ting of Mrs. John D. McNeel of Birmingham, chairman;
Mrs. W. D. Nesbit of Birmingham, vice-chairman; Mrs. Bibb Graves of
Montgomery, resident member, and Mrs. Jacobs, ex-officio member.
County chairmen were appointed in 53 counties and a Men's Committee of
One Hundred was organized. Headquarters were equipped with some paid
and much faithful volunteer help and the distribution of literature
and press work was started. Early in the month Mrs. Albert McMahon,
Miss Edna Beveridge and Miss Josephine Miller, organizers, were sent
by the National Association, to which group Miss Mary Parke London of
Birmingham was added and contributed her services throughout the
entire campaign as an organizer and lobbyist. Press work was
systematically carried on, some of the material sent from national
headquarters but most of it originating in Birmingham. Speakers
covered all important public meetings to which access could be had;
Governor Thomas E. Kilby and other prominent men were interviewed and
a poll was taken of the legislators before they convened.[3] At the
joint hearing, which was arranged almost immediately after the
Legislature met, John C. Anderson, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court;
W. D. Nesbitt, State chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee;
ex-Senator Frank S. White; Judge S. D. Weakley, legal adviser of the
Governor, and others spoke for ratification.

RATIFICATION. The Federal Amendment was submitted by Congress June 4
and the Legislature met July 8. For days before the vote was taken it
occupied almost exclusive attention at the capital, many of the
newspapers saying that the opposition were placing the State and the
Democratic party in a grave position. The Republican party was
claiming credit for the submission and Democratic leaders felt it to
be very necessary that the Alabama Legislature should ratify. On July
12 President Wilson telegraphed to Governor Kilby as follows: "I hope
you will pardon me if I express my very earnest hope that the suffrage
amendment to the constitution of the United States may be ratified by
the great State of Alabama. It would constitute a very happy augury
for the future and add greatly to the strength of a movement which, in
my judgment, is based upon the highest consideration both of justice
and expedience."

On the same date Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels sent a long
message to Mrs. McNeel, chairman of the Ratification Committee, and a
multigraphed copy to each memb