ndment of the Constitution of the United States
granting equal suffrage to women. We congratulate the Legislatures of
35 States which have already ratified said amendment and we urge the
Democratic Governors and Legislatures of Tennessee, North Carolina and
Florida and such States as have not yet ratified it to unite in an
effort to complete the process of ratification and secure the 36th
State in time for all the women of the United States to participate in
the fall election. We commend the effective advocacy of the measure by
President Wilson."

The Democratic women achieved a victory also in the important decision
which was reached in regard to the representation of women in future
national conventions, this convention deciding that full sex equality
should be observed in its delegations and that the National Committee
hereafter should include one man and one woman from each State.

Thus the struggle begun in 1868 for the approval of woman suffrage by
the National Presidential Conventions of the political parties ended
with its complete endorsement by all of them in 1920.

FOOTNOTES:

[147] The History is indebted for this chapter to Miss Mary Garrett
Hay, second vice-president of the National American Woman Suffrage
Association.

[148] For a full account of the effort to obtain planks in the
national platforms from 1868 to 1900, inclusive, see Chapter XXIII,
Volume IV, History of Woman Suffrage.

[149] One evening during the convention the Maryland suffragists,
reinforced by others from surrounding cities, had a long and
handsomely equipped parade.

CHAPTER XXIV.

WAR SERVICE OF ORGANIZED SUFFRAGISTS.[150]

The response of the women of the United States to the call of their
country as it entered the World War was as vigorous and eager as had
been that of women of other more deeply involved nations. Although
American women had little opportunity for giving first line aid in
comparison with the women of the Allied countries they gave a second
or supporting line service in organization and conservation to which
they applied their full energy. These efforts brought them close in
spirit to the firing line long before the Stars and Stripes were
carried to Chateau Thierry and beyond.

It is the province of this chapter to review especially the work of
the organized suffragists in their loyalty to their government--a
government which from the first had refused to women all voice and
part in its proce