wo Legislatures and
was to go to the voters at a special election Oct. 19, 1915. A
Cooperative Committee was formed of three from the State association
and the Women's Political Union each and one each from the Equal
Franchise Society and the Men's League. A Committee of One Hundred was
also organized to raise money for the campaign, Mrs. Colby chairman.
It obtained $9,000 which were used for the expenses of the Press
Committee, that had its office at the National Suffrage headquarters
in New York, for news bulletins every day, plate matter, interviews,
stories, advertising cards and posters in the trolley cars and the
stations of the Hudson Tunnels system; illuminated signs and street
banners in New Jersey cities and a half-page advertisement in all the
papers of the State at the end of the campaign. The executive
secretary was Mrs. Flora Gapen Charters. The total amount of money
raised and spent by the State and local organizations was
approximately $80,000, obtained by dues and pledges, by collections at
mass meetings, special luncheons and very largely by personal
contributions from men and women.

The State association increased to 200 branches in twenty-four cities.
The Political Union maintained a large headquarters in Newark. Over
3,000,000 pieces of literature and 400,000 buttons were distributed.
The association circularized all the women's organizations of the
State, the fraternal organizations, clergymen, grange officers,
lawyers, office-holders and other special groups. Speakers were sent
to grange picnics and county fairs. Street meetings took place
regularly in all the principal cities and towns and automobile tours
over the State. Over 4,000 outdoor and 500 indoor meetings were held.
Four paid and thirty volunteer organizers were kept in the field for
eight months.

The association arranged a conference of the leaders of the four
campaign States, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New Jersey,
which was held in East Orange in connection with the celebration on
August 13 of the birthday of its founder, Lucy Stone. There was a
pilgrimage of suffragists from almost every county, and, after
exercises at her old home and the unveiling by her daughter, Alice
Stone Blackwell, of a tablet placed in front of the house, there was
an automobile parade through the nearby towns, winding up with a mass
meeting in the park in East Orange, where Dr. Shaw and ex-Governor
John Franklin Fort were the principal spe