f the amendment, and he and his private secretary, Joseph P.
Tumulty, made a special trip to New Jersey to vote for it. This had a
marked effect over the country.

The Legislative Committee having secured a bill allowing women to
watch at the polls, watchers' schools were held in every important
city under the direction of Mrs. Colvin, with the result that at the
election 1,657 of the 1,891 polling places in the State were supplied
with trained women watchers.

On election day Nugent and his lieutenants worked all day at the
Newark polling places and the suffragists were positive that hundreds
of voters were imported from New York and other places, which was
possible because men could vote on the amendment without having
previously registered. Nugent is reported to have said: "We knew we
had the amendment beaten when the election was put on registration
day." This was done against the protests of the suffragists. Men voted
on it at the same time they registered and in the police canvass made
before the general election, the names of several thousand illegally
registered were taken off the books in Essex and Hudson counties, all
of whom had a chance to vote on the amendment. All day in all the
cities the women watchers saw little groups of men taken into saloons
opposite the polling places by persons avowedly working to defeat it,
instructed how to vote on it, marshalled to the polling place and
after voting taken back to the saloon to be paid.

Finding at the last moment that no provision was made by the State to
pay for sending in returns from special elections, the State
association arranged with the Associated Press to obtain its own
returns and a wire was run into the suffrage headquarters in Jersey
City. By midnight complete returns were in from 70 per cent. of the
State, due to the splendid cooperation of the county and local
suffrage chairmen, who knew only one day in advance that this work
would be required of them. A manager of the Associated Press said that
they had never handled an election where the returns came in faster or
more accurately and few where they came in as well.

The election resulted in a vote of 317,672, a very large one
considering that the Presidential vote in 1912 had been only 459,000.
The vote in favor of the suffrage amendment was 133,281, or 42 per
cent. of the whole; against, 184,391, defeated by 51,110. Ocean county
was the only one carried but 126 cities and towns were carried a