gists in every kind of
association in the State, in the Federated Women's Clubs; the W.
C. T. U., with a franchise department in every local; the
Socialist party, the State Grange and the ever-growing Labor
Unions. We determined to make a strenuous effort to get into
touch with every progressive element. Our State Campaign
Committee, with headquarters in San Francisco, consisted of
chairmen of the ten departments of work.... In addition we had an
Advisory Council composed of picked men and women over the State.
During the two preceding years the State association had been
carrying forward organization work under the able supervision of
Mrs. Helen Moore as chairman but there still remained much to be
done. Our territory was large, a portion of it immensely
difficult. It was conceded that a house to house canvass was of
the utmost importance, particularly in the large cities.

The suffragists of Southern California, whose work with the
Legislature had been of incalculable value, led by J. H. Braly,
president of the Los Angeles Political Equality League, assumed
the responsibility of caring for the ten counties south of the
Tehachapi Pass and nobly did they fulfil all expectations. We
realized that the great "interests" were arrayed against us.
Untold money was at the command of our enemies and they were
schooled in political methods. We had little money and less
political experience but we had consecration of purpose and we
gave ourselves to the work, North and South, with unbounded
enthusiasm....

There was scarcely a corner of the State unvisited by good
speakers. Under the supervision of Mrs. Rose M. French, the State
association issued 3,000,000 pages of literature, while the
College Women's Equal Suffrage League and other organizations in
the North, and the Political Equality League of Los Angeles, also
published countless thousands of leaflets, besides ordering many
from the National Association. Under the tactful management of
Mrs. Ringrose, 50,000 Catholic leaflets were distributed at the
doors of Catholic churches. The picture slides and stereopticon
talks, superintended by Mrs. Lucretia Watson Taylor, were very
effective, particularly in the outlying districts. Posters,
pennants and banners played a conspicuous part in the campa