to me. I was working for a cause and would not have
cared who else was working for the same."

The testimony showed that the anti-suffrage association of Omaha,
under the leadership of Mrs. Crofoot, president, had at first
endeavored to employ to take charge of the work of circulating
the petitions the man who had conducted the publicity department
for the brewers in 1916.

The allegations of fraud were proved to the satisfaction of the
District Court. The opponents appealed from its decision, which was
confirmed by the Supreme Court in June, and the women entered into
possession of this large amount of suffrage. By order of the court the
anti-suffragists, together with the State, had to pay the costs of the
long legal battle which ended on January 25, 1919, in a glorious
victory for the suffragists. The costs were approximately $5,000.

RATIFICATION. The State convention of 1917 was held in Omaha in
December and it was omitted in the fall of 1918 on account of the
influenza, and none was held until 1919. The Federal Amendment had
been submitted by Congress on June 4 and a Ratification Committee had
been appointed consisting of Mrs. Barkley, Mrs. Hardy and Mrs. Wheeler
to secure an early calling of a special session of the Legislature.
It was arranged for the State convention to meet in Lincoln at the
time Governor Samuel R. McKelvie had called this special session to
ratify the amendment. The convention _en masse_ saw the ratification
of both Houses on August 2 by unanimous vote and had the joy of being
present when it was signed by the Governor, who had been a consistent
friend of the cause. The regular session had memorialized Congress by
joint resolution to submit the Federal Suffrage Amendment and
requested Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Nebraska to vote for it. He
voted against it every time it became before the Senate. The other
Senator, George W. Norris, voted in favor each time and was always a
helpful friend of woman suffrage.

The last State convention met in Omaha June 13-15, 1920, with 104
delegates in attendance. With Mrs. Charles H. Dietrich, who had been
elected president the preceding year, in the chair, the association
was merged into the Nebraska League of Women Voters and Mrs. Dietrich
was made chairman.

On Saturday, Aug. 28, 1920, at noon, whistles were sounded and bells
were rung for five minutes in Omaha and South Omaha to celebrate the
proclamation by the Se