f Alpena, who as treasurer of the
Men's Suffrage League, collected the major part of their donations,
nearly $9,000.

The National Suffrage Association gave in cash $1,400, paid the bill
for literature and posters, $1,335, and made other contributions
amounting to $6,000. It paid salaries and part of the expenses from
Jan. 1, 1918, of Mrs. Augusta Hughston and the organizers, Miss Lola
Trax, Miss Edna Wright, Miss Marie Ames, Miss Alma Sasse and Miss
Stella Crossley, until the State was able to assume them. Mrs.
Hughston became the campaign manager of Detroit. Mrs. Shuler came
three times and campaigned all over the State. Mrs. Mary E. Craigie of
New York gave assistance. The magnitude of the detail work of the
campaign may be understood from the report of Mrs. Hughston, who said:
"In Detroit alone there were distributed 500,000 pieces of literature;
50,000 buttons, 13,000 posters put in windows, 1,000 street car
advertisements, 174 large billboard posters and 1,766 inches of paid
advertisements in newspapers."

The election took place on Nov. 5, 1918, when the suffrage amendment
received 229,790 ayes and 195,284 noes--carried by a majority of
34,506. Four strong factors influenced the vote; first, prohibition,
which had been adopted in 1916, was in effect and the forces that had
led past opposition were badly disorganized; second, the astute
politicians saw the trend of events, and few, if any, openly opposed
it; third, the war work of women, which, although it lessened the
number of workers for suffrage, yet made forceful appeal to the
voters; fourth, the activity of all organizations of women.

This summary of the work of Michigan women for their political freedom
is most incomplete without the names of hundreds of workers who
toiled, suffered, sacrificed, gave of their time, their strength,
their money, year after year, but the list is too long. Every city,
every locality had its special difficulties, which had to be overcome
and their women were equal to the task. All contributed to the great
victory. The _Woman Citizen_, official organ of the National American
Suffrage Association, in its edition of Nov. 30, 1918, gave a detailed
summary of this campaign and the workers.

After a brief respite, the suffragists took up the work of a
registration "drive" for the spring election in April, when an
amendment to weaken the prohibition law was to be voted on. The
registration by women in some places was larger than