ss place and every public domain in the State. Business
methods are different. Visiting women say they can tell when in the
large department stores, groceries, etc., that the women are voters.
Political campaigns are very differently conducted since women have a
part in them. Election methods have changed to make election day what
the men deem fitting since their wives, mothers and sisters are voters
and the polling places are unobjectionable. Not only has it been
conceded that the commonwealth has been blest by the votes of the
women but also that the women themselves have been benefited; their
lives have been enriched by their broadening experiences; their larger
vision has made possible greater culture; their wider opportunity for
doing has led to more deeds of kindness; their interest in State
government and civic economics has improved their ideas of home
government and domestic economy; their assistance in State and civic
"house-cleaning" has imbued them with a higher sense of duty to
society and their own homes.

From time to time wholly unwarranted attacks were made on the effects
of woman suffrage in Colorado in order to prevent its adoption in
other States. During 1908-9 the misrepresentations became so vicious
there was a general feeling that as the men voters largely outnumbered
the women they should not remain silent. Through the efforts of
Assistant District Attorney Omar E. Garwood the Equal Suffrage Aid
Association of men was formed with former Governor Alva Adams
president; Isaac N. Stevens, vice-president, and Mr. Garwood
secretary. Prominent men joined it and it rendered such excellent
service in giving authoritative information that in a few years the
attacks and misrepresentations almost wholly ceased. Mr. Garwood went
on to New York, where the National Men's League for Woman Suffrage was
organized with James Lees Laidlaw of New York City as president and
Mr. Garwood as secretary. He aided in forming similar leagues in other
States and for several years participated actively in the suffrage
campaigns of Kansas, Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and South
Dakota, and lectured as far south as Mississippi, finding much
interest in Colorado's experiment. It was believed that the men's
organizations, actively taking the stand for the enfranchisement of
women, contributed substantially to the ultimate success of the
movement. In 1915 and following years an obscure lawyer employed by
certain vested inte