a large gray banner for the partial suffrage States and a
black banner for the non-suffrage States. Each county and city in the
State had its banner. The Men's League marched and there were as many
men as women in the parade.

During the entire campaign the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, one
of the strongest organizations in the State, conducted a vigorous
fight for the amendment, sending its speakers to every locality. For
many years it had worked for woman suffrage.

At the election Nov. 3, 1914, the amendment received 41,302 ayes;
37,588 noes, a majority of 3,714, and women were enfranchised on equal
terms with men.

The various suffrage societies merged into Good Government Clubs with
the avowed purpose of obtaining political action on many needed
measures. The next year they secured mother's pension and equal
guardianship laws, and others equally important in following years.
The Executive Committee continued in existence and directed the work.
At its meeting in 1916 it was decided to conduct an intensive campaign
for prohibition in 1917; to elect a woman to Congress and a woman
State Superintendent of Schools. Prohibition was carried; Miss
Jeannette Rankin was elected the first Congresswoman in the United
States and Miss May Trumper was elected Superintendent of Schools.
That year an eight-hour-day for women was secured. This record was
continued. Mrs. Maggie Smith Hathaway and Mrs. Emma A. Ingalls have
served two terms each as State Representatives. All the county
superintendents of schools are women.

After the Federal Amendment was submitted by Congress the societies
met on June 22, 1919, and formed a State branch of the National League
of Women Voters with Mrs. Edwin L. Norris chairman.

RATIFICATION. Governor Samuel V. Stewart called a special session of
the Legislature to meet in August, 1920, and the Federal Suffrage
Amendment was ratified on the 2nd by unanimous vote in the House and
by 38 to one in the Senate--Claude F. Morris of Havre, Hill county.
The resolution was introduced in the House by Mrs. Ingalls.

FOOTNOTES:

[105] The History is indebted for this chapter to Mrs. Lucile Dyas
Topping, formerly Lewis and Clark county superintendent of schools and
prominent in the work of the campaign of 1914, when Montana women
obtained the suffrage.

[106] In the intensive work that followed, Mrs. Tower was assisted by
Dr. Dean, Mrs. Ellen Maria Dean, Mrs. James U. Sanders, Mrs. T. J.
Walsh, M