of prejudices, as on the religious question, the opposition got
out an enormous number of men who generally did not vote at all.

Both sides were required by law to file at the State House a record of
their campaign expenses. An analysis of the lists showed that the bulk
of the anti-suffrage campaign fund was made up of personal
contributions, four-fifths of them from men, and more than
three-fifths of the total from 135 men, whose average donation was
$235. The slogan of their campaign had been that women did not want to
vote. The official figures showed that those who claimed to speak for
"80 per cent. of the women" received 80 per cent. of their
contributions from men, and not from the rank and file of men but
chiefly from bankers, brokers and powerful directors of the monied
section of Boston. The bulk of the suffrage campaign fund came from
fairs, sales and entertainments and of the personal contributions more
than four-fifths were from women, their average donation being $17.

After the election in 1915 there was started a State branch of the
Congressional Union, later called the National Woman's Party, formed
some years before to push the Federal Amendment. It was under the
leadership of Mrs. Morey, chairman, and other women most of whom had
been active with the State association during the campaign. The defeat
of the State amendment caused the work of all organizations to be
directed toward the submission of the Federal Amendment.

At the annual meeting of the State association in May, 1916, a budget
of $30,000 was adopted and $20,000 toward it was pledged on the spot.
Through the preceding winter the association had five paid organizers,
two of them working in Boston, and a large number of volunteer field
workers, at least 230 in Boston alone. Besides the chairmen for the
sixteen congressional districts, each of the forty senatorial
districts had its chairman, all working under the State Chairman of
Organization, Mrs. Sara S. Gilson. She was followed by Mrs. Mary P.
Sleeper and by Mrs. Elizabeth Tilton, who formed an Advisory Council
of 100 influential men in preparation for the campaign to ratify the
Federal Amendment.

After the United States entered the World War in 1917 the suffrage
organizations, State and local, devoted their efforts largely to
various forms of war work, called for by the Government. They served
on all committees, took part in all "drives," sold Liberty Bonds and
continued their servi