ers are in Mr. Wheeler's office in William
Street; the Washington headquarters are where the official
anti-suffrage organ, the _Woman Patriot_, is published. While the
declared object of the League is 'to protect the Federal Constitution
from further invasion' the only effort it has made is to defeat woman
suffrage. The Hon. Charles S. Fairchild, Secretary of the Treasury
under President Cleveland, is president; honorary vice-presidents, Dr.
Lyman Abbott, Francis Lynde Stetson, Herbert L. Satterlee, George W.
Wickersham, John C. Milburn, George W. Seligman, the Rev. Anson P.
Atterbury and Dr. William P. Manning; Mr. Wheeler, chairman of the
executive committee."

During the struggle to secure ratification of the Federal Suffrage
Amendment from the Tennessee Legislature in August, 1920, Mr. Wheeler
went to that State and a branch of the league was formed there. The
strongest possible fight against it was made. Chancellor Vertrees
wrote articles and delivered speeches against it. Professor G. W. Dyer
of Vanderbilt University; Frank P. Bond, a Nashville attorney, and
others made a speaking tour of the State. When Governor Roberts sent
the certificate of ratification to Secretary of State Colby, Speaker
of the House Seth M. Walker headed a delegation to Washington to
protest against its being accepted. Failing in this they went on to
Connecticut to try to prevent ratification by its Legislature.

In Maryland the Men's Anti-Suffrage Association took the name of
League for State Defense. Having defeated ratification in the
Legislature of that State a delegation went to the West Virginia
Legislature in a vain effort to prevent it there. After Maryland women
had voted in 1920, suit was brought in the Court of Common Pleas to
invalidate the action in the name of Judge Oscar Leser and twenty
members of the league's board of managers. Receiving an adverse
decision they carried the case to the Court of Appeals, which
sustained the decision. Mr. Wheeler and William L. Marbury, George
Arnold Frick and Thomas F. Cadwalader of Baltimore represented the
league. They carried the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, where it
remains at present.[145]

FOOTNOTES:

[142] The following were the officers of the National College Equal
Suffrage League at the time it disbanded: President, M. Carey Thomas,
president of Bryn Mawr College; First vice-president, Dr. Anna Howard
Shaw, honorary president of the National American Woman Suffrage
Assoc