NAWSA Subject File CONN. WOMAN SUFFRAGE Assoc- Corresp. THIS BALLOT SHALL BE MARKED WITH A PENCIL HAVING BLACK LEAD. TO VOTE A STRAIGHT TICKET, MAKE A CROSS-MARK "X" WITHIN THE CIRCLE ABOVE ONE OF THE PARTY COLUMNS. IF THE COLUMN SO MARKED IN THE CIRCLE FOR A STRAIGHT TICKET DOES NOT CONTAIN THE NAMES OF CANDIDATES FOR ALL OFFICES FOR WHICH YOU ARE ENTITLED TO VOTE OR THE NUMBER OF NAMES OF CANDIDATES FOR ANY OFFICE EQUAL TO THE NUMBER FOR WHOM YOU ARE ENTITLED TO VOTE, YOU MAY WRITE IN THE SPACE IN SAID COLUMN DESIGNATED FOR SUCH OFFICE AND CONTAINING THE WORDS "NO NOMINATION," THE NAME OF ANY PERSON FOR WHOM YOU DESIRE TO VOTE FOR SUCH OFFICE, OR MAY PLACE A CROSS-MARK "X" IN THE VOTING SPACE AT THE LEFT OF THE NAME OF ANY CANDIDATE FOR SUCH OFFICE APPEARING IN ANY OTHER PARTY COLUMN. YOU MAY VOTE A SPLIT TICKET, THAT IS, MAY VOTE FOR ANY CANDIDATE WHOSE NAME APPEARS IN ONE PARTY COLUMN AND FOR ANY CANDIDATE WHOSE NAME APPEARS IN ANY OTHER PARTY COLUMN BY PLACING A CROSS-MARK "X" IN THE VOTING SPACE AT THE LEFT OF THE NAME OF EACH CANDIDATE FOR WHOM YOU DESIRE TO VOTE, OR BY PLACING A CROSS-MARK "X" IN THE CIRCLE AT THE HEAD OF ANY PARTY COLUMN AND A CROSS- MARK "X" IN THE VOTING SPACE AT THE LEFT OF THE NAME OF ANY CANDIDATE FOR WHOM YOU DESIRE TO VOTE IN ANY OTHER COLUMN: AND YOU MAY ALSO WRITE, IN THE SPACE IN THE "BLANK COLUMN" DESIGNATED FOR THE OFFICE THE NAME OF ANY PERSON NOT PRINTED ON A BALLOT FOR WHOM YOU DESIRE TO VOTE FOR SUCH OFFICE. IF YOU WISH TO VOTE A SPLIT TICKET FOR REPRESENTATIVES OR JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, PLACE A CROSS-MARK "X" BEFORE THE NAME OF EACH CANDIDATE FOR WHOM YOU DESIRE TO VOTE. ANY OTHER MARK THAN THE CROSS-MARK "X" USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF VOTING WILL RENDER THIS BALLOT VOID. IF YOU TEAR, DEFACE OR WRONGLY MARK THIS BALLOT RETURN IT AND OBTAIN ANOTHER. Putnam REPUBLICAN ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT CHARLES A GOODWIN T MC DONOUGH RUSSELL ALFRED E HAMMER OLIVER G JENNINGS JOHN M WADHAMS LUCIUS E WHITON ARTHUR F ELLS GOVERNOR EVERETT J LAKE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR CHARLES A TEMPLETON SECRETARY DONALD J WARNER TREASURER G HAROLD GILPATRIC COMPTROLLER HARVEY P BISSELL UNITED STATES SENATOR FRANK B BRANDEGEE REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS RICHARD P FREEMAN SENATOR ARCHIBALD MACDONALD DEMOCRATIC ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT STEPHEN WHITNEY MARY REES MITCHELL FREDERICK W FUESSENICH ARCHIBALD MC NEIL JR THOMAS HEWES CHARLES E HART JR ASA M ROSS GOVERNOR ROLLIN U TYLER LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR ERNEST O WAGNER SECRETARY FANNIE DIXON-WELCH TREASURER EMIL MARZANO COMPTROLLER ALBERT J WALSH UNITED STATES SENATOR AUGUSTINE LONERGAN REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS THOMAS R MURRAY SENATOR JOHN O FOX SOCIALIST ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT JOSEPH ROLLASON ROBERT W JAMIESON JASPER MC LEVY JOHN P MC CARTHY JOHN W RING JULIUS PAECHT GEORGE E CAMPBELL GOVERNOR CHARLES T PEACH LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR EDWARD C HOTCHKISS SECRETARY HELEN D M MANFREDA TREASURER WILLIAM E WHITE COMPTROLLER JOHN L MARTIN UNITED STATES SENATOR MARTIN F PLUNKETT REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS GEORGE H MOLES SENATOR NO NOMINATION PROHIBITION ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT ROBERT MC NEELY MARY B WILSON JOHN F BARTON CAROLINE B BUELL WILFRED T DUDLEY MABEL F TAYLOR WILLIAM S STRONG GOVERNOR ROLLIN U TYLER LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR ERNEST O WAGNER SECRETARY J DELORAINE CONANT TREASURER THEODORE T PHILLIPS COMPTROLLER BUELL B BASSETTE UNITES STATES SENATOR EMIL L G HOHENTHAL REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS JOHN R PARKHURST SENATOR NO NOMINATION SOCIALIST LABOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT JOHN L GRENNAN JOHN D CARLSON THEODORE H SIEFEN JAMES B WILLIAMS CARL O PETERSON MAX FELDMAN JOHN E BACKMAN GOVERNOR EDWARD PRYOR LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR MICHAEL O CONNOR SECRETARY FREDERICK FELLERMAN TREASURER JOHN P JOHNSON COMPTROLLER ALBERT H GIERGINSKY UNITED STATES SENATOR CHARLES J BACKOFEN REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS ALBERT H FRINK SENATOR NO NOMINATION FARMER-LABOR ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT EDWARD J FOLEY IRA B LEONARD LOUIS F HOGAN ROBERT R RENARD MATHIAS SPIESS JEREMIAH F SULLIVAN WALTER MAIKOWSKI GOVERNOR ALBERT P KRONE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR HENRY E GARDINER SECRETARY ELSIE HILL TREASURER JESSE T GARDNER COMPTROLLER AUGUST G HAGER UNITED STATES SENATOR JOSEPHINE B BENNETT REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS NO NOMINATION SENATOR NO NOMINATION BLANK COLUMN ELECTORS OF PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT GOVERNOR LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR SECRETARY TREASURER COMPTROLLER UNITED STATES SENATOR REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS SENATOR LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR CHARLES A TEMPLETON SECRETARY DONALD J WARNER TREASURER G HAROLD GILPATRIC COMPTROLLER HARVEY P BISSELL UNITED STATES SENATOR FRANK B BRANDEGEE REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS RICHARD P FREEMAN SENATOR ARCHIBALD MACDONALD JUDGE OF PROBATE DAVID FLAGG REPRESENTATIVES LUTHER M KEITH HECTOR DUVERT JUSTICES OF THE PEACE HOWARD C BRADFORD JOSEPH J DUPRE MAHLON H GEISSLER FRANK F RUSSELL ARCHIBALD MACDONALD JR ARTHUR S MACDONALD ERNEST C MORSE CHARLES L TORRY LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR ERNEST O WAGNER SECRETARY FANNIE DIXON-WELCH TREASURER EMIL MARZANO COMPTROLLER ALBERT J WALSH UNITES STATES SENATOR AUGUSTINE LONERGAN REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS THOMAS R MURRAY SENATOR JOHN O FOX JUDGE OF PROBATE JOSEPH L RYAN REPRESENTATIVES GEORGE POTVIN M EDWARD DUFFY JUSTICES OF THE PEACE J HARRY MANN GEORGE POTVIN ALFRED BONNEVILLE NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR EDWARD HOTCHKISS SECRETARY HELEN D M MANFREDA TREASURER WILLIAM E WHITE COMPTROLLER JOHN L MARTIN UNITED STATES SENATOR MARTIN F PLUNKETT REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS GEORGE H MOLES SENATOR NO NOMINATION JUDGE OF PROBATE NO NOMINATION REPRESENTATIVES NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION JUSTICES OF THE PEACE NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR ERNEST O WAGNER SECRETARY J DELORAINE CONANT TREASURER THEODORE T PHILLIPS COMPTROLLER BUELL B BASSETTE UNITED STATES SENATOR EMIL L G HOHENTHAL REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS JOHN R PARKHURST SENATOR NO NOMINATION JUDGE OF PROBATE NO NOMINATION REPRESENTATIVES NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION JUSTICES OF THE PEACE NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR MICHAEL O CONNOR SECRETARY FREDERICK FELLERMAN TREASURER JOHN P JOHNSON COMPTROLLER ALBERT H GIERGINSKY UNITED STATES SENATOR CHARLES J BACKOFEN REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS ALBERT H FRINK SENATOR NO NOMINATION JUDGE OF PROBATE NO NOMINATION REPRESENTATIVES NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION JUSTICES OF THE PEACE NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR HENRY E GARDINER SECRETARY ELSIE HILL TREASURER JESSE T GARDNER COMPTROLLER AUGUST G HAGER UNITED STATES SENATOR JOSEPHINE B BENNETT REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS NO NOMINATION SENATOR NO NOMINATION JUDGE OF PROBATE NO NOMINATION REPRESENTATIVES NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION JUSTICES OF THE PEACE NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION NO NOMINATION LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR SECRETARY TREASURER COMPTROLLER UNITED STATES SENTATOR REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS SENATOR JUDGE OF PROBATE REPRESENTATIVES JUSTICES OF THE PEACE SECOND ANNUAL WINDHAM COUNTY SUFFRAGE CONFERENCE Meeting called to order at 2:30 p.m. Welcome: Miss Anne C. Levitt, President, Putnam E. Fl. Music. Reports of Leagues Reports from Towns. Discussion and Business. Greetings from other counties. Address: Mrs. T. N. Hepburn, President, C. W. S. A. 5 P.M. Reception to Officers of C. W. S. A. PUTNAM, Odd Fellows Hall, June 17, 1916. Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association HEADQUARTERS: 55-57 PRATT STREET, HARTFORD TELEPHONE CHARTER 6217 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MRS. HIRAM PERCY MAXIM CORRESPONDING SECRETARY 276 NORTH WHITNEY ST. HARTFORD MRS. WM. H. DEMING RECORDING SECRETARY HARTFORD MRS. WILLIS AUSTIN CHAIRMAN NEW LONDON COUNTY NORWICH MISS CAROLINE RUUTZ-REES CHAIRMAN FAIRFIELD COUNTY GREENWICH MRS. T. S. McDERMOTT AUDITOR NEW HAVEN MRS. MARION NICHOLL RAWSON AUDITOR SOUND BEACH MISS ROSAMOND DANIELSON CHAIRMAN WINDHAM COUNTY PUTNAM MRS. A. E. SCRANTON TAYLOR CHAIRMAN LITCHFIELD COUNTY NORFOLK January 3rd, 1919. Dear Sir: In these last days of the struggle for the enfranchisement of women, when the attainment of our object is so near at hand, the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association desires to strengthen its organization for the last great effort. To that end, it has decided to form a Men's Council of One Hundred to give publicity to the fact that the best men of the State are supporters of our movement, and are glad to be known as such. The Association will be very much honored if you will accept a position on such a Council. Unless you wish it, no responsibility except the use of your name with the others, for publicity, will be put upon you. We are enclosing a partial list of names of men who have already signified their pleasure in becoming members of such a Council. Owing to the fact that our bills may very shortly come up in the Legislature, and we desire a complete list before that time, we beg for a reply by Monday, January 13th. Very cordially yours, President. Ch. Com. on Men's Council. Partial List of Acceptance for Men's Council of 100. --- Charles A. Goodwin Hartford John T. Robinson Hartford Harrison B Freeman, Jr. Hartford H. P. Maxim Hartford Thomas W. Russell Hartford Stanley W. Edwards Hartford Dr. Paul P. Swett Hartford Timothy M. Crowley Hartford Rev. R. H. Potter Hartford Rev. H. W. Ettelson Hartford Frank Cheney, Jr. South Manchester Arthur Bowers South Manchester George M. Landers New Britain F. E. Duffy West Hartford Christopher M. Gallup West Hartford Herbert Knox Smith Farmington H. H. Townsend New Haven Judge John J. Gilson New Haven Prof. C. E. A. Winslow New Haven Julius Maltby Waterbury Arthur H. Brewer Norwich Robert McNeely Norwich Judge John C. Geary Watertown Dr. Benj. T. Marshall New London Samuel C. Shaw Bridgeport Dr. W. H. Allee Ridgefield Homer J. Cummings Stamford Harry Sherwood Westport John O'Hara Danbury A. S. G. Taylor Norfolk Samuel Russell, Jr. Middletown Judge Milton A. Shumway Danielson Windham County. Judge Milton A. Shumway Danielson, Conn. G. Harold Gilpatric, Esq. Putnam, Conn. E. H. Corttis, Esq. No. Grosvenordale, Conn. Frank P. Fenton, Esq. Willimantic, Conn. Edgar M. Warner, Esq. Putnam, Conn. Everett E. Brown, Esq. Pomfret Center, Conn. Ernest P. Chesboro, Esq. Willimantic, Conn. Charles Bragg, Esq. Central Village, Conn. Dr. Rienzi Robinson, Danielson, Conn. Ernest B. Kent, Esq. Putnam, Conn. Edward Baker, Esq. Canterbury, Conn. Eric H. Johnson, Esq. Putnam, Conn. Judge A. Hale Bennett, Canterbury, Conn. John C. Gallup, Esq. Moosup, Conn. Rev. Fosdick B. Harrison, Woodstock, Conn. Francis U. Johnstone, Esq. R.D. #2 Putnam, Conn. George Weston, Esq. Packer, Conn. Rev. Harvey M. Lawson, Esq. No. Ashford, Conn. Oscar F. Atwood, Esq. Brooklyn, Conn. Geo W. Thef[??] Willimantic, Conn. Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association HEADQUARTERS: 55-57 PRATT STREET, HARTFORD TELEPHONE CHARTER 6217 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MISS KATHARINE LUDINGTON PRESIDENT 55-57 PRATT ST. HARTFORD MRS. GRACE THOMPSON SETON VICE-PRESIDENT GREENWICH MRS. MARY BULKLEY CHAIRMAN HARTFORD COUNTY HARTFORD MRS. HENRY H. TOWNSEND CHAIRMAN NEW HAVEN COUNTY NEW HAVEN MRS. HIRAM PERCY MAXIM CORRESPONDING SECRETARY 276 NORTH WHITNEY ST. HARTFORD MRS. WM. H. DEMING RECORDING SECRETARY HARTFORD MRS. T. S. McDERMOTT AUDITOR NEW HAVEN MRS. MARION NICHOLL RAWSON AUDITOR SOUND BEACH MISS ROSAMOND DANIELSON CHAIRMAN WINDHAM COUNTY PUTNAM MRS. A. E. SCRANTON TAYLOR CHAIRMAN LITCHFIELD COUNTY NORFOLK MISS MABEL C. WASHBURN TREASURER 55-57 PRATT ST., HARTFORD MISS MARY D. WEBSTER CHAIRMAN MIDDLESEX COUNTY MIDDLETOWN MRS. FANNIE DIXON WELCH CHAIRMAN TOLLAND COUNTY COLUMBIA January 7th, 1919. Miss Rosamond Danielson, Putnam, Connecticut. My dear Miss Danielson: The inclosed letter of invitation to become a member of a Men's Council of One Hundred, is going out today to the inclosed list in your County. If in your opinion, it will help to have a personal letter or telephone from you, or from anyone else in the County, will you see that such a message is sent at once. Yours sincerely, Mary Bulkley Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association HEADQUARTERS: 55-57 PRATT STREET, HARTFORD TELEPHONE CHARTER 6217 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MISS KATHARINE LUDINGTON PRESIDENT 55-57 PRATT ST. HARTFORD MRS. GRACE THOMPSON SETON VICE-PRESIDENT GREENWICH MRS. MARY BULKLEY CHAIRMAN HARTFORD COUNTY HARTFORD MRS. HENRY H. TOWNSEND CHAIRMAN NEW HAVEN COUNTY NEW HAVEN MRS. HIRAM PERCY MAXIM CORRESPONDING SECRETARY 276 NORTH WHITNEY ST. HARTFORD MRS. WM. H. DEMING RECORDING SECRETARY HARTFORD MRS. T. S. McDERMOTT AUDITOR NEW HAVEN MRS. MARION NICHOLL RAWSON AUDITOR SOUND BEACH MISS ROSAMOND DANIELSON CHAIRMAN WINDHAM COUNTY PUTNAM MRS. A. E. SCRANTON TAYLOR CHAIRMAN LITCHFIELD COUNTY NORFOLK MISS MABEL C. WASHBURN TREASURER 55-57 PRATT ST., HARTFORD MISS MARY D. WEBSTER CHAIRMAN MIDDLESEX COUNTY MIDDLETOWN MRS. FANNIE DIXON WELCH CHAIRMAN TOLLAND COUNTY COLUMBIA My dear Miss Danielson: I am writing to advise you of your appointment as a member of the Committee on a Men's Advisory Board of 100, of which I am chairman. I do not propose to call but two meetings of the Committee as a whole, but I do ask you to do some work for it, as follows: