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 544 HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE You need not sign the card. Every card has a number and we will know who sent it in. Let us all pull together and let us all work Let us each get 25 votes. The election took place June 4, 1906, and resulted in an ad- verse majority of 10,173 in a vote of about 84,000. Besides the money raised in Oregon the National Suffrage Association expended on this campaign $18,075. Of this amount $3,768 were used in the preliminary work of 1905. All of the eastern workers except the organizers contributed their services and sev- eral defrayed their own expenses. The women decided to go immediately into another campaign. The Legislative Assembly of 1907 refused to submit the amend- ment and the State Association again circulated an initiative petition to have it submitted. Miss Clay contributed $300 toward the expense of it; Mr. and Miss Blackwell also contributed lib- erally and the requisite number of names was secured. Mrs. Duniway in reporting this campaign said :' "It was more like that of 1900, as only Oregon women took part and no large meetings were held." There were a few less votes in favor of the amendment in 1908 than in 1906 and 11,739 more against it. The State Association filed a petition for another initiative measure immediately after this defeat. It was quite a different proposition, however, as it read : "No citizen who is a taxpayer shall be denied the right to vote on account of sex." Both men and women, many of them the staunchest suffragists, openly op- posed it and it was bitterly fought by labor and fraternal organi- zations. No campaign was attempted except from the State president's office and there was general satisfaction when it was defeated in 1910 by a majority of 22,600. A reorganization of the State work in 1906 after the election had resulted in Mrs. Duniway's again resuming the presidency with the following board : Vice-president-at-large, Mrs. Eliza- beth Lord; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth Craig; re- cording secretary, Miss Emma Buckman; financial secretary, Mrs. A. Bonham; treasurer, Mrs. W. E. Potter; auditors, Mrs. Frederick Eggent and Mrs. Martha Dalton ; honorary president, Mrs. Coe. This board practically remained intact until 1912. In the two disastrous campaigns of 1908 and 1910, against the