NAWSA Gen. Corresp. Connecticut Suffrage Assocs. Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association HEADQUARTERS: 55-57 PRATT STREET, HARTFORD TELEPHONE CHARTER 6217 [Union Printers symbol] EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MRS. THOMAS N. HEPBURN PRESIDENT 55-57 PRATT ST., HARTFORD MISS GRACE GALLATIN SETON VICE PRESIDENT GREENWICH MISS RUUTZ-REES RECORDING SECRETARY GREENWICH MISS MABEL C. WASHBURN CORRESPONDING SECRETARY 55-57 PRATT ST., HARTFORD MRS. M. TOSCAN BENNETT TREASURER 55-57 PRATT ST., HARTFORD MRS. MARY J. ROGERS AUDITOR 82 AKRON ST., MERIDEN MRS. H. H. DELOSS AUDITOR 137 PARK PLACE BRIDGEPORT MRS. ELIZABETH D. BACON EX-PRESIDENT (1908-1910) 106 CAPEN ST., HARTFORD MRS. EDWARD PORRITT PRESS SECRETARY 63 TREMONT ST., HARTFORD MRS. CARLOS F. STODDARD CHAIRMAN NEW HAVEN COUNTY 412 ORANGE ST., NEW HAVEN MRS. A. E. SCRANTON TAYLOR CHAIRMAN LITCHFIELD COUNTY NORFOLK MRS. WILLIAM T. HINCKS EX-PRESIDENT (1911-1913) 152 PARK PLACE, BRIDGEPORT MRS. H. A. TAYLOR CHAIRMAN HARTFORD COUNTY 65 GROVE HILL NEW BRITAIN MRS. HERBERT H. KNOX CHAIRMAN FAIRFIELD COUNTY NEW CANAAN DR. ESTHER S. B. WOODWARD CHAIRMAN NEW LONDON COUNTY NORWICH MISS ROSAMOND DANIELSON CHAIRMAN WINDHAM COUNTY PUTNAM MISS EMILY PIERSON STATE ORGANIZER CROMWELL 63 Tremont St, Hartford, Conn. May 15th. 1914 Dear Miss Blackwell, I am very pleased that you preserve a pleasant remembrance of my last appearance at the New England Conference. This time I find that Miss Pierson cannot well get away, and Mrs Hepburn is anxious that I should again represent the Association, so I hope to be with you on Tuesday morning. I shall have to reach Boston on Monday evening to be in time for the morning session, but I think that I shall not need to ask for hospitality, as I am writing some friends to tell of my visit. I will let you have a little press story of Connecticut's doings. Yours sincerely, Annie J Pruitt. As the time is short for correspondence, and I am not even sure whether my friends are in Cambridge, I have asked them to telephone you if they can put me up. If you do not hear on Sat. morning, could you again arrange for hospitality for me? Last time I had a charming time with Mrs Lewis Johnson of Cambridge. The train I shall take reaches Boston (Back Bay) at 8-22 P.M. Annie G. Porritt National American Woman Suffrage Association Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, President 171 Madison Avenue, New York City Congressional Committee Chairman, Mrs. Maud Wood Park Secretary, Miss Ruth White Executive Secretary, Miss Ethel M. Smith 154 Members Miss Heloise Meyer, Massachusetts Mrs. Frank M. Roessing, Pennsylvania Mrs. Medill McCormick, Illinois Mrs. Helen H. Gardener, District of Columbia Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, New York Miss Mary Garrett Hay, New York Headquarters 1626 Rhode Island Avenue, N. W. Washington, D.C. Members Mrs. Winston Churchill, New Hampshire Miss Martha Norris, Ohio Mrs. William Jennings Bryan, Nebraska Mrs. Robert Griffin, New York Mrs. Charles W. McClure, Michigan Miss Mabel Caldwell Willard, Massachusetts November 3, 1917 Dear Mrs. Park: I wired you last night, at the Copley Square Hotel, as follows: "Connecticut conference New Haven November ninth two o'clock. Taylor says can not change hour. Smith of Providence notified and asked to arrange date prior to eighth." This message was sent following the receipt of a letter from Mrs. Shuler transmitting a telegram from Mrs. A. E. Scranton Taylor dated November 1, which read as follows: "State Board met this afternoon. Arrange to meet Mrs. Park two p. m., 51 Trumbull Street, New Haven ninth November. It will be extremely difficult to change the hour. Two p. m. most convenient for train service. Unless I hear from you to the contrary this hour and date will stand." Mrs. Shuler at once wrote Mrs. Taylor saying she could have the time for New Haven stated in her telegram, and telegraphed Mrs. Smith of Providence to arrange a date prior to November 8th. Mrs. Smith's reply came back promptly, and Mrs. Shuler transmits that also to me today in a letter just received. Mrs. Smith's telegram said: "Can arrange for Mrs. Park on seventh. Very short notice. If her time is limited and you feel she is needed more in other states perhaps could omit Rhode Island although we should like very much to have her. Mrs. Jenks will entertain. Let me know definitely if she can come." Mrs. Shuler wired Mrs. Smith accepting the 7th, and has, I understand, also notified you fully. I am writing also, however, just to make sure there is no slip anywhere. Sincerely, Ethel M. Smith STATE CONGRESSIONAL CHAIRMEN Mrs. Julian B. Parke, Alabama Mrs. Frances W. Munds, Arizona Mrs. T. T. Cotnam, Arkansas Mrs. Mary NcHenry Keith, California Mrs. Lucy J. Harrington, Colorado Mrs. A. E. Scranton Taylor, Connecticut Miss Mary A. Ospina, Delaware Mrs. Frank Stranahan, Florida Mrs. Emily C. McDougald, Georgia Mrs. Richard Burke, Idaho Mrs. Judith W. Loewenthal, Illinois Mrs. Lewis J. Cox, Indiana Miss Anna B. Lawther, Iowa Mrs. Charles H. Brooks, Kansas Mrs. Samuel C. Henning, Kentucky Mrs. Lydia Wickliffe Holmes, Louisiana Mrs. Arthur T. Balentine, Maine Miss Emma Weber, Maryland Mrs. Lewis Jerome Johnson, Massachusetts Mrs. Orton H. Clark, Michigan Mrs. Andreas Ueland, Minnesota Mrs. Charles Passmore, Missouri Mrs. Edward McGehee, Mississippi Mrs. Harvey Coit, Montana Mrs. E. L. Burke, Nebraska Miss Felice Cohn, Nevada Mrs. Robert P. Johnston, New Hampshire Mrs. Robert S. Huse, New Jersey Mrs. W.E. Lindsey, New Mexico Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, New York Miss Gertrude Weil, North Carolina Mrs. Elizabeth O'Neil, North Dakota Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, Ohio Mrs. Adelia G. Stephens, Oklahoma Dr. Esther Pohl-Lovejoy, Oregon Mrs. John O. Miller, Pennsylvania Mrs. Edwin C. Smith, Rhode Island Mrs. M. T. Coleman, South Carolina Mrs. John Pyle, South Dakota Mrs. A. S. Buchanan, Tennessee Mrs. Henry J. Kelso, Tennessee Mrs. Helen Moore, Texas Mrs. Emily Richards, Utah Mrs. Frances H. Rastall, Vermont Mrs. John H. Lewis, Virginia Mrs. Christian Quevli, Washington Mrs. Ellis A. Yost, West Virginia Mrs. Ben Hooper, Wisconsin Dr. Grace Ramond Hebard, Wyoming CONGRESSIONAL AIDES Alabama Mrs. Solon H. Jacobs Mrs. Lillian Roden Bowron Mrs. John Lusk Mrs. Milton Humes Arkansas Mrs. O. F. Ellington California Mrs. James Ellis Tucker Mrs. Seward Adams Simons Colorado Mrs. Ellis Meredith Connecticut Mrs. John Prince Elton Mrs. Frederick S. Chase Delaware Mrs. William I. Duggin District of Columbia Mrs. Newton D. Baker Mrs. Louis Brandeis Mrs. David F. Houston Mrs. William Tindall Miss Mary O'Toole Georgia Mrs. Emily C. McDougald Mrs. Mary L. McLendon Miss S. A. Gresham Miss Mildred Hicks Mrs. Mary Harris Armor Mrs. Alice C. Daniels Mrs. Madge B. Merritt Miss Madeline J. S. Wyly Mrs. Harrold Lamb Mrs. William H. Felton Dr. Frances Crouch Rose Mrs. Martin V. Calvin Mrs. L. W. Walker Mrs. W. Y. Atkinson Illinois Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout Mrs. Harrison Munro Brown Mrs. Raymond Robins Mrs. William Severin Mrs. Hannah G. Solomon Miss Harriet Vittum Mrs. Francis D. Everett Mrs. Charles H. Zimmerman Mrs. George Bass Mrs. Mary Morrison Indiana Mrs. T. Arthur Stuart Dr. Amelia R. Keller Mrs. Anna Dunn Noland Mrs. Horace C. Stilwell Mrs. Ovid B. Jameson Iowa Miss Anna B. Lawther Miss Elizabeth Perkins Mrs. Ella G. Caldwell Mrs. James A. Devitt Miss Elizabeth G. Bissell Mrs. W. W. Marsh Mrs. W. E. G. Saunders Mrs. P. J. Mills Kansas Mrs. Lucy B. Johnston Kentucky Mrs. Edmund M. Post Mrs. Thomas J. Smith Mrs. John G. South Mrs. Harry R. Whiteside Mrs. Joseph Alderson Mrs. Herbert W. Mengel Mrs. Robinson A. McDowell Louisiana Mrs. John F. Odom Maine Mrs. William R. Pattangall Mrs. Henry