Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1920 — STEPS IN FIGHT FOR SUFFRAGE WHICH LASTED 70 YRS. [ARTICLE]

STEPS IN FIGHT FOR SUFFRAGE WHICH LASTED 70 YRS.

1848—First convention held in Seneca Falls, N. Y. 1852—Second convention held at Syracuse, N. Y., delegates from Canada participating. 1869—National Woman Suffrage association formed in New York. The same year the American Woman Suffrage association was formed in Cleveland, 0. 1875—First suffrage amendment was drawn by Miss Susan B. Anthony. 1878—Amendment drawn by Miss Anthony was introduced in congress by Senator Sargent of California. 1878 to 1911-—Suffrage amendment lay practically dormant, no progress being made. The amendment holds the record of being before the country longer than any other successful amendment to the constitution. It was introduced as the sixteenth amendment and has been successively the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth and has .been before every session of congress since its initial , ; 1912—Suffrage had made So much progress that nine states had given women the right to vote. 1913—Illinois confers suffrage bn women. National Woman’s party formed to push federal amendment. 1914—Montana and Nevada give votes to women. :, 1917- —Women began picketing the White House. 1918-—Federal amendment passed lower house of congress. 1919 —United States senate passed amendment June 4. Twenty-two state ratified it. 1920 —Amendment ratified by fourteen other states, of which Teni nessee was the last and necessary one. The following table shows the states which have voted woman suffrage and the date of ratification: 1919. I—Wisconsin June 10 2 —* Michigan ■ June 10 3—*Kansas June 16 4—*Ohio June 16 s—*New York June 16 6—lllinois June 17 7—Pennsylvania June 24 B—Massachusetts _______ June 25 9—*Texas June 29 10 —*lowa July 2 11—*Missouri ' 1 July 3 12— * Arkansas July 20 13 —*Montana July 30 14 Aug. 2 15 —*Minnesota Sept. 8 16—*New Hampshire __Sept. 10 17— * Utah Sept. 30 18 Nov. 1 19 —*Main Nov. 5 20 —*North Dakota Dec. 1 21— * South Dakota Dec. 4 22—-*Colorado Dec. 12 1920. 23—Rhode Island ___ Jan. 6 24—Kentucky Jan. 6 25—*Oregon __Jan. 12 26—*Indiana ____: Jan. 16 27- —Wyoming Jan. 27 28—*Nevada — Feb. 7 29—New Jersey Feb. 10 30 —* Idaho Feb. 11 31— * Arizona Feb. 12 32—*New Mexico — Feb. 19 33—*Oklahoma Feb. 27 34—*West Virginia Mar. 10 35-—*Washington Mar. 22 36—*Tennessee Aug. 18

* Ratified at special sessions. State* Defeating Ratification. 1919 I—Alabama Sept. 2 2 —Georgia July 24 1920. 3—Mississippi Jan. 21 4—South Carolina Jan. 24 s—Virginia Feb. 12 6—Maryland Feb. 17 7—Delaware May 5 B—Louisiana June 15 North Carolina called an extra session, but on Aug. 17, 1920, by a senate vote of 25 to 23, postponed action until the next regular session of the legislature in November. State* That Have Not Acted. I—Connecticut.1 —Connecticut. 3—Florida. 2—Vermont.