suffragists are doing much to enhance the cause of woman suffrage in
the eyes of the Canadian public.[83] May we now express the hope that
when the war is over we may welcome many of our American sisters to
what we have been looking forward to--our first Canadian National
Suffrage Convention. Canada salutes you." Greetings were read from the
Colorado State Federation of Women's Clubs and were presented from the
Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference by its president, Miss Kate
M. Gordon (La.).

The large hall was crowded at the first evening meeting and the
convention was formally welcomed by Governor B. W. Hooper, who said in
the course of his address:

It is highly appropriate that your progressive movement should
unfurl its banners in this, the most progressive State in the
South. Our people are not swift in their pursuit of strange
doctrines, but they are as a rule open to conviction and tolerant
of differences of opinion. Whatever may be our views of the
necessity and efficacy of woman suffrage most of us have sense
enough to know that it is surely coming in every State in the
republic.... When it comes to Tennessee I trust that there will
be no faltering compromise, giving only the limited right to vote
in the election of certain classes of officials. The suffrage, if
granted at all, should not be grudgingly given but should be the
complete and comprehensive right to participate in all elections.
When suffrage comes to the women of Tennessee I shall derive one
substantial pleasure from it if I am still living, the joy and
exultation of my little daughter, who has been a pronounced and
persistent suffragist since she was nine years old. She has taken
a keen and intelligent interest in all of my struggles, has
rejoiced in the hour of my victory and wept in the hour of my
defeat. She is the connecting link between me and the woman
suffrage cause.

In behalf of all the good people of Tennessee, I extend greetings
to your great association and express the hope that your sojourn
in the historic Volunteer State may be filled with pleasure and
profit to each and every member of your convention.

The Governor's daughter was introduced to the convention and it
settled itself in anticipation of the stories of the campaigns for
woman suffrage amendments which had ended with the general election
the