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The New York Times, August 18, 1920 – Front Page – In North Carolina, the Senate decides to defer a vote on suffrage until 1921. In Tennessee, hundreds of women wearing yellow roses, if they are pro-suffrage, or red roses, if they are anti-suffrage, crowd the Capitol. The women pin an appropriately colored rose on each legislator they encounter on Capitol Hill, based upon the man’s sentiments towards suffrage. But, a vote in the Tennessee House is deferred another day. Alice Paul reports that Democratic presidential candidate James Cox is ready to come to Tennessee.
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The New York Times, August 18, 1920 – The National Woman’s Party drapes purple, white, and gold banners in the Tennessee House. The State suffrage groups display yellow satin banners. Yellow bunting covers the exterior of the building. The women decorate the desks of each legislator with yellow flowers. Next to the rostrum is a liberty bell, to be rung if suffrage is ratified. Carrie Chapman Catt remains in her hotel rather than going to the Capitol Building, but the vote on suffrage is deferred. The rest of the suffragists are crowded in the gallery of the Tennessee House. read clipping

The New York Times, August 19, 1920 – Front Page – Ninety-six of the ninety-nine members of the Tennessee House are present. The men are wearing red or yellow roses depending upon their disposition towards
suffrage. The Speaker of the House makes a motion to table suffrage and the motion is stalled by a tie vote of forty-eight to forty-eight. The Speaker then calls for a vote on suffrage, assuming the result will be a tie and there