individual speeches were mailed to voters;
149,533 posters were put up and 1,000,000 suffrage buttons were used;
200,000 cards of matches with "Vote Yes on the Suffrage Amendment" on
the back were distributed and 35,000 fans carrying the suffrage map.

The value of street speaking had long since been learned. A woman
speaking from an automobile or a soap box or steps, while she might
begin by addressing a few children would usually draw a crowd of men
of the kind who could never be gotten inside a hall, and these men
were voters. The effect of these outdoor meetings was soon seen all
over the State in the rapidly changing sentiment of the man in the
street. During the six months preceding the election 10,325 meetings
were recorded besides the countless ones not reported. Mass meetings
were held in 124 different cities, sixteen in New York, with U. S.
Senators and Representatives and other prominent speakers. The week
before election in New York, Buffalo, Rochester and other large cities
Marathon speeches were made continuously throughout the twenty-four
hours, with listening crowds even during the small hours of the night.
Suffrage speeches were given in moving picture shows and vaudeville
theaters and a suffrage motion picture play was produced. Flying
squadrons of trained workers would go into a city, make a canvass,
hold street meetings, attract public attention and stimulate newspaper
activity.

A remarkable piece of work was done by a Press and Publicity Council
of one hundred women in New York City organized by Mrs. Whitehouse.
They established personal acquaintance with the editors and owners of
the fifteen daily papers; answered the anti-suffrage letters
published; communicated with the editors of 683 trade journals, 21
religious papers, 126 foreign language papers and many others--893 in
all--and offered them exclusive articles; they suggested special
features for magazines and planned suffrage covers; they secured space
for a suffrage calendar in every daily paper. This council placed
suffrage slides in moving picture houses and suffrage posters in the
lobbies of theaters; and had a page advertisement of suffrage in every
theater program. Comedians were asked to make references to suffrage
in their plays and jokes were collected for them and appropriate lines
suggested.

A sub-committee of writers was organized which assembled material for
special suffrage editions of papers, wrote suffrage articles and ma