 She sent in a news comment to "The Woman’s Journal" in January 1912, “Much good work is being done in the South.Women and men are reading, thinking and talking in favor of woman suffrage as never before.” That year a Midwestern suffragists’ conference was held in Chicago, and she spoke on “Church Work.” The following year the Mississippi Valley Suffrage conference united with all the Southern states’ suffrage leaders to meet in St. Louis at the Buckingham Hotel from April 2-4, 1913.Belle spoke on "Southern Women and the Ballot."