ar rested over the meeting, yet in
all the speeches was a note of victory for woman suffrage, which
evidently was not far distant.

It was planned to hold the next Conference in Sioux Falls, May 26-28,
1918, as South Dakota was in the midst of an amendment campaign, but
Mrs. Catt called the Executive Council of the National Association to
meet at Indianapolis during the Indiana State convention April 16-18,
to plan action on the Federal Amendment, which seemed near passing.
This required the attendance of its members from every State and as
many of them did not wish to spare the time and money for another
meeting so soon the conference was given up. In 1919 the convention of
the National Association was held in St. Louis and in 1920 in Chicago,
which made the conference unnecessary, and then the Federal Amendment
was ratified and the long contest was ended.

THE SOUTHERN WOMAN SUFFRAGE CONFERENCE.

The Southern Woman Suffrage Conference was formed as the result of a
Call sent out in 1913 by women of the southern States to the Governors
of those States to meet them in conference and prepare for the
extension of woman suffrage by State enactment rather than by Federal
Amendment. Women from every southern State signed the Call, although
in North and South Carolina and Florida not a vestige of suffrage
organization existed. Miss Kate Gordon, who inaugurated the
conference, felt impelled to begin some distinctly southern suffrage
movement when listening to the effort of the Speaker of the House of
Representatives in Louisiana, to secure the ratification of the Income
Tax Amendment upon the sole and only ground that it was a Democratic
party measure. To make woman suffrage a Democratic party measure
seemed then the logical field for immediate, intensive propaganda. The
Congressional Committee of the National American Association was
vitalizing into activity the Federal Woman Suffrage Amendment. What
more logical from a political standpoint than for the southern
suffrage forces to advance with a flank movement in harmony with the
traditions and policies of the Democratic party?

In November, 1913, there assembled in New Orleans the organization
force of the Southern Conference, with representatives from almost all
of the southern States. The platform adopted was primarily for State's
Right Suffrage. Miss Gordon was elected president and Miss Laura Clay
of Kentucky vice-president; Mrs. John B. Parker of Louisiana
corresp