ropists and by men and women from all
callings and occupations....

During the last two months meetings were arranged in all the
towns of the southern counties where it was possible. When a hall
could not be had they were held in the open air. The last month
from fifty to sixty meetings a week were planned from the league
headquarters, speakers supplied and literature sent. These did
not include those arranged by local organizations in smaller
towns nor the many street meetings which were held by every one
who could command an automobile. The climax was in the largest
theater in Los Angeles on the evening of September 30 when over
4,000 people listened to the best speakers of the campaign. In
addition another thousand gathered in Choral Hall for an overflow
meeting, while many hundreds were turned from the doors. It was
the largest political demonstration in the history of Southern
California.

The most important phase of the publicity work was that of the
Press Committee, formed of active newspaper women. Miss Bess Munn
was made secretary and her time was devoted exclusively to
supplying material to the local press and the country newspapers.
Double postals asking individuals their opinion of the suffrage
movement were sent to the members of the Legislature; to city,
county and State officials from San Diego to Siskiyou; to judges,
lawyers, merchants, bankers, physicians and all prominent
visitors within the gates of the city. Their answers were from
time to time printed in the form of interviews. Letters went to
club women in every town asking for cooperation in securing space
for suffrage material in the local press. Personal letters were
sent to all the editors informing them that a weekly suffrage
letter would be sent to them from the headquarters of the league.
This contained nothing but the shortest, pithiest items of
suffrage activities and enclosed were the leaflets which were
often printed in full. At the close of the campaign more than
half of the papers of the State regularly used the letter either
as news or as a basis for editorial comment. In Los Angeles alone
more than 10,000 columns were printed on suffrage. In monetary
value this amount of space would have cost $100,000. The last
week before election a cut of the ballo