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CHAPTER XXXVIII. | |
Indiana | 614-627 |
Early suffrage organization — Efforts in political conventions — Work in Legislature — Laws — Amazing decisions of Supreme Court on the right of women to practice law, keep a saloon and vote — Struggle for police matrons — Women organized in fifty departments of work. | |
CHAPTER XXXIX. | |
Iowa | 628-637 |
Long years of organized work — Continued refusal of Legislature to submit a Woman Suffrage Amendment to voters — Convention of the National Association in 1897 — Liberal laws for women — Many holding office — Bond Suffrage. | |
CHAPTER XL. | |
Kansas | 638-664 |
Organization work and large number of conventions — Granting of Municipal Suffrage Alliance with parties — Efforts for Full Suffrage — Amendment submitted — Republicans fail to endorse — Campaign of 1894 — National Association and officers assist — Amendment defeated by defection of all parties — Attempt to secure suffrage by statute — A pioneer in liberal laws for women — They hold offices not held by those of any other State — Official statistics of woman's vote — Many restrictions placed on Municipal Suffrage — Class of women who use the franchise. | |
CHAPTER XLI. | |
Kentucky | 665-677 |
Organization — Efforts to secure Full Suffrage from Constitutional Convention — State Association succeeds in revolutionizing the property laws for women — School Suffrage — Educational facilities, etc. | |
CHAPTER XLII. | |
Louisiana | 678-688 |
Women's work at Cotton Centennial and in Anti-lottery Campaign — Organization for suffrage — Efforts in Constitutional Convention of 1898 — Taxpayer's Suffrage granted to women — Campaign in New Orleans for Sewerage and Drainage — Measure carried by the women — Napoleonic code of laws. | |
CHAPTER XLIII. | |
Maine | 689-694 |
Organization for suffrage — Legislative action and laws — Office-holding of women — Occupations — Education — Clubs. |