rominent were Governor Carl E. Milliken, U. S. Senator Bert Fernald,
former Senator Charles F. Johnson, Representative Ira G. Hersey,
former Representative Frank E. Guernsey; among the members of the
Legislature and other influential men, former Attorney General W. R.
Pattangall, Judge Robert Treat Whitehouse, Ralph O. Brewster, Frank W.
Butler, Daniel A. Poling, the Rev. Arthur L. Weatherly. On July 23,
24, in Augusta, and July 25, 27, in Bangor, Mrs. Catt and Mrs. Shuler
addressed mass meetings in the evenings and held conferences with the
workers through the days. In September Mrs. Catt gave a week to
speaking at public meetings in various cities. Other speakers were
Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead, Miss Elizabeth Upham Yates, Dr. Lee Anna Starr,
Mrs. Sara A. Gilson, Miss Emma L. McAlarney, Miss Anne E. Coughlin and
the Misses Loitman. The members of the Men's League were active and
helpful. The mass meetings were well attended and in all the cities
and many of the towns street meetings were very successful. Mrs.
Livingston travelled more than 20,000 miles in the State, delivered
150 addresses and raised over $4,000.

Not in any other State campaign had the women anti-suffragists taken
so conspicuous a part. There was a society of considerable social
prominence in Portland and the associations in Massachusetts and New
York sent nearly twenty speakers and workers, all women except J. B.
Maling of Colorado and Charles McLean of Iowa, whose utterances had
more than once been repudiated by the men and women of their States.
Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, Jr., president of the National Association,
addressed parlor meetings. Toward the end of the campaign their
numbers became much less, as they learned that the "machines" of both
political parties expected to defeat the amendment.

The election took place Sept. 10, 1917, and the amendment received
38,838 noes, 20,684 ayes--lost by 18,154, the negative majority nearly
two to one. About half as many men voted for it as the number of women
who signed a petition for it. Mrs. Livingston gave as the principal
reasons for the defeat: 1. Inherent conservatism and prejudice. 2.
Resentment at the "picketing" of the White House by the "militant"
suffragists. 3. Briefness of the campaign. 4. Inability because of
lack of organization to reach the rural vote. 5. Reactionaries of both
parties uniting in opposition.[70]

In her summing up Mrs. Livingston said: "Without the aid of the
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