Prepare a list of at least 20 men from your County, noting on the list their residence and qualifications for membership. Please have this list ready for the C. W. S. A. Board meeting on Wednesday. I am enclosing a list of the present Men's Advisory Board, with suggested names from Windham County; also a list of the Men's League, for you to draw from at your discretion. Very sincerely yours, Mary Bulkley CONNECTICUT MEN'S LEAGUE FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE President Secretary and Treasurer JOHN H. LIGHT, South Norwalk A. S. G. TAYLOR . . Norfolk Vice-presidents COL. N. G. OSBORNE Executive Council Judge HENRY WADE RODGERS S. T. DAVIS, Jr. Hon. ARCHIBALD McNEIL, Jr. Maj LOUIS E. STODDARD Hon. FRANCIS ATWATER Hon. J. N. COWLES Dr. EDW. BEECHER HOOKER Paor. ARNOLD GESELL GEORGE D. HARRISON Legislative Committee. ARTHUR E. PATTERSON Hon. HERBERT KNOX SMITH. JAMES L. McGUIRE Chairman Council of Forty Council of Forty DR. W. H. ALLEE JULIUS MALTBY Ridgefield Waterbury T. C. BARNES Rev. WILLIS A. MOORE Riverton Meriden PROF. CHARLES BEARD Rev. H. C. MESERVE New Milford Danbury REV. W. L. BENNETT W.S. MURRAY Bridgeport New Haven M. TOSCAN BENNETT H. G. NEWTON Hartford New Haven C. P. BEERS Dr. LOUIS PATON Bridgeport Hartford W. H. CATLIN ED. O. PORRITT Meriden Hartford C. C. CHADWICK THOMAS L. REILLY Old Lyme Meriden EDW. PERKINS CLARKE JAMES T. ROCHE, Jr. Hartford Fairfield CHARLES DE FOREST WILBUR F. ROGERS New Haven Meriden PROF. ROBERT H. FIFE, JR. Hon. SAMUEL C. SHAW Middletown Bridgeport JONATHAN GODFREY E. THOMPSON SEATON Bridgeport Greenwich HON. CHESTER HART CARLOS F. STODDARD Barkhamsted New Haven PROF. L. G. HENDRICKSON E.G. STODDARD New Haven New Haven DR. T. N. HEPBURN C. S. SANFORD Hartford Bridgeport WM. T. HINCKS PHILIP TROUP Bridgeport New Haven EMIL L. G. HOHENTHAL LEONARD TYLER Manchester New Haven DR. W. S. HURLBERT VICTOR TYLER Winsted New Haven PHIL. N. LEAKIN Hartford JAMES L. McGUIRE Hartford Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association HEADQUARTERS: 55-57 PRATT STREET, HARTFORD TELEPHONE CHARTER 6217 James [McGuire??] for Windham Co. G. Harold Gilpatrick - Putnam, State Treas. E. H. Cortis - No. Grosvenordale. Co. Commissioner Rev. Fosdick B. Harrison. Woodstock. C[???] George Weston, Packer. [??th??] Men's Advisory Board Hartford County Charles A. Goodwin John T. Robinson Harrison B. Freeman, Jr. H. P. Maxim Thos. W. Russell Stanley W. Edwards Dr. Paul P. Swett Timothy M. Crowley Rev. R. H. Potter Rev. H. W. Ettelson Dr. J. H. McManus Frank Cheney, Jr. Geo. M. Landers F. E. Duffy Christopher M. Gallop Herbert Knox Smith Arthur Bowers New Haven County H. H. Townshend Judge John L. Gilson Prof. C. E. A. Winslow Julius Maltby New London County Arthur H. Brewer Judge John C. Geary Dr. Ben'j. T. Marshall Robert McNeely Fairfield County Samuel C. Shaw Dr. W. H. Allee Homer J. Cummings Harry Sherwood John O'Hara Litchfield County A. S. G. Taylor Middlesex County Samuel Russell, Jr. Windham County Judge Milton Shumway Tolland County [Atac] Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association HEADQUARTERS: 55-57 PRATT STREET, HARTFORD TELEPHONE CHARTER 6217 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MISS KATHARINE LUDINGTON PRESIDENT 55-57 PRATT ST., HARTFORD MRS. GRACE THOMPSON SETON VICE-PRESIDENT GREENWICH MRS. THOMAS W. RUSSELL RECORDING SECRETARY HARTFORD MISS MARY BULKLEY CHAIRMAN HARTFORD COUNTY HARTFORD MRS. CHAS. G. MORRIS CHAIRMAN NEW HAVEN COUNTY NEW HAVEN MRS. HIRAM PERCY MAXIM CORRESPONDING SECRETARY 276 NORTH WHITNEY ST HARTFORD MISS MABEL WASHBURN TREASURER 55-57 PRATT ST HARTFORD MRS. WILLIS AUSTIN CHAIRMAN NEW LONDON COUNTY NORWICH MISS CAROLINE RUUTZ-REES CHAIRMAN FAIRFIELD COUNTY GREENWICH MRS. HENRY H. TOWNSHEND AUDITOR NEW HAVEN MRS. MARION NICHOLL RAWSON AUDITOR RIVERSIDE MISS DAPHNE SELDEN STATE ORGANIZER 55 PRATT STREET, HARTFORD MISS ROSAMOND DANIELSON CHAIRMAN WINDHAM COUNTY PUTNAM MRS. A. E. SCRANTON TAYLOR CHAIRMAN LITCHFIELD COUNTY NORFOLK MRS. WILLIAM T. HINCKS EX-PRESIDENT (1911-1913) BRIDGEPORT MRS. THOMAS N. HEPBURN EX-PRESIDENT 1910-1911 AND 1913-1917) HARTFORD MRS. SAMUEL RUSSELL, JR. CHAIRMAN MIDDLESEX COUNTY MIDDLETOWN MRS. FANNIE DIXON WELCH CHAIRMAN TOLLAND COUNTY COLUMBIA WINDHAM COUNTY -- Suggestions for members of Men's Advisory. Judge Milton A. Shumway, Danielson, rep. , judge of Superior Court, Member of present advisory committee. G. Harold Gilpatric, Putnam. rep. , State Treasurer elect. Cashier of 1st Nat. Bank, Putnam. Member Rep./State Central Committee. E. H. Corttis, North Grosvenordale, rep. County commissioner. Frank P. Fenton, Willimantic. dem. Town clerk, ex-representative, etc. Defeated for Congress, 1918 Edgar M. Warner, Putnam. rep. Clerk of Courts. Prominent in Prison Association work, temperance, etc. Eric H. Johnson, Putnam. dem. Lawyer, city attorney, etc. Defeated for state senator, 1918. Rev. Fosdick B. Harrison, Woodstock, Pastor of Woodstock and North Woodstock Congregational churches. Francis U. Johnstone, R. D. 2, Putnam. Scholar and gentleman Mrs. Johnstone is leader of 28th senatorial district. George Weston, Packer. Author. Stories in Saturday Evening Post, etc. A. Hale Bennett, Canterbury. dem. Judge of Probate. Defeated for state senate, 1918. John C. Gallup, Moosup. rep. Prominent granger. Everett E. Brown, Pomfret Center. rep. President Windham County Farmers' Association. Member of unnumbered committees, grange, agriculture, temperance, etc. Ernest C. Morse, Putnam. Rep. Lawyer, tax-collector. Ernest P. Chesboro, Willimantic. rep. Ex-selectman, representative, etc. Rev. Harvey M. Lawson, North Ashford. Retired missionary to India Oscar F. Atwood, Brooklyn. dem. Ex-judge of probate, representative, town clerk, etc. Charles Bragg, Central Village. rep. chairman town committee. Dr. Rienzi Robinson, Danielson. A staunch friend who, I am sorry to say, is very ill. Ernest B. Kent, Putnam, Rep. Representative 1916 and 1918 Edward Baker, Canterbury, rep. Representative 1912-18 Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association HEADQUARTERS: 55-57 PRATT ST. HARTFORD TELEPHONE CHARTER 6217 RECORDING SECRETARY MRS. WILLIAM C. CHENEY, SOUTH MANCHESTER CORRESPONDING SECRETARY MRS. WILLIAM H. DEMING, HARTFORD TREASURER MISS MABEL C. WASHBURN, HARTFORD POLITICAL LEADERS MRS. T. S. McDERMOTT, NEW HAVEN MRS. HIRAM PERCY MAXIM, HARTFORD MRS. A. HYDE COLE, EAST NORWALK MRS. WILLIS AUSTIN, NORWICH MRS. SAMUEL S. COOPER, SALISBURY AUDITORS MISS EMILY WHITNEY, NEW HAVEN MRS. RUTH McINTIRE DADOURIAN, HARTFORD PRESIDENT MISS KATHERINE LUDINGTON, OLD LYME VICE-PRESIDENTS MRS. GRACE THOMPSON SETON, GREENWICH MRS. C. E. A. WINSLOW, NEW HAVEN MRS. HARRISON B. FREEMAN, HARTFORD CHAIRMEN OF COUNTIES MISS MARY BULKLEY, HARTFORD MRS. HENRY H. TOWNSHEND, NEW HAVEN MISS EDNA TYLER, NEW LONDON MISS CAROLINE RUUTZ-REES, GREENWICH MISS ROSAMOND DANIELSON, PUTNAM MRS. A. E. SCRANTON TAYLOR, NORFOLK MRS. WILLIAM P. COUCH, CROMWELL MRS. FANNIE DIXON WELCH, COLUMBIA WYNDHAM COUNTY WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Vice-chairman, Mrs. F. U. Johnstone Secretary Miss Janette Trowbridge Treasurer Mrs. Everett S. Fletcher Press Secretary Miss Blanche Stoutenburgh Town Leaders: Ashford Mrs. Geo. O. Balch, Warrenville Brooklyn Mrs. Sidney W. Bard Canterbury Mrs. Clinton Frink Chaplin Eastford Miss Alice L. Rindge Hampton Miss Helen W. Cartwright Killingly Miss Grace Spaulding, Danielson Plainfield Pomfret Mrs. William Valentine, Pomfret Center Putnam Mrs. E. C. Morse Scotland Mrs. Lisa K. Fuller Sterling Miss Florence Douglas Thompson Mrs. George H. Nichols, R.D. #4, Putnam Windham Mrs. J. M. Gager, 350 Windham Road, Willimantic Woodstock Mrs. George Wetherell. ORGANIZATION FOR COUNTY CITIZENSHIP INSTITUTE. Executive Chairman. Selects committee heads, assigns work, arranges presiding officer for each session, and is the responsible head of the Institute. Chairman of Program an Printing. (Mrs. Schoonmaker and Mrs. K) Makes out program, getting speakers, etc., notified them of their place on program, asks for their time of arrival, etc. Attends to printing of programs, and to tickets, fliers, and window placards for chairman of attendance. Chairman of Publicity. Attends to news articles and advertising in all city and rural newspapers printed in, or circulated in, the county. Chairman of Attendance. Works up attendance, in city through women's clubs, ticket distribution, window placards, etc. In county, through visits to towns, notices to clubs and churches, fliers mailed to leaders, etc. Keeps record of attendance during Institute, and a registration book. Chairman of Hospitality. Arranges hospitality, including meals, for speakers, meeting them at trains if necessary, etc. Arranges for room hospitality, not meals, for out-of-town attendants. Has information about boarding-places. [*Mrs. Otto Robinson*] Chairman for Voting Demonstrations. Arranges for and has charge of voting-machine and balloting. Chairman for Luncheon and Dinner. Provides a place to lunch or dine together as directed. (Suggestion--college campaign groups or church women generally give meals for their own profit.) Other chairmen to be added if necessary. Each chairman to be free to chose her own committee or assistants. [*Chairman Will Hays & Deportation*] [*Aug 1920*] Your cause and that of the Republican party are one. This states a proved fact in a few words. The Republican National Committee in its meeting in Chicago January 10, 1919, adopted unanimously a resolution reiterating its belief in the necessity of the enfranchisement of the women of America. The committee then urged the United States Senate immediately to pass the Federal Suffrage Amendment, and further more it called upon all Republican legislatures to ratify the amendment when it is presented. Individually and collectively the effort of Republicans has been to secure the ratification of the Suffrage Amendment. Senator Harding personally has urged the members of the Republican Legislature in Tennessee to give their adherence to the Suffrage cause and personally has requested the Republican chairman in Tennessee to use all proper means to this end. In successive meetings of the Republican National Committee from February 13, 1918, to the present time resolutions, unanimously adopted, have urged legislatures which were Republican to ratify the amendment. By resolution also congratulations have been extended by the committee to the Republican states which already have ratified. The Committee also has urged that special sessions in the other states be called upon to complete the ratification. Copies of the resolution of the Executive Committee of the Republican National Committee adopted three weeks ago in Columbus were wired to every Republican member of the Republican legis- lators in Tennessee, urging these party men to vote unanimously for ratification. Of the state legislatures which have ratified the Woman Suffrage Amendment, 29 are Republicans and 6 are Democratic. There is a "majority volume" of meaning in this. It is the proof of Republican sincerity. The party is sympathetic with your cause. Personally let me say that I am sympathetic with it. The party, and the individuals in official positions within it, are doing all that they possibly can do consistent with the proprieties to compass the end you seek. x x x Referring to the suffrage question generally Present unrest is in large measure due to the fact that so many vital questions are clamoring for simultaneous decision. Any one of these questions definitely settled is a big contribution toward national stability. The suffrage question is one that can properly be settled soon. The sooner it is settled, the better. It is really not a party question. Its pendancy merely makes it more difficult for the public mind to focus upon the issues of the Presidential campaign. A special legislative session is a small price to pay for a clearer political atmosphere. Relieve the American woman from the necessity of claiming her constitutional right and her sister from the fancied necessity of opposing the claim, and you will liberate a body of public opinion upon the campaign and its issues which will prove itself to be one of our greatest national assets. -3- But there is a deeper reason than this for immediate action upon the suffrage amendment. Democracy in the United States is really nothing but a sham unless election day gives all Americans a chance to express their political opinions. Casting the vote is the only way to express opinion effectively. To hold American women bound by the results of an election, to train them in schools and colleges to think for themselves as well as a man, to accord their freedom of utterances as a Constitutional right, and then to attempt to deny them the opportunity to stand up and be counted on election day is a governmental blunder of the first magnitude. Both parties recognize that the effects of the approaching Presidential election will influence our national life for weal or for woe for at least fifty years. There never was an election at which it was more important for opinion and sentiment to express themselves. The action of Congress and of thirty five legislatures has given to millions of American women the right to hope confidently for this great opportunity. Deny them the opportunity merely because the necessary governmental machinery is not set in motion, and you will produce the unhealthy national situation which always exists when masses of citizens have burning convictions to express and no effective outlet for their expression. I do not agree that so great an issue should be settled only after a fresh legislative election. Wisely or unwisely, the question whether ratification of a proposed amendment should be submitted to the State Legislature or to popular conventions -4- composed of delegates elected upon that issue, has been by the Constitution of the United States vested in Congress and not in the states. Congress, by submitting the proposed amendment to legislative action, has negatived legislative bodies to determine the fate of the amendment. This is the basis upon which all the legislatures have voted which have voted for or against ratification. Assuming that ultimate ratification of this amendment is inevitable, nothing can be more important than that the method of its