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Florence (Mrs. Caspar) Whitney, Agnes Leach, Nancy Cook, Marion Dickerman. Those are names that spring to my mind immediately. There were a great many others, but these were prime movers. The idea was that women ought to take a more vigorous and active part in the campaign and appeal to other women both to turn out the vote and to instruct them to vote right.

Nearly all of the people that I named were old suffragists. I don't mean to say that they were old in years, but they had been members of the suffragist group. There were plenty of other people in this group too, but at the moment their names elude me. I remember them as prime movers. They stayed there for a good many years. As former suffragists, they were also members of the upper class. They were not the wives and sisters of Tammany Hall politicians; these were ladies who had education, sometimes fortunes, or at least a modest access to the world's goods and position in the world. They were the people who had been very useful in the suffrage campaign because they weren't afraid of anything. They had something back of them, nobody would arrest them, nobody would cry them down if they undertook to speak on street corners. They were ladylike people. They were polite people. If they rose to speak on a street corner, they would be sure to make friends with the policeman first and shake his hand warmly. They did the same with the local