ch had
been done at such great cost, would bring the desired reward.

It had only begun and the task during the next six months was to
induce the men to vote for the amendment, which now had an assured
place on the ballot. Help came from the outside, as well as within the
State. Ruth Hanna (Mrs. Medill) McCormick of Chicago, chairman of the
Congressional Committee of the National Association, sent an organizer
and paid her expenses for four months. From friends outside $3,264
were sent and about $1,800 were raised in various ways in the State.
Dr. Shaw and Miss Jane Addams spoke in several cities and other
prominent speakers were Mrs. Desha Breckinridge of Kentucky, Miss
Helen Todd of California, Mrs. McCormick and "General" Rosalie Jones
of New York. The State and county fairs were utilized. Headquarters
were rented in a big downtown building in St. Louis with Miss Rumbold
as director of publicity, Miss Genevieve Tierney and Mrs. R. L.
Sanford in charge of the business part, Mrs. Alice Curtis Moyer-Wing
head of the speakers' bureau and Miss Bulkley treasurer. Mrs. Blair
had charge of the press work for the State, Miss Clara Sommerville for
St. Louis.[104] The St. Louis _Times_, the Kansas City _Post_ and the
Warrensburg _Daily Star_ allowed the women to get out a special
suffrage edition.

All the hard work of a year and a half was in vain. On Nov. 3, 1914,
the woman suffrage amendment went down to defeat with fourteen other
amendments on the ballot. More votes were cast on this one than on any
other--182,257 ayes; 322,463 noes; lost by 140,206. In Kansas City the
adverse majority was only 1,000. Thirteen counties were carried.

1915. It had been decided at the first State board meeting after the
defeat to attempt again to have an amendment submitted by the
Legislature. Mrs. Miller took charge of the work and remained six
weeks in Jefferson City. The resolution was written by Judge Robert
Franklin Walker, now Chief Justice of Missouri, and was introduced by
Senator Craig and Representative Roney, as before. A joint hearing was
arranged at which twelve Missouri women, representing various
professions and occupations, spoke five minutes each. It passed the
House by 88 ayes to 42 noes. Through the efforts of Senator William
Phelps, who was showered with letters and telegrams from his
constituents, the committee, a majority of whom were violently
opposed to woman suffrage, was persuaded to report it favorably but it
di