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NEW JERSEY 423 elected were, second vice-president, Mrs. Robert P. Finley; cor- responding secretary, Mrs. Bayard Naylor; recording secretary, Mrs. L. H. Cummings. All attention and action were centered on the approaching campaign. The resolution to submit the amendment had passed two Leg- islatures and was to go to the voters at a special election Oct. 19, 1915. A Cooperative Committee was formed of three from the State association and the Women's Political Union each and one each from the Equal Franchise Society and the Men's League. A Committee of One Hundred was also organized to raise money for the campaign, Mrs. Colby chairman. It obtained $9,000 which were used for the expenses of the Press Committee, that had its office at the National Suffrage headquarters in New York, for news bulletins every day, plate matter, interviews, stories, advertising cards and posters in the trolley cars and the stations of the Hudson Tunnels system; illuminated signs and street banners in New Jersey cities and a half-page advertisement in all the papers of the State at the end of the campaign. The execu- tive secretary was Mrs. Flora Gapen Charters. The total amount of money raised and spent by the State and local organizations was approximately $80,000, obtained by dues and pledges, by collections at mass meetings, special luncheons and very largely by personal contributions from men and women. The State association increased to 200 branches in twenty-four cities. The Political Union maintained a large headquarters in Newark. Over 3,000,000 pieces of literature and 400,000 but- ere distributed. The association circularized all the women's organizations <>f the State, the fraternal or^ani/ations, vmen, .^ran-e officers, lawyers, office-holders and other coups, Speakers were sent to grange picnics and county f. iirs. Street meeting look place regularly in all the principal .-iiicl automobile tours over the State. Over 4,000 outdoor and 500 indoor meetings were held. Four paid and thirty iteer organizers were kept in the field for eight months. The association arranged a conference of the leaders of the four campaign States, New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and ev Jersey, which was held in Kast Orange in connection with the celebration on August I ^ of the birthday of its founder,