necessary for Mrs. Shuler and the organizers, in
addition to the detailed work of the campaign, to assume the
financial burden as well. Mrs. Shuler gave her personal check for
rent for August, September and October and with the national
assistants in the field and by personal appeals raised $2,433.
From January 21 to November 5, 1918, there came into the State
Campaign Committee's treasury $4,993 and of this amount $2,559
were spent from January to June for salaries of Mrs. Threadgill,
the chairman; Mrs. Woodworth, the secretary, and headquarters
expenses. These funds were checked out on warrants signed by them
and the checks signed by Mrs. Hawley, treasurer. From June to
November $2,433 were raised and checked out on warrants signed by
Mrs. Henley and checks signed by Mrs. Hawley for headquarters
expenses--not a penny going for salary or expenses of any
national worker. The sum of $79.92 remaining in the treasury at
the end was turned over to the Ratification Committee.

The Tulsa suffragists opened headquarters, engaged an executive
secretary and financed their own campaign. They also very
generously paid nearly $500 for the suffrage supplement
distributed through the State. There were other counties no doubt
where money was spent locally, but no record was sent to
headquarters. The National Association expended nearly $20,000 in
Oklahoma, the largest sum it had ever put into a State Campaign.
By September 1 it was paying salaries and expenses of eleven
national workers.[149]

When the epidemic regulations forbade meetings of more than
twelve persons, the suffragists resorted to all manner of devices
for voiceless speech and 150,000 fliers with the wording of the
amendment, directions how to vote and the warning that a "silent
vote" was a vote against it were distributed by hand and through
the mail. Other circularization, posting of towns at a specified
date and newspaper publicity were pushed. Much political help was
secured. Both Republican and Democratic State conventions passed
suffrage resolutions and preceding the Democratic nearly every
county convention passed such a resolution.

No work which the women did in the campaign was more effective
than their election day appeal. Nearly every polling place had
women watchers withi