ratification should be uniform throughout the country. If of an adopted amendment it could be said in some states that it has received only legislative sanction while in others that its approval has been by popular vote, the way would be open for unwholesome distinctions between varying degrees of the authority in different states of the same Constitutional enactment. If, therefore, it is not for state authorities to submit the pending question to popular vote, no valid reason can be suggested for refusing to summon a legislature in special session unless it be executive disagreement with the anticipated action of that body. But this, I respectfully suggest, is not a consideration by which authorities in any state should be moved. The test of the existance of the emergency which justified a summons to the Legislature is not mere executive disapproval of the action which the Legislative assembly will probably take. The test is whether or not the national welfare requires the prompt elimination of a disturbing issue and the determination of a great question of citizenship before a pivotal election instead of after it. -5- I refrain from advancing the usual arguments in behalf of suffrage. I leave entirely out of consideration the partisan advantage or disadvantage which ratification might entail. I urge ratification first in the hope of thereby clearing the political atmosphere, second, in the belief that the suppression of effective opinion works harm to the whole body politic and, finally, in the conviction that we owe immediate action as a measure of simple justice to American women. HISTORY OF THE YEAR, 1919 - 1920. Report of Executive Secretary - Ruth McIntire Dadourian. When we met a year ago the Susan B. Anthony Amendment had been ratified by nineteen states including our neighbors Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine and New York. Special sessions had been called in four other states. Complete ratification before November seemed certain but we knew that Connecticut might be needed to make up the full number and we knew that to bring Connecticut in would be hard work. We didn't know quite what hard work it would be. The object of the campaign before the Association was perfectly clear - it was to get a special session of the Connecticut legislature. The convention in Bridgeport adopted a reolution declaring that since the party in power in the state was the Republican party and since a small but powerful group in that party had been blocking suffrage, the immediate policy of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association should be to concentrate opposition against that small group. The Governor had been petitioned by 103,000 women of the state, and he had been petitioned by a majority of each party and of each house of the legislature, to call a special session. Some other means than those so far tried must be found to move the Governor. As I look back over the year, the campaign which never for a moment let up in its intensity falls into four main divisions:- the fight for ratification by February: a period during which pressure was concentrated upon Republican state central committee, and upon individuals whom we knew to be our busiest opponents in the state. Second, the campaign to present to the Governor proofs of an emergency justifying the calling of a special session. Third, following ratification by the 35th state, the campaign which had - 2 - for its slogan "November, 1920". Fourth, after Tennessee's ratification, the campaign to get in Connecticut as the 37th state and to obtain the necessary legislation to enable women to register and to vote. The point of attack, it must be remembered, was necessarily the republican party. Indications were very strong that the party in power in Connecticut held independent views on the matter of suffrage from the national republication leaders. For on December 10 the National Committee recommended to Republican legislatures the ratification of the suffrage amendment and urged that special sessions to be called in the states that had not acted, so that ratification might be complete before February 1st. With the republican state central committee as the immediate objective, because it appeared to be the immediate obstacle, the association at once launched a campaign both within and without the state. It was necessary to have outside help, both for the sake of external pressure upon leading republicans within the state, for publicity in papers outside the state, and because the leading republicans here were thoroughly acquainted with suffrage arguments and with the Connecticut workers. It was felt that this question had become a sort of family affair between Republicans. And so the services of a group of Republican suffragists, the Phoenix Publicity Bureau of New York, were obtained, and three workers who were at the same time suffragists, republicans, publicists and trained interviewers came into Connecticut. They worked under the direction of the state association and under the advice and suggestions of our local leaders whose work they supplemented. They interviewed leading republican men throughout the state, gaining an insight into the - 3 - situation and an understanding of the problem that faced us. Whenever possible they obtained the signatures of these men to two petitions - one addressed to the state central committee, urging the members to use their influence in obtaining a special session and the other to the Governor: and through their New York Office they brought to bear personal influence of Republicans in their states. In the meantime a steady campaign of publicity was going forward. The state was circularized with fliers setting forth the fact that the eyes of the nation were upon Connecticut, and that national republican leaders such as Will Hays, Mr. Taft, Mr. Hughes, Senator Harding and General Wood all endorsed ratification by means of special session, Miss Hinaman was filling the papers in Connecticut with suffrage maps showing Connecticut linked with the solid south, while the Phoenix Bureau was placing news stories about Connecticut in the New York papers. The rest of the country began to know that Connecticut Suffragists intended to get the vote through the men of their own state. In the meantime a Republican men's ratification committee was organized, with Mr. Isaac M. Ullman as chairman, Mr. John T Robinson as Secretary, and with a membership of loyal friends of suffrage. It met first on January 26 in New Haven to discuss the question of presenting the case of a special session of the legislature. Throughout the winter and spring the committee gave valuable help and advice to the Association. By the end of January, 27 states had ratified, including Rhode Island - and four more states were in sight. Early in February the Republican State Central Committee was to meet, and plans were made - 4 - for presenting at that time a petition of 478 names, representing men prominent in party affairs in nearly every community in the state. The petition called upon the Committee and its chairman, Mr. Roraback, to use their influence toward the calling of a special session of the legislature; it was presented by a member of the men's ratification committee - and as you know, was ignored. But by now we had become far too well accustomed to refusals to take them very seriously. Besides we were far too busy. The spring convention of the state republican party lay just ahead, and the association was laying the ground for the passage of a suffrage resolution by that convention. For, we argued, a suffrage resolution adopted by the national committee and a suffrage resolution passed by the state convention - elected representatives of the party - certainly must help to create the emergency which the governor awaits before calling the legislature into special session. On March 23 the republican convention met in New Haven. We had had printed a legal opinion by Ex-Justice Hughes, and before the convention met in Music Hall a copy of this opinion was on every seat. We went armed with a second bulletin published by the men's committee, in which leading lawyers of the state took issue on constitutional grounds with Governor Holcomb's latest refusal. Late in the evening we were admitted to the hearing before the resolutions committee, at which Miss Ludington, Mrs. Helena Hull Weed, Mr. Francis Cole and Mr. Charles Treadway presented the suffrage case. After a very animated discussion the resolution was adopted by a vote of 25 to 8. On the following morning the convention, by the adoption of this resolution, respectfully requested the governor of the state to call a special session of the General Assembly for the purpose of the passing upon the amendment;.... - 5 - In this way did the republican party in the state formally go on record. Since November we had traveled a long way, in breaking down one by one, the opposition's defense. First the Governor had said: "The desire of a few women does not create an emergency." So the Association presented him with the signatures of over 100,000 women. Then he had objected on the ground that suffrage was not an issue when the present legislature was elected - a statement easily refuted by current newspaper reports. On March 15th he had said that he could not change the state constitution otherwise than by the manner specified. Leading lawyers of the state took issue with him on that score. Then on March 31st, he claimed that persistent appeals do not constitute proof of an emergency. And finally on April 10th, in reply to a letter of Colonel Ullman, the Governor stated that he was ready to receive proofs of an emergency. The situation, then, at the beginning of May was this: - Early in March West Virginia had ratified quite as dramatically as Tennessee was later to ratify. You will remember that one lone vote in the Senate saved the day for West Virginia and that this vote had to be snatched from the waters of the Pacific Coast and rushed across the continent while the friends of suffrage worked night and day to keep the legislature in session. Washington also ratified on March 22d making the 25th state, and leaving only one more to be gained. The only apparent possibilities were Vermont and Connecticut - both republican states, possessing legislatures that stood ready and waiting to ratify. It was clearly the task of the Association, since the Governor had invited proofs, to supply him with proofs of a greater emergency than that of the state - the proof that there was - 6 - a national emergency. In doing this the Association had an opportunity to put through a brilliant and unique piece of work. The National Association had offered to send into Connecticut women representing every state in the Union, to join in a concentrated protest against the Governor's refusal to allow the Connecticut legislature to act and so to enfranchise the women of the entire nation. The week of May 3d was set apart as "emergency week." At times previous to that week we at headquarters felt an emergency at least equal to that of the entire nation, I am sure. It was a gigantic undertaking to plan not only the meetings, but the motor corps, the train schedules, hospitality for each one of the constantly shifting groups, and to supply speakers from our own state for each of the meetings. It was only through the most wonderful cooperation on the part of the women of the state, and on the part of many members of the men's committee who acted as chairman and frequently as speakers, that the plan could have gone through so successfully. Its success was also in great part due to the organizing ability of Miss Hutt and her enthusiasm and her untiring work for weeks preceding the event. Although Miss Hutt was called away before emergency week opened, you saw her careful planning in every detail as bit by bit it worked out. And the publicity! Whenever one peered over the screen behind which Miss Hinaman carries on her mysterious deeds, one saw her shuffling photographs - photographs of fair women, dark women, thin women and those not so thin. Forty-seven different women and each one with several different kinds of photographs and with at least one news story to go with it. Each photograph to go to each of the cities where the individual represented was to speak. I leave this gigantic - 7 - game of solitaire to your imagination. I am sure that you all saw the results. You all, I imagine, heard the speakers, also, so that you do not need to be reminded of the tremendous appeal they made to the audiences in the forty different towns they visited. Or of the luncheon held on their arrival, or of the final hearing before the Governor and the gay parade which preceded it and the mass meeting on the capital grounds at which Mr. Robinson and Judge Ells of Waterbury spoke. In spite of the appeals made to the Governor by the women of suffrage states where suffrage had been a success, by the women from non-suffrage states whom he by permitting the legislature to meet, might enfranchise; by Republican women who cared for the honor of their party in fulfilling its pledges - still the Governor replied "These arguments do not prove or tend to prove the existence of the special emergency mentioned in our state constitution, which is the only authority given the governor to call a special session." There was growing resentment and indignation on the state - but technically we were as far from being voters in November 1920 as we had been in November 1870. Having exhausted the methods previously tried the Association by a vote of the Executive Board June 3 adopted this logical development of policy - to oppose the Republican party in the state in the coming campaign, with the exception of those men who were the tried and true friends of suffrage and of those who would come out and work for a special session. For the republican party in the state, although it had adopted a resolution urging the governor to call the legislature together, had at the same time returned to power the very men who had most bitterly - 8 - opposed us and who were at that time standing in the way of a special session. We were confirmed in our analysis of the situation by the action of the Republican National Convention which a few days later at the instigation of the Connecticut delegates (so we were informed