clause. A hearing on it was granted on the 9th and Mrs. Catt and Mr.
and Miss Blackwell addressed the convention. After long discussion by
the delegates it was voted on the 11th, by 145 to 92 that this
amendment should be submitted to the voters with the revised
constitution in March, 1903. The State suffrage convention was held in
December at the time the hearing took place. The officers of the
State association did a great deal of work before the constitutional
convention met to influence its action. Miss Chase spoke 103 times
before the local Granges, an important factor in State politics. Miss
Quimby circularized the delegates, prepared a leaflet of opinions from
prominent citizens and aided in securing a petition of 2,582.

In January, 1903, Mrs. Catt came and took charge of the campaign,
remaining until the vote was taken in March. Others from outside who
gave their services without pay, speaking throughout the State, were
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, vice-president of the National Association; Mrs.
J. Ellen Foster, Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch, Mrs. Mary D. Fiske, Mrs.
Priscilla D. Hackstaff, Mrs. Maud Wood Park and Mrs. Mary E. Craigie.
The National Association contributed $3,255 to the campaign and
various States sent generous donations. Among the New Hampshire
speakers were Captain Arthur Thompson, the Rev. Charles W. Casson
(Unitarian) of Milford; the Hon. Oliver E. Branch of Manchester; the
Hon. Clarence E. Carr of Andover. Miss Chase continued her work among
the Granges, addressing thirty-seven. Miss Quimby circularized 87,000
voters. Mrs. White gave the headquarters in Concord. Seventy-five
ministers preached sermons in favor of the amendment.

So much interest was aroused that the opponents wrote for Dr. Lyman
Abbott of New York to come to Concord. Among the signers of the letter
were former Governor Nahum Batchelder of Andover; Judge Edgar Aldrich
of the district court of Littleton; Winston Churchill of Cornish;
Irving W. Drew of Lancaster and George H. Moses of Concord.[116] On
March 4 Representatives' Hall was packed to hear addresses against the
amendment by Miss Emily P. Bissell of Delaware; Mrs. A. J. George of
Brookline, Mass.; Judge David Cross of Manchester and Dr. Abbott. The
Concord _Monitor_ of that date in a leading editorial said: "Through a
maudlin sense of false sentiment the constitutional convention sent
this question to the people ... and the people will deal with it as it
deserves." On March