the
Missouri victory, the twenty-seventh State to give Presidential
suffrage to women. Mrs. Catt, by resolution of the convention,
immediately wrote to the legislators of Tennessee and Iowa urging
passage of a similar bill. Tennessee gave Presidential and
Municipal suffrage to women April 14 and Iowa Presidential
suffrage on April 19, increasing the number of presidential
electors for whom women may vote to 306 out of 531, the total in
the United States.

Connecticut women made a magnificent campaign for Presidential
suffrage, failing by only one vote in the Legislature. The
strength displayed by the suffragists, the obtaining of 98,000
women's signatures and the dignity and ability shown under the
leadership of Miss Katherine Ludington, so advanced suffrage in
that State as to make the battle seem a victory rather than a
defeat.

Municipal suffrage was given by the Legislature to the women of
Orlando, Fla., April 21, making sixteen towns in ten counties in
that State where women have this right. An effort to secure a
Primary suffrage bill for the entire State failed.

Suffrage in the Democratic municipal primaries was granted by the
local Democratic committee to the women of Atlanta, Ga., May 3,
for one election.

In a referendum vote on a State amendment, May 24, 1919, full
suffrage was defeated in Texas. The main causes were: The large
number of men who were so confident of the success of the
amendment that they did not take the trouble to go to the polls
to vote for it; illegal changes in the numbering and position of
the amendment on the ballots of the various counties; the absence
from the State of about 200,000 soldiers; unfavorable weather
conditions; the shortness of the time allowed for the campaign,
and, chief of all, the organized opposition of the foreign-born
and negro voters. The Texas suffragists won a clear-cut victory
January 28 when the State Supreme Court upheld the decisions of
the lower courts that the Primary suffrage bill was
constitutional....

On June 28 the women of Nebraska won a distinctive victory when
the State Supreme Court held the Presidential and Municipal
suffrage act of 1917 to be constitutional. The history of woman
suffrage records no harder fought legal battle than this. They