the workers. On Sunday afternoon she addressed a mass meeting in the
Brandeis Theater at which there was not even standing room. John L.
Kennedy presided. The committee of arrangements included the Rev.
Frederick T. Rouse of the First Congregational Church; Judge Howard
Kennedy, Superintendent of City Schools; E. U. Graff, City Attorney;
John E. Rine, C. C. Belden and the officers of the suffrage
association. A resolution was before the Legislature to submit an
amendment to the voters but it was so evident that it would not be
passed that the work for the initiative petition went on rapidly. The
last of February thirty-six Omaha women and others from over the State
went to Lincoln to see the vote taken in the House. The proposal was
defeated, only one man from Douglas county voting for it.

In the early spring the headquarters were moved to Lincoln and the
petition work for the State was managed from there, with the
exception of that of Omaha. Throughout the year the task was continued
of obtaining the signatures in the various counties, all done by
volunteers. It was necessary at the same time to create public
sentiment and organize clubs in preparation for the campaign for the
submission of the amendment which would follow. In Omaha Mrs.
Sunderland soon turned the district organization over to Mrs. James
Richardson and took the position of city chairman. Meetings were held
with prominent local speakers. On November 5 Chancellor Avery of the
State University spoke for woman suffrage before the State Teachers'
Association in the First Methodist Church. Two days later Dr. Shaw
addressed it in the auditorium. She spoke at noon before the
Commercial Club, a distinction given by it to a woman for the first
time. On Nov. 6, 7, the State convention was held in Lincoln and Mrs.
Clara Bewick Colby, formerly of Beatrice, was made honorary president.

In January, 1914, a Men's Suffrage League was formed in Omaha with E.
H. Geneau, T. E. Brady, Henry Olerichs and James Richardson promoting
it. On February 2 a thorough canvass of the business part of the city
was begun by the women. Mrs. Lindsey thus described it:

With a blizzard raging and the thermometer at 5 degrees below
zero women stood in drug stores and groceries, and visited office
buildings, factories and shops, wherever permission could be
obtained, soliciting signatures for six consecutive days. Mrs. C.
S. Stebbins, nearly seventy years of a