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 678 HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE air meetings were held and there was a special Suffrage Day, on which Judge Ben B. Lindsey of Denver spoke for the amend- ment. The dirigible balloon, a feature of the exposition, carried a large silken banner inscribed Votes for Women. Later a pen- nant with this motto was carried by a member of the Moun- taineers' Club to the summit of Mt. Rainier, near Tacoma, said to be the loftiest point in the United States. 1 It was fastened to the staff of the larger pennant "A. Y. P." of the exposition and the staff was planted in the highest snows on the top of Columbia Crest, a huge white dome that rises above the crater. The State association entertained the national suffrage con- vention at Seattle in 1909 and brought its guests from Spokane on a special train secured by Mrs. DeVoe, as an effective method of advertising the cause and the convention. The State Grange and the State Farmers' Union worked hard for the amendment. State Master C. B. Kegley wrote: "The Grange, numbering 15,000, is strongly in favor of woman suf- frage. In fact every subordinate grange is an equal suffrage organization. . . . We have raised a fund with which to push the work. . . . Yours for victory." The State Federation of Labor, Charles R. Case, president, at its annual convention in January, 1910, unanimously adopted with cheers a strong resolu- tion favoring woman suffrage and urged the local unions to "put forth their most strenuous efforts to carry the suffrage amendment . . . and make it the prominent feature of their work during the coming months." Practically all the newspapers were friendly and featured the news of the campaign ; no large daily paper was opposed. S. A. Perkins, publisher of eleven newspapers in the State, gave a standing order to his editors to support the amendment. The best publicity bureau in the State was employed and for a year its weekly news letter carried a readable paragraph on the sub- ject to every local paper. Besides this, "suffrage columns" were printed regularly; there were "suffrage pages," "suffrage supplements" and even entire "suffrage editions" ; many effective "cuts" were used, and all at the expense of the publishers. The clergy was a great power. Nearly every minister ob- 1 The member was Dr. Cora Smith King. Ed.