Montana and Nevada in 1914. It enabled us for the first
time to establish headquarters, secure an office force, and engage
campaign speakers. I also spent some of it in the states we lost then
but will win later--Ohio, Wisconsin, and Michigan--using in all more
than fifteen thousand dollars. In September, 1913, I received another
check from the same friend, showing that she at least was satisfied with
the results we had achieved.

"It goes to you with my love," she wrote, "and my earnest hopes for
further success--not the least of this a crowning of your faithful,
earnest, splendid work for our beloved Cause. How blessed it is that you
are our president and leader!"

I had talked to this woman only twice in my life, and I had not seen her
for years when her first check came; so her confidence in me was an even
greater gift than her royal donation toward our Cause.

XIV. RECENT CAMPAIGNS

The interval between the winning of Idaho and Utah in 1896 and that
of Washington in 1910 seemed very long to lovers of the Cause. We were
working as hard as ever--harder, indeed, for the opposition against us
was growing stronger as our opponents realized what triumphant woman
suffrage would mean to the underworld, the grafters, and the whited
sepulchers in public office. But in 1910 we were cheered by our
Washington victory, followed the next year by the winning of California.
Then, with our splendid banner year of 1912 came the winning of three
states--Arizona, Kansas, and Oregon--preceded by a campaign so full of
vim and interest that it must have its brief chronicle here.

To begin, we conducted in 1912 the largest number of campaigns we
had ever undertaken, working in six states in which constitutional
amendments were pending--Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Oregon, Arizona, and
Kansas. Personally, I began my work in Ohio in August, with the modest
aspiration of speaking in each of the principal towns in every one
of these states. In Michigan I had the invaluable assistance of Mrs.
Lawrence Lewis, of Philadelphia, and I visited at this time the region
of my old home, greatly changed since the days of my girlhood, and
talked to the old friends and neighbors who had turned out in force to
welcome me. They showed their further interest in the most satisfactory
way, by carrying the amendment in their part of the state.

At least four and five speeches a day were expected, and as usual
we traveled in every sort of conveyance, f