ly for fourteen months
prior to the election, having been organized in July, 1909. The
college women under the name of the College Suffrage League, with Miss
Parker as president, cooperated with the regular State association.

Following the act of the Legislature twenty months were left to carry
on the campaign destined to enfranchise the 175,000 women of the
State. It was a favorable year for submission, as no other important
political issue was before them and there was a reaction against the
dominance of the political "machines."

The campaign was unique in its methods and was won through the
tireless energy of nearly a hundred active, capable women who threw
themselves into the work. The outstanding feature of the plan adopted
by the State Equal Suffrage Association under the leadership of Mrs.
DeVoe, was the absence of all spectacular methods and the emphasis
placed upon personal intensive work on the part of the wives, mothers
and sisters of the men who were to decide the issue at the polls. Big
demonstrations, parades and large meetings of all kinds were avoided.
Only repeated informal conferences of workers were held in different
sections of the State on the call of the president. The result was
that the real strength was never revealed to the enemy. The opposition
was not antagonized and did not awake until election day, when it was
too late. Although the women held few suffrage meetings of their own,
their speakers and organizers constantly obtained the platform at
those of granges, farmers' unions, labor unions, churches and other
organizations.

Each county was canvassed as seemed most expedient by interviews,
letters or return postals. Every woman personally solicited her
neighbor, her doctor, her grocer, her laundrywagon driver, the postman
and even the man who collected the garbage. It was essentially a
womanly campaign, emphasizing the home interests and engaging the
cooperation of home makers. The association published and sold 3,000
copies of The Washington Women's Cook Book, compiled by the
suffragists and edited by Miss Linda Jennings of LaConner. Many a
worker started out into the field with a package of these cook books
under her arm. In the "suffrage department" of the Tacoma _News_ a
"kitchen contest" was held, in which 250-word essays on household
subjects were printed, $70 in prizes being given by the paper.
Suffrage clubs gave programs on "pure food" and "model menus" were
exhibited and di