H. Cobb Mrs. Ralph K. Jones Mrs. Obadiah Gardner Maryland Mrs. Robert Moss Mrs. A. C. Hill Mrs. Charles C. Ellicott Mrs. T. J. Linthicum Mrs. George Wright Mrs. Jessie L. Lane Mrs. Charles Shaw Massachusetts Mrs. Katherine H. Millard Mrs. Gertrude Halladay Leonard Mrs. Samuel Powers Mrs. Oakes Ames Mrs. Robert Gould Shaw Mrs. Walter Prichard Eaton President Mary E. Wooley Mrs. Glendower Evans Mrs. Jeannette Peabody Michigan Rev. Caroline Bartlett Crane Mrs. Abby Beecher Roberts Mrs. John R. Santo Mrs. James B. Balch Mrs. E. A. Blakeslee Mrs. E. L. Calkins Mrs. William H. Anderson Minnesota Mrs. H. G. Harrsion Mrs. Charles P. Noyes Mrs. Harrison Foster Missouri Mrs. David O'Neil Mrs. John B. White Mrs. Emily Newell Blair Mrs. Philip Fouke Nebraska Mrs. W. E. Barkley Mrs. Charles H. Dietrich New Hampshire Mrs. Frank Knox Mrs. B. S. Webb New Jersey Mrs. Everett Colby Mrs. H. Otto Wittpenn Mrs. P. McKim Garrison Mrs. Edmund B. Osborne Mrs. Thomas A. Haight Mrs. George Mason LaMonte Mrs. John J. White New Mexico Mrs. C. E. Mason Mrs. J. R. Kenyon Mrs. Paul A. F. Walters Mrs. R. P. Donohoo Mrs. A. A. Kellam Miss Evelyn Shuler Mrs. Charles A. Spiess Mrs. John R. McFie New York Mrs. Henry Bruere Mrs. Henry White Cannon Mrs. George A. Crocker Mrs. Herbert Croly Mrs. Grafton D'Orsay Mrs. Sumner Gerard Mrs. Learned Hand Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill Mrs. Bernard Hoffman Mrs. George Hubbell Miss Elizabeth Jordan Mrs. John J. Lapham Mrs. Alice Duer Miller Miss Agnes Morganthan Mrs. Ernest Poole Mrs. George D. Pratt Mrs. Dexter P. Rumsey Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton Mrs. Arthur Scribner Mrs. F. Louis Slade Mrs. Carr Van Anda Mrs. Egerton L. Winthrop Miss Mary Wood North Carolina Mrs. W. H. Cobb Miss Lillian Thompson Mrs. J. W. Cone Mrs. T. W. Lingle North Dakota Mrs. H. L. Bolley Mrs. Charles Rathman Mrs. Emma Murray Miss Mary E. McCumber Ohio Mrs. Samuel B. Sneath Mrs. J. W. Slater Mrs. Claude Meeker Miss Helen Jane Davis Pennsylvania Mrs. John W. Lawrence Mrs. Gifford Pinchot Mrs. W. W. Griest Mrs. Robert E. Umbel Mrs. Edward E. Kiernan Mrs. George A. Piersol Mrs. John D. Davenport Mrs. Richard S. Quigley Rhode Island Mrs. James De Wolf Perry Tennessee Mrs. Guilford Dudley Miss Margaret H. Ervin, Jr. Texas Mrs. B. J. Cunningham Miss M. Eleanor Brackenridge Vermont Dr. Grace W. Sherwwod Mrs. Oliver C. Asthton Mrs. Henry W. Clement Virginia Mrs. B. B. Valentine Washington Mrs. Emma Smith DeVoe West Virginia Miss Norvelle Harrison Mrs. John Ruhl Mrs. E. S. Jarrett Mrs. Frank Mann Mrs. Henry Alexander Matthews Mrs. Flora Williams Mrs. A. L. Lehman Mrs. George C. Sturgiss Mrs. William Peyton Mahood Wisconsin Mrs. Isaac P. Witter Mrs. Stephen C. Radford, Jr. Wyoming Mrs. Joseph M. Carey 1. copied. Copied U.D.H. Salisbury Equal Franchise League ??? Mrs. L. L. Borden Lakeville Miss Emma Cillen " Mrs Elizabeth Coyes Salisbury Mrs Elishe Chipen Lakeville Mrs James Cullen " Miss Evengeline " " Miss Almira Cleveland " Miss L. L. Dryon Lakeville Mrs Morgan Ebert " Miss Prui Emmett Salisbury Mrs Joseph Guild Lakeville 2 copied Salisbury Equal Franchise League Mrs. George Gray, Lakeville Mrs. George Hunter, Salisbury Mrs. William Hefernan, Lakeville Mrs. George Harrison, “ Miss Emily “ “ Miss Mary Kane “ Mrs. Clara Miles “ Miss Emily Miles “ Miss Anna McCauley “ Miss Alicia Miller “ Miss Martha Norton “ Mrs. N. B. Peabody “ Mrs. Joseph Parsons “ Mrs. Charles Phelps — Canton, N. Y. 3-C ? Mrs. William Prendergast, N. Y. Mrs. Frank Pratt, Chapinville ? Mrs. Milton Robbins, N. Y. Miss Mary Robbins, Lakeville Mrs. Herbert Scoville, Chapinville Mrs. Charles Thornton, Lakeville Mrs. Mabel Warren, “ Mrs. E. C. Wagner, “ ? Miss Henrietta Vancliff, “ Miss Flora Veed, New Haven Some fmr members have gone elsewhere but have retained membership. The town of Salisbury has 5 small billings with post offices. 4.C. Men in Salisbury League Mr J F Bannon. Willimantic Conn Mr George Clark Salisbury Mr E. S. Chapin Lakeville Mr Joseph Guild " Mr George B Harrison " Mr B D James. " Rev Geo E Menbure " Mr Walter Nostrin " Mr Joseph Parsons " Mr Milton Robbins " Mr. Willard Silvernail " Mr E. J. Stuart " Rev J Sparer Tonhers " In Woman's Journal [*Miss Briggs copied U.H.*] When I received your letter in the summer, I gave it to all of the members of our League asking them to send you a list of our members. I supposed they had done so. I enclose the names. We have our annual meetings in Jan. We expect to have an entire change of officers as in suffrage clubs. Rotation in office 2 seems infinitely desirable I will send you the list of new officers. {?After] Jan 12th the date of our annual meeting. Three or four of our members now take the Woman's Journal. I presumemore will take it after Jan 12th. I also [??a??] you [?herein] three names of [promssin???] Lessons, mostly "Eutis." Very truly, M. E. [Hairisck], Prest. Dec18 1913. CONNECTICUT WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION HEADQUARTERS: 24 FORD STREET, HARTFORD EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MRS. WILLIAM T. HINCKS PRESIDENT 152 PARK PLACE BRIDGEPORT MRS. GRACE GALLATIN SETON VICE-PRESIDENT COS COB MISS RUUTZ-REES RECORDING SECRETARY GREENWICH MRS. EDWARD PORRITT CORRESPONDING SECRETARY 63 TREMONT ST. HARTFORD MRS. MARY J. ROGERS TREASURER 82 AKRON ST. MERIDEN MISS FRANCES E. OSBORN AUDITOR DERBY MRS. ELIZABETH D. BACON EX-PRESIDENT (1901-1906) 106 CAPEN ST., HARTFORD MRS. JULIUS MALTBY 15 HILLSIDE AVENUE AUDITOR WATERBURY MRS. CARLOS F. STODDARD CHAIRMAN NEW HAVEN COUNTY 413 ORANGE STREET MRS. A. E. SCRANTON TAYLOR CHAIRMAN LITCHFIELD COUNTY NORFOLK MRS. THOMAS N. HEPBURN EX-PRESIDENT (1910-1911) 133 HAWTHORN ST.. HARTFORD MRS. M. TOSCAN BENNETT CHAIRMAN HARTFORD COUNTY 14 PARK TERRACE HARTFORD MRS. HERBERT H. KNOX CHAIRMAN FAIRFIELD COUNTY NEW CANAAN MRS. FREDERICK JOHNSON CHAIRMAN NEW LONDON COUNTY UNCASVILLE MISS EMILY PIERSON STATE ORGANIZER CROMWELL Bridgeport, Connecticut. July 18th, 1913. My dear Miss Ryan:- I send you with pleasure a list of our Leagues and Presidents. As a rule I have not had the names of Treasurers. I enclose a postal card that Connecticut issues. These may be obtained at one dollar a hundred from our headquarters in Hartford. By the way the headquarters have moved from 24 Ford Street to 55 Pratt St. We have fine new headquarters on the ground floor of the fashionable street of Hartford. Faithfully yours, Maud M. Hincks [*Return to K. R. Briggs 10 Allerton St Brookline, Mass.*] LEAGUES AND PRESIDENTS Barkhamsted E.F.L. Mrs. Frank Driggs. Bridgeport E.F.L. Mrs. Samuel C. Shaw. Canaan E.F.L. Mrs. Frank Hitchcock. Clinton Women Electors Mrs. S. G. Redfield. Colebrook E.F.L. Mrs. Jerome Alexander. Cornwall E.F.L Mrs. M. B. Miner. Danbury E.F.L. Mrs. T. Clark Hull, 408 Main Street. Danielson E.F.L. Mrs. Rienzi Robinson. Derby, Ansonia & Shelton, Woman Suffrage Party Mrs. Walter E. Andrews. Enfield Miss Jane C. Simpson. Fairfield E.F.L Mrs. Samuel H. Wheeler. Fairhaven Equality Club Mrs. Sarah Devlin. Greenwich E.F.L. Miss Elsie C. Tiemann, 505 East Putnam Avenue Goshen E.F.L. Mrs. C. L. Stocking (Pres. Mrs. Dalton Ostrom) Guilford E.F.L. V.P. Mrs. Wm. Andrews, Write to Mrs. Fred Spencer. Hartford E.F.L. Mrs. T. N Hepburn, 133 Hawthorne Street. Hartford Equal Rights Club Mrs. E. D. Bacon, 102 Capen Street. Harwinton E.F.L. Mrs. Jessie A. Bartholomew. Lime Rock E.F.L. Miss Julia E. Goodwin, Falls Village (Rev. Geo. Griffith, Winter) Madison E.F.L. Mrs. George Wilcox Meriden Political Equality Club Mrs. M. J. Rogers, 82 Akron Street. Middletown Mrs. Charles E. Cameron, 200 South Main Street. New Britain E.F.L. Mrs. B. B, Bassette, Emmons Place. 