTNOTES:

[102] The History is indebted for this chapter to Miss Marie R.
Garesche, a founder and first vice-president of the St. Louis Equal
Suffrage League.

[103] Thirteen men were enrolled this year, Eugene Angert, George
Blackman, R. W. Boysselier, Dr. W. W. Boyd, Mr. Chauvenet, E. M.
Grossman, Charles Haanel, Stephen Hart, Charles Van Dyke Hill, Dr.
John C. Morfit, H. J. Peifer, Judge R. E. Rombauer and Percy Werner.

[104] Because of lack of space it has been impossible to include the
long lists of names prepared of women who worked all over the State.

CHAPTER XXV.

MONTANA.[105]

Before 1900 the National American Woman Suffrage Association, under
the presidency of Miss Susan B. Anthony, helped to organize suffrage
societies in Montana and several conventions were held. In 1899 Dr.
Maria M. Dean was elected president. She was succeeded by Mrs. Clara
B. Tower, whose report to the national suffrage convention of 1903
said:

On May 1, 1902, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, National president,
Miss Gail Laughlin and Miss Laura A. Gregg, organizers, arrived
in Helena and in conjunction with the State officers planned a
campaign to include a meeting in every town of any importance.
Mrs. Catt re-organized the Helen