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 688 HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE Wheeling; 1911, October 27, Fairmont; 1913, October 24, Wheeling. During these years practically all that was done was to have speakers of note from time to time and a resolution for woman suffrage introduced in the Legislature whenever possible. In 1904 a new city charter was prepared for Wheeling and an effort was made to have it provide for a municipal vote for women. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, national president, gave a week to speaking in the city and Miss Kate Gordon, national corresponding secretary, spent three weeks there, addressing many organizations. The question was submitted to the voters with the charter but on a separate ballot. Both were lost, the suffrage amendment by 1,600. More votes were cast on it than on the charter itself. In 1910 an amendment to the State constitution permitting women to be appointed notaries public, clerks of county courts, probation officers and members of boards of State institutions went to the voters. The State Bar Association also had an amendment and kindly printed the literature for the former and sent it out with theirs. It received the larger number of votes 44,168 ayes, 45,044 noes and was lost by only 876. With the submission to the voters by the Legislature of 1915 of an amendment to the constitution conferring full suffrage ac- tivity was stimulated. Miss Ida Craft of New York, in co- operation with the women of Charleston, held a suffrage school there January 28-February 3 and at that time Mrs. J. E. Can- nady, vice-president of its Equal Suffrage League, obtained permission from Governor Henry D. Hatfield to put the "suf- frage map" in the lobby of the Capitol. Mrs. Mary E. Craigie, chairman of church work for the National Association, addressed the Woman's Club of Parkersburg April 5 and afterwards spoke in many cities and towns through arrangement by Dr. Jones, as did Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton of Warren and Miss Elizabeth J. Hauser of Girard, Ohio. In May Mrs. Ebert of Parkersburg, president of the State association, addressed a letter to the clergy- men urging them to use as a text on Mothers' Day, May 9, The Need of Mothers* Influence in the State, and Dr. Jones sent a questionnaire to 1 50 editors, receiving answers favoring suffrage from 53. Mrs. Desha Breckinridge, president of the Kentucky