by the Hartford Courant) took the teeth out of the suffrage plank , so that the national republican party was placed in the undignified position of expressing an "earnest hope" that "Republican legislatures in states which have not yet acted upon the suffrage amendment will ratify...." The first step in the working out of our new policy was the sending of a circular letter to all gubernatorial candidates asking, for publication, how each one stood on the matter of a special session. When replies came in they were given to the press, and a final summary of the stand of the association toward each was published before the party convention took place. The second step was to obtain if possible a state Republican convention made up of anti-machine delegates. The purpose of this being in the main to prove to the machine that it would be a far wiser thing to do to get the suffrage issue out of the way before the November election. Beyond that, our plan was to oppose candidates for the legislature who were know to be opposed to suffrage; to oppose them both before their nomination and if necessary after. The towns were canvassed and the counties were charted; Miss Ludington was at her desk at headquarters every week all summer long, and between times she was touring the state from one end to the other addressing meetings and setting forth the policy of the Association. In conjunction with this work, a sub-committee of the men's ratification committee was appointed to poll legislature in readiness for any fresh development. A committee of Republican women - 9 - with Mrs. Austin of Norwich as chairman, drew up a statement which came to be known as the "no vote, no money pledge", which was signed throughout the state by Republican women who pledged themselves not to give money or to work for the Republican party until the thirty- sixth state should ratify. In the midst of this summer campaign news came that the legislature of Tennessee would be called in special session. Tennessee had constitutional limitations against ratification of proposed amendments which a decision of the Supreme Court on the liquor case has invalidated. But we were urged by the national leaders not for one moment to slacken our fight. It was known that all the forces that had opposed ratification in New Jersey and other states, and which had caused it to fail in Delaware would concentrate upon the last state. And this proved to be the case. At this point the little New England state of Connecticut entered the fight for suffrage nationally. While pressure within the state continued, three Republican women, Miss Mary Olcott, Mrs. James Stokes, and Mrs. W. H Allee journeyed to Columbus, Ohio, in order to place before members of the Republican Executive Committee exactly the feelings entertained by women of their own party who questioned the sincerity of that party in fulfilling its pledges to women. On August 7th over thirty members of this association led by Miss Ludington, interviewed the republican chairman, Will H. Hays, in New York, to inquire exactly what was being done to bring about ratification both in Connecticut and in Tennessee. I imagine that his later references to us were tinged with respect though possibly not with flattery. All through the long session in Tennessee, Connecticut women played their part in the struggle, bringing influence to bear - 10 - both through Democratic and Republican channels. You are familiar with this recent history and with the history of the special legislation passed by the Connecticut legislature. Those of us who were at the Capitol during the two memorable and humorous sessions all through which Miss Ludington worked with such determination to get the facilities for registering and voting to which the women were entitled, will never forget the moment when word went round that the legislature was going to ratify - and when that legislature was declared to be a law unto itself with full power and authority to act. The whole country knows that one special session wasn't enough for Connecticut, and that being the last state she had to ratify three times to make it quite safe! The action of Connecticut, while it was superfluous, removed all doubt from even the most skeptical mind that ratification was complete. It was a satisfaction not only to the women, who were let in through the action of their own state, but to those members of the legislature who had worked loyally in the past to get us in. Immediately upon the passage of the new legislation the membership of the Association launched the work of getting the necessary information about registration and voting before the women of the state. The citizenship lectures conduced by Mrs. Kitchelt, a woman's forum conducted by Miss Hinaman and published in a number of newspapers, and the town county leaders all shared in the work. In addition, headquarters were kept more than bust answering questions of inconceivable variety that came by mail, by telephone and by word of mouth. At this time there arose questions of immediate policy which the executive board of the association felt that it could not act upon - 11 - without a mandate from the association. On September 24th a business meeting was held in Hartford, to which delegates were sent by the leagues and by counties. - In addition, all members of the Association were urged to come and share in the fullest discussion of the issues. The meeting was called in order to take up the question among others of the relation of women to the parties, and of whether or not to take a stand on candidates. The principal action was the decision by an almost unanimous vote of the meeting that the Association should oppose the re-election of Senator Brandegee because of his 15-years'record in the Senate, in which time he had opposed consistently the measures and the principles of human welfare for which women are peculiarly responsible. Certain members of the Association believing that loyalty to party was their first duty felt that they could not conscientiously follow this action. If the association stands for anything it is for the freedom of minorities. It is not necessary to repeat the history of so recent a campaign. The result was that on November 2nd Senator Brandegee ran so far behind his ticket that he would probably have been defeated in any normal year. But that result is of minor importance except for its demonstration that there is in the state a large group of men and women who, if their party's candidates do not measure up to what they believe to be a proper standard, will cast their votes against those candidates. That demonstration is bound to influence future nominations. Finally, the Association demonstrated once more its adherence to principle - and when you are fighting for principle you can never be defeated. just as in the fight for suffrage we have never known defeat. None of our efforts throughout the year has been wasted, - 12 - because it has always been educational, both to ourselves and to our opponents, who have learned that women are a force to be counted with. Who can say what part of our campaign brought us the vote by November, 1920? All we know is that if we had stopped, Connecticut would not have been the 37th, and Tennessee very possibly would not even have been the 36th. I do not need to tell you, who have known Miss Ludington longer than I, that it has been her leadership and her planning and her care even for the most wearisome details that have put through this year's work. She knows better than anyone I can think of how to make play out of work - with her it is a great game. Now what has it all been for? Do you think that Miss Ludington and that those who left in the work before her could have carried it on with such indominitable spirit only in order that women might go to the polls once a year and drop their ballot in a box? Do you think they could have done it if they had not believed that women would use their votes to wipe out the injustices in the world -- the injustices between man and man and between woman and man -- to lift intolerable burdens from motherhood and childhood? Even if we wanted to could we possibly escape the responsibility of victory? Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association HEADQUARTERS 55-57 PRATT STREET, HARTFORD STATEMENT OF POLITICAL POLICY. The following resolution was adopted at the Fiftieth Annual Convention of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association held in Bridgeport November 12-14. Whereas, the National Republican Party and a large number of Republicans in this state have given valuable support to the suffrage movement, and Whereas, a small group of Connecticut Republicans is now hindering the calling of a special session of the legislature. Therefore be it resolved, that the immediate policy of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association shall be to concentrate its opposition against this small group within the Republican party. In the course of the full discussion that preceded this action various lines of policy were suggested, and as some confusion of mind seems to have resulted among the members of the Association, the Executive Board wishes to make the following points quite clear: 1. The Association is not departing in any way from its traditional policy of non-partisanship. It is not backing either political party, nor is it affiliating with any group within a party. It is opposing that group in the Republican party (the party now in power in Connecticut,) which is opposing woman suffrage. In taking this stand the Association confines itself to the one purpose for which it is organized: namely, the winning of the vote. 2. The Association is not opposed to having members join the women's organizations of the political parties. On the contrary, it encourages their giving thought to what their political affiliations are to be - but it urges upon suffragists that until Connecticut women are enfranchised, loyalty to a state party - and it suggests the following as a logical position for Republican suffragists to take: viz, that they will work for the National Republican party and join the Republican women's organization for that purpose, that they will not work for the Connecticut Republican Party until it changes its attitude toward ratification of the Federal Suffrage Amendment. 2. It should be understood that this advice is especially directed to Republican suffragists, because the state Republican party, which holds in its hands the fate of suffrage in Connecticut, has no suffrage plank in its platform and is controlled by a group that is fighting ratification. The state Democratic party, on the contrary, has a suffrage plank in its platform and favors ratification. The methods to be pursued in applying this policy are to be determined by the Committee on Political Work in consultation with the Executive Board, and will be put into effect with the co-operation of the County Association. Your board will be glad to answer inquiries, if there are any further points upon which it has not made its position entirely clear. The Executive Board of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. C.W.S.A. Miss Rosamond Danielson, Windham County Chairman. You are cordially invited to attend a meeting to consider forming a county suffrage organization in Windham County pursuant to the requirements of the new constitution adopted at the Fiftieth Annual Convention of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association on November 13th. Odd Fellows Hall, Putnam, Conn. December 3, 1919. ...................................... Program 11 A. M. Meeting called to order. Citizenship Work as a New Citizen Sees It. Mrs. H. Edward Dreier, New York. The Plan of Reorganization. Miss Mabel C. Washburn. .............................................. 12:30 Adjournment for luncheon. Please bring a basket lunch -- coffee will be served. ............................................... 1:30 Adoption of County Constitution. Election of officers. Publicity in its Relation to County Work. Miss Julia M. Hinaman. Windham County Delegates to the Republican State Convention - 1918 28th Sen. -- Archibald MacDonald G. Harold Gilpatric Ashford -- H. R. Woodward F. M. Wright Everett Barlow Clarence Barlow Eastford -- John M. Tatum Chas. R. Tripp Killingly -- Harry E. Back Alma Forcier Ralph C. Young N. Lorne Greig Putnam -- Ernest B. Kent Aldemar Brodeur John B. Byrne Silas M. Wheelock Thompson -- Chas. E. Searls E. S. Backus Jos. Bonin E. H. Cortis Woodstock -- Melancthon Riddick Oliver A. Hiscox Irving A. Paine Spencer H. Child 29th Send. -- Sessions L. Adams Chas. O. Thompson Brooklyn -- J. R. Washburn E. C. Babson Centerbury -- Frank E. Miller Edward Baker Jas. E. Towne Arthur C. Bennett Chaplin -- Chas. B. Russ Frank W. Chappell Hampton -- Albert L. Mills Frank A. Phillips Plainfield -- Chas. Bragg Allen E. Moffitt Samuel T. Butterworth W. Franklin Sheldon Pomfret -- Fayette L. Wright John Ash F. H. Paine Willis Covell Scotland -- Geo. S. Cary Harry P. Chesbro Sterling -- H. H. Crowell E. A. Douglas Windham -- S. Arnold Peckham Philip Cheney Geo. E. Hinman Wm. A. King Windham County Delegates to the Democratic State Convention - 1918 Windham -- Daniel P. Dunn Frank P. Fenton Pierre J. Laranee James Hagerty Valentine L. Murphy Brooklyn -- Oscar F. Atwood John M. Bessette Canterbury-- Michael T. Shea Hart. W. Goff Geo. E Larkin Jas. L. Appley Plainfield--James Gorman Joseph Smith Robert Sykes Dennis R. Donovan Putnam -- J. Harry Mann J. J. McCarry David Beausoliel Willis Carroll George Potvin Sterling -- Alex. W. Dougherty Alva J. Bixon Hampton -- Austin E. Pearl Chas. R. Hicks Killingly -- Joseph Halle Olcott D. Sayles S. E. Bitgood A. V. Woodworth Ashford -- Oscar D. Baker Frank W. Morney Alex. M. Bassett James A. Knowlton Eastford -- John B. Eathridge Chas. A. Wheaton Thompson -- Asa M. Ross Fernando C. Ross Clarence W. Stevens Marcus A. Elliott CONNECTICUT CAMPAIGN FOR $100,000 JUNE 9th - 16th, 1919 TO help in the development of true Americanism through training in good citizenship, and for the interests of Woman Suffrage in the State. AMERICA IS GIVING WOMEN THE VOTE THE WOMEN MUST GIVE AMERICA AN INTELLIGENT VOTE Mrs. Samuel Russell, Jr., Campaign Chairman, Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, 55 Pratt