y, Mrs. Kate Selby
Wilder, Fargo; treasurer, Mrs. Helen de Lendrecie, Fargo; Committee on
Permanent Organization, Mrs. Ayers, Mrs. James Collins, Mrs. W. J.
Holbrook, N. C. McDonald, W. L. Stockwell; Resolutions, Mrs. Page,
Mrs. Wilder, Mrs. W. F. Cushing; Constitution, Miss Candis Nelson,
Mr. McDonald; Promotion, Mrs. C. F. Amidon. Steps were taken to
affiliate with the National American Woman Suffrage Association and it
was decided to introduce a resolution for the submission of a State
suffrage amendment to the voters at the next session of the
Legislature. Mrs. de Lendrecie gave headquarters in the de Lendrecie
Building at Fargo.

The first convention was held at the Civic Center, Fargo, Oct. 18,
1913. The Promotions Committee reported the circularization of the
entire press and the legislators and a number of towns organized. A
woman suffrage bill had been passed by the Legislature and would be
submitted to the voters on Nov. 4, 1914. With the following State
officers the campaign was launched: Mrs. Darrow, president; Mrs.
Weible, vice-president; Mrs. Emma S. Pierce, treasurer; Mrs. Francis
S. Bolley, congressional chairman; Mrs. Elizabeth Darrow O'Neil,
campaign manager.

A plan to divide the State into its judicial districts with district,
county and township chairmen was only partially carried out. One
hundred leagues were formed with approximately 2,000 members. Wherever
there was an efficient worker she was given a free hand to get the
votes in her locality in the most effective way. From four to six
organizers were in the field continually; seven speakers, including
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, its president, were sent by the National
Association and five were furnished by the State. Chautauquas, fairs,
theaters and all kinds of meetings were everywhere utilized and there
were automobile speaking tours to outlying districts; plate matter was
furnished to the press and political party members were circularized.
A fund of $6,000 was raised, $3,000 of which came from the National
Association and other outside sources.

It was a hard and hopeless campaign because of an impossible
requirement. When the framers of the constitution for statehood in
1889 refused to include woman suffrage a provision was put in the
constitution whereby the Legislature at any time could submit a bill
for it at the next general election. If approved by a majority of
voters "voting upon the question" it became a Law. How, when or where
the