ummer nearly $15,000 were raised.
After all commissions and other expenses were paid and new and
commodious suffrage headquarters in the Tower Building were furnished
a fund of between $7,000 and $8,000 was left to maintain them and push
organization work.

The constitutionality of the law was soon attacked and Mrs. Trout
consulted frequently with the officers of the Anti-Saloon League, for
the attacks always emanated from the "wet" interests, and most
efficient service was rendered by F. Scott McBride, State
Superintendent; E. J. Davis, Chicago superintendent, and Frank B.
Ebbert, legal counsel for the league, who said it was also their
fight. A case was brought against the Election Commissioners of
Chicago for allowing women to vote on certain questions, decided in
their favor by the lower courts, appealed and brought before the
Supreme Court of Illinois. A meeting of the board of the State Equal
Suffrage Association was called at once, which voted to raise a
defense fund and fight the case to a finish. The chairman of the
committee was Mrs. George A. Soden, first vice-president, and it was
largely through her efforts and the contributions of her husband that
the fund was raised. Not only the legislators who had voted for the
bill but also a number who voted against it sent money to help defend
the law. The opponents of the law--the liquor interests--were
represented by Levi Mayer of Chicago, counsel for the United Societies
as well as for big brewery interests and considered one of the ablest
constitutional lawyers in the State. It was therefore necessary for
the association to secure the best and they engaged John J. Herrick
and Judge Charles S. Cutting, who by agreement with the Election
Commissioners took charge of the fight. The women consulted also with
Charles H. Mitchell, their regular counsel, as well as with Judge
Willard McEwen, whom the commissioners engaged as special counsel.
They frequently conferred with Judge Isaiah T. Greenacre, counsel for
the Teachers' Federation, and Joel F. Longnecker, a young lawyer
active in the Progressive party, both of whom donated their services.

There was a long delay in the Supreme Court and during this time it
was vitally necessary to demonstrate that the women wanted the ballot
by bringing out as large a registration as possible for the municipal
election to be held in April, 1914. The opponents were saying: "Women
down the State have voted because they are intereste