ffords and the Hon. B. Randolph Bias of Williamson; Mrs. Frank N.
Mann of Huntington; Mrs. Flora Williams of Wheeling, soloist. Mrs.
Pattie Ruffner Jacobs of Alabama and Mrs. Nellie McClung of Canada
joined the squadron and spoke at several points. Among others of
influence who filled many speaking engagements and met their own
expenses were Mrs. Henry M. Russell and Rabbi H. Silver of Wheeling;
Milliard F. Snider and the Hon. Harvey W. Harmar of Clarksburg; Judge
Frank Cox and ex-Governor Glasscock of Morgantown. Judge McWhorter
made about 25 addresses. Uncounted numbers of women throughout the
State freely gave their time and work. About 1,500 meetings were
arranged by the headquarters staff exclusive of those in charge of
local women. Mrs. Catt spoke to mass meetings at Clarksburg,
Morgantown and Fairmont and at the hearing before the Democratic State
convention; Mrs. Antoinette Funk of Chicago before the Republican
State convention. Favorable suffrage planks were placed in the
platforms of both parties and the candidates for Governor declared
publicly for the amendment.

Dr. Shaw made thirteen addresses in cities of over 5,000 inhabitants,
contributing her services and expenses with the condition that the
collections at her meetings go into the State treasury. Miss Katharine
Devereux Blake, principal of a New York City school, addressed
Teachers' Institutes three weeks without charge, the State paying her
expenses. Mrs. Jacobs gave a two weeks' speaking tour and paid her
own expenses. Other speakers from outside the State were Mrs. Forbes
Robertson Hale, Mrs. T. T. Cotnam of Arkansas; Dr. Effie McCollum
Jones of Iowa; Mrs. Anna Ross Weeks and Miss Emma L. McAlarney of New
York; Mrs. Minnie Fisher Cunningham of Texas and Mrs. McClung. Dr.
Harriet B. Jones spoke throughout the campaign.

The National Association paid the salary or expenses or both of the
outside speakers and twenty of the organizers.[204] It paid also for
200,000 Congressional speeches; circularized and sent the _Woman's
Journal_ for four months to 1,600 clergymen; furnished suffrage
posters and a Ford car and paid for election advertising in all the
rural newspapers. It sent Mr. Heaslip, its own chairman of publicity,
for the last days of the campaign. Financial assistance came also from
the Massachusetts association. The State was left with a deficit of
$3,740. During the campaign the National Association had sent in cash
$5,257. Afterwards, to re