Association the campaign would have been impossible.
The magnificent generosity with which it furnished speakers,
organizers, posters and literature will make the women of Maine
forever its debtors.[71]

At the convention of the State Association in September, 1917, in
Augusta, Miss Mabel Connor was chosen president and at the conventions
of 1918 in Lewiston and 1919 in Portland was re-elected. At the
convention in October, 1918, having recovered somewhat from its
defeat, the association voted to introduce a bill for the Presidential
suffrage in the next Legislature in 1919. The Legislative Committee
consisted of Mrs. Balentine, chairman; Miss Connor, Miss Bates, Mrs.
Pattangall, Mrs. Cobb and Mrs. Guy P. Gannett, with Miss Lola Walker
as executive secretary to the chairman.

LEGISLATIVE ACTION. The State Suffrage Association and the State
Woman's Christian Temperance Union always worked for woman suffrage
measures in the Legislature in cordial cooperation, beginning in 1887.

1901. Suffrage bills did not come out of committee.

1903. A bill was introduced for Municipal suffrage for tax-paying
women by Representative George H. Allan of Portland. The Joint
Standing Committee eliminated "taxpaying" and reported a bill giving
Municipal suffrage to all women. The State Suffrage Association did an
enormous amount of work in behalf of this bill, sending letters to
15,000 women representing 239 cities and towns who were paying taxes
on approximately $25,000,000. Several thousand answers urging the bill
were received, coming from every county and from 237 of the cities and
towns. It was lost in the Senate by a tie and in the House by a vote
of 110 noes, 29 ayes.

1905, 1907, 1909, no suffrage bills were reported out of committee.

1911. Four members of the Judiciary Committee made a minority report
in favor of the suffrage measure and the House voted to substitute the
minority report but the Senate refused to concur.

1913. A new resolve asking for submission of a suffrage amendment was
drafted by George H. Allan and introduced in the Senate by Ira G.
Hersey, which gave a vote of 23 ayes, 6 noes. In the House the vote
was 89 ayes, 53 noes--only six more votes needed for the necessary
two-thirds.

1915. A joint resolution to submit a full suffrage amendment passed
the Senate by 26 ayes, 4 noes; the House vote by 88 ayes, 59 noes--ten
more votes needed for the two-thirds. Introduced by Representative
Lauren M. Sanborn.