Opposed also was the Women's Public Service League.

In gratitude for the co-operation of the League the Citizens' Party offered a place on the electoral ticket to any woman chosen by the League.
It was the first time in the history of Colorado that a municipal office had been offered to a woman, and the League promptly took advantage of it.

They named as a candidate for Election Commissioner Miss Ellis Meredith, one of the best known, best loved women in the State.

As journalist and author and club woman Miss Meredith is known far beyond her own State, and her nomination created intense interest not only among the women of her own city and State, but among club women everywhere.
On the evening of May 3, 1910, there was a meeting held in the Broadway Theater, Denver, the like of which no American city ever before witnessed.

It was a women's political mass meeting to endorse the candidacy of a woman municipal official.