arranging campaigns. She is at present very active in the
temperance work, and is one of the editors of a State
temperance paper, the _Republican Valley Echo_. An extract
from a letter received from her in answer to inquiry will
show the spirit that actuates this representative advocate
of woman's political enfranchisement:

I never thought much about "woman's rights" until within the
last five years--that is, _political_ rights. I always had a
strong sense of my responsibilities as a woman and a mother
(have three children), and realize that we need something
more than moral suasion to make our influence practical and
effective. My husband, though not what is called a
"politician," has been sufficiently in politics for me to
know just what power the ballot has, and to see the
necessity of woman's work in that direction. I am happy to
say that Mr. Chapin is heart and soul with me in this, and
it is a wonder to us how any wife or mother, how any
Christian woman can say, "I have all the rights I want."

Hoping to hold the vantage ground already gained, a State
convention was held at Kearney, December 6, 7, the place being
selected because Buffalo county had carried the amendment by a
good majority.

The association held three formal sessions, which were well
attended and very interesting. Speeches of encouragement and
congratulation were made, plans for work discussed, and
campaign reminiscences recounted. One of the most
interesting that was given was that of Mrs. Beedy of Gardner
precinct, who said that the women actively interested in the
suffrage work talked socially on the subject with every man
in the precinct. There were seventy-two votes, and only four
against the amendment. Of these four persons, two could
neither read nor write, a third could not write his own
name, and the fourth could not write his name in English.
All the delegates present reported that the social work had
been a prime cause of such success as they had found. Mrs.
Bigelow said that Geneva precinct stood ninety-eight for the
amendment and ninety-eight against. At Fairmont sixty ladies
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