on behalf of the
officers of the association a most thorough appreciation of the
service of its chairman, Mrs. Medill McCormick, who has not only
given money generously to the work but has added what is more
valuable still--steady, hard, personal labor, coupled with an
indefatigable good humor, frequently under most trying
circumstances....

The new State associations formed and the many suffrage organizations
applying for affiliated or auxiliary membership were named and an
account was given of the large sums of money, the vast amount of
literature and the many workers supplied to the seven State campaigns
of the year. These facts and the other activities of the association
were related in part as follows:

Miss Harriet Grim of Wisconsin was sent by request to North
Dakota to cover the series of Chautauqua meetings in June and
July. Miss Katharine Devereux Blake of New York offered her
services for only expenses for a month of campaign work in July.
Hurried arrangements were made by telegram and as the promptest,
most urgent pleas came from Montana, it won her, although later
she did some work in North Dakota also. Miss Shaw's special fund
was the backing which provided for both tours. Miss Blake made
the wonderful record of obtaining from the collections at her
meetings enough to cover all her travelling and living expenses.
Miss Shaw's fund,[84] which has often seemed like the miraculous
pitcher, also provided part of the expense of sending Mrs. Jennie
Wells Wentworth to Ohio and Mrs. Laura Gregg Cannon to Nevada.
Miss Addams has contributed several weeks of campaigning and Dr.
Shaw herself has made an itinerary, giving ten days to each of
the campaign States, starting August 27 and ending with Election
Day....

Another noteworthy feature of the year's work was the
establishment of Woman's Independence Day on the first Saturday
of May, initiated by Mrs. McCormick and phenomenally successful.
There was a wonderful response to the ringing call sent out by
the National Board to all the suffragists of the country to meet
together in every city and town at a given time and sing a
suffrage hymn, declare their faith, pass a resolution and have a
speech. A woman's version of the Declaration of Independence was
prepared for the occasion and President Wilson was ask