age Association,
through its president, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, contributed $100 per
month salary for an organizer and speaker, Miss Harriet Grim, and gave
further assistance to both organizations.[208]

Both associations employed field organizers, arranged meetings,
provided speakers, distributed literature and made active effort to
interest as far as possible organizations and individuals in the
cause. The State association had headquarters in the Majestic Building
and later in the Goldsmith Building in Milwaukee. The League had
offices first in the Wells Building and later in the Colby-Abbott
Building in that city. A bulletin of suffrage news was sent each week
to the 600 newspapers in the State by Mrs. Youmans, who was press
manager.

The campaign opened with a big rally in Racine June 1, 1912. The Rev.
Olympia Brown, State president, continued her speaking tours without
cessation and was assisted by prominent outside speakers, including
Mrs. May Wright Sewall, Mrs. Colby, Dr. and Mrs. William Funck of
Baltimore, Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery and Mrs. Clara V. Laddey, who
addressed the Germans. Miss Willis arranged a course of lectures in
Milwaukee for Miss Jane Addams, Louis F. Post, Dr. Sophonisba
Breckinridge of Chicago University, and Mrs. Catherine Waugh
McCulloch.[209]

The Political Equality League believed enthusiastically in street
meetings and arranged many of them in Milwaukee and other cities.
Under the same auspices several automobile tours swept the State, one
of them having an itinerary through the southwestern counties, Miss
James, Mrs. B. C. Gudden, Miss Grim and Miss Mabel Judd the speakers.
The noted air pilot, Beachy, scattered suffrage fliers from the
airship which he took up into the clouds at the State Fair in
Milwaukee. The State association had a large tent on the grounds, in
front of which there were a platform for speakers, where addresses
were made every day, and a counter covered with literature and books.
The two societies conducted Votes for Women tours up the Wolf and Fox
Rivers, which were important features of the campaign. They traveled
in a little steamer, stopping at landings and speaking and giving out
literature. The association also held outdoor meetings at lunchtime
before the factories and wherever it seemed best. The league formed
two allied societies, the Men's League for Woman Suffrage, of which
the late H. A. J. Upham was president, and a league for colored
people, Miss Ca