GEORGIA 127 Matthews, treasurer of the young people's society, Mrs. Landis Sanna, Mrs. Margaret Gardner, editor Trox Bankston of West Point and J. J. Yilliams of Chatterton, were sent to Washing- ton to march in the parade on March 3. They carried the suf- frage flag made for the national convention in Atlanta in 1895, with two handsome yellow banners prepared especially for the parade. Five bills before the Legislature were supported this year as well as the Federal Amendment. When Presidential suf- frage was given to Illinois women in 1913, the Atlanta Consti- tution was so impressed with the "nearness" of woman suffrage that it created a suffrage department and offered the editorship to Mrs. McLendon. U. S. Senators Hoke Smith and Augustus O. Bacon had been obliged to present the petition of Georgia suffragists asking for the Federal Amendment, but no beautiful speeches were made by them. Senator Smith had been on record all his life as being "unalterably opposed to woman suffrage" and voted against it whenever he had opportunity, adding insult to injury by declaring, "Our best women do not want it." Senator
. S. West, who succeeded Senator Bacon, was more amenable
to reason, but Senator Thomas W. Hardwick, who followed after Mr. West's death, has been an implacable opponent. For the second time the Atlanta Federation tendered the use of its beautiful Temple of Labor for the day sessions of the State ention which met July 9, 10. The Legislature was per- suaded by John Y. Smith of Fulton county to permit an evening session in the House of Representatives. Senator Starke op- posed the use of the Senate Chamber * 'because Christ did not t women for his Disciples" but saner counsels prevailed and pened for a session. 1 hiring 1914 there were 275 meet ings in Atlanta, Rome, Athens, Decatur, Macon and Bainbrid-e by the auxiliary soci- with five open air meeting. ( )n March I a mass minting held in the Atlanta theater to which members of the I .< lature were especially invited. The speakers were officers of the nal Association, including the vice-president, Miss Jane
- ins. To enlarge the scope- of the wrk there was organized
ebruary the Voman Suffrage Party Incorporated, as a branch of the State association, with Mrs. McLeixlnn president.
