e subject.

As the canvass progressed, it was comical to note how shy the
politicians fought of the women to whom they had promised
assistance. Judge O. P. Mason, who had agreed to give ten
lectures for the amendment, and whose advocacy would have had
immense weight, engaged to speak for the Republican party, and at
every place but one, the managers stipulated that he should be
silent on the amendment. Of the vast array of Republican
speakers, had even those who had expressed themselves in favor of
the amendment advocated it intelligently and earnestly, the
result would have been different.

Due credit must be given to ex-United States Senator Tipton,
Judge W. H. Morris, and a few others who lectured outside of
their own counties, as well as at home, while David Butler,
candidate for senator from Pawnee county, E. M. Correll of
Hebron, C. C. Chapin of Riverton, Judge A. P. Yocum of Hastings,
and doubtless a few others, regardless of their political
prospects, advocated the cause of woman along with their own. The
women of Nebraska will always cherish the memory of the
enthusiastic young student from Ann Arbor, Michigan, who spent
some months of the campaign in Nebraska, giving lavishly of his
means and talents to aid the cause. Wilder M. Wooster was a
bright, logical speaker, and his death, which occurred in 1885,
cost the world a promising and conscientious journalist.

Towards the close of the campaign it became evident that the
saloon element was determined to defeat the amendment. The organ
of the Brewers' Association sent out its orders to every saloon,
bills posted in conspicuous places by friends of the amendment
mysteriously disappeared, or were covered by others of an
opposite character, and the greatest pains was taken to excite
the antagonism of foreigners by representing to them that woman
suffrage meant prohibition. On the other hand, the temperance
advocates were by no means a unit for its support.

The morning dawned bright and clear on November 5, 1882. The most
casual observer would have seen that some unusual interest was
commanding attention. Everything wore a holiday appearance.
Polling places were gaily decorated; banners floated to the
breeze, bearing suggestive mottoes: "Are Women Citizens?"
"Taxation With