ecretary of State Ben Olcott. A large number of suffragists were
present. The speakers were Governor Oswald West; Mrs. Olive English
Enright; Mrs. Greeley and Miss Whitney. Mrs. Duniway became seriously
ill immediately after this meeting and the work of the association
fell upon Mrs. Coe, who courageously assumed the responsibility. In
the secretary, Miss Buckman, she had an able assistant, and also in
Mrs. L. W. Therkelsen, Mrs. H. R. Reynolds, Dr. Marie D. Equi and Dr.
Victoria Hampton, close friends of Mrs. Duniway. On March 8 Mrs. Coe
called a meeting at the headquarters in the Selling Building in
Portland, two rooms having been generously donated by the Hon. Ben
Selling to be jointly used by the State association and the College
League. The State work was definitely launched by the appointment of
the following committees: Finance, Mrs. J. A. Fouilhoux, Mrs. Elliott
Corbet, Dr. Florence Manion; literature, Mrs. Louise Trullinger, Mrs.
A. E. Clark, Miss Emma Wold, Miss Blanche Wren; ways and means, Dr.
Florence Brown Cassiday, Mrs. Caroline Hepburn, Mrs. C. B. Woodruff.

In June the General Federation of Women's Clubs met in San Francisco
and many of the prominent women in attendance arranged to return via
Oregon, the New York special train stopping over for one day. It was
met twelve miles out and escorted to Portland and met at the depot by
a brass band.

In the afternoon a meeting was held in the Taylor Street Methodist
Church with many unable to obtain admittance. Miss Mary Garrett Hay of
New York; Mrs. H. C. Warren of New Jersey; Mrs. Desha Breckinridge of
Kentucky; Miss Helen Varick Boswell and Miss Mary Wood of New York,
and Professor Frances Squire Potter of Minnesota University, were
among the speakers. The last four remained for several days and spoke
at the great Gladstone Chautauqua. One of the most noteworthy
incidents of the campaign was a debate here between Mrs. Breckinridge
and the Rev. Clarence True Wilson, secretary of the Committee of
Temperance and Morals for the Methodist Church. The reverend gentleman
was the white hope of the anti-suffragists. His exalted calling and
his official position as a prohibitionist, camouflaged the relation
between the two extremes of society that were working against the
amendment--the liquor people and a group of society women supplemented
by a group of prominent men. He had sent the challenge to the Woman's
Club Committee and Mrs. Breckinridge took up the gauntle