ization there, and she wrote to them Oct. 9, 1916: "If
Maine goes into a campaign for 1918 with the chances largely against
success, we feel that it would be a general damage to the cause and a
waste of money. If it would plan instead to go into a campaign in
1919, taking three years for preparation, we should feel that it was
far more certain of victory. Let us look at the resources you need to
get and which you have not yet secured: (1) a fund to begin with of at
least $5,000 or $6,000; (2) at least five State officers who can give
practically all of their time, with the determination to win as many
other people to the same sacrifice as they are making themselves. I
most earnestly recommend that you ask your Legislature this year for
Municipal and Presidential suffrage, making a good strong campaign for
this, which it can grant without referring it to the voters."

A copy of this letter was sent to the president of the association and
at its annual convention held in October it was read and a long
discussion followed. A delegate thus reported it: "Only a few
delegates agreed with her. Many women never having been in a campaign
declared that victory was sure. The convention almost unanimously
voted for the referendum and when the vote had been taken and the
cheers had subsided, the grand sum of $500 was raised for the
campaign...." Nevertheless the National Association at its next
convention (still believing that the referendum would not be submitted
until 1918), voted to back the Maine campaign, although against the
judgment of Mrs. Catt.[69]

At the request of the Maine association the National Association made
it possible for Mrs. Deborah Knox Livingston to take the position of
campaign manager. Through her extensive work for the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union she was widely acquainted in church, club and
suffrage circles, was experienced in campaigning and an eloquent
speaker. In her report after the election she said: "Maine presented
as difficult a field for the conducting of a suffrage campaign as has
ever been faced by any group of suffragists in any part of the
country. The referendum was submitted the very last of February and as
the election came so early in September only about six months' time
was given us for the campaign. Deducting from this time the months of
April and May, on account of the almost impossible condition of the
roads, and June with its heavy rains, there was left but little more
tha