2 New Canaan Mrs. Herbert Knox New Haven E.F.L. Mrs. Henry W. Rogers, 413 Orange Street. New Haven Political Equality Club Mrs. T.F. McDermott, 1334 Chapel Street. New Haven Womens Political Union Mrs. W. S. Murray, 64 Cold Spring Street. New London E.F.L. Mrs. H. C. Runner, 63 Church Street. New Milford E.F.L. Mrs. George H. Wright. Norfolk E.F.L. Mrs. A.E.S. Taylor Norwalk E.F.L. Mrs. F. S. Lyon, 44 West Street. South Norwalk, Conn. Norwich E.F.L. Mrs. Wm. Morton, Broadway. Putnam E.F.L. Mrs. W. J. Bartlerr, Elm Street. Redding Ridge E.F.L. Miss Lucy Sanford, Ridgewold. Ridgefield E.F.L. Mrs. A. Barton Hepburn-- Write to Mrs. W. H. Allee, or Miss Mary Olcott Riverton E.F.L. Mrs. Trescott Barnes Salisbury E.F.L. Mrs. George D. Harrison, Sharon E.F.L. Mrs. Charles Kerley (Summer), Write to Mrs. Ryan, Librarian. So. Manchester E.F.L. Miss Hannah Gartland, Teacher's Hall. Springdale E.F.L. Mrs. A. J. Martin. Stanford E.F.L. Miss Emily Louise Plumley, c/o Mrs. A. M. Phillips, Glenbrook, Stanford, Connecticut Stratford E.F.L. Mrs. David Winton Stratford Woman Suffrage Assoc. Mrs. H. Leroy Lewis. Wallingford E.F.L. Mrs. Arthur Greenleaf, 64 South Main Street Washington E.F.L. Mrs. W. G. Brinsmade Waterbury E.F.L. Mrs. Julius Maltby, 15 Hillside Avenue. 3 West Hartford E.F.L. Mrs. F. E. Duffy, 208 North Main Street. Westport E.F.L. Mrs. Neil Mitchell Willimantie Wilton E.F.L. Mrs. E. G. H. Schenek Woodbury E.F.L. Mrs. Alice G. Traver Winsted E.F.L. Mrs. Julius Whiting, 163 Holabird Avenue Meriden E.F.L. Mrs. W. B. Church, 861 Broad Street. Danielson, Sept 28-1915 My Dear Miss Danielson I anticipate having you & your mother Mrs Mrs Hepburn & Miss Bill to tea with us Friday. All seems to be going smoothly & if we have a good day & our lady does not fail us we will have a good show of success. I have another five, which I will turn over to our chairman Mrs. Bullard. Sincerely Yours -- Marinda C. Butler Robinson Ryte-Me 1914 Post Card This side for address Danielson Sep 28 930 AM 1915 Miss Rosamond Danielson Putnam Heights Ct. CONNECTICUT WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION HEADQUARTERS: 24 FORD STREET, HARTFORD TELEPHONE CHARTER 6217 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MRS. WILLIAM T. HINCKS PRESIDENT 152 PARK PLACE BRIDGEPORT MRS. GRACE GALLATIN SETON VICE-PRESIDENT 150 E. 40TH ST.. NEW YORK MISS RUUTZ-REES RECORDING SECRETARY GREENWICH MRS. EDWARD PORRITT PRESS SECRETARY 63 TREMONT ST HARTFORD MRS. MARY J. ROGERS TREASURER 82 AKRON ST. MERIDEN MISS MABEL C. WASHBURN 64 EVERGREEN AVE HARTFORD MISS FRANCES E. OSBORN AUDITOR DERBY MRS. ELIZABETH D. BACON EX-PRESIDENT (1906-1910) 106 CAPEN ST.. HARDFORD MRS. JULIUS MALTBY AUDITOR 15 HILLSIDE AVENUE WATERBURY MRS. CARLOS F. STODDARD CHAIRMAN NEW HAVEN COUNTY 413 ORANGE STREET MRS. A. E. SCRANTON TAYLOR CHAIRMAN LITCHFIELD COUNTY NORFOLK MRS. THOMAS N. HEPBURN EX-PRESIDENT (1910-1911) 133 HAWTHORN ST.. HARTFORD MRS. M. TOSCAN BENNETT CHAIRMAN HARTFORD COUNTY CHMN. LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE 14 PARK TERRACE HARTFORD MRS. HERBERT H. KNOX CHAIRMAN FAIRFIELD COUNTY NEW CANAAN MRS. FREDERICK JOHNSON CHAIRMAN NEW LONDON COUNTY UNCASVILLE MISS EMILY PIERSON STATE ORGANIZER CROMWELL Bridgeport, Connecticut. July 19, 1913. My dear Miss Blackwell: - The matter of the Pilgrimage to Washington under Mrs. Susan W. FitzGerald as referred to in your letter of July 15th, was duly reported to the Executive Board of the Connecticut Women Suffrage Association, last Wednesday. The Board of the Connecticut Association feels that the circumstances must be most regrettable which could cause such a letter to be sent out from the Massachusetts Women Suffrage Association, College Equal Suffrage League of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Men's League for Woman Suffrage. We consider in Connecticut that harmony within the State, brings about the best results, but perhaps a little friction helps to keep the pot boiling after all. Very faithfully yours, Mrs. William T. Hincks President. CONNECTICUT WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION HEADQUARTERS: 24 FORD STREET, HARTFORD TELEPHONE CHARTER 6217 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MRS. WILLIAM T. HINCKS PRESIDENT 152 PARK PLACE BRIDGEPORT MRS. GRACE GALLATIN SETON VICE-PRESIDENT 150 E. 40TH ST.. NEW YORK MISS RUUTZ-REES RECORDING SECRETARY GREENWICH MRS. ELIZABETH D. BACON EX-PRESIDENT (1906-1910) 106 CAPEN ST.. HARDFORD MRS. EDWARD PORRITT PRESS SECRETARY 63 TREMONT ST HARTFORD MRS. MARY J. ROGERS TREASURER 82 AKRON ST. MERIDEN MISS FRANCES E. OSBORN AUDITOR DERBY MISS MABEL C. WASHBURN 64 EVERGREEN AVE HARTFORD MRS. JULIUS MALTBY AUDITOR 15 HILLSIDE AVENUE WATERBURY MRS. CARLOS F. STODDARD CHAIRMAN NEW HAVEN COUNTY 413 ORANGE STREET MRS. A. E. SCRANTON TAYLOR CHAIRMAN LITCHFIELD COUNTY NORFOLK MRS. THOMAS N. HEPBURN EX-PRESIDENT (1910-1911) 133 HAWTHORN ST.. HARTFORD MRS. M. TOSCAN BENNETT CHAIRMAN HARTFORD COUNTY CHMN. LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE 14 PARK TERRACE HARTFORD MRS. HERBERT H. KNOX CHAIRMAN FAIRFIELD COUNTY NEW CANAAN MRS. FREDERICK JOHNSON CHAIRMAN NEW LONDON COUNTY UNCASVILLE MISS EMILY PIERSON STATE ORGANIZER CROMWELL Bridgeport, Connecticut May 17, 1913. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, Boston, Mass. My dear Miss Blackwell: - Your letter of May 15nth bears the imprint of your strong personality, to which the Connecticut Executive Board succumbs with joy. Last month we voted not to join in the New England Conference because all our energy and money was bound up in the Connecticut work. Now however, we are grateful for your commendation and flattered by your request for advice from Connecticut. We are asking Mrs. Annie G. Porritt to go to Boston for Friday of next week and give you by word of mouth the details of our work in Connecticut that you have asked for. Mrs. Porritt cannot reach Boston because of other engagement until Thursday night at 9:30. She will come straight through from New York. If it would be possible to have her entertained for that night we would be very glad. Will you kindly advise her on that point by Tuesday, May 20th. Mrs. Porritt is a very ready speaker and fully informed on all points of our work. I would I might with you myself. I am sending you under separate cover a press Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association HEADQUARTERS: 24 FORD STREET, HARTFORD -2- photograph which you may be able to use in some of your publicity work. The vote in the Connecticut Legislature this year cannot be accounted for by any one cause. We have a Borough system of representation which allows two men for every small town as well as from each city. Of the 258 representatives we have not yet reached the constituencies of many. We presented a petition from 18000 men and women, however, asking for a referendum on the subject. This number is far greater than that necessary to call for a referendum in a western State. The committee was antagonistic this year and some of our women think that was arranged for when the committee was appointed. The matter was considered seriously by the House, far more seriously than it ever has been considered before. Public opinion in Connecticut is largely in favor of Suffrage. There is no ridicule but, of course, a large amount of indifference to overcome. Many of our representatives come from remote farming districts where the poorest specimens of mankind are elected to office. Men of this calibre are opposed to Suffrage because they fear it in politics. I regret to say the complexion of our House is poor. That of course is confidential. We turn defeat to victory in that we feel the entire state is not ready for the referendum nor could have been in two years. Our watchword -3- is "Education" for Suffrage and we do not want to lose one referendum. Very faithfully yours, Maud M. Hincks, Pres. 63 Tremont St. Hartford, Conn. March 