uarters.
Sometimes the pressure upon the department for facts, including
'answers to antis,' was tremendous but there were few requests for
information which were not answered by mail or telegraph within 24 or
48 hours."

Mrs. Boyd's own full report of her first year's work was heard with
much interest and satisfaction. In it she said:

The opponents of woman suffrage have by their criticisms made it
cover the whole field of human affairs, so it is not surprising
that the inquiries by correspondents of this department have
ranged from the moral standard of women to a request for
assistance in righting a personal wrong. Others come under main
headings of the progress of woman suffrage, both partial and
complete; the standing of women under the laws; the effect of
voting women on the character of legislation; the part they take
in political life and its reaction on their lives and characters;
statistics and facts in regard to the makeup of the population of
the various States; details in regard to State constitutions,
election laws and methods of voting on woman suffrage in the
various States.... What has become of late "stock"
anti-criticisms of some effects of the ballot has been thoroughly
investigated and "stock" answers prepared. Facts and figures from
official sources have been gathered to disprove the claim of
enforced jury duty, excessive cost of elections, lowered birth
rates and increased divorce rates in suffrage States. The results
of these studies have been surprisingly favorable to the suffrage
position, showing that in such criticisms the "antis" have been
ridiculously in the wrong. They have only been able to use this
line of argument at all because the suffragists have had no one
free to take the time to answer them once and for all with the
facts.

At an important afternoon conference Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, who had
been chairman of the New York Campaign Committee during the effort for
a State amendment, made the opening address on The Revelations of
Recent Campaigns which shed a great deal of light on the causes of
defeat. She was followed by Mrs. Frank M. Roessing, who, as president
of the Pennsylvania association, had charge of the campaign in that
State, and Mrs. Gertrude Halliday Leonard, who was a leading factor in
the one in Massachusetts, both presenting constructive plans