ars of the
wide correspondence with editors. "The scope of the department was
gradually enlarged," she said, "and many letters were sent to
prominent people in reference to their speeches, interviews in
newspapers and other public expressions. For instance, in the debates
on the Federal Amendment in the Senate, whenever a speaker showed lack
of correct information, a letter giving it was sent to him. Other
letters also were sent to Senators and usually received courteous
answers from themselves, not their secretaries." The report continued:

Several letters were written to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt urging
him to use his influence with the Republican leaders and always
were fully answered. A letter dictated and signed by him on
January 3, 1919, enclosed one he had just sent to Senator Moses
of New Hampshire, strongly urging him to cast his vote for the
Federal Suffrage Amendment on the 10th. I received it on January
4 and he died the night of the 5th.

Letters were sent to Chairman Hays and members of the National
Republican Committee and to different State chairmen on various
points connected with the suffrage amendment. The pamphlet on the
Difficulty of Amending State Constitutions, which was prepared
and sent to every Senator, was put into the Congressional Record
by Senator Shafroth, and a circular letter on the founding and
record of the National Woman's Party by Senator Thomas. Scores of
letters were sent out showing up the fallacies of the
Anti-suffragists during the year; others exposing the connection
of the German-American Alliance with the Antis; others giving
historic information and still others telling of gains in our
own and foreign countries.

During the first year I wrote to over 2,000 editors in the United
States and Canada. At the end of that time, and after the New
York victory, so many were in favor of woman suffrage itself that
during 1918 the work was very largely concentrated on the Federal
Amendment. In the two months from November, 1917, to January,
1918, when the vote was taken in the House of Representatives,
2,600 circular letters containing an argument for this amendment
went out from this department to the principal newspapers of the
United States and in addition 100 special articles were sent to
the largest papers. After that vote was taken th