The first measure on the Oregon ballot for Nov. 5, 1912, was a brief one — “Equal suffrage amendment, extending the right of suffrage to women. (Proposed by initiative petition.) Vote YES or NO.” In Douglas County, 2,285 men voted “yes” on that measure. They joined almost 60,000 other men in the state in passing the amendment that allowed the women in Oregon to vote in state and local elections. This achievement of equal suffrage in our state was not an easy task. For more than 40 years, women and men in and out of Oregon had worked to make …