vement. The local
suffrage organizations provided coffee and sandwiches for the
laborers and got in their propaganda. On Supplication Day, the last
Sunday before election, ministers were asked to preach suffrage
sermons. Mrs. Ruschenberger's Bell was the best and main publicity
feature and undeniably secured many thousands of votes. It visited all
the counties, traveling 3,935 miles on a special truck. Hundreds of
appeals by as many speakers were made from this as a stand and it was
received in the rural communities with almost as much reverence and
ceremony as would have been accorded the original bell. The
collections and the receipts from the sale of novelties moulded in the
likeness of the bell helped materially to defray the heavy expense of
operating the truck, paying the speakers' expenses and providing
literature.

Space for the display of advertising cards was purchased in 5,748
street cars for August, September and October. Special suffrage
editions of newspapers in all parts of the State, copy and cuts for
which were prepared by the State Publicity Department, contributed
considerably to propaganda and finance. Throughout the State the
general lines of activity were the same--meetings of all kinds,
parades, hearings before organizations to secure endorsements, booths
at county fairs, exhibitions, canvassing, circularization and auto
tours. The degree of success in each locality depended upon the kind
and amount of work. Millions of fliers, leaflets and booklets original
to Pennsylvania were issued in English, Italian, German, Polish and
Hebrew and no effort or expense was spared to secure converts through
the written word. During the last month of the campaign the county
organizations circularized their voters twice--once with speeches of
Representatives Mondell of Wyoming and Keating of Colorado in Congress
and once with a personal letter written to the voter and signed by the
county chairman or a suffragist in his own community. Four days before
election 330,000 of these letters went to the voters.

Although a bill for woman watchers at the polls failed to pass the
Legislature and the suffragists were thus denied the protection which
every political party is permitted, yet in many counties the
assistance of the regularly appointed watchers was secured. The
Washington party and Socialist watchers were universally helpful and
in many cases the Democratic and Republican watchers gave assistance.
The suffrag