itted a plan to the State board and
committee, which was adopted. Women who had been named as county
chairmen previous to 1905 by Mrs. Duniway were used when possible as a
nucleus for a county organization. Many young women who took a leading
part in later campaigns got their first inspiration.

One large room at headquarters was set aside in which to prepare
literature for mailing and there daily went a stream of Portland
women, often swelled by women from out of the city, who worked
diligently from morning till night and many of them every day. These
noon hours became the social events of the campaign and many business
women acquired the habit of dropping in to help a bit with the work
and to enjoy the delightful companionship of the women they found
there. Mrs. Coe, the State president, was out of the city several
months, returning only a few weeks before the election.

Among the women outside of Portland who put their shoulders to the
wheel were Mrs. Clara Waldo, Marion county; Mrs. Emma Galloway,
Yamhill; Dr. Anna B. Reed, Linn; Mrs. Elizabeth Lord, Wasco; Professor
Helen Crawford, Benton; Mrs. Henry Sangstacken, Coos; Mrs. Imogene
Bath, Washington; Mrs. Rosemary Schenck, Lincoln; Mrs. Minnie
Washburn, Lane, and Mrs. Eva Emery Dye, Clackamas.

Miss Clay, Mrs. Bradford and Miss Gregg supervised the work of State
organization, going into large and small places and extending it into
the remotest corners. Mrs. Boyer took up the publicity, in which she
had had long experience. Miss Gordon had charge of parlor meetings in
the cities and larger towns, reaching hundreds who could not have been
induced to attend public rallies. Miss Laughlin appealed powerfully to
the labor and fraternal organizations and conducted a series of
meetings in their halls, at industrial plants and on the streets. Miss
Blackwell, assisted by the Misses Mary and Lucy Anthony, remained at
the headquarters and supervised the sending out of literature. Dr.
Shaw, while keeping her finger on the pulse of all the work, was
speaking to great crowds constantly.

The impetus given the cause by the national convention the previous
summer and the activity of the national workers in the present
campaign aroused the corrupt influences in politics and the upper and
lower classes of anti-suffragists as never before and they jointly
employed Ferdinand Reed, an experienced politician, at a high salary,
as manager of a skilfully organized effort to defeat the a