Prior to election day all the political parties in the State had
endorsed woman suffrage per se, except the Republican and that party
had declared in favor of a referendum to the voters. The great
weakness of the campaign was lack of money. The total State fund was
$78,698, of which Allegheny county contributed 50 per cent. Many of
the counties spent considerable sums in addition, Allegheny county's
special "budget" being $25,000. If the association had had an
additional $25,000 the lacking 3 per cent. of the voters could have
been secured and the campaign would have ended in a victory.

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The State convention was held in Philadelphia Nov. 30, 1915. As
amendments to the State constitution can be submitted only once in
five years, the delegates reconsecrated themselves to a new campaign
at the end of that time. At a conference held in Harrisburg in the
spring of 1916 47 counties were represented and an inspiring address
was made by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, now national president. An
intercounty rally at Somerset in July was attended by 500 suffragists
from ten counties and a State suffrage flag was adopted. The annual
convention was held in Williamsport, November 21-24, and the delegates
were unanimous in their desire to continue preparations for another
campaign. Mrs. George B. Orlady was elected president.

As Philadelphia is the center of population in the State, the
financial center, has the largest number of newspapers and is more
accessible than Harrisburg, State headquarters were moved to that city
June 1, 1917. Upon the entrance of the United States into the World
War the association without a day's delay offered the services of its
members and the facilities of its organization to the Government.
State officers, county chairmen and suffragists in the ranks served on
the Council of National Defense, on Liberty Loan Committees, in the
various "drives" and wherever needed. Mrs. John O. Miller, State
vice-president, was appointed by Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo a
member of the National Woman's Liberty Loan Committee and also served
as State Chairman. Pennsylvania contributed $20,573 to the Women's
Oversea Hospitals, maintained by the National Suffrage Association,
$11,397 of which were raised in Pittsburgh at an outdoor fete of which
Mrs. Leonard G. Wood was chairman. The State convention was held in
this city November 20-22 and Mrs. Miller was elected president. In