The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-14
Died of Pneumonia Just After
Her Victory Over Attor-
new General of Okla
homa.
WASHINGTON rs BEHIND
State is Remiss In Ratification OF
Amendment and May be Last
One on the
List.

[By Carrie Chapman Gait, President
of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association. Written for
The United Press.l
CHICAGO, Feb. 14.-Will Washing.
ton be the thirty-sixth state to ratify:
Will any woman suffrage state be
content with last place on the ratifi-
cation list?
These questions were the under.
lying note of the ratification jubilee
at yesterdays opening session Of the
National American Woman Suffrage
association convention. When the
women were most enthusiastic In
their iubliation over the news that
| Arizona had ratified--when the lib
! erry bell was rungs-by the presid
OF suffrage associations OF the rati-
fled states and the Illinois women
led the Joyous march Of the ratified
the women were still saying:
Where Is Washington"
The conventions wired this question
to Governor Hart following receipt
of telegram from Washington
women expressing their humiliation
that their state-the only equal sur
frage state which has not acted
should be 20 remiss in ratification
Of the amendment.
The last Of the other equal suffrage
states to announce special session
was Oklahoma. There the most
tragic threads of the suffrage cam
paign are interviewer with victory.
The youngest Of all the state sec
retartes of suffrage associations.
Miss Aloysius Larch-Miller, OF Shaw
nee. Okla, was taking a leading part
in the ratification campaign. Then
on January 81 Miss Larch-Miller i'll
with influenza, went to her county
democratic convention to take the
floor against the states attorney
general who is opposed to suffrage.
She beat him by two to one vote.
Her report to the national headquar-
tors came Just an hour before the
telegram announcing her death from
pneumonia.
The resolution in the state demo
cratic convention which has 1mpelled
the governor Of Oklahoma to plan
his special session for next week will
always be, considered by suffragists
as her memorial, although the con-
vention passed memorial resolutions
on her death The flag at the state
capitol was flown at half mast and
other memorial moves we're mace Dy
her state.
There have been many older wom-
en- who have given years and even
their lives to the suffrage campaign,
hut this supreme instance OF self
sacrifice IS proof that the younger
women of today will carry on
First Meeting Held.
CHICAGO. Feb. 14.--The first con-
gress of the League of Women Voters
was held here today. The league
replaced the National American Wo-
man Suffrage association, which will
mass out Of existence when the thirty
sixth state ratifies the suffrage
amendment to the constitution.
Delegates to the last convention OF
the suffrage association approved of
the merger last night when they
odonted the recommendation Of the
executive council.
Tho nIan of the executive council
nroyided for continued existence OF
the suffrage organization as long as
there is any work for 1t TO 90 IN op-
tanning votes for women rms work
is expected to be accomplished with
ratification Of the federal amend
ment. oi
The work Of the league for 1920
was declared to be political educa-
ticn OF new women voters (not ex.
cluding men).
Rival dinners were held by phe
democratic and republican women
batween sessions Speakers urged
the women to "get into some party"
The suffragists voted to establish
n chair of politics at Bryn Mawr col.
,ape as a memorial to DIR. Anna How
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