t. Three
thousand people saw him, completely routed, retire from the platform
while Mrs. Breckinridge and "the cause" got a tremendous ovation. Mr.
Wilson and William D. Wheelwright were the only two men who took the
platform against the amendment. The women "antis" were led by Mrs. A.
E. Rockey, Mrs. Ralph Wilber, Mrs. Robert Lewis and the Misses Etta
and May Failing.

The committee maintained a speakers' bureau and sent out thousands of
pieces of literature. Among the first to enter the campaign was a
Men's Equal Suffrage Club, organized and promoted by W. M. Davis, a
prominent attorney of Portland, which soon became an active state-wide
organization. Mr. Davis was the legal adviser of all the women's
organizations.

Mrs. Solomon Hirsch, an early worker and one of the most liberal
financial supporters of the campaign, went directly into the camp of
the enemy and organized a group of society women in the Portland Equal
Suffrage League. No one feature stands out more conspicuously for
results than a "tea" she gave for Sir Forbes-Robertson in her palatial
home, to which she invited about two hundred guests, most of whom were
radical anti-suffragists, but many of them went away converts after
hearing the presentation of the subject by the guest of honor. Mrs.
Hirsch also brought the Rev. Charles A. Aked of San Francisco.

Dr. Coe was the first president of the Portland College League and
when she had to assume the duties of the State president, Miss Emma
Wold filled her place. The largest suffrage meeting up to that time
was under the auspices of this league at Oaks Amusement Park, where
Mrs. Sara Bard Field (Ergott) and C. E. S. Wood, a brilliant orator,
addressed more than 10,000 people. Mrs. A. C. Newill established the
Cooperative Civic League, which did active work with the State
association. Dr. Lovejoy organized Every Body's League late in the
campaign but succeeded in gathering hundreds of unattached men and
women into the ranks of the workers. The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union added its mighty strength and did valiant service under the able
leadership of Mrs. Lucia Faxton Additon, Mrs. M. L. T. Hidden and Mrs.
Ada Wallace Unruh.

On Nov. 5, 1912, the equal suffrage amendment was carried by a
majority of 4,161, not by any one person or by any one organization,
for no individual or single organization could have compassed the work
required to put the State "over the top" with even this meagre
majority in