g Secretary.
SUSAN W. FITZGERALD, Recording Secretary.
JESSIE ASHLEY, Treasurer.
KATHARINE DEXTER MCCORMICK, }Auditors.
HARRIET BURTON LAIDLAW, }
ALICE STONE BLACKWELL,
Editor of the _Woman's Journal_.

[73] History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III, page 31.

[74] Later the total deficit of $6,000 was paid by Mrs. Katharine
Dexter McCormick of Boston, an officer of the National Association.

[75] It was supposed at this time that the suffrage amendment had been
carried in Michigan but the final returns indicated its defeat,
apparently due to fraudulent voting and counting.

[76] It is a noteworthy fact that although woman suffrage was a
leading issue in the presidential campaign of 1916 no officer of the
National American Suffrage Association took any public part in it,
although the platform of each of the parties contained a plank
endorsing woman suffrage.

[77] It was eight and a half years.

CHAPTER XIII.

NATIONAL AMERICAN CONVENTION OF 1913.

The Forty-fifth annual convention of the National American Suffrage
Association met in Washington, November 29-December 5, 1913, in
response to the Call of the Official Board.[78] The first day and
evening were given to meetings of the board and committees, so that
the convention really opened with a mass meeting in Columbia Theater
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock and it was cordially welcomed by
District Commissioner Newman. Dr. Shaw presided and a large and
interested audience heard addresses by Miss Jane Addams, State Senator
Helen Ring Robinson of Colorado, Miss Margaret Hinchey, a laundry
worker, and Miss Rose Winslow, a stocking weaver of New York; Miss
Mary Anderson, member of the executive board of the National Boot and
Shoemakers' Union, and others. It was a comparatively new thing to
have women wage-earners on the woman suffrage platform and their
speeches made a deep impression, as that of Miss Hinchey, for
instance, who said in part:

When we went to Albany to ask for votes one member of the
Legislature told us that a woman's place was at home. Another
said he had too much respect and admiration for women to see them
at the polls. Another went back to Ancient Rome and told a story
about Cornelia and her jewels--her children. Yet in the laundries
women were