RED H. DAVIS, president First National Bank.
BENJAMIN S. BAKER, lawyer.
L. F. CROFOOT, lawyer for Omaha Smelting Co. and Chicago & Milwaukee
R. R.
E. E. BRUCE, wholesale druggist.
GEORGE W. HOLDREGE, manager Burlington & Missouri River R. R. Co.
FRED A. NASH, President Omaha Electric Light Co.
NELSON H. LOOMIS, General Attorney Union Pacific R. R.
EDSON RICH, assistant attorney Union Pacific R. R.
FRANK B. JOHNSON, president Omaha Printing Co.
THOMAS C. BYRNE, president Wholesale Dry Goods Co.
REV. THOMAS J. MACKAY, Minister All Saints' Church (Episcopal).
REV. JOHN W. WILLIAMS, Minister St. Barnabas' Church (Episcopal).

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This Manifesto with the signatures is given almost in full because in
language and in the business interests of the signers it is thoroughly
typical of the open opposition to woman suffrage. The other classes
who were opposed--the "machine" politicians, the liquor interests and
those directly or indirectly connected with them--for the most part
worked more secretly.

INDEX

The contents of this volume are so arranged that the reader will have
little difficulty in finding the references desired. The first
forty-nine chapters are devoted exclusively to the work for woman
suffrage which was done in the various States of the Union through
annual conventions, effort with the Legislatures for the submission to
the voters of an amendment to the State constitutions which would
fully enfranchise women and campaigns to secure a majority vote for
it. There was also an attempt to obtain from the Legislatures laws
which did not have to be approved by the voters, giving women the
right to vote at Municipal elections and every four years for
Presidential electors. In addition the women in every State constantly
assisted the National American Woman Suffrage Association in its
supreme effort to obtain from Congress the submission to the
Legislatures for the ratifying of three-fourths of them of an
amendment to the Federal Constitution which would give the complete
franchise to all the women of the nation.

These State chapters are arranged alphabetically and near the end of
each an account is given of the action taken on Ratification, and also
of the forming of a League of Women Voters. It is manifestly
impracticable to index the names of all the thousands of women who
gave devoted service in these States. Only a comparatively few of