al edition of 20,000 and proved effective in rousing the women to
a sense of their rights and wrongs.

The rapid organization had its effect on legislators and politicians.
The resolution for submitting an amendment was presented in both
Houses in 1913 and reported favorably by the Judiciary Committees. It
passed in the House on January 24 by 49 ayes, 3 noes, one absent; in
the Senate on January 30 by 19 ayes, 3 noes. On March 3 it was signed
by the Governor.

The educational work was done through the press, the platform and
entertainments. Speakers of national note were secured, among them Dr.
Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, and Mrs. Charlotte Perkins
Gilman, of New York; Dr. Charles F. Aked, of San Francisco; Miss Jane
Addams of Chicago, and Miss Mabel Vernon of Washington. The meetings
were attended by about three men to one woman. Mr. Laidlaw assisted in
organizing a Men's Suffrage League, among whose members were Supreme
Court Justice Frank Norcross, Dr. Stubbs, Superintendent of Public
Instruction John Edwards Bray, S. W. Belford, Charles Gulling, A. A.
Hibbard, Professor J. E. Church, Captain Applewhite, the Rev. Mr.
Adams, the Rev. Mr. Sheldon, George Taylor and John Wright.

At the annual meeting Feb. 25, 1913, it was announced that there were
nearly 1,000 paid up members, with most of the counties organized and
many town societies. "Nevada, the black spot on the map! To make it
white, give women the suffrage," was the constant slogan. Miss Martin,
Mrs. Church, Mrs. Bray, Miss Wilson and Mrs. Bridges were re-elected.
Other members chosen were: Vice-presidents, Mrs. Hugh Brown, Mrs.
Alexander Orr, Mrs. George West, Mrs. Lyman D. Clark, Jr., Mrs. E. E.
Caine, Mrs. Harry Warren; recording secretary, Mrs. J. B. Menardi;
treasurer, Mrs. Mabel Redman; auditors, Mrs. P. B. Kennedy, Mrs. W. T.
Jenkins.

In the little span of days that lay between the election of the State
Executive Committee in 1912 and the legislative session of 1913 the
sixteen counties were organized, each under a chairman. Mrs. M. S.
Bonnifield as chairman of Humboldt county, with her helpers, Mrs. A.
W. Card, Mrs. Mark Walser of Lovelock and Dr. Nellie Hascall of
Fallon, led their branches into the mining fields. It is not easy to
realize the difficulties under which these women labored. Mrs. H. C.
Taylor, chairman of Churchill county, had to drive many miles from her
ranch to attend every meeting. Some of the chairmen were Mrs. A. J.