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three daily sessions were crowded with eager, interested women. At one
evening mass meeting in the Sheldon Memorial Governor Joseph K. Folk
made an address. Miss Harriet E. Grim of Illinois was elected
president and Mrs. Gellhorn and Mrs. Pattie Ruffner Jacobs, president
of the Alabama Suffrage Association, were appointed to assist her in
arranging for the next conference.

The third conference took place in Des Moines, Iowa, March 29-31,
1914, in the Savery Hotel, with the presidents of twenty State
Suffrage Associations among the delegates. It opened with a mass
meeting on Sunday afternoon in Berchel Theater and an overflow meeting
had to be held for the hundreds who could not gain admittance.
Governor George W. Clark, Miss Jane Addams, Rabbi Mannheimer, Miss
Dunlap and Mrs. Stewart were the speakers. In the morning and evening
most of the pulpits in the city were filled by delegates. The
conference was welcomed Monday by Miss Flora Dunlap, president of the
Iowa Suffrage Association and Mrs. Marie M. Carroll, president of the
Des Moines Woman's Club, and at the mass meeting in the evening by
Mayor James R. Hanna. Several hundred delegates were in attendance and
a valuable program of work occupied the sessions. Mrs. Harriet Taylor
Upton, president of the Ohio association, was elected president and
with Miss Laura Clay and Mrs. John Pyle, presidents of the Kentucky
and South Dakota Suffrage Associations, was appointed to arrange for
the next conference.

The fourth conference was held at Indianapolis, March 7-9, 1915, in
the Hotel Claypool, with Dr. Amelia R. Keller, president of the Equal
Franchise League, chairman of the committee of arrangements. It opened
with a mass meeting Sunday afternoon in Murat Theater, Dr. Keller
presiding. An address of welcome was made by James A. Ogden in behalf
of the Chamber of Commerce, to which Mrs. Upton responded. The
principal speaker was Rosika Schwimmer of Hungary, formerly an officer
of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. Presidents and delegates
from twenty-two State Suffrage Associations carried out the usual
comprehensive program. Mrs. Florence Bennett Peterson of Chicago was
elected president, with Mrs. W. E. Barkley and Miss Annette Finnegan,
presidents of the Nebraska and Texas Suffrage Associations, to assist
in the plans for the next meeting.

The conference of 1916 met in Minneapolis, May 7-10, four days now
being none too long to carry out the important pro