reciation of the
special session, to which most of the members had paid their own
expenses. Governor and Mrs. Boyle invited the legislators and the
Ratification Committee to the Mansion for luncheon. And thus was
closed the Nevada chapter on woman suffrage.

A STORY OF THE NEVADA SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGN.[114]

In February, 1912, Miss Anne Martin of Reno, who had spent the years
1909-11 in England, during which she worked for suffrage under Mrs.
Pankhurst, was elected president of the State Equal Franchise Society.
Miss Martin, a native of Nevada, was a graduate of the State
University; had the degrees of A.B. and A.M. from Leland Stanford
University and had been professor of history in the former. She had
studied abroad and travelled widely but her whole interest had now
centered in woman suffrage. Miss B. M. Wilson of Goldfield was elected
vice-president and Mrs. Grace Bridges of Reno, secretary. Mrs.
Stanislawsky had removed to California and the organization, with the
long wait between Legislatures and no definite work, had but a small
membership, no county organizations and no funds. It was obvious to
Miss Martin and her associates that, judging by the experience of
other States, the legislative vote of 1911 must be regarded as merely
complimentary and the real battle must be fought in 1913. Miss Martin
therefore began the campaign by organizing the State in 1912. She paid
her own expenses on speaking trips to every county for this purpose,
also on journeys to California, to the Mississippi Valley Suffrage
Conference at St. Louis in April and to the National Suffrage
Convention in Philadelphia in November. Here she enlisted the interest
and financial support of national and State leaders and an advisory
board of influential women outside of Nevada was formed.

In February, 1913, her report made to the State suffrage convention in
Reno showed that the Equal Franchise Society had been developed in one
year into a State-wide body, with practically every county organized
and a large number of auxiliary town societies, and with nearly one
thousand paid-up members. There was a bank balance of several hundred
dollars, from collections at meetings, monthly pledges of members and
gifts from Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, Mrs. Joseph Fels, Mrs. Oliver H. P.
Belmont, Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, Mrs. George Day (Conn.), and
Connecticut and Massachusetts suffrage associations and other eastern
supporters, and from suffrage leagues of Cali