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 OKLAHOMA 525 other State where the entire campaign was carried on by but two paid workers a manager and a stenographer? Mrs. Stephens went into the field and Mrs. Biggers remained with the office work and spent her money freely. Dr. Gay sacrificed time from her practice and pressed her father and mother into service so that literature might be addressed to the voters. Mrs. Woodworth, Mrs. Feuquay, Mrs. Burt, Mrs. Mattie Flick, Mrs. Dunham and her daughter Jtinia and Miss Mary Barber worked day and night in the office or the field. Altogether $900 were raised. To this amount Miss Clay con- tributed $300; Henry B. and Alice Stone Blackwell (Mass.) $400 and also lent money. Most of the women worked gra- tuitously and paid their own expenses. Oklahoma City was canvassed without cost. When the petition was ready for fil- ing a representative committee of women carried it to Guthrie and Secretary of State Cross complimented its excellent ar- arrangement. So quietly had it been secured that the "machine" politicians were astounded and dismayed when it was presented and plans were at once made to attack its validity. Senator Koddie was chosen to protest it on the ground that 5,000 of the signatures were fraudulent but he offered no proof of the charge. Three eminent lawyers, Judge J. B. A. Robertson, Democratic candidate fur Governor; Judge T. L. Brown, a Republican, and Nagel, a Socialist, gave their services to the suffragists. The lir>t argued for the justice of submitting the amendment; the second defended the legality of the petition and the third de- manded recognition of the 38,586 voters who had signed it. ctary of State Cross announced a recess until 2 p. m. At that hour he declared that the petition was "in due form of law and amply sufficient in all things and that the question thereby pro- posed should be certified to the Governor to the end that the same may be submitted to the electors of the State as is provided by law." Senator Roddie then appealed to the Supreme Court, which in June, 1910, sustained the petition. Believing that the petition would be upheld the suffragists had < (1 headquarters in the Lcc I lurkins Hotel in Oklahoma City 1'Ylirnnry i. There was hope of a special election for the amend- ment, in which case it could be carried by a majority of those voting on it. If it went to the regular election it would require