n the twenty-six years
of woman suffrage in the State.

During the war, the Woman's State Council of Defense was a most
efficient organization, Governor Gunter saying that he ascribed its
remarkable work to the experience which the women had gained by their
quarter-of-a-century of active citizenship. On June 17, 1920, the
State Equal Suffrage Association became incorporated under the name of
the League of Women Voters with Mrs. Scott as chairman. A number of
prominent eastern women en route to the Democratic national convention
in San Francisco stopped at Denver and were guests at the banquet in
celebration of the new league.

The legislative council of the State Federation of Women's Clubs holds
weekly meetings during the sessions of the Legislature and takes up
bills for consideration, particularly those relating to women and
children, education and public health. After discussion and study
these bills are approved or not approved and the legislators, the club
women and the general public are informed as to their action.

There is no law prohibiting women from filling any offices in the
State and it has been said that a really determined effort could place
a woman even in that of chief executive. The office of State
Superintendent of Public Instruction has been filled by a woman since
1894 and no man has been nominated for it. Those who have held this
important office are Antoinette J. Peavey, Grace Espey Patton, Helen
L. Grenfell (three terms), Katharine Craig, Katharine Cook, Helen M.
Wixson (two terms), Mary C. C. Bradford from 1915 to the present time.
During her second term she was elected president of the National
Education Association. Mrs. Walling succeeded Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker
as vice-president of the Civil Service Commission and served six
years. In 1913 Mrs. Alice Adams Fulton became secretary and chief
examiner of the commission. Mrs. Mary Wolfe Dargin was appointed
register of the U. S. Land Office in 1915 and Miss Clara Ruth Mozzer
to the office of Assistant Attorney General in 1917. There have been
women clerks, auditors, recorders and treasurers in seventy-five
cities and towns, including Denver, and several aldermen. Mrs. Lydia
Tague was elected judge in Eagle county. A few years ago 600 women
were serving on school boards.

Prior to the year 1900 nine women had sat in the House of
Representatives--three in each Legislature after the passage of the
equal suffrage law, and there have been nine