FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   775   776   777   778   779   780   781   782   783   784   785   786   787   788   789   790   791   792   793   794   795   796   797   798   799  
800   801   802   803   804   805   806   807   808   809   810   811   812   813   814   815   816   817   818   819   820   821   822   823   824   >>   >|  
of the opposition!" [270] The following speakers and organizers were placed at fairs, Chautauqua assemblies, picnics, teachers' institutes and in distinctive suffrage meetings: James Clement Ambrose (Ills.), Theresa Jenkins (Wyo.), Elizabeth Upham Yates (Me.), Clara C. Hoffman (Mo.); Mrs. Johns, J. B. Johns, the Revs. Eugenia and C. H. St. John, Mary G. Haines, Luella R. Kraybill, Helen L. Kimber, Laura A. Gregg, Lizzie E. Smith, Ella W. Brown, Naomi Anderson, Eva Corning, Ella Bartlett, Alma B. Stryker, Olive I. Royce, Caroline L. Denton, Mrs. Diggs, May Belleville Brown, J. Willis Gleed, Thomas L. Bond, the Rev. Granville Lowther, Prof. W. H. Carruth and Mayor Harrison of Topeka. During the autumn Mrs. Emma Smith DeVoe (Ills.), and Mrs. Julia B. Nelson (Minn.), made addresses for one month; Mrs. Rachel L. Child (Ia.) spoke and organized for two months. [271] Returns were received from 71 out of the 105 counties, covering 714 of the 2,100 voting precincts. These returns were carefully tabulated by Mrs. Thurston, acting secretary of the amendment campaign committee. The result showed that of Republicans _voting on the proposition_, 38-1/2 per cent. voted _for_; of Populists, 54 per cent.; of Democrats, 14 per cent.; of Prohibitionists, 88 per cent. Of the entire vote of the Republican party for its ticket, 22 per cent. were silent on the amendment; of the entire vote of the People's party, 22 per cent.; of the Democratic, 28 per cent.; of the Prohibition, 24 per cent. [272] Others who have held official position are vice-presidents, Mesdames J.K. Hudson, Sallie F. Toler, Noble L. Prentis, Abbie A. Welch, Fannie Bobbet and Emma Troudner; corresponding secretaries, Mrs. Priscilla Finley, Miss Sarah A. Brown, Dr. Nannie Stephens, Mrs. Elizabeth F. Hopkins, Mrs. Ray Mclntyre, Mrs. B.B. Baird, Mrs. Alice G. Young; recording secretaries, Dr. Addie Kester, Mrs. Alice G. Bond, Prof. William H. Carruth, Mrs. M.M. Bowman, Mrs. Emma S. Albright, Miss Matie Toothaker; treasurers, Mrs. Martia L. Berry, Dr. C.E. Tiffany, Mrs. Lucia O. Case, Mrs. Henrietta Stoddard Turner; auditors, Mrs. Emma S. Marshall, Mrs. S.A. Thurston; parliamentarians, Mesdames Ella W. Brown, Bina A. Otis, Luella R. Kraybill, Antoinette L. Haskell; librarians, Mrs. May Belleville Brown, Dr. Emily Newcomb; State organizer, Miss Jennie Newby; superintendent press work, Mrs. Nannie K. Garrett. A number of these filled various offices and some of them
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   775   776   777   778   779   780   781   782   783   784   785   786   787   788   789   790   791   792   793   794   795   796   797   798   799  
800   801   802   803   804   805   806   807   808   809   810   811   812   813   814   815   816   817   818   819   820   821   822   823   824   >>   >|  



Top keywords:

Nannie

 

entire

 

Luella

 

Thurston

 

Kraybill

 

Mesdames

 
amendment
 

Belleville

 
Elizabeth
 

Carruth


voting

 
secretaries
 
Bobbet
 
Hudson
 

Sallie

 
Fannie
 

Prentis

 
Populists
 

Prohibition

 

Republican


Others
 

Democratic

 

ticket

 

silent

 

People

 

Troudner

 

presidents

 

Prohibitionists

 
official
 

position


Democrats

 

librarians

 

Newcomb

 

organizer

 

Haskell

 

Antoinette

 

Marshall

 

auditors

 
parliamentarians
 
Jennie

filled
 

offices

 
number
 
superintendent
 

Garrett

 
Turner
 

Stoddard

 

Mclntyre

 

recording

 
Kester