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KANSAS 2O I devised to arouse the prejudice of every kind of business man or reform worker. Later two other editions were issued, enlarged and more daring in their statements. They were left in railway coaches and sent to newspaper offices with strong appeals for the publishing of the letters from time to time, but Kansas men had fought too many battles with the saloon power not to recognize its hydra head. Toward the last came one clothed in the official garb of the exalted Methodist Church, but warning had been sent by the women of Oregon, where he had united his efforts with the worst elements to defeat the suffrage amendment in tw campaigns. The Men's League, the press and the ministers co-operated with the women and "Clarence, the Untrue/' was effectively bound and gagged. About this time one of the good friends in Kansas City, Mo., discovered that the same plan which had defeated the amendment in Ohio was going to be used in Kansas, and he loyally reported it to headquarters. A busy day followed and Mrs. Edwin Knapp, Miss Eacker and the president remained up all night getting out letters to expose the plan. These were sent to all of the weekly newspapers for their last issue before the election and an Associated Press letter to be used in the Sunday and Monday issues. Thanks to the splendid manhood of Kansas, these were suffi- cient, and women came into their own on November 5, 1912, by tc of 175,246 ayes, 159,197 noes a majority of over 16,000. No other State had won by so large a majority and because the count was made and the victory reported first of the three that were carried in 1912, Kansas claims the right to the seventh c on the list of equal suffrage States. 1 The Jubilee Convention, May 19-20, 1913, was held in the Church at Lawrence, and men and women came from rt of the State. The evening program was under the ices of the Men's League, Dr. Pettyjohn, presiding. Pro- ng thr many who aided in campaign work were Judge and Mrs. Frank Doster. Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Codding, the Hon. A. M. Harvey, the Hon. Geo. Waters, th< GafTord. the Rev. Festus Foster, the Rev. S. S. Estey, D.D.. William Allen White. ' >hn J. Bmwn; Mesdames Doster Cook, C. W. Smith. Nanon Hcrrcn, ' Ml. Mat-Karri Brandenburg, Edwin Knapp, L. S. vmsjr Clark, Z. Nason, Geo. W. Rose, Effie Miwcs Laura French, Eva Corning, Florence Welch. Rrrtha Hrmstead, Olga House, . Galloo, Mary Dobbs, Dorothy Sherman. VOL. VI