eir presence throws a high-light on the difficulties we
were meeting. We had to persuade men candidates to select these women as
watchers; and the only men who allowed themselves to be persuaded
were those running on minority tickets and hopeless of election--the
prohibitionists, the socialists, and the candidates of the labor party.

The result of the election taught us several things. We had been told
that all the prohibitionists and socialists would vote for us. Instead,
we discovered that the percentage of votes for woman suffrage was about
the same in every party, and that whenever the voter had cast a straight
vote, without independence enough to "scratch" his ticket, that vote was
usually against us. On the other hand, when the ticket was "scratched"
the vote was usually in our favor, whatever political party the man
belonged to.

Another interesting discovery was that the early morning vote was
favorable to our Cause the vote cast by working-men on their way to
their employment. During the middle of the forenoon and afternoon, when
the idle class was at the polls, the vote ran against us. The late vote,
cast as men were returning from their work, was again largely in our
favor--and we drew some conclusions from this.

Also, for the first time in the history of any campaign, the
anti-suffragists had organized against us. Portland held a small body of
women with antisuffrage sentiments, and there were others in the state
who formed themselves into an anti-suffrage society and carried on
a more or less active warfare. In this campaign, for the first time,
obscene cards directed against the suffragists were circulated at the
polls; and while I certainly do not accuse the Oregon anti-suffragists
of circulating them, it is a fact that the cards were distributed as
coming from the anti-suffragists--undoubtedly by some vicious element
among the men which had its own good reason for opposing us. The "antis"
also suffered in this campaign from the "pernicious activity" of their
spokesman--a lawyer with an unenviable reputation. After the campaign
was over this man declared that it had cost the opponents of our measure
$300,000.

In 1907 Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont began to show an interest in suffrage
work, and through the influence of several leaders in the movement,
notably that of Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, she decided to assist in the
establishment of national headquarters in the State of New York. For a
long time the asso