ento was
in charge of Mrs. Mary Roberts Coolidge, assisted by Mrs. E. V.
Spencer, against great odds, but the city gave a small favorable
majority, due chiefly to the union labor vote.

During the last six months the College League held more than fifty
public meetings in halls in San Francisco, the audiences at the larger
ones varying from 1,300 to 10,000 with hundreds turned away. The Rev.
Charles F. Aked, the brilliant English orator, had just come from New
York and he made his first appearance outside of his pulpit at a
suffrage mass meeting in Savoy Theater, donated by the John Cort
management, and afterwards he could not refuse to speak at other
meetings. His debate with Colonel John P. Irish in the Valencia
Theater just before election was one of the great features of the
campaign. One of the most important meetings, with 1,500 present, was
addressed by the eloquent young priest, the Rev. Joseph M. Gleason,
with the boxes reserved for prominent Catholics. Rabbi Martin H. Meyer
was one of the strong speakers. At the meeting in the beautiful new
auditorium of Scottish Rite Hall Mrs. Alexander Morrison, president of
the National Collegiate Alumnae, was in the chair and among the
speakers were Dr. Aked, William C. Ralston, U. S. Sub-Treasurer; Mrs.
W. W. Douglas and Albert H. Elliott. In the Italian theater was held
the largest meeting of a political nature known to that quarter,
addressed by Emilio Lastredo, a prominent banking attorney; Ettore
Patrizi, editor of the daily _L'Italia_; Mr. Elliott, Miss Margaret
Haley and Mayor J. Stitt Wilson of Berkeley. A second great suffrage
meeting assembled there again, at which Mme. Adelina Dosenna of La
Scala, Milan, sang. The culmination was the mass meeting in Dreamland
Rink, the largest auditorium in the city. Mrs. Lowe Watson, president
of the State association, introduced by George A. Knight, was in the
chair. There were 6,000 in the audience and 4,000 on the outside, whom
Mrs. Greeley and other speakers kept in a good humor. These were Mrs.
McCulloch, Dr. Aked, John I. Nolan, union labor leader; Mr. Wilson,
Miss Todd, Miss Laughlin and Rabbi Meyer.

The campaign closed with a "business men's meeting" in Cort's Theater
from 12 to 1:30 p. m. the day before election. The theater was crowded
and it was necessary to begin before noon. For several hours the
speakers held forth to an audience changing every half hour. Mr.
Elliott presided and the speakers were F. G. Athearn