Street, Hartford, Conn. EQUAL SUFFRAGE WILL GIVE CONECTICUT 350,000 NEW VOTES GOAL: - One Hundred Thousand Dollars. WHEN? - June 9th to 16th, 1919 WHERE? - In every City and Town in the State of Connecticut WHY? - To help in the Development of True Americanism through Training in Good Citizenship and for the Interests of Woman Suffrage in the State. No government is so responsive to the thoughts and desires of the people as a democracy. Its greatness is an informed and enlightened citizenship - its weakness the un-informed. The value of a vote to the State depends upon an understanding of the aims and purposes of our Government. We must develop patriotic women with a high sense of civic responsibility. The World War has linked us so closely to the lands across the seas that the good and bad come swiftly to us. The mighty forces playing upon the hearts and minds of the peoples of Europe make vitally important a knowledge of the orderly processes by which desired changes may be brought about. If democracy is worth the blood we have spilt for it and we mean actually to make it a reality, we need to make every man and woman a good citizen. The war revealed the fact that an appalling proportion of the electorate is illiterate. Connecticut must, for her own welfare, render certain services to her people with the coming of complete suffrage. This cannot be done without money. The quantity of votes will be greatly increased. What about the quality? The price of true democracy is a clear understanding of civic responsibility in each individual. Thirty-eight per cent. of the women of Connecticut are of native parentage; twenty-four per cent. are of foreign or mixed parentage; thirty-eight per cent. are foreign born. No state, before it acquired full suffrage, has ever undertaken Citizenship work in so detailed and comprehensive a manner. The money will be used to make our women valuable factors in good government. The Association is planning to carry out this program efficiently. Our good Citizenship work is generally recognized as a valuable part of the work of reconstruction. The Association plans to have a Legislative Information Bureau: also a Department of Data on all civic matters. The people of Connecticut are under obligation to the Association at the present time for past work in awakening Connecticut women to a sense of their civic relationship. Since the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association has worked through the long years for full franchise, they now feel keenly their responsibility that the vote which the women give back to the State shall be an intelligent vote. Conscientious Citizenship builds good government. This responsibility should be shared by all patriots. HELP US BUILD! When Full Suffrage Arrives, Connecticut Must Be Ready! PRESIDENT CONNECTICUT WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION MISS KATHARINE LUDINGTON CHAIRMAN STATE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE MRS. SAMUEL RUSSELL, JR. CHAIRMAN PUBLICITY COMMITTEE MISS MARY BULKLEY CHAIRMAN COUNTY CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE HARTFORD-MRS. WILLIAM H. DEMING NEW HAVEN-MRS. T. S. McDERMOTT FAIRFIELD-MRS. EMERSON NEWELL NEW LONDON-MRS. GEORGE MAYNARD MINOR LITCHFIELD-MRS. A. S. G. TAYLOR WINDHAM-MRS. FRANCIS U. JOHNSTONE MIDDLESEX-MRS. O. W. NOBLE TOLLAN-MRS. FANNIE DIXON WELCH. CHAIRMAN SPEAKERS' COMMITTEE MRS. HARRY TYLER SMITH CHAIRMAN FINANCE COMMITTEE MISS MABEL C. WASHBURN HARTFORD Hon. Hugh M. Alcorn Mrs. Joseph W. Alsop Mrs. C. H. Bissell Miss Mary Taylor Blauvelt Mr. Frank Cheney, Jr. Mrs. Charles P. Cooley Miss Caroline M. Hewins Col. Charles M. Jarvis Judge William M. Maltbie Dr. Ernest de F. Miel Major Emerson G. Taylor Judge Joseph P. Tuttle Mrs. Antoinette E. Wood NEW HAVEN Mrs. T. Whitney Blake Miss Phebe Blakeslee Mrs. John P. Elton Hon. David E. Fitzgerald Miss Elizabeth Hooker Mrs. Arther W. Malley Prof. William Lyon Phelps Prof. E. Hershey Sneath Mr. Rudolph Steinert Mr. Carlos F. Stoddard Dr. William F. Verdi NEW LONDON Mrs. William B. Birge Mrs. H. C. Bunner Mr. James Dana Coit Judge John C. Geary Miss Louise C. Howe Judge Frederick P. Lattimer Dr. Benjamin P. Marshall Miss Mary G. Shannon Mrs. A. C. Tyler Hon. Thomas M. Waller FAIRFIELD Judge John R. Booth Mr. Julian Curtiss Mrs. A. Barton Hepburn Major Emerson Newell Miss Caroline Ruutz-Rees Mrs. Samuel C. Shaw Hon. Samuel C. Shaw Mrs. James Stokes Mrs. John Adams Thayer Hon. Clifford B. Wilson WINDHAM Mr. J. G. Byrne Mrs. J. M. Gager Hon. G. Harold Gilpatric Miss Charlotte Grosvenor Mr. Francis Upton Johnstone Rev. William Beach Olmsted Mrs. Sydney Paine Judge Milton A. Shumway Mr. Charles L. Torrey Miss Dorothy Weir Miss Florence D. Wiley LITCHFIELD Mr. W. W. Bierce Mr. John G. Brinsmade Mrs. Henry Hornbostel Dr. William S. Hulbert Mrs. Arthur Knox Mrs. Frank B. Munn Mr. W. W. Norton Mrs. George Quincy Porter Mr. Thomas Constantine Purdy Mrs. Orville H. Ripley Mr. Thomas F. Ryan Mrs. Christabel Safford Mr. A. S. G. Taylor MIDDLESEX Mrs. F. A. Bradeen Mr. Charles B. Carlson Hon. Charles E. Clark Mrs. William Couch Mr. F. R. Goodrich Mr. E. Ken Hubbard Mrs. William Ladd Mrs. Whitney Porter Mr. Robert Rice Dr. William Arnold Shanklin Mrs. F. S. Smith Hon. Charles E. Torkelson TOLLAND Mrs. A. H. Benton Rev. B. F. Case Mr. Joseph N. Clark Mr. George Forster Mrs. Walter Haven Mrs. E. B. Kibbe Mrs. George James Mansfield Miss Pendelton Hon. Lyman Tingier Mr. Edward M. Yeomans LIST OF ENROLLED WOMEN Please return this book when filled and signed, to the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, 55 Pratt Street, Hartford. Please send a copy of these names to your Senatorial District Leader. Name of S. D. Leader, Address 6 We, the undersigned, believe in Equal Suffrage for Men and Women. (Not having signed a similar book.) NAME ADDRESS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 I hereby certify that these signatures are genuine. Name Address The fifty-first annual convention of the Connecticut woman Suffrage Association was held at Lower Unity Hall, Hartford, on November 8th and 9th. The convention was called to order at 12 o'clock, on Monday, Miss Katharine Ludington, President of the Association, presiding. The welcome to Hartford was given by Miss Mary Bulkley, who referred to the many times that the suffragists had been welcomed to Hartford, reminding us of the great parade and the many deputations to the Capitol. Mrs. Grace Thompson Seton being unavoidably absent from the state, Miss Emily Whitney of New Haven made the response on behalf of the Association. The President then appointed the following committees: Credentials, Chairman, Mrs. R. M. Dadourian, Mrs. H. H. Stryker, Miss Helen Cadwell. Resolutions, Chairman, Miss Annie E. Trumbull, Mrs. Willis Austin, Miss Emily Whitney, Mrs. R. M. Dadourian The minutes of the last convention were then read by Mrs. Cheney, Recording Secretary, after which as it was not yet quite one o'clock, the president asked the treasurer to present her report. The report was read and accepted. At 1 p.m. the convention adjourned for lunch. It was called to order at 2:30. Miss Washburn thanked the finance committee for the splendid work they had done during the year, as it had made her work so much easier than the work of the year before. Miss Ludington reported briefly on the work of the political committee. - 2 - The Citizenship report was given by Mrs. C. E. A. Winslow, who said that the women should not cease their efforts with the suffrage victory, as party loyalty should be subordinated to loyalty to the principles of child welfare, education, protection of women in industry and legislation for defectives and juvenile delinquents. Miss Julia M. Hinaman reported for the Publicity Department, telling briefly of the year's work, especially of the "emergency week" publicity. (report appended.) Miss Mary Bilkley gave the headquarters report, which is appended. Miss Bulkley also gave the Hartford County report (appended.) New Haven County report was given by MissEmily Whitney (appended.) Miss Edna Tyler reported for the New London County (report appended.) Fairfield County report was given by Miss Grace Murray, Organizer, in the absence of Miss Caroline Ruutz-Rees, who was detained by illness. (report appended.) Windham County report was given by Mrs. F. U. Johnstone, in the absence of Miss Rosamond Danielson, who was unable to be present on account of illness (report appended.) Miss Cain reported for Mrs. A. E. S. Taylor, who was ill and unable to be present. She said that Litchfield County had done just the same as everybody else had done, and then some. She read a message which Mrs. Taylor sent to the Association. (appended.) Mrs. W. P Couch reported for Middlesex County (report appended.) Tolland County report was given by Mrs. Fannie Dixon Welch. (appended.) The History of the Year was then given by Mrs. R. M. Dadourian. The history is also appended. - 3 - The convention was called to order at 10:26 on Tuesday, November 9th, by Miss Ludington, who asked that Miss Washburn be allowed to preside, so that she might act and speak as regional director. The report of the resolutions committee was given by Miss Annie Trumbull, Chairman of the committee. Miss Bulkley moved that the resolutions be acted upon one by one. The motion was seconded, and it was so voted. Whereas, the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association having accomplished the end for which it was organized. the attainment of equal suffrage in Connecticut, dissolves this ninth of November, 1920, having passed the following resolutions: Resolved. that in common with all state suffrage associations throughout the country, it places on record its joy, and thanks-giving, for the final establishment, after sixty years of effort, of equal suffrage in the United States, with its accompaniment of justice to all loyal citizens without discrimination against sex. Resolve also, that the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association extends to the Executive Board and to all its members, co-workers and advisors, its cordial thanks and assurance of its appreciation of their generous cooperation, enthusiasm and support, throughout its long and arduous fight for justice against prejudice, bitterness and reactionary sympathies. And further, that to its President, Miss Katherine Ludington, it owes and offers its deepest gratitude and an unqualified acknowledgement of the skill, fortitude, sincerity and determination, and the admirable temper in which she has conducted a long and often very discouraging contest, winning from supporters and opponents alike, the respect and consideration due to - 4 - her character and accomplishment. Whereas, some of earnest and faithful members have fallen from our ranks, it is Resolved, that mingled with this joy in the success of our long struggle is a regretful sorrow and keen remembrance in the absence of those who marched with us so tirelessly and so faithfully. Among these are Mrs. Alexander Troup, Mrs. Frances Bunce Ryce, Mrs. E. R. Sattig, Mrs. J. H. Stokes, Miss Agnes Rice, and Mrs. Samuel Pierson of Stamford. Their labor was generous and self-forgetful and we miss their presence in our rejoining. Resolved, that the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association as a whole, places on record its gratitude for, and appreciation of, the work of its county chairmen and all its separate departments, which have forwarded and developed in so many directions and under so many forms, its many activities, all tending to one definite result. It cannot too highly estimate the spirit of cooperation and unswerving fidelity which has unified the work of the Association with such excellent results. Resolved, that the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association records its affectionate appreciation of the unifying loyalty of the members of its staff to its interests; their devotion has been tireless through long hours, their courage and optimism have endured through trying ordeals, and without their able and generous efforts the work of this association could not have been accomplished. Resolved, that the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association records its special recognition of the efforts and achievements of the former presidents of the Association, all of whom have made - 5 - contribution of their time, strength and abilities to what they have always been confident was its ultimate success. Resolved, that the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association extends to the Men's Advisory Committee its warmest and most grateful acknowledgement. It has been untiring in consultation and action, as individuals, often at variance with party, and always quick to resent and to circumvent arbitrary interference and chicane. Resolved, that the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association also expresses its gratitude to the Chairman and members of the Men's Ratification Committee for its efforts to secure an early ratification of the 19th amendment at the hands of the Connecticut legislature. Its aid and support have been assiduous and disinterested and afforded, often, under circumstances of extreme difficulty. Resolved, that the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association expresses its thanks to the press of the state, which, with a few notable exceptions, has met its agents with courtesy and fair dealing, without hostility, and without a disposition to exaggerate and falsify. Resolved, that the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association records an especial sense of gratitude to Mrs. Antoinette Eno Wood, who, having so often and so generously come to our assistance, confirmed her interest at the critical period of the closing weeks of the recent campaign by a gift of five thousand dollars, a gift sorely needed and graciously tendered. Also it wishes to place on record its sincere gratitude to Mr. Charles H. Ludington for his unfailing and most liberal support. Whereas, the Standard Publishing Company and Mr. Pyne have at all time and in many emergencies done most valuable and - 6 - efficient work for this Association, and Whereas, they have made sacrifices in order to carry out our sudden demands upon their patience and energy. Resolved, that we extend to them