. Miss Ramsey and Miss Raoul gave the
use of their cars. Miss Gertrude Watkins and Miss Gertrude Miller of
Arkansas donated their services from July 17, the State paying their
expenses. The Philadelphia County Society sent Miss Mabel Dorr for
two-and-a-half months as its contribution. Miss Alma B. Sasse of
Missouri gave her services for over two months, the State paying her
expenses.

[205] It was kept a secret at the time who was responsible for this
arrangement but later it was found to be Captain Victor Heinze of
Cincinnati, who had charge of the National Republican headquarters in
Chicago.

CHAPTER XLVIII.

WISCONSIN.[206]

Woman suffrage history in Wisconsin from 1900 to 1920 naturally
divides itself into three sections, the first including the ten years
preceding the submission of the referendum measure by the Legislature
in 1911; the second the two years of the referendum campaign and the
third the succeeding seven years to 1920.

The work of the State Woman Suffrage Association, which was organized
in 1869, continued in the 20th century, as in the 19th, through
organization, public meetings, annual conventions, the publication of
the _Wisconsin Citizen_. The conventions of the first decade, which
always took place in the autumn, were held as follows: 1901, Brodhead;
1902, Madison; 1903, Platteville; 1904, Janesville; 1905, Milwaukee;
1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, Madison; 1911, Racine. The Rev. Olympia
Brown, who had been elected president in 1883, continued to serve in
that capacity with undiminished vigor and ability, having been elected
every year, until the end of 1912. Besides her other services she gave
hundreds of addresses on woman suffrage, speaking in nearly every city
in the State.[207]

The publication of the _Wisconsin Citizen_, established in 1887, was
continued in spite of limited finances. Its first editor was Martha
Parker Dingee from Boston, a niece of Theodore Parker, who gave her
services for seven years. After that the editors were Mrs. Helen H.
Charlton, Miss Lena V. Newman and Mrs. Youmans. After 1914 it was
published at Waukesha, before that at Brodhead, and was discontinued
in 1917. Notable speakers from outside the State at conventions of the
first decade were Mrs. Catharine Waugh McCulloch, the Rev. Florence
Buck, the Rev. Marion Murdock, Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby, Mrs. Belva A.
Lockwood, Miss Jane Addams and Dr. Julia Holmes Smith.

The association for some time suppor