ker, Mrs. Gorham Dana, Mrs. Charles
Eliot Guild, Miss Katherine E. Guild, Miss Elizabeth H. Houghton, Miss
Sarah E. Hunt, Mrs. Francis C. Lowell, Mrs. J. H. Millet, Mrs. B. L.
Robinson, Mrs. R. H. Saltonstall, Miss E. P. Sohier and Mrs. Henry M.
Thompson.

[82] Additional speakers through the summer were Miss Margaret Foley,
Miss Gertrude Y. Cliff, Miss Edith M. Haynes, Mrs. Marion Craig
Wentworth, Miss Florence Luscomb, Miss Katherine Tyng, Miss Alfretta
McClure and Miss Rosa Heinzen, the last four college girls.

[83] Much help was given for years by the steady financial support of
Mrs. R. D. Evans, Mrs. Robert Gould Shaw and Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw. The
last named paid the rent of the suffrage headquarters during many
years and her heirs continued this assistance for some time after her
death in 1917.

[84] Many of the same persons appeared at these hearings year after
year. Among those not mentioned who spoke for suffrage between 1900
and 1910 were Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead, Henry B. Blackwell, the Rev.
Charles G. Ames, Mrs. Fanny B. Ames, Miss Sarah Cone Bryant, the Rev.
Charles F. Dole, Mrs. Anna Christy Fall, Mrs. Helen Campbell, Miss
Mary Ware Allen, Miss Eva Channing, Mrs. Abby Morton Diaz, Miss
Lillian Freeman Clarke, Mrs. Maud Howe Elliott, Frank B. Sanborn, Mrs.
Eliza R. Whiting, Mrs. Mary Kenney O'Sullivan, Mrs. A. Watson Lister,
of Australia; ex Governor John D. Long. Letters in favor were read
from Professor Borden P. Bowne, of Boston University, U. S. Senator
George F. Hoar, ex Governor George S. Boutwell, Dr. J. L. Withrow of
Park Street Church, Congressman Samuel W. McCall, Professor W. O.
Crosby of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mrs. Sarah Platt
Decker, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, Mrs. May
Alden Ward, president of the State Federation, Mrs. F. N. Shiek,
president of the Wyoming Federation, and Judge Lindsey of the Denver
Juvenile Court.

Among those who spoke in opposition were Professor William T. Sedgwick
of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Mrs. Sedgwick, Mrs A.
J. George, Mrs. Barrett Wendell, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foxcroft and Dr.
Lyman Abbott of New York. A number of women spoke every year who
opposed the suffrage because it would take women into public life.

[85] The suggestion to get out a record-breaking crowd was made by
Representative Norman H. White of Brookline, the first man for some
years to lead a serious fight in the Legislature for woman s