special occasions.
Mrs. Watson spoke night and day for three weeks in Sacramento Valley;
at Chico to an audience of 3,000.[15]

The Central Campaign Committee was created in July, three months
before election, consisting of one member from each of the five
principal campaign organizations in San Francisco doing State work.
Mrs. Watson Taylor, daughter of the president, represented the State
Equal Suffrage Association; Mrs. Aylett Cotton, the Clubwoman's
Franchise League; Mrs. Robert A. Dean, the Woman Suffrage Party; Miss
Maud Younger, the Wage Earners' League and Mrs. Deering the College
League. This committee was formed at the suggestion of Mrs. James
Lees Laidlaw of New York, who visited San Francisco with her husband
in January, for the purpose of having all the organizations share in
the money and workers sent by the New York Woman Suffrage Party. Over
$1,000 were received from it, of which $500 came from General Horace
Carpentier, a former Californian and ex-mayor of Oakland, sent through
Mr. Laidlaw. The Men's New York League sent $200; the Rochester
Political Equality Club, $280; Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt $300. New York
suffragists also paid the railroad expenses of the three organizers
and speakers whom they sent and Chicago suffragists paid the
travelling expenses of Mrs. McCulloch, who contributed her services.

From outside States came Miss Helen Todd, former factory inspector of
Illinois; Miss Margaret Haley of Chicago; Miss Jeannette Rankin of
Montana; Mrs. Helen Hoy Greeley, Mrs. A. C. Fisk and Mrs. John Rogers
of New York; Mrs. Mary Stanislawsky of Nevada; Mrs. Alma Lafferty,
member of the Colorado Legislature. These speakers were sent
throughout Northern California.

The chairman of the Press Committee, Mrs. Deering, had been carrying
on the press work steadily for the past five years and hundreds of
papers were ready to support the amendment. Before the end of the
brief campaign, under her efficient management, almost every paper of
prominence either endorsed it or remained silent. The Los Angeles
_Express_, Sacramento _Bee_, _Star_ and _Union_, the San Jose
_Mercury_, the Oakland _Enquirer_, the San Francisco _Bulletin_ and
the _Daily News_ were especially helpful. James H. Barry, editor of
the _Star_, was an unfailing advocate. The _Call_ made a sustained
fight for it and the _Examiner_ and _Post_ advised a vote in favor.
The German papers were outspokenly opposed. The _Chronicle_ in San
Francisco