harles S. Haire, Mrs. J. M. Lewis, Mrs. H. W. Child, Miss Susan
Higgins. Among the men the best friends besides those already
mentioned were Miles Romney, Joseph H. Griffin, Lewis J. Duncan, W. W.
McDowell, Lieutenant Governor, and the two U. S. Senators, Thomas J.
Walsh and Henry L. Myers.

At the beginning of the campaign a travelling organizer of the
National Anti-Suffrage Association came to Butte, and, saying that she
acted officially, had an interview with the editors of the _National
Forum_, the organ of the liquor interests. She told them their open
opposition was helping the amendment, urged them to carry it on in
secret and said she would return later and lay before them a plan of
campaign. Afterwards when the Butte papers exposed this scheme the
_National Forum_ described the interview. Before the election the
National Anti-Suffrage Association sent its executive secretary, Miss
Minnie Bronson, and Mrs. J. D. Oliphant of New Jersey to campaign
against the amendment. They succeeded in forming only one society in
the State and that was at Butte, with a branch in the little town of
Chinook. The officers were Mrs. John Noyes, president; Mrs. Theodore
Symons, secretary; Mrs. W. J. Chrystie, press chairman; Mrs. David
Nixon, active worker; Mrs. Oliphant challenged Miss Rankin to a
debate, which was held in the old auditorium in Helena. At the
meeting, which had been packed by the liquor interests, Mrs. Oliphant
was noisily applauded and the confusion was appalling.

Although the speakers travelled to remote districts up to the night
before election in November, the instructions from headquarters were
to have loose ends gathered up by the opening of the State Fair
September 25, at Helena. Headquarters were maintained a week at the
fair and in the city and each day _The Suffrage Daily_ was issued. The
editors were Mrs. L. O. Edmunds, Miss O'Neill, Mrs. M. E. McKay and
Miss Belle Fligelman, all newspaper women. The most picturesque and
educative feature of the whole campaign and the greatest awakener was
the enormous suffrage parade which took place one evening during the
week. Thousands of men and women from all parts of the State marched,
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw was at the head, and next, carrying banners, came
Dr. Dean, the past president, and Miss Rankin, the present State
chairman. A huge American flag was carried by women representing
States having full suffrage; a yellow one for the States now having
campaigns;