merging the _Woman's Journal_, the _Woman Voter_
and the _National Suffrage News_ in the _Woman Citizen_, for which
2,000 subscriptions were taken at this convention. The report included
those of Mrs. Harper, chairman of editorial correspondence; Mrs. Mary
Sumner Boyd, of the research bureau; Miss Mary Ogden White, feature
and general news department; Mrs. Rose Lawless Geyer, field press
work. There was also a report of the Washington press bureau after the
headquarters there were opened, at first in charge of Mrs. Gertrude C.
Mosshart, afterwards of Miss Ethel M. Smith. The latter told of the
unexcelled opportunities in that city for the distribution of news
through the more than 200 special correspondents of the large
newspapers and the bureaus of all the great press associations and
syndicates. News had to be fresh and well written and 450 copies of
each of her "stories" distributed. About half of them were sent to
State press chairmen, presidents and others.

Mrs. Harper's work was almost wholly with editors, watching the
editorials, which now came in literally by hundreds every day. Her
report of three closely printed pages said in part:

When an editorial was friendly a letter of thanks has been sent
expressing the hope that the paper would contain many such
editorials. When one made a strong appeal for woman suffrage the
editor has had a letter expressing the deep appreciation of all
at headquarters and saying that it would unquestionably affect
public sentiment in his city and State. In many instances, even
in the largest papers, there have been mistakes in facts and
figures, as the question has not been a national issue long
enough for editors to become thoroughly informed, and these have
been corrected as tactfully as possible. Often carefully selected
literature, suited to the editor's point of view, has been
enclosed--to Western editors arguments in favor of a Federal
Amendment; to Southern editors statements on the good effects of
woman suffrage in the Western States; to Eastern editors a good
deal of both. Where an editorial has been directly hostile an
argument has been taken up with the editor, supported by
unimpeachable testimony. When the editor has been implacable I
have frequently written to suffragists in his city to learn what
were the influences behind the paper, and usually have found they
were