31st. My dear Miss Ryan, I see by the last issue of Progress--the Wisconsin Liquor Dealers organ, which I take regularly in order to obtain ammunition from the enemy's arsenal--that the Wisconsin Senate "without debate, by a vote of 17 to 15, and under suspension of the rules, passed the Glenn Bill, which provides for the submission in November to a referendum of voters in the state the question of woman suffrage". Does this mean only a straw vote, or does it mean that the question of constitutional amendment is again to be passed on? If the latter it ought to be mentioned in your most useful little weekly bulletin in the W.J. Yours very sincerely, Annie G. Ponitt 63 Tremont St. Hartford, Conn. February 2nd. My dear Miss Ryan, A short time ago I had a letter from Miss Blackwell inviting me to send Connecticut suffrage news every two weeks, instead of at the longer intervals that I have been sending. Undoubtedly this new plan will stimulate the interest of our members in the Woman's Journal, and you may trust me and Miss Pierson to push the paper in every way possible. I have so arranged this article that you can very easily out it if you cannot find room for all of it. Should it not be available this week, please return it to me and I will bring it up to date for next week. If there is one thing I dislike above others it is to see my stuff in print with a musty belated flavour. Yours very sincerely, Annie G. Ponitt Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association HEADQUARTERS: 24 FORD STREET, HARTFORD TELEPHONE CHARTER 6217 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MRS. WILLIAM T. HINCKS PRESIDENT 152 PARK PLACE BRIDGEPORT MRS. GRACE GALLATIN SETON VICE-PRESIDENT COS COB MISS RUUTZ-REES RECORDING SECRETARY GREENWICH MRS. EDWARD PORRITT CORRESPONDING SECRETARY 63 TREMONT ST., HARTFORD MRS. MARY J. ROGERS TREASURER 32 AKRON ST., MERIDEN MISS FRANCES OSBORN AUDITOR DERBY MRS. ELIZABETH D. BACON EX-PRESIDENT (1906-1910) 106 CAPEN ST., HARTFORD MRS. JULIUS MALTBY AUDITOR 15 HILLSIDE AVE., WATERBURY MRS. CARLOS F. STODDARD CHAIRMAN NEW HAVEN COUNTY 413 ORANGE ST., NEW HAVEN MRS. A. E. SCRANTON TAYLOR CHAIRMAN LITCHFIELD COUNTY NORFOLK MRS. THOMAS N. HEPBURN EX-PRESIDENT (1910-1911) 133 HAWTHORN ST., HARTFORD MRS. M. TOSCAN BENNETT CHAIRMAN HARTFORD COUNTY 14 PARK TERRACE, HARTFORD MRS. HERBERT H. KNOX CHAIRMAN FAIRFIELD COUNTY NEW CANAAN MRS. FREDERICK JOHNSON CHAIRMAN NEW LONDON COUNTY UNCASVILLE MISS EMILY PIERSON STATE ORGANIZER CROMWELL 63 Tremont St, Hartford. Ct. February 11th. [*ANSWERED, FEB 28 1913*] [*C/S*] Dear Miss Ryan, The cut of which you send me a pull was evidently sent you by Miss Emily Pierson our State Organizer. I recognize it as the interior of a store engaged as headquarters in one of the cities visited in the Ten Weeks campaign now in progress. A meeting is in progress when the photo is taken. I do not know whether she or Miss Forsyth is intending to send you any description of the campaign. If not I will send an article--probably next Monday or the following week--for which this cut will serve as an illustrations. Miss Pierson has not written me about the Journal, and I did not know that she was sending a cut. Yours very sincerely, Annie G. Porritt. Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association September 22, 1913. [*ANSWERED, OCT 3 1913*] Dear Miss Ryan: Two years ago when we had the agitation here in regard to the White Slave Traffic I remember that you were interested in getting some of the facts for the Journal so I am sending you an account of the work that we have been doing lately. The Vice Commission that was demanded by the Suffragists at the time of the revelations two years ago has completed its work. The report was published the latter part of July. I am having a copy mailed to you though I daresay that you have had one. As you will see by the cover the suffragists have had it reprinted. When the Vice Commission presented its report to the council it gave to the council five hundred copies for distribution. The reason for the smallness of the number was that they had no funds left. The Common Council had refused to make any appropriation for the work of the Commission and all the money for the work had to had to be raised by the Commission itself. There was such a demand for copies of the report that they were gone in almost no time. Neither the city nor [the] anyone else showed signs of having the report reprinted so the suffragists had it reprinted and put on sale at the suffrage headquarters, which is now situated in the midst of the shopping district with show windows on the street. We [put] distributed it on the same terms on which the city had distributed it, (to adults who signed name and address) and had all the copies numbered and charged twenty-five cents each for them besides, which money is to go to an organization for combatting the social evil. The morning that we put the report on sale we put window cards in our windows saying "Reprint of Hartford Vice Commission Report on Sale Here". We have since heard that the saloon keepers and dive keepers were outraged for they thought the city had disposed of the report. That morning, though, it was the reporters and councilmen and all the men who Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association happened by who were surprised. The evening paper had headlines on the first page telling about the sale and wondering what the city could do to stop it. The Hartford Times, which is in favour of regulated vice, was horrified. The Hartford Courant, whose editor is Charles Hopkins Clark, and old man, an Anti and opposed to all thought on sex questions was shocked, too, and was casting about for what could be done. The Hartford Post was the only paper that supported us and the circulation of this paper is much smaller than the others The Times is the evening paper and the Courant the morning one. Of course they advertised the sale and in the course of the next few days we sold over a thousand copies. I do not believe that the town can open up the houses again as easily as it could have. The people who came in were of all classes. The report, of course, condemns the policy of regulation and segregation of vice. That is one reason why there was such violent opposition on the part of the press and the powers that be to its being given wide circulation. Even the good people, the ones who believe that they can get reforms by gentle persuasion and smiles, were shocked to death. There were enough of us who knew we were right to conduct the sale, however, and that was all that was necessary. That was the last part of July and early part of August. Now another step is about to be taken. The City Council has just committed itself. I am sending to you pictures of the signs that we are putting in our windows and a copy of a circular that we are to give out. How much publicity it will cause I can not tell. The signs will go in on Thursday. The front window reads: MOTHERS OF HARTFORD DO YOU KNOW how the following members of the HARTFORD CITY COUNCIL who claim to represent you voted in regard to the suppression of COMMERCIALIZED VICE IN YOUR CITY? Then follow the names and addresses of the twenty-four men who voted for indefinite postponement of the resolution to endorse the policy of suppression of commercialized vice. This sign is six feet high and five feet, three inches wide. On the small windows that you see coming from either direction there are to be signs saying: Come In and get a pamphlet Free telling what the vote of these twenty-four men means to you These are seven feet and a half high and twenty inches wide. I will try to have a picture taken of the signs and send it to you in case you want to use it. The signs go in on Thursday or Friday and I will