h a group of sixteen women from as many southern States came to the
platform and with eloquent words presented her and Dr. Shaw with large
framed parchments on which President Wilson's appeal to the Senate for
the submission of the Federal Suffrage Amendment Sept. 30, 1918, was
beautifully wrought in illuminated letters by the artist Scapecchi. At
Mrs. Catt's request Dr. Shaw made the response for both of them.

Tuesday morning the convention was cordially welcomed to the city by
Mrs. George Gellhorn, president of the St. Louis Equal Suffrage League
and chairman of local arrangements. There were present 329 delegates,
seventeen officers and three chairmen of standing committees. The
chair announced that because of the crowded program the separate
reports of officers and committee chairmen, which always had been read
to the conventions, would be replaced with a general report of the
year's work by Mrs. Shuler, chairman of Campaigns and Surveys. This
report was a remarkably comprehensive survey of the varied work of the
association. After recounting the gains in the States she said:

Our question is now political. The past year has seen suffrage by
Federal Amendment endorsed by twenty-one Democratic and twenty
Republican State conventions; by all those of the minor parties
and by many State Central Committees, while many others have
approved the principle of equal suffrage by a large vote. In
July, 1918, our second vice-president, Miss Mary Garrett Hay,
was made chairman of the platform committee at the State
Republican conference in Saratoga, N. Y., a distinct suffrage
victory, inasmuch as the men realized that in thus signally
honoring her they were honoring the woman, who, by her work in
winning the suffrage campaign in New York City, had made possible
the victory in the State. Miss Hay has since been made a member
of the Republican State Executive Committee and chairman of the
Executive Committee Woman's Division of the Republican National
Committee.

The work of the last fifteen months has been accomplished under
most trying and difficult conditions. Many women under the
allurement of war work dropped suffrage work altogether, and
could not be persuaded that it was necessary at this time; others
were unable to endure the criticism that they would be "slackers"
if they did anything besides war work; still others