ted a State organizer, the Rev.
Alice Ball Loomis, and later Mrs. Emma Smith DeVoe for two seasons. In
1902 headquarters were established at Madison, the capital, in a
little room in the State House, for the distribution of literature,
and here was kept a register of men and women who believed in woman
suffrage. In 1907 the Rev. Mrs. Brown prepared a bulletin for the
legislators, giving the statistics of woman suffrage in the United
States and other countries.

In 1908 Mrs. Maud Wood Park came to Wisconsin and spoke to women
students of five colleges, arrangements having been previously made by
Mrs. Brown, who took part in some of the meetings, and College Women's
Suffrage Leagues were organized. Mrs. Brown prepared a pamphlet, Why
the Church Should Demand the Ballot for Women, which was widely
distributed. Near the end of 1909 the State association was asked to
circulate the national petition to Congress for the Federal Suffrage
Amendment. Blanks were sent all over the State to schools, libraries
and other public institutions and to individuals. The members took up
the matter with enthusiasm and worked faithfully. The association did
all that could be done in the six weeks allowed and about 18,000 names
were signed, 5,000 of them in Racine. Mrs. Wentworth, over eighty
years of age, canvassed portions of the city and obtained 1,000 names.

During this whole decade resolutions and petitions were sent to
Congress and at every session of the Legislature suffrage measures
were introduced. Mrs. Jessie M. Luther was chairman of the Legislative
Committee during this period, an unrecognized and unpaid lobbyist, but
by her skilful work, in which at times she was assisted by Mrs. Nellie
Donaldson and others, she kept the Legislature in advance of the
people of the State.

In 1911 the Legislature submitted to the voters a statutory law giving
full suffrage to women, as it had authority to do. Influences from
outside the State led to the organization of the Political Equality
League, of which Miss Ada L. James was president and Mrs. Crystal
Eastman Benedict from New York was made campaign manager. The campaign
of 1911-1912, therefore, was carried on by two organizations, the
State association and this league, working separately, although effort
was made to correlate their activities by forming a cooperative
committee representing both societies, of which Miss Gwendolen Brown
Willis was chairman. The National American Woman Suffr