ston June 6. Miss O'Neill was made assistant chairman and press
chairman; Mrs. Edith Clinch, treasurer; Miss Eloise Knowles chairman
of literature.

Headquarters were opened in Butte in January, 1914. Letters were sent
to granges, labor unions, women's clubs and other organizations asking
them to pass resolutions in favor of the amendment and aid the
campaign as far as they could. Every newspaper in the State received
each week a letter of suffrage news and items from Miss O'Neill and
occasionally some propaganda material. Letters were sent regularly to
the county chairmen and other workers giving instructions and keeping
them in touch with the campaign. Large quantities of literature were
distributed with many leaflets for special occasions. A short time
before election personal letters and a leaflet especially for farmers
were sent to 20,000 voters in the country districts. The
house-to-house canvass of the women in the towns and cities was the
most effective work done. Montana women spoke in every county and
women from outside the State in all but a few of the smaller ones.

In the spring Mr. and Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw of New York City stopped
off en route to California and spoke in a number of places. The women
were charmed with her beauty and style and some men who had considered
the movement as only carried on by women were surprised that a man of
Mr. Laidlaw's standing should be at the head of a National Men's
Suffrage League. He organized a Montana branch of it with Wellington
D. Rankin (now Attorney General) as president.

Miss Rankin in her report to the national suffrage convention of
November 12-17, expressed the highest appreciation of the women who
came into Montana, either sent by the National Association or at their
own expense, and campaigned for weeks under the instructions of the
State board. They were headed by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, the national
president, and included Miss Katharine Devereux Blake, Miss Ida Craft
and Miss Rosalie Jones of New York; Mrs. Antoinette Funk, Miss Jane
Thompson, Miss Gratia Erickson and Miss Florence Lord of Chicago; Mrs.
Root of Los Angeles. During May and June Mrs. Cotterill of Seattle,
and during July and August Miss Margaret Hinchey of Boston, gave their
time to labor unions. A number of large demonstrations were held in
various cities. Campaigning in a State of such distances and
geographical formation presented great difficulties.

A precinct organization was p