Some modern-day researchers have suggested that Morris' oldest son, who became editor of a Cheyenne newspaper, may have played a role in the origins of the story of his mother's role. Critics say that he "concocted it". Other research leads to Morris' friend Melville C. Brown, who was president of the 1889 Constitutional Convention in Cheyenne, who claimed that she had presented the suffrage bill to the legislature. Morris' son Archy Slack followed suit and subsequently referred to his mother in the "Cheyenne Sun" newspaper as the "Mother of Suffrage".