our thanks and appreciation and our earnest hope that we can work together in the future. Whereas, Meyer and Holl, have met the recurring special emergencies of our suffrage struggle with unfailing patience, devotion to detail, and a sacrificial willingness to meet our demands of vast production on five minute's notice, like veritable members of our Association. Be It Resolved, that we extend to them our thanks and appreciation and our earnest hope that we can work together in the future. Resolved, that this Association tenders to the Convention Committee its appreciation of the successful efforts which have made this last convention so joyous and brilliant an event, a fitting climax to the long list of like occasions, the memory of which will be with us always. Miss Bulkley moved that the first resolution be adopted by a rising vote, which was done. Miss Bulkley also gave an address on the League of Women Voters, which is appended. A motion was then taken as to whether we should stay and finish the business of the convention, or whether we should take a recess of half an hour. It was voted to stay and finish the business. - 7 - A motion was made by Miss Mary Olcott to divide resolution I, as outlined by the president and sent to the members of the Association in advance, into two parts, as follows: 1. Be It Resolved, that the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association favors the formation of a Connecticut League of Women Voters, to be affiliated with the National League of Women Votes: and be it further Resolved, that the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association shall take the initiative toward this end. 2. Whereas, the main object of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association has been to secure the vote for the women of Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association appoint a preliminary organization committee, instructing this committee to add to its members representative women from other organizations, and recommending that a general public meeting be called by this committee if possible by December 15, to form the Connecticut League of Women Voters. After some discussion the above resolutions were adopted. Mrs. Alsop felt that the committee if formed by the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association might be detrimental to the future of the League. Miss Ludington explained that the League is a new body, but it is an outgrowth of the suffrage movement, and some group must take the initiative in its formation. It matters more to get the right women from other organizations. Miss Trumbull asked if the formation of the League could be delayed and not taken up at the same time as the dissolution of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. Miss Ludington gave an instance of the formation of the Rhode Island League of Women Voters which was formed at a mass meeting. - 8 - Miss Bulkley thought if the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association booked down, it would fall in its duty to the women of Connecticut. Suffragists had led women and needed still to lead them. She thought that having favored the League of Women Voters we ought to take the next step. Mrs. George Keller recalled the fact that the National League of Women Voters organized as a department of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Miss Whitney said people were looking to suffragists to start the League. Miss Tyler thought that everything would depend on the committee appointed. Mrs. Wm. B. Green thought all kinds of women should be included in the committee. Mrs. Robinson of New Haven, expressed the opinion that Miss Ludington would be broad-minded enough to choose a representative committee. Mrs. Townshend thought the idea was not simply to perpetuate the suffrage association. In Massachusetts women who were formerly antis are joining in herds, not to perpetuate the old cause, but to keep alive what we have fought for. Mrs. Gesell asked how the committee should be appointed. Mrs. Austin moved, and it was seconded, that the appointment of the preliminary organization committee be made by Miss Ludington in her capacity as regional director of New England. The motion carried. The following resolution was then considered, and after discussion, - 9 - adopted. Whereas, the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association must either dissolve or take up new lines of work; therefore be it Resolved, that the Association shall assume no new lines of work, and shall proceed to dissolve by the following process: 1. The Association shall remain in existence until the League of Women Voters is organized, in order to close up outstanding financial obligations; to retain its present valuable and devoted staff until it shall be seen whether the new organization wishes to avail itself of their experienced services or until they have an opportunity to find other lines of work; to hold equipment and property until they can be turned over to the League, if desired; and able to meet the increasing demand for citizenship instruction until such time as the League of Women Voters can take up this responsibility. 2. The County Association and local leagues shall be urged to retain their organization until the League of Women Voters is established, in order to avoid the loss of interest and momentum which an inactive period would involve. 3. The present Executive Board shall remain in force until the affairs of the Association are wound up and its effects disposed of. When its work is completed and a final report is sent to the membership of the Association it shall then by formal resolution dissolve. 4. An effort shall be made at this Convention to raise sufficient money to finesse the work above described until the League of Women Voters is established. The report of the credentials committee was then given, and is appended hereto. - 10 - The deferred report of the resolutions committee was then heard, after which Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton proceeded to the raising of $2500., which Miss Washburn, the Treasurer, of the Association, estimated would carry the work on until January 1st, when the new organization would take over the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. Miss Julia Hinaman was then called upon to auction off the effects and property of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. About $60. was realized from the sale. The convention then adjourned. Mrs. Sarah Cheney, Secretary. IMPORTANT ! August 12, 1920 MEMORANDUM FOR COUNTY LEADERS. II. August 26 - Caucus in all towns of the state for election of delegates to the Republican state convention, the senatorial district conventions, the congressional and the probate conventions, Ward caucuses in all cities for the election of delegates to the city convention which elects delegates to the state convention, etc. August 27 - City conventions for election of delegates to Republican state convention, etc. August 28 - District conventions held in senatorial districts comprising more than one town, for the choosing of two delegates-at-large from each district by the delegates from the several towns in this district. In cities which include one or more senatorial districts these delegates-at-large are chosen in city convention. Note the choosing of delegates-at-large by the state convention delegates who have previously been elected. Immediately the names of the delegates are known, every women town leader should be instructed in advance to interview those who are known to be favorable urging these delegates to attend the district meeting and try to secure the election of friendly delegates-at-large. Second - and most important - is the election of delegates to the Senatorial District Convention. (See above.) These delegates are usually not the same as those chosen for the state convention, but they are chosen at the same time. For us, they are equally important, as they control the nomination of state senators. Every possible means should be used to get friendly men picked for each of these 35 senatorial conventions. Please instruct each of your town workers to go if possible - and if you consider it advisable - to the caucus in her town, both to see how it works and to keep an eye on the men who have promised to help us. Remember that Tennessee is not sure - and Connecticut is not hopeless. MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING June 16, 1920. The regular monthly meeting of the Executive Board of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association was held at the home of Mrs. William H. Deming, 47 Highland Street, Hartford, on Wednesday, June 16th. The meeting was called to order at 11:30 A. M. by Miss Ludington, President of the Association. Miss Washburn gave the Treasurer's report and it was accepted. Other reports were omitted, so that discussion of the new policy and program of work could be got under way. Miss Hinaman reported her conversation with Colonel Ullman, the gift of which was that the suffrage plank in the Republican platform should be interpreted as meaning that the Legislature should call itself together. It was agreed that no action toward a self-called session should be take without advice from the National Association. The meeting adjourned for luncheon. It was again called to order at 1:45. It was moved by Mrs. Taylor, and seconded by Miss Washburn. that the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association can best follow the spirit in which Dr. Shaw carried on her work by not deflecting its energy or funds from the main object of securing ratification until after the fall elections. It was so voted. It was moved by Mrs. Seton, and seconded by Mrs. Cooper, that provided the National Women Suffrage Association approves, and provided that the Republican Men's Ratification Committee will take the full initiative and responsibility toward the Connecticut Legislature calling itself together in special session, the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association will stand back of such action. It was so voted. It was moved by Mrs. Taylor, seconded by Miss Bulkley, that Judge Warner's letter be withheld for the present from publication. It was a vote. In outlining the work of our newly adopted policy the Chairman said the first move was the open letter to candidates for Governor and opposition to those opposed to us. The second move is to have the County Chairman call county meetings and put policy of work before them, then have a worker's conference on details. The third move is to have the County Chairman make a list of towns in her county where the chance of change is possible, and work for friendly delegates to the State Convention, then pick towns where a fight can be made with women you have available to work with, then call conference of picked women and give them full instructions of work they can do, keeping always in close touch with them, and study county for source of information which can be used against the Machine. It was moved by Mrs. McDermott, and seconded, that all funds for political work, either solicited or voluntary, should be deposited in the political fund of the state treasury, special respect and consideration being given to requests that the donations be used in particular locations. It was so voted. It was moved by Mrs. Doming, and seconded, by Miss Washburn that according to the interpretation of the policy adopted at the last board meeting, the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association states that it cannot work for the election of any candidate. It was a vote. It was moved to adjourn. MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING June 3d, 1920. A meeting of the Executive Board of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association was held at 55 Pratt Street, on June 3d. The meeting was called to order by Miss Ludington at 11:50. The four policies in the letter sent by the chairman to members of the Board were taken up and discussed in order. Mrs. McDermott moved, and Miss Bulkley seconded, an amendment to Policy III, that after the word ratification, be added "and provided these men will agree to openly protest against their parties' failure to secure a special session." It was so voted. Mrs. Doming moved, and Miss Ruutz-Rees seconded, the adoption of the third policy as amended. It was so voted. It was moved by Miss Ruutz-Rees, and seconded, that publicity be withheld until after the meeting of the Republican Men's Ratification Committee. It was so voted. The meeting adjourned for luncheon. It was called to order at 2:05. A discussion of the methods of carrying out the policy and of laying it before the members of the Association through the next county conferences followed. The chairman reported a talk with Colonel Ullman, (representing Connecticut on the Resolutions Committee at the Republican National Convention) who promises to present the Resolution in favor of ratification. The chairman read a memorial from the women of Vermont and Connecticut to be sent to Will Hayes, with the request that it be read on the floor of the Convention. It was moved by Mrs. Deming, seconded by Miss Bulkley, that the Board endorse the memorial. It was so voted. It was moved and seconded that the chairman communicate with Mrs. Alsop both as a suffragist and as head of the Republican Woman's Organization, to ask that her organization endorse this memorial. It was so voted. The campaign was discussed. It was proposed that the work relating to conditions on the state ticket be under the political committee and that for candidates to the legislature be under the county chairmen. It was decided to discuss this in detail at the next meeting of the Board to be held on June 16th at Mrs. Doming's house. Miss Ludington asked the County Chairman to come to this meeting with the following information relating to the campaign:- 1. List of towns in which there are likely to be contests for nomination of Republican candidates to the legislature. 