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public meetings held by the speakers and organizers; newspaper
advertisements were furnished to all rural papers the week before
election; every city organization carried a conspicuous advertisement
in the daily papers; hundreds of two-page supplements were furnished
the last week. The majority of the newspapers were editorially in
favor of the amendment.

In January the State association put two organizers in the field, Miss
Marie Ames and Miss Eudora Ramsey, the salary of the latter paid by
the Allegheny county suffrage society of Pennsylvania, and the
National Association placed two, Miss Lavinia Engle and Miss Katherine
B. Mills. An appeal in March for more help brought Miss Hannah J.
Patterson, its corresponding secretary and chairman of organization.
In making her report to the National Board on April 5 she recommended
that headquarters be established in the business district of
Morgantown; additional office assistance be sent to relieve the
president; ten organizers be secured and so distributed that there
would be one in every group of five or six counties; and a
representative of the National Association visit the State each month
in order to keep in close touch with the work. As the "budget" called
for $16,000 the National Board voted to give $5,000 providing the
State association would raise $11,000. The headquarters were moved at
once and furnished by friends. Later when they became too small the
Board of Trade rooms were placed at the disposal of the suffragists
through the kindness of E. M. Grant. From time to time organizers were
sent to the State until there were twenty-eight and 400 organizations
were formed. To relieve the president, Miss Alice Curtis of Iowa was
sent as executive secretary, remaining until the end of the campaign.
Miss Patterson made three trips to the State. Mrs. Catt made one with
her, meeting with the State board August 3, 4, in Clarksburg, to hold
a workers' conference, which considered publicity, money raising,
organization and election day methods. A "budget" of $14,948 to cover
the last four-and-a-quarter months of the campaign was adopted.

A "flying squadron" of prominent West Virginia men and women speakers
was sent in groups to thirty points. They were Dr. Joseph A. Bennett
of Sistersville; C. Burgess Taylor of Wheeling; the Hon. Charles E.
Carrigan of Moundsville; Judge McWhorter and J. M. N. Downes of
Buckhannon; Howard L. Swisher of Morgantown; the Hon. Tracy L.
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