ost strenuous
endeavor on her part. The Amalgamated Copper Company, striving to
defeat the workmen's compensation act, had joined hands with the
liquor interests, working to defeat woman suffrage, and had put
on the petticoat and bonnet of the organized female
anti-suffragists. I spoke to thousands of people all over the
State, and while on the surface all appeared well, there was an
undertow of fierce opposition that could be felt but that can not
be estimated until the votes are counted. [The State was carried
by 3,714.]

Nevada was like a story in a book--a big, little State, with
80,000 inhabitants and 18,000 voters, and so thoroughly was it
organized by Miss Martin that I believe she could address every
voter by his first name. I felt like a fifth wheel. All the work
appeared to be finished and hung aside to season by the time I
arrived and I was in the unenviable position of being sandwiched
between Dr. Shaw, who had just preceded me, and Miss Addams, who
immediately followed me. I went over the desert, however, and
into mines, and spoke in butchers' homes and at meetings that
wound up with a supper and a dance and came away with the
certainty that Miss Martin had two or three thousand votes tucked
away in her inside pocket. [The State was carried by 3,678.] On
this trip I learned of hundreds of thousands of pieces of
literature sent out by our entertaining friend, the Hon. Tom
Heflin of Alabama. I know now why it was that all last winter he
jumped up in Congress every few minutes and read into the
Congressional Record something about the horror of women voting.
He had a long business head and he was thriftily saving postage
on anti-suffrage literature in the interest of the "society
opposed," of the liquor interests, of organized crime and of all
those forces that have taken arms against us.

The convention was deeply appreciative of the arduous and extensive
work that has been done by the Congressional Committee but there was
intense dissatisfaction with the so-called Shafroth Amendment, which
had been freely discussed in the _Woman's Journal_ for the last eight
or nine months.[91] The debate in the convention consumed several
sessions and more bitterness was shown than ever before at one of
these annual meetings. The Official Board having endorsed the
amendment