ntion to hear him make his maiden
speech on woman suffrage. I have often wondered what he thought of that
speech as he drove back to the White House. Probably he regretted as
earnestly as we did that he had made it.

In 1912, at an official board meeting at Bryn Mawr, Mrs. Stanley
McCormack was appointed to fill a vacancy on the National Board.
Subsequently she contributed $6,000 toward the payment of debts incident
to our temporary connection with the Woman's Journal of Boston, and
did much efficient work for us, To me, personally, the entrance of
Mrs. Stanley McCormack into our work has been a source of the deepest
gratification and comfort. I can truly say of her what Susan B. Anthony
said of me, "She is my right bower." At Nashville, in 1914, she was
elected first vice-president, and to a remarkable degree she has since
relieved me of the burden of the technical work of the presidency,
including the oversight of the work at headquarters. To this she gives
all her time, aided by an executive secretary who takes charge of the
routine work of the association. She has thus made it possible for me
to give the greater part of my time to the field in which such inspiring
opportunities still confront us--campaign work in the various states.

To Mrs. Medill McCormack also we are indebted for most admirable work
and enthusiastic support. At the Washington (D.C.) convention in 1913
she was made the chairman of the Congressional Committee, with Mrs.
Antoinette Funk, Mrs. Helen Gardner of Washington, and Mrs. Booth of
Chicago as her assistants. The results they achieved were so brilliant
that they were unanimously re-elected to the same positions this year,
with the addition of Miss Jeannette Rankin, whose energy and service had
helped to win for us the state of Montana.

It was largely due to the work of this Congressional Committee,
supported by the large number of states which had been won for suffrage,
that we secured such an excellent vote in the Lower House of Congress
on the bill to amend the national Constitution granting suffrage to the
women of the United States. This measure, known as the Susan B. Anthony
bill, had been introduced into every Congress for forty-three years by
the National Woman Suffrage Association. In 1914, for the first time,
it was brought out of committee, debated, and voted upon in the Lower
House. We received 174 votes in favor of it to 204 against it. The
previous spring, in the same Congress,