dale, which says:

We organized here an association with twenty members the
first of October, 1867, and now have fifty. We hope soon to
have the whole of Hardin county, and by the close of another
year the whole of the State of Kentucky, enlisted on the
side of woman's rights.

In the winter of 1872 Hannah Tracy Cutler and Margaret V. Longley
were granted a respectful hearing before our legislature at
Frankfort. In May, 1879, self-appointed, I represented Kentucky
at the May anniversary of the National Association at St. Louis.
In the autumn following, Miss Anthony, during an extended lecture
tour through the State, stopped in Richmond several days, and
aided us in organizing a local suffrage society.[530] Letters
were at once written to the leading editors asking them to
publish articles on the subject. Many favorable answers were
received, and we have largely availed ourselves of the columns of
the papers to keep up the agitation. My sister, Sally Clay
Bennett, edits a column in the Richmond _Register_, sister Anne a
column in the Lexington _Gazette_, and Kate Dunning Clarke, a
column in the _Turf, Field and Farm_. Mrs. Clarke is also
associate editor of the Kentucky _State Journal_. The Misses
Moore are making a success of a daily paper at Milledgeville.

In May, 1880, Mrs. Bennett and myself were delegates at the great
National Mass Convention in Farwell Hall, Chicago. In October,
1881, the American Association held its annual meeting in
Louisville. It was largely attended and fully and fairly reported
by the press of the city. At its close, a Kentucky State
association was organized, with Laura Clay as president.

In January, 1882, the Richmond and Louisville clubs secured a
hearing before the judiciary committee of the Senate, Mrs.
Bennett and myself representing the former, and John A. Ward the
latter. With the valuable aid of Mrs. Mary Haggart of
Indianapolis we made a most favorable impression upon our
legislators. The points in which our laws are defective and upon
which our appeals and arguments were based are well indicated by
the pleas of our several petitions:

That women might have municipal and presidential suffrage by
statute; that in marriage women might own their property as