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WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN PRESIDENTIAL CONVENTIONS 719 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 en- dorse the proposed iQth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States granting equal suffrage to women. We congratu- late the Legislatures of 35 States which have already ratified said amendment and we urge the Democratic Governors and Legisla- tures 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.