e other
hand there have been tricks, chicanery and misrepresentation, but
let us forget them all. Victors can afford to be generous.

Referring to the cost of special sessions, Mrs. Catt said:

If the Governor is a Republican tell him that had it not been
that two Republican Senators, Borah of Idaho and Wadsworth of New
York, refused to represent their States as indicated by votes at
the polls, resolutions by their Legislatures and planks in their
party platforms, the suffrage amendment would have passed the
65th Congress. It then would have come into the regular sessions
of forty-two Legislatures with more than thirty-six pledged to
ratify and without a cent of extra cost to any State! When a
Republican Governor calls an extra session in order to ratify he
merely atones for the conduct of two members of his own party.
They, not he, are to blame that it became necessary. If the
Governor is Democratic say that had it not been for two northern
Democratic Senators, Pomerene of Ohio and Hitchcock of Nebraska,
who refused to represent their States on the question as
indicated by their Legislatures and platforms, Congress would
have sent the amendment to the 1919 Legislatures and it would
have cost the States nothing. The Democratic Governor who calls a
special session only makes honorable amends for the
misrepresentation of members of his own party....

We should be more than glad and grateful to-day, we should be
proud--proud that our fifty-one years of organized endeavor have
been clean, constructive, conscientious. Our association never
resorted to lies, innuendoes, misrepresentation. It never accused
its opponents of being free lovers, pro-Germans and Bolsheviki.
It marched forward even when its forces were most disorganized by
disaster. It always met argument with argument, honest objection
with proof of error. In fifty years it never failed to send its
representatives to plead our cause before every national
political convention, although they went knowing that the
prejudice they would meet was impregnable and the response would
be ridicule and condemnation. It went to the rescue of every
State campaign for half a century with such forces as it could
command, even when realizing that there was no hope. In every
corner it sowed the seeds of