auditorium.

The anti-suffragists were well financed and active. Their National
Association sent Miss Marjorie Dorman to Omaha the last of September,
who opened headquarters on the first floor of the City National Bank.
Mrs. A. J. George was sent in October. On November 2 there appeared in
the morning papers a double-column appeal to the Catholics to vote
against the amendment because back of it were the Socialists,
feminists, etc. It was signed by Mrs. L. F. Crofoot, wife of the Omaha
attorney for the Northern Pacific R. R.

During the campaign a committee of business men was formed by the
brewing interests, which visited the husbands of various women engaged
in the effort for the amendment. They said "suffrage means
prohibition" and threatened the husbands in a business way unless
their wives retired from the work. This committee watched the papers
and when names of women were given as interested in suffrage, even to
the extent of attending a luncheon for some celebrity, the husbands
promptly were visited. Through this intimidation many women were
forced to withdraw and many men who would have subscribed generously
did not dare give more than $25, as the State law required the
publication of names of all contributing over this sum.

Three days before election an "appeal" to its members was sent by the
German-American Alliance, a large and powerful organization. It was
written in German and began as follows:

We consider the proposed amendment to the constitution granting
the right of suffrage to women as the most important question
which will be decided at the coming election. Our State Alliance
took a most decided stand against woman suffrage at its annual
convention held in Columbus August 25. Our German women do not
want the right to vote, and since our opponents desire the right
of suffrage mainly for the purpose of saddling the yoke of
prohibition on our necks, we should oppose it with all our
might.... We most earnestly urge our friends of German speech and
German descent not to permit business or other considerations to
prevent them from going to the polls and casting their ballots as
above directed.

On November 4 the Omaha suffragists stood all day at the polls handing
slips to the voters calling attention to the amendment on the ballot.
The total State vote on it was 100,842 noes, 90,738 ayes; adverse
majority of 10,104. The result of the sp