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The Story of a Pioneer-Part44_Anna Howard Shaw(1847-1919)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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Miss Mary and Miss Lucy Anthony confined them-

selves to office-work in the Portland headquarters,



where they gave us very valuableassistance" target="_blank" title="n.协作；援助；帮助">assistance. I

have always believed that we would have carried



Oregon that year if the disaster of the California

earthquake had not occurred to divert the minds of



Western men from interest in anything save that

great catastrophe.



On election day it seemed as if the heavens had

opened to pour floods upon us. Never before or



since have I seen such incessant, relentless rain.

Nevertheless, the women of Portland turned out



in force, led by Mrs. Sarah Evans, president of the

Oregon State Federation of Women's Clubs, while



all day long Dr. Pohl took me in her automobile

from one polling-place to another. At each we found



representative women patientlyenduring the drench-

ing rain while they tried to persuade men to vote for



us. We distributed sandwiches, courage, and in-

spiration among them, and tried to cheer in the same



way the women watchers, whose appointment we

had secured that year for the first time. Two women



had been admitted to every polling-place--but the

way in which we had been able to secure their pres-



ence throws a high-light on the difficulties we were

meeting. We had to persuade men candidates to



select these women as watchers; and the only men

who allowed themselves to be persuaded were those



running on minority tickets and hopeless of election

--the prohibitionists, the socialists, and the candi-



dates of the labor party.

The result of the election taught us several things.



We had been told that all the prohibitionists and

socialists would vote for us. Instead, we discovered



that the percentage of votes for woman suffrage was

about the same in every party, and that whenever



the voter had cast a straight vote, without inde-

pendence enough to ``scratch'' his ticket, that vote



was usually against us. On the other hand, when

the ticket was ``scratched'' the vote was usually in



our favor, whatever political party the man be-

longed to.



Another interesting discovery was that the early

morning vote was favorable to our Cause the vote



cast by working-men on their way to their employ-

ment. During the middle of the forenoon and after-



noon, when the idle class was at the polls, the vote

ran against us. The late vote, cast as men were



returning from their work, was again largely in our

favor--and we drew some conclusions from this.



Also, for the first time in the history of any cam-

paign, the anti-suffragists had organized against us.



Portland held a small body of women with anti-

suffrage sentiments, and there were others in the



state who formed themselves into an anti-suffrage

society and carried on a more or less active warfare.



In this campaign, for the first time, obscene cards

directed against the suffragists were circulated at



the polls; and while I certainly do not accuse the

Oregon anti-suffragists of circulating them, it is a



fact that the cards were distributed as coming from

the anti-suffragists--undoubtedly by some vicious



element among the men which had its own good rea-

son for opposing us. The ``antis'' also suffered in



this campaign from the ``pernicious activity'' of

their spokesman--a lawyer with an unenviable



reputation. After the campaign was over this man

declared that it had cost the opponents of our



measure $300,000.

In 1907 Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont began to show an



interest in suffrage work, and through the influence

of several leaders in the movement, notably that of



Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, she decided to assist in




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