fornia, Oregon, Arizona
and Colorado. Reports also showed that a press bureau had been
organized at State headquarters (principally Miss Martin and Mrs.
Bridges) by which Nevada's forty-five newspapers, chiefly rural
weeklies, were supplied regularly with a special suffrage news
service; that every editor, all public libraries and railroad men's
reading rooms, more than one hundred school districts and three
hundred leading men and women throughout the State received the
_Woman's Journal_ (Boston) every week, which always contained Nevada
suffrage news; that every voter on the county registration lists had
been circularized with suffrage literature.

An advisory council of the State's most prominent men had been formed.
Every legislative candidate had been asked to vote for the suffrage
amendment, if elected, and, as a result of the favorable public
opinion created by the new State organization, more than the necessary
number had pledged themselves in writing, so the day after the
election in November it was known that there was a safe majority in
the coming Legislature if all pledges were kept. The Legislative
Committee of the Equal Franchise Society was on duty and within the
first two weeks of the session, in January, 1913, the amendment was
passed by both Houses and approved by Governor Oddie.

The problem before the State convention at Reno in February was how to
educate the voters and overcome the active opposition of the liquor
and other vested interests, which were determined to continue Nevada
"wide-open" by "keeping out the women." The convention re-elected Miss
Martin and left in her hands the supervision of building up a majority
for the amendment at the election in November, 1914. During 1913 she
had kept the State organization actively at work by trips through the
northern and southern counties and by securing the help of suffrage
speakers from other States. Miss Wilson, the vice-president and also
president of the Esmeralda County League, with headquarters at
Goldfield, was in general charge of the southern counties, which had a
very large miners' vote. In November Miss Martin had gone as delegate
to the National Woman Suffrage Convention in Washington, and there, in
addition to promises of an organizer and money from Dr. Shaw, the
national president, she secured from Miss Alice Paul, chairman of the
Congressional Union, the services of Miss Mabel Vernon, perhaps its
most capable organizer. She also obt