The final battle took place in the state of Tennessee and Catt was there to lead the campaign through the hot summer months in Nashville in 1920. She wrote to the Woman Citizen, “Never in the history of politics has there been such a force for evil, such a nefarious lobby as labored to block the advance of suffrage in Nashville, Tenn. . . .They appropriated our telegrams, tapped our telephones, listened outside our windows and transoms. They attacked our private and public lives.” The vote count was so close that each side believed it could easily be defeated. The proposed amendment easily passed the Tennessee Senate, but then moved to the House where -- after many delays and many days of debate -- it passed by one vote.