ms,
Mrs. C. L. Daugherty, Mrs. John Leahy, Jessie Livingston Parks, Mrs.
N. McCarty, Louise Boylan.

District presidents and chairmen of committees: Dora Kirkpatrick,
Janet C. Broeck, Elizabeth Burt, Ethel Lewis, Mrs. H. J. Bonnell, Mrs.
O. A. Mitscher, Mrs. C. C. Conlan, Effie M. Ralls, E. Irene Yeoman.

[149] Many ardent suffragists found they could not stand up against
the statewide comment that the women should be doing only war work but
the cooperation in many counties was splendid and there is not space
enough to name those who stood by throughout the struggle. To those
already mentioned should be added Judge and Mrs. D. A. McDougal of
Sapulpa, Mrs. Robert Ray of Lawton, Mrs. B. W. Slagle of Shawnee, Mrs.
Hardee Russell of Paul's Valley, Mrs. Lamar Looney of Hollis, Mrs.
Francis Agnew of Altus, Mrs. Eugene B. Lawson of Nowata, Mrs. Annette
B. Ahler of Hennessey, Mrs. Olive Snider of Tulsa. Among the men to be
specially mentioned are James J. McGraw of Ponca City, member of the
National Republican Committee; Tom Wade of Marlow, member of the
National Democratic Committee; George L. Bowman of Kingfisher, Alger
Melton of Chickasha, Colonel E. M. McPherron of Durant and Bird
McGuire of Tulsa.

CHAPTER XXXVI.

OREGON.[150]

The advent of 1901 found the suffrage cause in Oregon almost becalmed
upon a sea of indifference. With an ultra conservative population,
defeats in five previous campaigns, the existence of bitter prejudices
and an utter lack of cooperation among the suffragists themselves, the
outlook was almost hopeless, except for the one outstanding fact that
each failure had carried the women a little nearer their goal. An
inactive State organization had been maintained for years and in
1901-1904 the officers were: President, Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway;
vice-president-at-large, Dr. Annice Jeffreys; vice-president, Mrs. Ada
Cornish Hertsche; corresponding secretary, Miss Frances Gotshall;
recording secretary, Mrs. W. H. Games; treasurer, Mrs. Henry Waldo
Coe. No regular conventions were held.

Mrs. Duniway, the mother of suffrage in Oregon, always advocated the
"still hunt," preferring to centralize and individualize the effort
through prominent men and women rather than through a large and
general organization. Shortly before her death in 1915, speaking of
her work she said: "Occasionally I would gather a few women together
in a suffrage society but on the whole I did not find my time thus
spen