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GEORGIA 125 the well-known national organizer and lecturer for the W. C. T. IL, and four years president for Georgia, joined the suffrage -iation. The National Association's petition to Congress had been distributed throughout the State for signatures and returned to Vashington. In 1910 letters were written to President Taft, to the members of Congress from Georgia and to Governor "Joe" .11, as requested by Dr. Shaw, national president. Senator and Representatives W. C. Brantley, S. A. Roddenberry and Y. C". Adamson were the only ones who could spare time to . er. Atlanta was to have an election for a three-million dollar bond issue on February 15, Susan B. Anthony's birthday, and the Mayor and president of the Chamber of Commerce h.id appealed to the City Federation of Women's Clubs to "make the men go to the polls to vote for bonds." The suffragists dis- tributed broadcast a poster headed by a cartoon by Louis Gregg representing women of all sorts, armed with brooms, umbrellas,, rolling pins, etc., driving the men to the polls. Over 6,000 pages of suffrage literature were distributed in the State, a considerable amount of it to young people engaging bates or writing essays. Dr. James W. Lee and Dr. Frank M. Siler, Methodist ministers of Atlanta, fearlessly expressed themsdve> in their pulpits as in favor of the enfranchisement <>f women, regardless of the fact that Bishop Warren A. Candler bitterly opposed to it. Dr. Len G. Broughton of the Baptist chun :h and Dr. Dean Ellenwood of the Universalist also declared themselves as favoring equal rights in Church and State for en. Judge John L. Hopkins, one of Georgia's foremost lawyers, who codified the laws, proclaimed himself a believer in equal ri-hN for women in a letter to the Constitution. In when it was a^ain proposed to revise the charter of Atlanta, from the Civic League went before the charter com- mittee and presented a petition asking Municipal suffrage for icn. Later at a meeting of the city council the petition was up for consideration and was treated with ridicule and 1 )n August 8 the association held its convention in hall of the Federation of Labor, its true friend. Walter Breath of Fulton county offered a resolution that the House