2. List of towns in which there are women who can be counted on for the work of finding out who the candidates are likely to be and obtaining local data about them. 3. List of towns which will have to be covered otherwise and suggestions for covering them. 4. So far as possible, County Chairmen will got in touch with these workers before June 16 and instruct them as preliminary to do scout work in finding out names of probable candidates on Republican ticket for legislature. This should be done as quietly as possible. All the data obtainable will go through the hands of the County Chairmen and be sent to her by Information Bureau at Headquarters. Information will in turn look up records of candidates who have previously served in legislature. - 2 - 5. In districts where machine candidate is proposed for nomination County Chairmen will suggest the name of man who might run in opposition. The following resolution passed by the Fairfield County Suffrage Association at its regular monthly meeting May 20th, 1920, was read: RESOLVED, that the Fairfield County Suffrage Association, assembled in Westport, again state their earnest desire that all efforts of the State Board be given to the consideration of getting the State Legislature convened by its own members, at the earliest possible date. It was moved by Miss Bulkley that we reply that "it is the sense of the Board that while commending the sprit and enthusiasm of the Fairfield County suffragists, it feels that the movement to have the legislature call itself together could not possibly be brought to a successful conclusion if atempted by the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. If, however, through the action of members of the legislature itself such a session were summoned, the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association would welcome such action." It was so voted. An open letter to be sent to the prominent candidate for Governor was read and approved, and a list of such candidates in both parties was read. Mrs. Deming invited the Board to meet with her in Hartford on June 16th. Her invitation was accepted with thanks. The members of the Board who were present at the meeting were: Miss Ludington Mrs. Walch Mrs. Maxim Mrs. Dadourian Miss Whitney Mrs. Taylor Mrs. McDermott Mrs. Doming Miss Bulkley Miss Ruutz-Rees Mrs. Cooper Others present were: Miss Weaver Mrs. Dustin Mrs. Kitchelt Emily H. Whitney, Temporary Recording Secretary. Arthur C. Coit, President Louis J. Alber, General Manager The Seal of Quality The Coit-Alber Bureaus The Coit Lyceum Bureau Cleveland R. E. Barnette, Secretary Coit-Alber Building The Coit-Alber Dominion Bureau Toronto Norman Plass, Secretary Lumsden Building The Coit-Alber Lyceum Bureau Boston Elbert A. Wickes, Secretary-Manager Little Building Pitt F. Parker, Associate Manager The Coit-Alber Lyceum Bureau Syracuse C. D. Brooks, Secretary-Manager First National Bank Building The Coit-Neilson Lyceum Bureau Pittsburgh P. M. Neilson, Manager Highland Building The Coit-Alber Chautauqua System Cleveland. O. Thos V. Hendricks, Secretary-Publicity Mgr. Coit-Alber Building Lincoln G. Dickey, Vice-President-Genl. Supt. The Coit-Alber Independent Chautauqua Co. Chicago O. B. Stephenson, Secy.-Treas. Orchestra Bldg. Miss Rosamond Danielson, Putnam, Conn. This letter written from Little Building, 80 Boylston St. Boston December 8/1919 Dear Miss Danielson:- We are glad to announce a limited lecture tour for MRS. EMMELINE PANKHURST, the "irresistible force that struck an apparently immovable body" when a reactionary British government attempted to stop the inevitable movement for the recognition of women as human beings instead of property. The Great War crumbled the old ministry with its archaic ideas and in the necessity of self-preservation England began to realize that the War could be won only with the help of women workers. Mrs. Pankhurst - always aggressively right - threw all her wonderful influence and energy into the struggle against tyranny as exercised by the German government and personified in the Kaiser. The world knows how well the women of England responded but to see and hear this veteran champion of human rights - Mrs. Pankhurst - will be a great experience for all good Americans. Mrs. Pankhurst will be available for lecture dates in New England and New York State during early February, probably from February 2 to 14. The moderate flat fee of $250.00 will cover all expenses for her appearance in your town. Please act promptly if it is your pleasure to secure a choice of dates. Very truly yours, COIT-ALBER LYCEUM BUREAU Per Elbert A Wicker Mgr. Members of the Affiliated Lyceum Chautauqua Bureaus Boston, Syracuse, Toronto, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Boise, Portland, Calgary, Sydney Australia. The Coit-Alber Lyceum Bureau, Sheet No. 2 P.S. It should be observed that her lectures cover a wider range than subjects directly pertaining to equal suffrage. To miss what she has to say on Bolshevism as she saw it in Russia and as she has seen its sinister shadow crossing Great Britain and the United States is to miss hearing one of the few real orators now living. The subjects of Mrs. Pankhurst's lectures are The Woman Voter Versus Bolshevism What I saw in Russia How Women Helped to Win the War Woman's Part in Politics How Women Can Help Save Civilization Class Co-operation Versus Class War Women and Post War Problems CONNECTICUT WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION HEADQUARTRS 55-57 PRATT STREET. HARTFORD STATEMENT OF POLITICAL POLICY. The following resolution was adopted at the Fiftieth Annual Convention of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association held in Bridgeport November 12-14. Whereas, the National Republican Part and a large number of Republicans in this state given valuable support to the suffrage movement, and Whereas, a small group of Connecticut Republicans is now hindering the calling of a special session of the legislature. Therefore be it resolved, that the immediate policy of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association Shall be to concentrate its opposition against this small group within the Republican party. In the course of the of the full discussion that preceded this action various lines of policy were suggested, and as some confusion of mind seems to have resulted among the members of the Association, the Executive Board wishes to make the following points quite clear: 1 . The Association is not departing in any way from its traditional policy of non-partisanship. It is not backing either political party , nor is it affiliating with any group within a party. It is opposing that group in the Republican party (the party now in power in Connecticut,) which is opposing woman suffrage . In taking this stand the Association confines itself to the one purpose for which it is organized; namely, the winning the vote. 2. The Association is not opposed to having members join the women's organizations of the political parties. On the contrary , it encourages their giving thought to what their political affiliations are to be - but it urges upon suffragists that until Connecticut woman are enfranchised, loyalty to suffrage shall take precedence of loyalty to a state party - and it suggests the following as a logical position for Republican suffragists to take viz, that they will work for the National Republican part and join the Republican women's organization for that purpose, that they will not work for the Connecticut Republican Party until it changes its attitude toward ratification of the Federal Suffrage Amendment. 2. It should be understood that this advice is especially directed to Republican suffragists, because the state Republican party, which holds in its hands the fate of suffrage in Connecticut, has no suffrage plank in its platform and is controlled by a group that is fighting ratification. The state Democratic party, on the contrary, has a suffrage plank in its platform and favors ratification. The methods to be pursued in applying this policy are to be determined by the Committee on Political Work in consultation with the Executive Board, and will be put into effect with the co-operation of the County Association. Your board will be glad to answer inquiries, if there are any further points upon which it has not made its position entirely clear. The Executive Board of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. LECTURES .. 1920 .. Margaret C. CHRISTIE Formerly organizer and lecturer for the Connecticut research Association Associated with the war and navy Department on training camp activities Council for National Defense National league for women's service , and war camp community service through its National and New York Offices Miss Margaret C. Christie gave a very interesting talk at Erasmus Hall High School last evening on "When Johnny Comes Marching Home." The occasion was one of New York War Camp Community Service rallies and Miss Christie spoke at the urgent request of several hundred "Comrade Girls" of Brooklyn. BROOKLYN EAGLE. Miss Margaret Christie, of the New York War Camp Com- munity Service staff, addressed over a hundred members of the Yorkville Social Service Club in their club rooms at 331 East 68th Street last evening. Miss Christie's opening sentence was an unusual one and from that moment until she said, "That is all I have to say!", she held the attention and interest of every member of the club. NEW YORK WORLD. As the basis for sound community life, wholesome group recreation offers wider possibilities than any other program in the opinion of Miss Margaret C. Christie, field worker for the Girls' Division of War Camp Community Service. Miss Christie has lectured before several thousand girls on health and social hygiene, stressing at the same time, true comrade service to returning soldiers and sailors, which has been the main program of the girls' division for the past season. NEW YORK SUN. Miss Christie may be booked to lecture on any of the following topics-singly or in series Social Education and Community Responsibility (A talk for mothers and daughters.) Social Education for our Daughters How they should be taught (A talk for parents and teachers.) Mothers of To-morrow The Essential Beauty of Natural Laws (A talk for mothers and young women.) Americanization from the Park Bench Problems of democracy, of education and of recreation. Recreation as the Focal Point of the Newer Citizenship Sun Product vs. the Doctors Air, sunlight, exercise, and vegetables Health as a National Necessity (To be given in one, or a series of four talks.) How to acquire it. How to keep it. Its Relation to Morality. Its Relation to Efficiency. Good Gifts of War Broader Health Standards. Community Service, Understanding Americanization. How they may be made permanent. Our Neighbor Canada, and What She is Doing for Her Disabled Soldiers What the Women of Canada are Doing in the Reconstruction of Home Life For information, booking, etc., apply to Margaret C. Christie, 37 Madison Ave., N. Y. City. Phone, Madison Square 3900. Much praise has been credited to the women's war service organizations for their efficient work during the recent disaster in Perth Amboy, N. J. Special mention has been made of Miss Margaret C. Christie, War Camp Community Service worker. Many workers were sent to the scene of the disaster on Friday night. Organization of these relief forces was placed in the hands of Miss Christie, who is stationed at Long Branch, N. J. On her own initiative Miss Christie summoned a corps of volunteer assistants and mobilized all the facilities of the town, which included nurses, beds, bedding, trucks, medical supplies, and even coal. New London Telegraph, Conn. Miss Margaret C. Christie of War Camp Community Service spoke at the Mott Haven Comrade Rally last night. Miss Christie is an English woman by birth becomingly tall, and very much in earnest from the crown of her sailor hat to the toes of her tan oxfords, and as she talked the members of the clubs listened with eager attention. New York Tribune January, 1919. My dear Miss Christie. I cannot tell you how grateful we are to you for your wonderful talk which was much enjoyed by all present yesterday. May I thank you most sincerely in the name of our association and assure you that we greatly appreciate your kindly co-operation? Very cordially yours, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Parents' Teachers' Association of the Ethical Culture School, Central Park, West, N. Y. City. CONSTITUTION of Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association 55-57 Pratt Street, Hartford, Conn. ARTICLE I. This organization shall be called the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. ARTICLE II. The object of this association shall be to secure to the women of Connecticut the right to vote on equal terms with men. ARTICLE III. Section 1. The officers of this association shall be a president, one vice-president, eight chairmen of counties, a recording secretary, a corresponding secretary, a treasurer and two auditors, and a member for Connecticut on the executive committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. These officers shall be elected by ballot and together with ex-presidents of the association shall constitute the executive committee. Sec 2. There may be ten or more honorary vice-presidents and an advisory council of indefinite number for purposes of consultation, these officers to be chosen by the executive committee. Sec 3. The executive committee may be convened at the call of the president or by the written request of five members. Sec 4. The executive committee shall have general supervision of the business of the association and shall have power to fill all vacancies occasioned by death or by resignation. ARTICLE IV. This constitution may be amended at any annual convention or at any meeting of the association called especially for the purpose by a two-thirds votes of all members present, previous notice having been given at least one month prior to the meeting by the corresponding secretary. BY-LAWS BY-LAW 1. Section 1. It shall be the duty of the president, or in her absence, of the vice-president, to preside at all the meetings of the association. Sec 2. It shall be the duty of the county chairman to prepare the way for organization in their respective counties. Sec 3. It shall be the duty of the recording secretary to keep accurate minutes of the transactions of the association. Sec 4. It shall be the duty of the corresponding secretary to conduct all correspondence. Sec 5. The