. Richardson, and county
chairman, Mrs. Lindsey, with a group of workers, sorted, checked and
made into neat parcels the precious sheets of paper, which Mrs. Draper
Smith carried to Lincoln that afternoon. Possibly half a dozen men had
circulated petitions but the bulk of the 11,507 names were obtained in
Omaha by women. On March 14 the completed petition for submitting the
amendment was filed with the Secretary of State in the presence of the
Governor. Although only 37,752 signatures were required it had 50,705
and these represented sixty-three counties instead of the required
thirty-eight. They were accepted without question and the amendment
was submitted to the voters at the general election, Nov. 4, 1914.

From that time until the election strenuous and unceasing efforts were
made to secure votes for the amendment. Many prominent Nebraska men
and women spoke and worked for it and a number were brought into the
State. On July 6 was issued in Omaha the famous Manifesto by the
Nebraska Men's Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, a pamphlet of
nine pages, signed by thirty prominent men, all of Omaha.[109] Early
in July Park Commissioner J. B. Hummel of Omaha refused to grant any
more permits for meetings in the parks and the suffragists arranged a
voiceless automobile parade through all of them when they were filled
with people, the cars decorated with banners and pennants carrying
suffrage sentiments. Later the commissioner spoke for the amendment.
On August 4 the first street meeting was held by "General" Rosalie
Jones of New York, who spoke from the steps of the county court house
at noon and on a corner in the evening. This was followed by street
meetings in an endless number of towns. County fairs and all possible
forms of publicity were utilized. An outstanding feature of the
campaign was the automobile tours, the plan of Mrs. F. M. Hall,
chairman of Lancaster county. They covered 20,000 miles and included
500 places containing one-half of the population. Several of the
longest were made and financed by J. L. Kennedy and James Richardson
of Omaha and W. E. Hardy of Lincoln.

Miss Jane Addams came from Chicago and spoke several times in October.
William Jennings Bryan, who was making a political canvass of the
State, never failed to make an appeal for the amendment and on October
31 gave a rousing suffrage speech in Brandeis Theater, Omaha. Dr. Shaw
ended her tour of the State on the 30th, with an address in the