e effect its passage would have upon the
aliens, etc., because these questions were constantly met. Much
new literature had to be prepared and all the posters changed to
fit new conditions.

What won the State? Persistent, intensive, quiet work. We had few
meetings of our own but we used those of every one else, from
women's aid societies to Rotary clubs, political rallies and
Fourth of July celebrations. We did not plan parades, but
wherever patriotic sentiment expressed itself through a parade we
were in it. We circularized the voters in groups again and
again--lawyers, business men, farmers, etc., with literature
adapted to each group. We circulated a petition and 95 per cent.
of the women to whom it was presented signed it. We sent every
organizer we could command into delinquent counties, having the
cooperation of the local women. In the evening street meetings
were held. The workers left literature in every home and posters
placarded on every wall space. They left suffrage stories with
the newspapers and the spoken word in the ear of all who would
listen and they left the morale of the local workers at high
water mark. The signed petitions were printed and mailed to the
voters in each county with our final circularization.
Ninety-eight per cent. of the newspapers were favorable and in
spite of paper shortage and the demand for war publicity they
never failed the women. In addition to news stories, editorials,
etc., they universally used the plate material which the National
Association furnished. As much as any other one thing perhaps,
this plate material helped to win the campaign. All political
parties endorsed the amendment, Republicans and Democrats making
it a part of their platforms.

In June Mrs. Nettie Rogers Shuler, corresponding secretary of the
National Association, came to South Dakota and with Mrs. S. V.
Ghrist, vice-president of the State League, and Mrs. McMahon, a
school of methods was held in the principal towns. The women were
taught how to organize and were grounded in the new aspects of
the campaign. Mrs. Catt was ill and could not come, which was the
greatest blow the campaign had; however Mrs. Halsey W. Wilson,
national recording secretary, took her place very acceptably.

Among the organizers Mrs. McMahon mentio