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[71] Besides paying the expenses of the suffrage school, the National
Association paid the salary of Mrs. Deborah Knox Livingston as
campaign manager; the salary of Miss Lola Walker from February 10 to
September 10; the salaries of eight other organizers who worked for
varying periods and the expenses of four; for 120,000 Shafroth
speeches; circularized 1,200 of the Protestant and Catholic clergy;
prepared especially for Maine 125,000 baby fliers and 100,000 copies
of Have You Heard? and furnished envelopes and stamps for them; 14,000
pieces of literature for advanced suffragists; 1,000 copies of Do You
Know? to circularize the politicians; 400 each of thirteen different
kinds of posters; 500 war measure fliers; 2,000 blue and yellow
posters. The Leslie Commission contributed the services of Mrs. Geyer
for press work from July 1 to September 10. This campaign cost the
National Association $10,282 and the Leslie Commission $4,986, a total
of $15,268.--Ed.
[72] Among the active workers in the Anti-Suffrage Association were
Mesdames John F. A. Merrill, Morrill Hamlin and George S. Hobbs, all
of Portland; Norman L. Bassett, John F. Hill, and Charles S. Hichborn,
all of Augusta; George E. Bird, Yarmouth; Miss Elizabeth McKeen,
Brunswick.
Among the men actively opposed were the Rev. E. E. Newbert, Benedict
F. Maher, Samuel C. Manley, Charles S. Hichborn, all of Augusta;
ex-Governor Oakley C. Curtis, of Portland; Governor-elect Frederick H.
Parkhurst, of Bangor; U. S. Senator Hale, opposed but finally voted
for the Federal Suffrage Amendment.
CHAPTER XIX.
MARYLAND. PART I.[73]
When the fourth volume of the History of Woman Suffrage closed in 1900
it left the Maryland association just eleven years old. Since 1894,
when the Montgomery County and the Baltimore City Associations united,
it has been represented by accredited delegates in every national
convention. These thirty-one years of organized effort by no means
represent all of the suffrage agitation in the State.[74]
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