Meeetings | 2,085 | |
Leaflets distributed | 5,196,884 | |
Money expended | $151,438 | |
Canvassed and enrolled women | 514,555 | |
Women secured to watch at polls | 5,000 | |
Campaign headquarters maintained | 40 | |
Newspapers (English and foreign) served daily | 153 | |
Suffrage editions and pages edited | 10 | |
Special suffrage articles | 200 | |
Other suffrage articles and interviews | 400 | |
Posters placed in shop windows | 2,000 |
The Party leaders had to meet attacks and misrepresentations from the Anti-Suffrage Association, whose national and State headquarters were in New York City. The Party had also to combat the actions of the "militant" suffragists, whose headquarters were in Washington and whose picketing of the White House and attacks on President Wilson and other public men displeased many people who did not discriminate between the large constructive branch of the suffrage movement and the small radical branch. The Party leaders had often publicly to repudiate the "militant" tactics. In the parade of Oct. 28, 1917, the Party exhibited placards which read: "We are opposed to Picketing the White House. We stand by the Country and the President."
During the campaign, Miss Hay had associated with her on the executive board, Mrs. Slade, Mrs. Aldrich, Mrs. George Notman, Miss Annie Doughty, Mrs. F. Robertson-Jones, Mrs. Wells, Miss Adaline W. Sterling, Mrs. Herbert Lee Pratt, Mrs. Charles E. Simonson, Dr. Katherine B. Davis, Miss Eliza McDonald, Mrs. Alice P. Hutchins, Mrs. Louis Welzmiller. Borough chairmen who assisted were Mrs. John Humphrey Watkins, Man-