t showing the position of
the suffrage amendment was sent to 150 newspapers of the South
with a letter offering the editor $5 for its publication but many
printed it without compensation....

The majorities from the country districts won the victory by
counteracting the immense majority rolled up against the
amendment in San Francisco and thus proved that the country
residents are most satisfactorily reached by the country press.

The anti-suffragists made a more open fight in California than ever
before. A month preceding election a Committee of Fifty was organized
in Los Angeles composed of the reactionary elements, men representing
"big business," corporation lawyers, a number connected with the
Southern Pacific R.R., some socially prominent. The only one known
nationally was former U. S. Senator Frank P. Flint. The president was
a Southerner, George S. Patten, who wrote long articles using the
arguments and objections employed in the very earliest days of the
suffrage movement sixty years ago. They claimed to have thousands of
members but never held a meeting and depended on intimidation by their
rather formidable list of names of local influence.

The Women's Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage was more active. It
was formed in Los Angeles, with Mrs. George A. Caswell, head of a
fashionable school for girls, as its president. It organized also in
Northern California with Mrs. C. L. Goddard president and Mrs.
Benjamin Ide Wheeler heading the list of honorary presidents. Both
branches had a long list of officers, some with social prestige, and
maintained headquarters. They also claimed to have a large membership
but held only parlor and club meetings. The National Anti-Suffrage
Association sent its secretary, Miss Minnie Bronson, to speak, write,
organize and have charge of headquarters. Mrs. William Force Scott
came as a speaker from New York. The association was not an important
factor in the campaign.

Theodore Roosevelt lectured in California in the spring of 1911. He
had been in the State twice in preceding years and each time had
referred disparagingly to woman suffrage. During the present visit he
spoke in the Greek Theater at the State University in Berkeley to an
audience of 10,000 on March 25 and the San Francisco _Examiner_ of the
next morning said in its report:

Here is what Colonel Roosevelt said on the burning question of
woman suffrage:

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