reme importance and urgency of
an immediate meeting of your State Legislature for the purpose of
ratifying the proposed 19th Amendment to the Federal
Constitution. We trust that for the present all other legislative
matters may, if necessary, be held in abeyance and that you will
call an extra session for such brief duration as may be required
to act favorably on the amendment. Tennessee occupies a position
of peculiar and pivotal importance and one that enables her to
render a service of incalculable value to the women of America.
We confidently expect, therefore, that under your leadership and
through the action of the Legislature of your State, the women of
the nation may be given the privilege of voting in the coming
Presidential election.

The National American Woman Suffrage Association appointed Mrs.
Mrs. Guilford Dudley, one of its vice-presidents, who was a
delegate-at-large from Tennessee to the convention and a member of the
Credentials Committee, to present the following plank to the
Resolutions Committee: "The Federal Suffrage Amendment, whose passage
in Congress was greatly furthered by the efforts of a Democratic
President, is one State short of the number required to make its
ratification effective. In two Republican States, Vermont and
Connecticut, where ratification could be at once achieved, Republican
Governors are refusing to call special sessions. In simple justice to
women, we, Democrats in national convention assembled, urge the
cooperation of Democratic Governors and legislators in North Carolina,
Tennessee, Florida and other Democratic States that have not ratified,
in a united effort to complete ratification by the addition of the
36th State in time for the women of America to participate in the
approaching elections."

The National Woman's Party through Mrs. Abby Scott Baker, its
publicity chairman, presented a plank through U. S. Senator Carter
Glass of the Resolutions Committee, which read: "The Democratic Party
endorses the proposed amendment to the U. S. Constitution
enfranchising women and calls upon all Democratic Governors of States
which have not yet ratified the amendment immediately to convene their
Legislatures so that they may act upon it and urges all Democratic
members of such Legislatures immediately to vote for the
amendment...."

The plank finally adopted by the convention read: "We endorse the
proposed 19th Ame