won another victory in the decision by Attorney General Clarence
E. Davis that they had the right to help choose delegates to the
national political party conventions. On February 12 the
constitutional convention voted to leave the word "male" out of
the new constitution.

In Tennessee the decision of the Court of Chancery, which
declared the Presidential and Municipal suffrage bill of 1918
unconstitutional, has been reversed by the State Supreme
Court....

On February 13 the suffrage committee of the constitutional
convention then in session in Illinois voted unanimously to
strike "male" out of the new constitution.

We began the year 1918 with nineteen organizers, but as the
legislative work came to occupy the place of chief importance
most of the States expressed a preference for the services of
their own women and it became necessary to reduce the national
staff.[125]

During the winter of 1918-1919 a series of conferences was
offered to the southern States but for various reasons not
accepted. At the St. Louis convention in March, 1919, Mrs. Catt
requested the southern representatives to outline the definite
help desired from the National Association and their requests
were accepted by the board at its post-convention meeting as
follows: The National to give (a) one speaker or organizer to
each State for two months; (b) a suffrage school to each; (c) one
thousand copies of Senator Pollock's speech to each. This help
from the National was conditional upon the promise of the
southern States (a) that each State would furnish one of its own
workers to be under the instruction of the national worker and to
continue in charge after her departure; (b) that it would
establish and maintain a speakers' bureau; (c) that it would
begin the petition campaign. By October the association had
fulfilled its promise of an organizer for two months to Virginia,
West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama and Tennessee and had arranged to send
organizers to Kentucky, Delaware and Mississippi when those
States were ready for them. Later, because of ratification, it
gave additional help, sending Mrs. McMahon to Delaware, Mrs.
Cunningham, Miss Watkins and Miss Peshakova to Mississippi; Miss
Pidgeon, Miss