send the picture and pamphlet. Pardon this type writing. I am doing it myself and seem to be making a rather poor job of it. Yours faithfully, Katharine Houghton Hepburn Miss Agnes Ryan, The Woman's Journal, 585 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. Hartford's City Council and Commercialized Vice The house to the left is the house of ill-fame which was tolerated in Hartford under both Republican and Democratic administrations, and which became the Headquarters of the notorious White Slave Trader, Fusco. It is within a few blocks of the police station and is in one of the most densely populated residential districts of the city, where hundreds of children are being brought up. Published by the Hartford Equal Franchise League, 55-57 Pratt Street, Hartford, Conn. Hartford's City Council and Commercialized Vice In December, 1911, a public trial brought to light the fact that Hartford's policy of tolerating commercialized vice had led to our city's becoming one of the centres for the White Slave Trade in the East. Mayor Smith ordered the houses closed and appointed a Vice Commission. The Common Council refused to appropriate any of the city's money to make the work of the Commission possible. The Vice Commission raised its own funds, carried on its investigations, and in July, 1913, published a report of local conditions with specific recommendations as to the future policy of the city. The most immediate recommendation of the Commission is contained in the following quotations: "(1) That the present policy of keeping the houses closed be adhered to rigidly." —p. 89 Report of the Hartford Vice Commission. "The experiment (of keeping the houses closed), if such we may call it, has certainly had no evil results. Most of those best qualified to judge affirm that it has led to better conditions. In the face of these facts a return to the old plan of tolerating houses of ill-fame would be a deliberate connivance at an illegal traffic, and would make the city an accomplice in commercialized vice. . . . The experience of the past eighteen months has demonstrated to our municipal authorities the possibility of performing the duty imposed upon them by the state, a duty to which they were bound by their oath of office. There can be, therefore, no question as to the obligation of our city government. Finally, as will be shown later in our report, the "white slave traffic" is a necessary adjunct to the business of the houses of prostitution. Toleration of these houses, therefore, implies toleration of this revolting traffic. Once this is understood, there is no doubt as to what policy will be demanded by public opinion."—p. 20 Report of the Hartford Vice Commission. The attitude of Hartford's City Council toward commercialized vice. From the time of the appointment of the Vice Commission, March 1912, the suspicion had been growing in Hartford that many of the councilmen were in favour of the previous policy of the city and opposed to the movement for the suppression of commercialized vice. It had even been rumoured that the connection between commercialized vice and politics was closer than the average citizen realized. No opportunity for finding out whether or not these suspicions had any foundation was afforded until at the meeting of the Council Monday night, September 8th, the vote of the Council on the following resolution disclosed their real attitude, and practically proved that the majority of the councilmen are in favour of the toleration of commercialized vice. "Resolved, THAT THE COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL HEREBY REGISTERS ITS APPROVAL OF THE POLICY OF REPRESSION IN THE REGULATION OF VICE AS INAUGURATED BY FORMER MAYOR EDWARD L. SMITH AND PUBLICLY APPROVED BY THE PRESENT MAYOR LOUIS R. CHENEY; AND THAT THE SAME SHOULD BE RIGIDLY ADHERED TO." Councilman Beadle introduced this resolution and he and four other men were the only men in the council who voted in favour of immediate action on the resolution. They, only, of our City Fathers, were willing to go on record as opposed to the toleration of commercialized vice. H. LEONARD BEADLE, RALPH A. HARGER, SAMUEL H. HAVENS, GEORGE I. WATSON, ULYSSES H. BROCKWAY, Jr. By a vote of 24 to 5 action on the resolution was indefinitely postponed. Twenty-four men voted for indefinite postponement thereby refusing to back up the Mayor and the Vice Commission in their efforts to exterminate commercialized vice in Hartford. THOMAS F. LEAVY, JOSEPH PRICE, WILLIAM F. O'BRIEN, JOHN T. CLANCY, JOHN F. HENDERSON, FRED D. CLARK, MARTIN MUSSGNUG, EDWIN M. DAHILL, WILLIAM J. IRWIN, JOHN W. GUILFOIL, JAMES F. O'DONNELL, TIMOTHY J. QUINN, MICHAEL J. HUSSEY, GEORGE E. SPEATH, RICHARD HUGO ANDREE THOMAS F. BURNS, JOHN C. RICE, DANIEL KELLEY, JR., SAMUEL SERAPHIN, JOSEPH P. SHAUGHNESSY, SIMON KASHMANN, FRANK JOHNSON, RALPH D. BRITTON, FRANCES W. COLE. Think it over. Read again the recommendations of the Vice Commission. Consider the intimate connection between public policy on this question and the homes and children of Hartford. Then realize that these twenty-four men may stand for re-election and that no woman will be able to vote against them. Men elected these councilmen. It remains to be seen what they will do with the situation. Contrast the defenseless position of the women of Hartford with that of the women in Seattle, Washington. Mayor Gill of Seattle, who, with his city government, took a stand similar to that of our twenty-four councilmen was recalled through the efforts of the women, directly after their enfranchisement, and was replaced by Mayor Cotterill who stood for a clean city. When at the next election the party machine had the presumption to run Mr. Gill for re-election, the main issue between the two candidates became their attitude on commercialized vice, and with the help of the good men of Seattle the women by an overwhelming majority defeated Mr. Gill. The Stratfield Bridgeport, Connecticut F. A. CANTWELL, Manager Tuesday, Oct. 19, 1920 My dear Mrs. Catt:— Have you seen what we are doing in Connecticut? I enclose samples. I am sure you won’t forget about that picture, with name [sentiment?] Please! Sincerely yours, Isabelle Cromwell Snell Mrs. Frank Hiram Snell 1721 21st St. Washington, D.C. The Acton Apt. Women of Connecticut Now you have the vote, what are you going to do with it? You may now choose the men who will represent you. Senator Frank B. Brandegee is a candidate for re-election During his fifteen years in the Senate, He opposed the child labor bill. He opposed prohibition in every form. He opposed woman suffrage. He opposed the popular election of the U. S. senators. He opposed the expulsion of the notorious Senator Lorimer. He opposed the League of Nations with or without reservations. Senator Borah, who campaigns only for "bitter enders" and declares he opposes any kind of an association of Nations, is Brandegee's chief campaigner. He opposed the conservation of natural resources. He opposed the extension of the parcel post. He opposed the Glass-Hollis bill for rural credits -a bill of great value to farmers. He opposed the interests of labor on 30 different roll-call votes. But He favored a 16-hour day for railway employees. He favored the sale of liquor to men in uniform. He was one of five senators who did. He favored the Shields Water Power Bill. Gifford Pinchot said this bill "was the worst assault on the rights of the people that had been committed in Congress for many years." He favored the Connecticut River Dam bill which gave, without compensation to the people of Connecticut, the water power of the river to private corporations. Did Mr. Brandegee represent you, Women of Connecticut? Give him your answer at the polls November 2d. Remember, as your Senator speaks so Connecticut speaks Connecticut Women Suffrage Association, 55 Pratt Street, Hartford, Conn. Hartford, March 17, 1907 My Dear Miss Blackwell: I inclose the reports cut from the Times and Courant, the latter being much the better of the two. To be sure Mrs. Burr's paper is given in full, a paper which really was of but little benefit to us. It will be wise in the future to let her keep silent. I asked her to write something because she has worked faithfully so long, and in some of the work she is invaluable and I appreciate her assistance very much. Every one appreciated your father's address. He is certainly a remarkable man. The situation in our Senate is peculiar. 