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Suffrage League and one from the National Council of Women
Voters. On November 17 a fourth deputation, composed of
seventy-three women from New Jersey, was sent to the President to
urge him to take up the amendment during the regular session of
Congress.
Local arrangements were made for the conventions of the National
Council of Women Voters and the convention of the National
American Woman Suffrage Association.
A campaign under a salaried organizer was conducted through the
resort regions of New Jersey, Long Island and Rhode Island during
July, August and September; and one through New Jersey, Delaware
and Maryland during July. A month's campaign was carried on in
North Carolina. On September 1 permanent headquarters were opened
in Wilmington in charge of a salaried organizer and since that
time a vigorous campaign has been carried on in Delaware in the
attempt to influence the attitude of the Senators and
Representatives from that State.
A salaried press chairman has been employed throughout the year,
who has furnished daily press copy to the local papers, to the
Washington correspondents of the various papers throughout the
country and to all of the telegraphic bureaus in Washington.
Approximately 120,000 pieces of literature have been printed and
distributed. A weekly paper under the editorship of Mrs. Rheta
Childe Dorr was established on November 15. This now has a paid
circulation of about 1,200 and is self-supporting from its
advertisements.
A Men's League was organized, General Anson Mills, U. S. A.,
being the temporary and Dr. Harvey W. Wiley the permanent
chairman. A large number of Congressmen are members.
Eight theater meetings, exclusive of those during this
convention, have been held in Washington. Smaller meetings both
indoor and out have been held almost daily and frequently as many
as five or ten a day. A tableau was presented on the Treasury
steps at the time of the suffrage procession of March 3 under the
direction of Miss Hazel Mackaye. A suffrage play was given, also
two banquets, a reception and a luncheon, and a benefit and a
luncheon were given for the purpose of raising funds.
A delegation in two special cars went to New York for the
procession of May 3. An even larger delegation went
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