organizations, labor unions, in factories, granges, at cattle
shows and at conventions of all sorts.

Large indoor meetings were held, addressed by distinguished visitors
to the State, among them Philip Snowden and Mrs. Snowden, Senator
Helen Ring Robinson of Colorado, U. S. Senators Clapp of Minnesota,
Kenyon of Iowa and Thomas of Colorado. Mrs. Pankhurst and her daughter
Sylvia spoke in Boston and Cambridge with great success. Louis D.
Brandeis, afterwards Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, came out for
woman suffrage. In Boston, under the direction of Miss Mabel Caldwell
Willard, innumerable street meetings were held for a year before the
vote, with mass meetings every Sunday in the Tremont Theater and on
the historic Common.

Press material was supplied to city and country papers. The newspapers
as a whole grew more favorable as time went by but their editorial
pages were much more friendly than the news columns, which frequently
carried stories that were unfair or wholly untrue. The Boston _Sunday
Herald_ printed regular suffrage notes for some months before the vote
and once the daily edition gave the suffragists a full page. The
Boston _American_ let them issue a special supplement, in charge of
Mrs. Jennette A. S. Jeffrey and Mrs. Leonard, and this example was
followed by other papers in the State. As always, the _Woman's
Journal_ did much to hold together, encourage and stimulate the
workers. A special committee distributed more than 100,000 copies of
suffrage speeches made in Congress and more than 300,000 pieces of
other literature within the last few months before the election.

The most impressive publicity put forth by the State association was
the two parades in Boston; the first held May 2, 1914, and the second,
Oct. 16, 1915, just before the election. The first one caused a
sensation. It contained about 12,000 women, with a small section of
men, and was conducted under the chairmanship of Mrs. Leonard, with
Mrs. Page, Mrs. Johnson and nine sub-committee chairmen. It was
extremely well organized and the large mass of totally untrained
marchers was handled so efficiently as to surprise all who saw it.
Delegations from all over New England took part and one from
Australia; women in national costumes; nurses in uniform; delegations
from all the women's colleges in the State and men and women from the
universities; also a singing chorus trained by Dr. Archibald Davidson,
Jr., of Appleton Chapel, Harvard