the office force of
forty persons in the national headquarters, the Leslie
Commission, the publicity department, the _Woman Citizen_ and the
Publishing Company worked with so little sparing of themselves
and with such absolute concentration upon the matter in hand,
still carrying on citizenship preparation, organization and all
the routine work but always giving Ratification the right of way.
It was Mrs. Catt who sounded the rallying call, who mapped out
every step of the way, who did the work of a dozen women herself
and cheered the rest on. No one will ever know the full story of
her ingenious plans which brought about the ratification and in
some States even the women think it was easily won because they
do not know of the efforts put forth from the national office.

As soon as the amendment had passed the Senate, Mrs. Catt kept
the agreement made by her in the bulletin and sent telegrams to
the Governors of full suffrage States, asking for special
sessions, and to Legislatures then in session asking for
ratification. With the cooperation of the suffrage associations,
Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan ratified on June 10, in six days
after the amendment was submitted by Congress. Kansas and New
York ratified in special session and Ohio in regular session on
June 16. Pennsylvania ratified on June 24, its blackness wiped
off the map. The change of black Massachusetts to the ratified
white on June 25 gave another big impetus to the campaign. Texas
distinguished itself by ratifying on June 28. This made nine
ratifications in nineteen days!

Mrs. Catt had previously asked the presidents of State suffrage
associations to interview their Governors regarding special
sessions and she had sent personal letters to them and to members
of the Legislatures enclosing facts concerning the Federal
Amendment. As a result the Governors of Nebraska, Indiana and
Minnesota sent letters and telegrams to twenty-two other
Governors asking them to call special sessions.

To carry the appeal to the West, two commissions were sent out
the last of July, Mrs. John Glover South of Kentucky and Miss
Shuler of New York to the Republican States; Mrs. Cunningham of
Texas and Mrs. Hooper of Wisconsin to the Democratic States.
After a tour of the States and visits to t