26 Republicans and 9 Democrats. Mr. Alwaler of Meriden was made chairman of Womans Suffrage committee purposely to deride him and others. Senators refused to serve on the committee with him. Mr. Briggs was the only one who would consent. Mr. Briggs has informed some of us that with Senator Atwater is housing our cause there will be a solid vote against it. What can we do? I would never ask Senator Atwater to keep quiet - it would be an outrage. The feeling of animosity is ingendered by the Atwater's efforts to ferret out chicanery which is going on in the republican ranks. Without doubt he has called a halt to some of the nefarious proceedings. President Butler of Trinity College seems to be about the only honest republican in the Senate. Mrs. Adler and I begin work there next Tuesday and will interview Luther. Your father would do no good for the republicans are sure of carrying this State in any election, besides he is too notoriously rotten for me to defile my fingers with him. I intended writing to Mr. Blackwell but after making so much to you concluded to continue and make this letter answer for him as well as yourself. I used to give all my sympathy to the republican party (I was reared by antislavery parents) but it has become so corrupt from long continued power I am thoroughly disgusted. It is thoroughly disheartening to know that corruption exists in Colorado equal to any of the states. I am talking out in meeting now but am usually very quiet, because I am working for woman's equality. Shall always be pleased to hear from Mr. Blackwell and may find occasion to ask his advice after intervening members of the legislation. Thanks for your assistance in securing Mrs. Gessenden. I am Cordially, Elizabeth D. Bacon January 10, 1914. My dear Miss Blackwell: Thank you very much for writing about Miss Bock. Mrs. Hepburn is out of town today but I know that she will very much appreciate your letter on her. If we can possibly get one of Miss Bock's leaflets we will send it to you at once. Yours sincerely, Mary A. Amich, Office Secretary Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, 585 Boylston St., Boston, Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association HEADQUARTERS: 55-57 PRATT STREET, HARTFORD TELEPHONE CHARTER 6217 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn President 55-57 Pratt St., Hartford Mrs. Grace Thompson Seton Vice-President Greenwich Mrs. Edward Porritt Recording Secretary 63 Tremont St., Hartford Mrs. Frederick C. Spencer Corresponding Secretary Guilford Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett Treasurer 55-57 Pratt St., Hartford Mrs. Mary J. Rogers Auditor 39 Griswold St., Meriden Miss Mabel C. Washburn Auditor 9 Gillette St., Hartford Mrs. Elizabeth D. Bacon Ex-President (1906-1910) 106 Capen St., Hartford Mrs. William T. Hincks Ex-President (1911-1913) 152 Park Place, Bridgeport Miss Caroline Ruutz-Rees Chairman Fairfield County Greenwich Miss Mary Bulkley Chairman Hartford County 924 Asylum Ave., Hartford Mrs. A. E. Scranton Taylor Chairman Litchfield County Norfolk Mrs. Samuel Russell, Jr. Chairman Middlesex County Middletown Mrs. Carlos F. Stoddard Chairman New Haven County New Haven Miss Katharine Ludington Chairman New London County Lyme Mrs. Fannie Dixon Welch Chairman Tolland County Columbia Miss Rosamond Danielson Chairman Windham County Putnam Miss Emily Pierson State Organizer 55 Pratt Street COPY OF THE LETTER OF RESIGNATION ADDRESSED TO THE EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE CONNECTICUT WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION BY THE PRESIDENT, MRS. HEPBURN, SEPTEMBER 19, 1917. To the Executive Board of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association: The time has come when I can no longer continue to be president of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association and I herewith send you my resignation. For the past seven years we have worked together and I have come to have a very deep personal affection for the members of the board. It is a great grief to me to realize that if I am to follow my honest convictions I must sever my official relations with you. During the time that we have worked together the C.W.S.A. has grown from a small organization to one with over a hundred local branches and 38,000 enrolled members. I like to feel that the hard work and generous contributions, not only of the members of the board, but of the officers and members of our local leagues, are largely responsible for these thousands of converts to the suffrage cause in Connecticut. In the early days of our Association we were entirely independent and could adopt any policy that we believed to be good for the promotion of suffrage but to-day this has all changed. The National American Woman Suffrage Association, of which our Association is a member, dictates our policy and determines all of our essential concerns. I am not protesting against this attitude on the part of the National Association. I believe that they cannot do otherwise. To-day national work is of first importance. Women now vote in nineteen states for president and it is obvious that the shortest way to secure suffrage for all the women of the United States is for suffragists to concentrate on the federal amendment instead of trying to secure the vote through state action. Naturally the National Association feels that it shoul dominate the states in order to ensure a uniform policy within its own organization. The question before us is therefore whether or not we believe in the policies of the National Association. 2. I have reluctantly come to feel that the policy of the National Association in their work for the federal amendment is futile, academic, and out of date. After the last National Convention, held in Atlantic City, I felt pretty hopeless about the ability of the National Association to lead us to victory. The president of the Association made a very fine speech called "The Crisis" in which she said that we must change from academic to political methods, but every practical effort made at the Convention to secure the adoption of any constructive political policy on the part of the National was frowned upon. This summer the National has lined up with the Anti-Suffragists in their condemnation of the suffrage work which the Woman's Party is doing at Washington, in spite of the fact that this is the most practical work which has been done this summer toward securing the passage of the federal amendment. This carping attitude on the part of the National Association, taken in connection with their own unwillingness or inability to adopt any adequate political policy has made me realize that I cannot consistently serve as president of a state branch of the National Association, notwithstanding my devotion to the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. The National Woman Suffrage Association is not the only national association working for woman suffrage. The Woman's Party, a younger and more vigorous body, is devoting all its energies to securing the passage of the federal amendment. While the National Association ignores the women's