ge, stood at the street car
barns and filled several petitions and Mrs. Isaac Conner, a
suffrage worker since 1868, made a similar record. Mrs. W. P.
Harford and Mrs. George Tilden arranged to have people standing
at the church doors for names at the close of service on Sunday.
Many ministers offered their churches to the committee and spoke
of the matter from their pulpits. Of all the Protestant churches,
only the Episcopal refused the committee's request, Dean James A.
Tancock of Trinity Cathedral and the Rev. T. J. Mackay of All
Saints declining. Petitions were kept open at the _Daily News_
office and other offices and places of business. Fifteen of the
leading drug stores offered space to the women under the
direction of Mrs. E. S. Rood, and it was decided to continue the
intensive campaign until the 12th, when the county chairman had
called a meeting at the city hall to celebrate Lincoln's
birthday, to hear Medill McCormick of Chicago and to announce
results. A large crowd of petition workers, sympathizers and
members of the Men's League was present. While the goal for
Douglas county was 5,000 signatures over 9,000 had passed
through the hands of the county chairmen on their way to the
Secretary of State.

Three days later Mrs. J. W. Crumpacker of Kansas appeared in
Omaha to organize the opposition forces. The anti-suffragists,
led by Mrs. Arthur Crittenden Smith, announced a meeting at
Turpin's Hall on the afternoon of February 23. Mrs. Arthur M.
Dodge, president of the National Association Opposed to Woman
Suffrage, and Miss Minnie Bronson, secretary, both of New York,
addressed the meeting. Forty people were present, including five
reporters and a number of suffragists. Those who joined at that
meeting were Mesdames Edward P. Peck, William Archibald Smith, T.
J. Mackay, E. A. Benson and Misses Ada Alexander, Genevra March
and Minnie Martison. A temporary committee on organization was
appointed consisting of Mesdames Arthur C. Smith, J. C. Cowin,
Herman Kountze, J. W. Crumpacker, E. A. Benson; Misses Wallace,
Riley, Alexander and McGaffney.... The next evening a public
meeting was held at the American Theater, addressed by Mrs. Dodge
and Miss Bronson, who were introduced by John L. Webster.[108]

On March 11 the district chairman, Mrs