OKLAHOMA 521 from women in different parts of the Territories. The Twin Territorial Association was organized and a resolution was adopted calling for statehood and saying : "Said statehood shall never enact any law restricting the right of suffrage on account of sex, race, color or previous condition of servitude." Promi- nent at this convention were Mrs. Kate H. Biggers, Mrs. Julia Woodworth, Mrs. Anna Laskey and Mrs. Jence C. Feuquay. The officers elected were: president, Mrs. Biggers, Indian Territory; first vice-president, Mrs. Woodworth; second, Mrs. Anna M. Bennett; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Laskey; recording secre- tary. Mrs. Louisa Boylan McLoud; treasurer, Miss Margaret Rees ; auditors, Mrs. Rebecca Forney and Mrs. Mary B. Green, all of Oklahoma Territory, and Mrs. Mary C. Harvey of Indian Territory. The second annual convention was held Oct. 26-28, 1905, at Chickasha, Indian Territory. Mrs. Biggers, Mrs. Woodworth, - Rees and Mrs. Green were re-elected. New officers were, Mrs. Minnie Keith Bailey, Mrs. Cleo Ikard Harris, Mrs. Ida Yood Norvell, Mrs. Jessie Livingston Parks and Mrs. Hattie Sherman. Vigorous protest had been made by women through- out the Territories against the bill for statehood which had been presented to Congress, classifying women in the suffrage section with illiterates, minors, felons, insane and feeble-minded. The matter was also taken up by the National Association. [See >ter V, Volume V.] Later when bills in the Territorial Legis- lature for a constitutional convention repeated this clause a con- as held with the officers of the W. C. T. U. and hundreds of letters of protest were sent. tutional convention seemed near at hand Dr. Frances
"..!> <,f South Dakota was sent by the National Association to
iixe in Indian Territory. With the help of Mrs. Woodworlh red hearings before women's clubs and W. C. T. U.'s, I .abor and Press Associations and was invited to a I aimers' Institute 300 miles away with her expenses Gregg continued the or^ani/ing in Oklahoma, ad- au audience of 6,000 at the Grand Army of the Republic mpuient and speaking to teaehers' institutes, business colleges, try school house meetings and women's clubs. One issue of VOL. VI