vote in the West as a lever toward securing the passage of this amendment the Woman's Party asks them to vote against the party that has refused to pass the amendment. I think that the Woman's Party is right and the National is wrong. In fact, the policy of organizing the western women's vote to push through the federal amendment would seem to be the ABC of political methods in any practical attempt to secure the national enfranchisement of women. To-day, more than ever, the importance of woman suffrage is thrown into high relief. England, Russia, and Canada have given women the vote since the war began. With their men gone it is imperative for the women left at home, the only representatives of their families, to have a voice in the government. Both industrially and politically women in war time have to do the work of the men who have gone to the front. Our government should pass the federal amendment at once and take the first step toward giving women the power to protect themselves and their families, but we know that the government will not do this unless those most interested insist upon it. We have gone to war for democracy and yet millions of women in our own country are denied the right to vote. Simply mentioning this fact in suffrage journals and to suffrage audiences is futile. We must say it in such a way that all the world will hear and that is what the pickets of the Woman's Party have done at Washington. My sympathies are all with them. I admire their honesty, their self-forgetfulness, and their practical wisdom. In my opinion it is through such women as these that we shall secure the suffrage in Connecticut by federal amendment. In the future I shall support the Woman's Party. Yours faithfully, Katharine Houghton Hepburn OFFICE National Congressional Committee OF THE National American Woman Suffrage Association MUNSEY BUILDING WASHINGTON, D.C. MRS. MEDILL MCCORMICK CHAIRMAN MRS. ANTOINETTE FUNK EXECUTIVE VICE-CHAIRMAN 419 MUNSEY BLDG. Members MRS. SHERMAN M. BOOTH GLENCOE, ILL. MRS. HELEN H. GARDENER WASHINGTON, D.C. MISS ETHEL M. SMITH WASHINGTON, D.C. MRS. GLENNA SMITH TINNIN WASHINGTON, D.C. MRS. LAURA PUFFER MORGAN LINCOLN, NEB. MISS JEANETTE RANKIN MISSOULA, MONT. TRADE UNION LABEL COUNCIL 377 TELEPHONE MAIN 3597 Officers National Association DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW PRESIDENT MRS. STANLEY McCORMICK FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. DESHA BRECKINRIDGE SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT DR. KATHERINE B. DAVIS THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. SUSAN W. FITZGERALD RECORDING SECRETARY MRS. ORTEN H. CLARK CORRESPONDING SECRETARY MRS. HENRY WADE ROGERS TREASURER MRS. WALTER MCNAB MILLER FIRST AUDITOR MRS. MEDILL McCORMICK SECOND AUDITOR [1913 Alaska WHITE STATES, FULL SUFFRAGE: SHADED STATES, PARTIAL SUFFRAGE; DOTTED STATE, PRESIDENTIAL, PARTIAL COUNTY AND STATE, MUNICIPAL SUFFRAGE: DARK STATES, NO SUFFRAGE. February 19, 1915. Miss Rosamond Danielson, Putnam Heights, Putnam, Conn. My dear Miss Danielson:- Your letter addressed to Mrs. McCormick, inquiring about the suffrage photo play, has come to this office, and I am forwarding it at once to Mr. Charles T. Hallinan, in charge of the Publicity Department at National Headquarters in New York, where all arrangements concerning the picture play are made. It will be quite easy for you to have the picture shown in Putnam if your local theatre manager consents. You should not incur any expense to do this. The World Film Corporation, which controls the picture, is under contract to furnish it to any theatre upon the usual commercial basis. This calls for no financial obligation on the part of the local suffragists, but does give them an opportunity to sell tickets and receive 25% of the proceeds. Mr. Hallinan will write you in full on the subject. Sincerely yours, Antoinette Funk EMS EMS-LA National American Woman Suffrage Association 505 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. Date,_____________________________________ The right to produce the enclosed play ________________________ is held by the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and is granted to suffrage organizations in consideration of $____________ royalty for each performance, payable to the Secretary of this organization at its Headquarters, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York, on the day after the performance at the latest. If you wish to give a performance, will you please fill out and mail to the Secretary the accompanying blank, and permission will be sent without delay. Secretary N.A.W.S.A. 505 Fifth Avenue, New York City A WORD TO SUFFRAGISTS about YOUR GIRL AND MINE The Suffrage Melodrama in Moving Pictures Scenario by Gilson Willetts, author of "The Adventures of Kathlyn." Produced for Mrs. Medill McCormick by the Selig Polyscope Company of Chicago. Booked by the World Film Corporation, 130 West Forty-sixth Street, New York City. CAST OF PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS ROSALIND FAIRLIE, Sole Heiress of the Fairlie Fortunes .............Olive Wyndham BEN AUSTIN.............................................................................................John Charles KATE PRICE, a Working Girl ..............................................................Katherine Henry ELEANOR HOLBROOK, Woman Lawyer .........................................Katharine Kalred AUNT JANE, Ardent Suffragist ......................................................................Ella West RICHARD BURBANK, Lieutenant-Governor.........................................Sydney Booth HERSELF.................................................................................. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw PLEASE NOTE First: This is a melodrama. Frankly that. It is for people who are not ashamed of melodrama and who do not constantly compare a melodrama with Shakespeare or a comedy by Sheridan and pretend that they enjoy only the latter. Some people frankly don't like melodrama. They hate to be hustled along by its rapid movement; or its strife and clash are too much for them; or its innocent assumptions and devices tempt them to scorn. Very well. We prefer, naturally, the robust taste of the federal judge in New York who saw "Your Girl and Mine" and pronounced it: "A bully, strong play!" Second: This is suffrage melodrama. Gilson Willetts, who is a suffragist as well as a skilled scenario writer, has woven a melodrama around what seem to him some of the principal arguments for suffrage. The points he has chosen are not the points which the women suffragists themselves usually choose; they are a man's points, delivered with characteristic "punch." If the points seem to you extreme, then please adjust your mind to the fact that all of them are based upon (a) concrete cases which have happened, or (b) laws which are still unrepealed in some parts of the Union. For example, this story, which opens in 1902, might have taken place in Tennessee which then had a law giving woman's personal property absolutely to her husband upon marriage. Under the laws of Maryland and Virginia a man may will away his minor children without the consent of their mother. This is also true in Delaware, Vermont, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Michigan, North Carolina, West Virginia and New Mexico. In twenty-five states men in some trades are protected by an eight-hour law. Excepting in the District of Columbia, there is an eight-hour law for women in no state excepting where women vote. Third: This play is now the property of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and the Association receives a royalty for its use in the theaters secured by the World Film Corporation. The Association hopes to finance its