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Show f G. 0. P. Aids Suffrage . sV. j KWwMf&SHHHHHHHHHHHHV SHBBBBBBBBHBBB OIlHHIIHISIiHI Wost Virginia was tho thirty-fourth Stato. to ratify tho suffrage amendment. A Republican Stato Senator, Jcsso A. Bloch, traveled across tho continent from California on limited trains In order to reach Charleston in timo to break the Icglslatlvo deadlock on tho suffrage suf-frage question. Ho arrived and the amohdraont carried. National Committeeman VlrGll Highland mot Senator Bloch at Chicago and had both an airplano and a special train in readiness to hasten him on his Journoy. Leaving tho decision as to transit to his wife, sho elected tho spoclat train which reached Cincinnati six hours later In amplo tlmo to connect wiUi tho regular outgoing trnln to Charleston. Thuu he was In hi3 soat tho next day when tho decisive voto came ?U ., This to dato Is tho most dramatic oplcode In tho long strugglo for Uuffrago and the West Virginian's namo will go down in history. $Tho plcturo from left to right shows Lt. C. It. Borktand, fornicrly a flyer in tho British Royal Flying Corps; Senator Josse A. Bloch; Mrs. Bloch, wife of the Senator, and Hon. Virgil L. Highland, Republican National Committeeman of West Virginia. 1 |