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TEXAS 641 the State University faculty, reached the voters. More than ninety small papers issued a four page suffrage supplement fur- nished them. The list of speakers included 1,495 names and almost no meeting or convention of any importance was held during the latter part of the three months that did not make room on its program for a talk on woman suffrage. On the other hand every nook and corner of the State was- flooded with anti-suffrage literature, a great deal of it emanating from U. S. Senator Reed of Missouri, of such a vile, insinuating character that when placed by the "antis" upon the desks of the legislators they quickly passed protesting resolutions with only five dissenting votes. These called attention to the splendid work of Texas women during the war and their suffering at the absence and loss of their loved ones ; declared that this literature was "nothing short of a slap in the face of these good women and of the members who passed, by a unanimous vote, the woman suffrage amendment," and said: "Resolved that we go upon record as condemning the circulation of this character of literature and opposed to the sentiments expressed therein. We re-affirm our allegiance to the woman suffrage amendment . . . and when ve return to our homes we will do all in our power to secure the passage of this amendment." Some of the most vicious literature was from a so-called "Man's Organization Opposed to Woman Suffrage," with headquarters in Selma, Ala. Former U. S. Senator Bailey, who had been resid- ing in Xev York for some years, made a speaking tour of the State, assailing the amendment in the most vindictive manner. 1 The Women's National Anti-Suffrage Association sent Miss ( 'harlot te Rowe of New York, who spoke and worked against the dim-lit. Mrs. James V. Vadsvorth, Jr., president of this association, aannpanied by her husband, the U. S. Senator, came 'he State during the campaign and he-Id sonic parlor meetings. She appointed Mrs. James B. Wells, wife of the political "boss of the borderland" at Brownsville, to send out literature, speak where possible, etc. Mrs. Wells bad headquarters in Austin with Mrs. rr women got the Primary vote Mr. Bailey returned to Texas and announced If a candidate for Governor, lir was overwhelmingly defeated at the primaries s comment was: "The women and the preachers did it."