istrict without hearing a
soap box orator trying to defeat him. The night before election
eighty-six out-door meetings were held. Although it could not defeat
him his former majority of 2,276 was reduced to 190. In 1911 it
engineered campaigns against Cuvillier in Manhattan and Carrew in
Brooklyn for the same reason, distributing over 100,000 pieces of
literature in opposing the latter, who had an adverse majority of over
2,000.

In 1911 the Union took 400 women to Albany and in 1912 the largest
suffrage delegation which had ever gone there. They practically
compelled consideration of the suffrage resolution and after its
defeat campaigned against the enemies, ending the political careers
of some of them. Before election day the files of the Union contained
signed pledges from every candidate for the Legislature in 45 of the
51 Senate districts and in 85 of the 150 Assembly districts. On Jan.
23, 1913, the Senate voted 40 to 2 for the amendment and on the 27th
the Assembly concurred with but five adverse votes. On May 3, the
Union organized a parade of victory in New York City.

During the great campaign of 1915 the Union was constantly evolving
new features to draw attention to the amendment. It closed its
activities with a luncheon of a thousand covers at the Hotel Astor
just before election day in honor of the 100th anniversary of the
birth of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. After the defeat it amalgamated with
the Congressional Union, abandoned State work and centered its efforts
on an amendment to the Federal Constitution. Throughout its existence
Mrs. Blatch was president, Elizabeth Ellsworth Cook, vice-president,
Marcia Townsend, treasurer, Eunice Dana Brannan, chairman of finance,
Nora Stanton Blatch, editor of the _Women's Political World_, the
organ of the society; Caroline Lexow, field secretary and Alberta Hill
and Florence Maule Cooley, executive secretaries. [Information
furnished by Mrs. Blatch.]

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An important feature of the campaign in New York City and in other
parts of the State was the work of the St. Catherine Welfare
Association of Catholic women, organized by Miss Sara McPike,
executive secretary of the advertising department of a large
corporation, and Miss Winifred Sullivan, a lawyer. Its object was
better social and economic conditions for women and children and the
extension of the suffrage to women as a means to this end. Its leaders
and prominent member