preceding week, in some of them with victory, in others with
defeat. Miss Anne Martin, president of the Nevada Suffrage
Association, was heartily applauded as she told of the triumph in her
State, saying:

The suffrage victory in Nevada means not only a solid equal
suffrage West and another step toward equal suffrage for the
United States but a triumph for better government in Nevada. It
is the most "male" State in America, perhaps in the world. The
census of 1910 shows that there are two men to every woman. Law,
custom, social life are more nearly man-made than those of any
other country; consequently Nevada needs the help of her women to
modify law, custom and social life, the help of those women whose
pioneer mothers stood shoulder to shoulder with the men in
building up a great commonwealth out of a wilderness. Owing to
the transitory character of many of the industries, such as the
construction of irrigation works, railway construction and
mining, there are nearly three times as many unattached men
living outside of home influences as there are married women in
the State.

The male population is over 50 per cent. transient; the
population of women is only 20 per cent. transient, as they have
permanent occupations on the farms and in the schools. The
argument of the anti-suffragists that "the women do not want it"
was answered by a house-to-house canvass throughout the counties
of the State. In many of them at least 90 per cent. of the women
enrolled themselves in favor of equal suffrage and their
signatures are on file at the headquarters of the Nevada Equal
Franchise Society. The fact that out of a voting population of
only 20,000 a majority of 3,400 votes was cast to give women the
franchise shows not only that men all over the State were just
and fair-minded but that they must have instinctively felt the
need of women's help....

The story of victory for Montana was related by Miss Mary Stewart, as
the president, Miss Jeannette Rankin, had been detained to prevent a
tampering with the election returns, but she afterwards arrived and
was enthusiastically welcomed. Mrs. Clara Darrow, president of the
North Dakota association, gave an account of how the amendment had
been lost in that State through political tricks. Mrs. Draper Smith,
president of the Nebraska association,