e organizations were urged to place women workers at every
polling precinct. Many men favorable to suffrage advised against this
plan but the result of the election showed that nothing won as many
votes at the last minute as the appeal of the women at the polls. Of
the 33 counties which were carried 21 had women working at the polls;
of the 36 which lost only six had women there. Of the 33 counties 17
had headquarters.

Eight of the 33 counties which gave a majority are chiefly industrial;
eight are equally industrial and rural and seventeen are chiefly
rural. Luzerne, Lackawanna and Westmoreland are the third, fourth and
fifth counties in point of population and they won by majorities of
3,139, 2,654 and 1,140. In all of them the labor vote is heavy, as
mining is the chief industry. Allegheny was the first county of its
size to be carried in the history of suffrage. Fayette county, the
home of Republican State Chairman Crow, who never wavered in his
opposition, was carried by 1,400. Every ward in Uniontown, the county
seat and his home, gave a majority for the amendment. Mrs. Robert E.
Umbel was county chairman. The eight Dutch counties lost by majorities
ranging from 2,000 to 7,000. Rockbound conservatism had much to do
with this result. Schuylkill county, where an adverse vote from 10,000
to 15,000 was predicted, lost by only 1,000. Miss Helen Beddall, the
chairman, conducted a persistent campaign of education for two years.

Philadelphia had the most difficult problem to face with its large
vote and political corruption. Its difficulties were increased by the
duplication of suffrage organizations working independently. An added
complication was the prejudice created by the efforts of the
"militant" suffrage organization, then called the Congressional Union,
to organize, this being the only center in the State in which they had
secured a foothold. The large women's clubs of Philadelphia took no
part in the constructive work of the campaign. Wilmer Atkinson of this
city, editor and owner of the _Farm Journal_, was president of the
Men's League for Woman Suffrage and gave unstintingly of his strength
and means to secure victory. The vote in Philadelphia was 122,519
noes, 77,240 ayes; adverse majority, 45,279. The total vote was
826,382; in favor, 385,348; opposed, 441,034; lost by 55,686 votes,
only 10,407 more than the majority in Philadelphia. The amendment
received nearly 47 per cent. of the total vote cast on it.