abigail isetter, writing to her son clyde, and so this is the 1900 campaign and they were waiting for the returns come in and she says, " after five days of anxious waiting for returns, during which the oregonian and your mad uncle have subjected the decent women of oregon to every form of insult, word came to me with the news that the returns showed 45% of the vote to be in the affirmative. with the four counties we depend upon to be heard from." sick until iwas saw the returns. now i shall set the coward up." and it she is returning -- and she is referring to her brother. one of the things about passing suffrage and abigail's involvement was the change that came about in the way that measures could be presented to sentencings, to the -- citizenry for voting. initially when abigail started on her campaign work, she used what she called the still hunt, to quietly get in good with them men who had been elected to the oregon legislature. favor.gain their she did it quietly because she did not want to deserve -- disturbed the opposition. -- di sturb the opposition. and it resulted in the