not
accept it, and yet those same men wrote into it the initiative and
referendum, recall of judges and many other far more radical measures
and it was adopted by an overwhelming majority. It was plain that a
measure was deemed radical or not according to the voting power behind
it. The Republicans were in a minority and only two voted for the
suffrage clause, although there were enough Democratic pledges to have
carried it with the solid Republican support. The Republicans were for
a "safe and sane" constitution, something like the one adopted at the
same time by New Mexico, under which women never could get suffrage by
State process. One Democrat who offered "to do and die for it" in the
convention was Senator Fred Colter of Apache County.

Not at all discouraged by the defeat the women, now aroused and
interested, began as soon as the constitution was accepted by the
voters and statehood was effected to get ready for the first State
election, as now it was necessary to have an amendment submitted by
the Legislature and accepted by the electors. Headquarters were
established in the house of Mrs. Munds at Prescott and a constant
stream of literature and correspondence went out in an effort to elect
suffragists to the first State Legislature. The men, however, were so
pleased with the members of the Constitutional Convention that a
little thing like their voting against woman suffrage did not matter
and every one who was a candidate for anything was elected, some to
the Legislature and others to the various State offices. George W. P.
Hunt, who was president of the convention and had vigorously opposed
the suffrage plank, was elected the first Governor of the State. He
did recommend in his message to the Legislature that it submit a woman
suffrage amendment to the voters. Senator John Hughes, son of former
Governor and Mrs. L. C. Hughes, who had done so much to obtain woman
suffrage in early territorial days, prepared and introduced such a
measure but it failed in both Houses. The Legislature was 90 per cent.
Democratic.

It was then determined to use the initiative and collect the requisite
number of names on a petition that would compel the Legislature to
submit the question. Women in every county volunteered to get these
signatures, fifty or sixty altogether, and did the drudgery of
canvassing until the required number of signatures were obtained.

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