congressional work through this means. Fourth: Any state or local suffrage organization which so desires may avail itself of an offer made by the World Film Corporation. Such an organization may secure from the National coupons which are good for admission into any theater showing "Your Girl and Mine." These coupons are divided into denominations of ten cents and five cents to make it possible for them to be used in all possible combinations from five cents up to fifty or more, according to what the theater charges. Any suffrage organization may sell these coupons and retain one-fourth of the proceeds of the sale for its own treasury. The balance should be sent by check or money-order to Mrs. Medill McCormick, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York City, who will turn it over to the World Film Corporation to take up or redeem the cancelled coupons turned in by the theater. Incidentally it may be said that the World Film Corporation offers a prize $100 to each local organization that sells 5,000 or more coupons to "Your Girl and Mine." Seventh: Further information regarding the play may be secured from Charles T. Hallinan, Chairman of the Publicity Department of the N.A.W.S.A., 505 Fifth Avenue, New York City. Printed by National Woman Suffrage Association, Inc. Congressional Committee ,C.W.S.A. Chairman. A. E. Scranton Taylor Norfolk, Conn. Miss Rosamund Danielson, 2nd District, March 14 1917 My dear District Chairman, Enclosed is a copy of a letter from Mrs. Catt with suggestions for district congressional work. In making out such a list as she suggests I think the Senatorial District Chairmen could be of great assistance, and I would like to have you if you think well of the idea, ask each chairman to furnish you with one or more names of men on whom they can absolutely count. And for you to send me those names at the same time you send them to Mrs. Park. A small list of dependables is better than a long list of men one could not be sure of. When in Washington I ordered two thousand copies of Senator Shafroth's speech in favor of woman's suffrage, as newly edited by Mrs. Catt and read into the Congressional Record. It has been considerably shortened. I would suggest that as a sort of "feeler" you let me send you ten copies of that speech, and that you cause them to be sent by yourself or some other persons to ten men valuable for us to have on our side in your district, and that a personal letter go with each speech asking as a favor that he read the speech and send you a few words in return as to how the speech affected him. In this way we should have fifty representative men on record with regard to suffrage. Those most in favor could then be approached in regard to their willingness to write or telegraph their representative when necessary. Of course we could use other literature than the speech of Mr. Shafroth, but by taking a uniform bait we shall better be able to sort our fish. A stamped tnd self addressed envelope should be sent with the speech, or in the same mail in your letter, ; the speech is Government franked and does not need postage. Make your letter very appealing so that only an oyster could refuse your request. Work it out to suit yourself but let me know results as they materialize. Very sincerely, A.E.S. Taylor NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION Branch of International Woman Suffrage Alliance and of National Council of Women President Dr. Anna Howard Shaw 505 Fifth Avenue, New York 1st Vice-President Mrs. Stanley McCormick 505 Fifth Avenue, New York 2nd Vice-President Mrs. Desha Breckinbridge Lexington, Ky 3rd Vice President Miss Katherine Bement Davis 145 East 45th Street, New York Recording Secretary Mrs. Richard Y. FitzGerald 7 Greenough Ave., Jamaica Plain, Mass. Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Orten H. Clark Kalamazoo, Michigan Treasurer Mrs. Henry Wade Rogers 505 Fifth Avenue, New York 1st Auditor Mrs. Walter McNab Miller Columbia, Missouri 2nd Auditor Mrs. Medill McCormick 500 Diversey Parkway, Chicago, Ill. NATIONAL AFFILIATED SOCIETIES College Equal Suffrage League Miss M. Carey Thomas, President Bryn Mawr, Pa. Men's League for Woman Suffrage James Lees Laidlaw, President 26 Broadway, New York NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, Inc. President, Mrs. Cyrus W. Field 505 Fifth Avenue, New York Telephone, 4818 Murray Hill CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE Chairman, Mrs. Medill McCormick Vice-Chairman, Mrs. Antoinette Funk Headquarters, Munsey Building, Washington, D.C. PUBLICITY DEPARTMENT Chairman, Charles T. Hallinan Press Bureau, Miss Clara Savage 505 Fifth Avenue, New York EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Mrs. Charles Forster Camp NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 505 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK 1913 Alaska WHITE STATES, FULL SUFFRAGE; SHADED STATES, PARTIAL SUFFRAGE; DOTTED STATE, PRESIDENTIAL, MUNICIPAL AND PARTIAL COUNTY SUFFRAGE; DARK STATES, NO SUFFRAGE February 24, 1915 Miss Rosamond Danielson, Putnam Heights, Putnam, Conn. My dear Miss Danielson:- Your letter of Feb. 17th to Mrs. Medill McCormick has been referred to me. May I say that you can take up the question of obtaining the suffrage photo play "YOUR GIRL AND MINE" with Mr. Louis J. Selznick, the World Film Corporation, 130 West 46th Street, New York City. Give him the name of your local theater and he will do the rest. I am enclosing some dodgers which will will post you on the play. Very sincerely yours, Charles T. Hallinan Chairman Publicity Bureau. Enc. CTH/M NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION 171 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, PRESIDENT [*3-2-17*] CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, MRS. WALTER MCNAB MILLER VICE-CHAIRMAN, MRS. MAUD WOOD PARK SECRETARY, MISS RUTH WHITE HEADQUARTERS 1626 RHODE ISLAND AVENUE, N.W. WASHINGTON, D.C. MEMBERS MISS HELOISE MEYER, Massachusetts MRS. FRANK M. ROESSING, Pennsylvania MRS. MEDILL MCCORMICK, Illinois MRS. HELEN GARDINER, District of Columbia MRS. J. BORDEN HARRIMAN, New York MISS MARY GARRETT HAY, New York MISS MARTHA NORRIS, Ohio MRS. WINSTON CHURCHILL, New Hampshire MRS. WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, Nebraska MRS. ROBT. GRIFFIN, New York MRS. C. W. MCCLURE, Michigan MRS. T. T. COTNAM, Arkansas MRS. EMMA SMITH DEVOE, Washington MRS. SEWARD ADAMS SIMONS, California STATE CONGRESSIONAL CHAIRMEN: MRS. C. H. COLLIER, Alabama MRS. FRANCES W. MUNDS, Arizona MRS. O. F. ELLINGTON, Arkansas MRS. MARY MCKENRY KEITH, California MRS. LUCY J. HARRINGTON, Colorado MRS. A. E. SCRANTON TAYLOR, Connecticut MISS MARY A. OSPINA, Delaware REV. MARY SAFFORD, Florida MRS. 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LEWIS, Virginia MRS. GEORGE A. SMITH, Washington MRS. ELLIS A. YOST, West Virginia MRS. BEN HOOPER, Wisconsin DR. GRACE R. HEBARD, Wyoming Mar 2 1917 My dear Miss Danielson As arranged at the hearing Tuesday - the district chairmen will meet Thursday March 8th at 51 Trumbull Street. Mrs Ely is delighted to give us her house and invites us to lunch with her. If you have some one whom you think would make a good vice-chairman or senatorial district representative on your 2 district committee do bring her with you but she must be some one who is friendly to the non partisan policy of the National Association. I should like to begin our Conference as near noon as possible. I count very much on having you with us. A very constructive plan has been sketched for monthly work and I **Very much wish to make our own C W.S.A Committee a real part of our National Committee - Very Sincerely, Minnie E.S. Taylor** Congressional Aides Alabama: Mrs. Solon H. 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