immons, vice-president, and Mrs. F. T. Kellers, auditor, were the
only new officers elected. It was voted that the other State
organizations of women should be asked to join in the campaign for
ratification of the Federal Amendment by the Legislature. The
committee was organized in July, 1918, with the following
organizations represented: Woman Suffrage Association, Federation of
Women's Clubs, Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, Public Health Nursing, Teachers' Association;
chairman, Mrs. Feickert; secretary, Mrs. James Simister; treasurer,
Mrs. Olmsted. A Finance Committee was appointed--Mrs. Seymour L.
Cromwell, Mrs. Colby and Mrs. Hunter--which raised over $10,000. The
principal contributors were Mrs. Cromwell, Mrs. Colby, Judge and Mrs.
John J. White, Mrs. Wittpenn, Mrs. Hartshorne, Mrs. Lewis S. Thompson
and Mrs. Robert Stevens.

A very active primary and general election campaign was made in 1919
for the election of men pledged to vote for ratification, in which
110,000 personal letters were sent out, all kinds of organizations
were circularized and about 1,000,000 pieces of literature were
distributed. A State ratification mass meeting at Asbury Park in
August opened the campaign and local meetings were held in every
county. A Governor and a majority in both Houses were elected who were
pledged to ratification.

A Men's Council for Ratification was organized in December with
Everett Colby as chairman, Governor Edward I. Edwards and U. S.
Senators Joseph S. Frelinghuysen and Walter E. Edge as honorary
chairmen and 54 of the most prominent Democrats and Republicans in the
State as vice-chairmen. This was not an active organization but the
fact that the leaders of their parties allowed their names to be used
had considerable influence upon many legislators. In January, 1920,
campaign headquarters were opened in Trenton near the State House in
charge of Miss Julia Wernig, field organizer of the association, where
a great deal of literature was given out and other work done.

On January 27 in Crescent Temple, Trenton, the Ratification Committee
staged the most spectacular suffrage mass meeting ever held in New
Jersey. Its special purpose was to present to the Governor, the
President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House the huge suffrage
petition containing almost 140,000 names of women, arranged by
counties and towns. The hall was beautifully decorated with American
flag