elley of New York made splendid addresses in favor of woman
suffrage when they came to Atlanta in April to attend the Child Labor
Convention. Dr. Shaw gave a stirring suffrage speech in the hall of
the House of Representatives on May 4.

The evening sessions of the annual convention in 1908 were held in the
Senate Chamber of the Capitol. Miss Laura Clay, Mrs. Sibley, Miss H.
Augusta Howard and W. S. Witham were the speakers, with Mrs. McLendon
presiding. Miss Clay's address, entitled Who Works Against Woman
Suffrage? created a profound impression and she was of much
assistance. Mrs. McLendon was invited to speak before the convention
of the Georgia Agricultural Association, one of the oldest in the
State, on Woman's Education and Woman's Rights. A rising vote of
thanks was accorded her and the address ordered printed in the
minutes. The State Prohibition convention placed a strong woman
suffrage plank in its platform and the delegates to the national
convention were instructed to vote for one if it was offered. Mr.
Witham, the Rev. James A. Gordon and Mr. Barker, editor of _The
Southern Star_, worked faithfully for this plank.

In 1909, at the request of the National Association, letters were
written to Georgia's Senators and Representatives in Congress, asking
them to vote for a Federal Woman Suffrage Amendment. Polite but
non-committal replies were received from Senators Clay and Bacon and
Representatives Griggs and Lewis. The other eight evidently did not
consider disfranchised women worthy of an answer. The city council of
Atlanta decided that its charter was forty years behind the times and
again a committee of forty-nine men was appointed to draw up a new
one. The Civic League, an Atlanta auxiliary to the State Suffrage
Association, set to work to have this new charter recognize the rights
of the women taxpayers. It was discovered that the women paid taxes on
more than $13,000,000 worth of real and personal property in the city.
Several hundred personal letters were written to leading taxpaying
women asking their opinion of the league's movement; only favorable
replies were received and many friends of the cause developed among
the influential women. Strong articles were published in the city
papers and widely copied throughout the State, but the charter
entirely ignored the claims of women. Many letters were written to
Republican and Democratic delegates asking them to vote for a suffrage
plank in their platfor