treasurer shall have charge of the funds of the association and shall pay out the same only upon an order signed by the president and vice-president. Sec 6. The duty of the auditors shall be to examine the books of the treasurer and report their condition to the society. Sec 7. All officers shall report to the annual convention of the association. BY-LAW II. Section 1. Local societies may become auxiliary to the State Association by paying annually into its treasury the sum of 25 cents for each paid-up membership of such society. Sec 2. Each local society affiliated with the State Association shall be entitled to the following number of delegates in the State Convention: five delegates by virtue of auxiliaryship and one additional delegate for every ten members and major fraction thereof. BY-LAW III. Any person may become a life member of the association by contribution of $25.00 BY-LAW IV. Persons may become enrolled members of the State Association by signing a statement saying that they believe in equal suffrage for men and women. BY-LAW V. The annual meeting of the association shall be held some time during the months of October or November in each year. The date and place of meeting shall be determined by the executive committee. The annual State dues shall be paid on or before the first of October. BY-LAW VI. At any regular meeting of the executive committee five members present shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. BY-LAW VII. These By-Laws may be amended at any annual meeting by a majority vote of all delegates present. MINUTES OF EXECUTIVE BOARD Sept. 17, 1919. The regular meeting of the Executive Board was called to order at 11:30 on Wednesday, September 17, 1919, with the President in the chair. It was agreed to dispense with the reports of the county chairmen and postpone other reports until later in the day. It was moved by Mrs. McDermott, seconded by Mrs. Deming, that a committee be appointed by the chair to devise plans for raising funds at the convention. It was a vote. The work toward ratification was next in order and it was reported that to date 172 members of the Senate and House had signed the petition for a special session. After discussion of details and personnel of the deputations to the Governor, the meeting adjourned for luncheon. The meeting was called to order at 2:30 and convention plans were made the subject of discussion. It was moved by Mrs. Seton, seconded by Miss Bulkley that the convention be held in Bridgeport early in November, if agreeable to the Fairfield County Suffragists. It was a vote. It was moved by Mrs. Seton, seconded by Mrs. Deming, that a chairman of committee on arrangements be appointed by the President, with power to appoint the other members of the committee. It was a vote. Miss Ludington appointed Miss Washburn. It was voted on motion made by Mrs. McDermott, seconded by Mrs. Deming, that a chairman of committee on nominations be appointed by the chair with power to name her associates. Miss Bulkley was appointed to serve. It was announced that an effort was being made to raise a fund of $5000, as a gift to Miss Blackwell, in order to enable her to write her parents' biography. It was voted that the Secretary write to the person having charge of this fund shortly before the convention, in order to ascertain what further efforts should be made to secure contributions from members of our association. The chairman explained that Mrs. Ida Husted Harper is writing a history of Woman Suffrage and that she had requested that a woman from each state be chosen to write a brief history of the movement in her state. It was agreed that Mrs. Annie G. Porritt be asked to write it for Connecticut. It was voted that our association send a resolution to the New York State and New York City Leagues of Women Voters - 2 - informing them of the serious effect it would have on our situation if they in any way supported Senator Wadsworth for another term. It was moved by Mrs. Deming that a woman known to be a good suffragist be appointed to serve on the War Savings Committee. It was a vote. A letter was read from the Fairfield County Association enclosing copies of resolutions on the position of Judge Walsh in relation to the petition to the Governor. It was decided that Miss Ludington should write Judge Walsh, enclosing the resolutions and asking him to make his position clear by sending us the petition or going on the deputation. It was moved by Mrs. Deming, and seconded by Miss Bulkley, that the article entitled "A Message to Republican Suffragists", which had been prepared for the Bulletin, be withheld from the present issue. It was a vote. The meeting adjourned. Those present were: Miss Ludington Mrs. Seton Mrs. Deming Mrs. McDermott Miss Bulkley Mrs. Austin Miss Danielson Miss Webster Mrs. Schoonmaker Miss Walker Miss Murray Mrs. Kitchelt Miss Hinaman Miss Hutt Constitution And By-Laws Of The Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association Adopted At The Fiftieth Annual Convention Bridgeport, Nov. 13, 1919 6 CONSTITUTION ARTICLE I. This organization will be called the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. ARTICLE II. The object of this Association shall be to secure the ratification of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment and to prepare Connecticut Women for the use the vote. ARTICLE III. SECTION 1. The officers of this Association shall be; a president, 3 Vice-presidents, 8 chairmen of counties, a recording secretary, a corresponding secretary, a treasurer, 5 leaders of political work and 2 auditors . These officers shall be elected by ballot at the annual convention of the Association and shall constitute the executive board . SEC. 2. The executive board may be convened at the call of the president or by the written request of five members. SEC. 3. The executive board shall conduct all business of the Association between conventions and shall have power to fill all vacancies occasioned by death or resignation. ARTICLE IV This constitution may be amended at any annual convention or at any meeting of the Association called especially for the purpose, by a two-thirds vote of all members present , previous notice having been given at least one month prior to the meeting by the corresponding secretary. 3 BY-LAWS BY-LAW I. Section 1. It shall be the duty of the president, or in her absence, of the vice-presidents in their order, to preside at all meeting of the Association. Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of each county chairman to supervise all work undertaken in her county to develop the county organization; to guide the educational work; and to co-operate with the political leader whose work falls in her county. Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the recording secretary to keep accurate minutes of the transaction of the Association. Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the corresponding secretary to conduct all correspondence. Sec. 5. The treasurer shall have charge of the funds of the Association and shall pay out the same only upon an order signed by the president and another officer to be designated by the executive board. Sec. 6. The duty of the leaders of political work shall be to direct the political work of the state, acting with the knowledge and co-operation of the county chairmen. Sec. 7. The duty of the auditors shall be to examine the books of the treasurer and report their condition to the Association. Sec. 8. All officers shall report to the annual convention of the Association, these reports to be filed with the recording secretary. 4 BY-LAW II Section 1. The Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association shall be composed of County Associations and other affiliated organizations. The County Associations shall be organized as follows: Sec. 2. Each county shall have the following officers; a chairman, to be elected by the annual state convention, and the following officers to be elected by the annual county convention, viz; a vice-chairman, a secretary, a treasurer and a publicity chairman, with others to be added at the discretion of the county convention. Sec. 3. Membership in the county association shall consist of affiliated societies and individuals, Sec. 4. Societies may become affiliated with the county association by paying annually into the county treasury a share of the expenses of the county proportioned to their dues paying membership and assessed by the county finance committee. Any individual may become affiliated by the annual payment of $1.00 a year into the county treasury. Sec. 5. Every member of the affiliated societies of the County Association and every individual affiliated with the said Association shall be entitled to one vote in the County Convention. Sec. 6. Each county shall have an executive center, the expenses of which, if any, shall be borne by the county treasury. BY-LAW III Requirements for membership in the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. 5 Section 1. Each county association shall be required to pay annually into the state treasury the sum of $5.00 for each society forming the membership of the said association. Sec. 2. Other organizations may become affiliated with the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association with the consent of the executive board and by paying annually into the state treasury the sum of 10 cents for each paid-up membership of the said organization or by payment of $2.00 annually, it being understood that such societies as pay only $2.00 are entitled to only two delegates to the annual convention. Sec. 3. Each county association shall be entitled to ten delegates to the state convention by virtue of auxiliaryship and at least one additional delegate to represent each society forming its membership. Also, for each such society having a membership of over ten members the county shall be entitled to one additional delegate selected from the membership of such society for every ten members or major fraction thereof. Other affiliated organizations shall be entitled to five delegates by virtue of auxiliaryship and one additional delegate for every ten members and major fraction thereof. Sec. 4. Any person may become a life member of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association with the consent of the executive board and by payment of $100. Such member shall be entitled to a vote at all state conventions. BY-LAW IV. Section 1. There shall be five standing committees, viz; Committee on Finance, Political Work, Headquarters, Citizenship, and Press and Publicity. 6 Sec. 2. The Finance Committee shall be composed of a chairman who shall be the state treasurer and the 8 county treasurers. Its duties shall be to prepare a budget for presentation to the annual convention; to devise means of obtaining the income of the state association; and to authorize appropriations. Sec. 3. The Committee on Political Work shall consist of the five political leaders with the president as chairman, with power to add to their number. Sec. 4. The Headquarters Committee shall consist of a chairman who shall be a member of the executive board, the state treasurer, a member for housekeeping department, the director of the information bureau and the executive secretary. Its duties shall be to attend to all business in connection with the rent and running of the state headquarters and the engaging of the salaried staff. Sec. 5. The Citizenship Committee shall consist of a chairman who shall be a member of the executive board, the 8 county chairmen, the director of the information bureau, the director of citizenship, and one other member to be chosen by the chairman. Its duties shall be to plan for the departments of instruction, and practical civic work, subject to the approval of the board, and to put these plans into effect, arranging for classes, teachers, terms, etc. Sec. 6. The Press and Publicity Committee shall consist of a chairman who shall be a member of the executive board, the director of publicity, and three other members, among them a supervisor of the News Bulletin, these three members to be appointed by the chairman. 7 Sec. 7. The chairmen of the Headquarters, Citizenship, and Press and Publicity Committees, and the member for the housekeeping department on the Headquarters Committee, shall be appointed by the executive board, the first three from among the members of the executive board. BY-LAW V. The annual meeting of the Association shall be held some time during the month of October or November in each year. The date and place of meeting shall be determined by the executive board. The annual dues of the affiliated organizations shall be paid before the first of October. BY-LAW VI. At any regular meeting of the executive board five members present shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. BY-LAW VII. The usual parliamentary rules and regulations governing deliberate assemblies shall, as far as practicable, obtain in this Association. Roberts' Revised Rules of Order shall be recognized as authority. BY-LAW VIII. These By-Laws may be amended at any annual meeting by a majority vote of all delegates present. 8 A meeting of the committee on reorganization was held at 2:30 o'clock on Tuesday, September 23d, at State Headquarters. with Miss Ludington presiding. Miss Washburn, Chairman of the sub-committee on reorganization, presented the following report: The sub-committee on reorganization met on August 11 and prepared a revised constitution for consideration by the full committee. Copies of this draft were sent to the two members unable to be present and another meeting was held on September 19 at which one or two slight corrections were made. The result is the draft as now submitted to you. The chief objects which we have tried to attain are: 1. To introduce new life to our councils by increasing the member of the Executive Board. 2. To provide for an organization which shall develop greater county interest and responsibility. 3. To provide for greater efficiency by dividing the work of the Association among responsible committees. 4. To establish a more secure financial basis. It was moved by Miss Washburn, seconded by Miss Bulkley, that the Constitution and By-Laws be voted upon article by article. It was a vote. Article I was adopted on motion by Mrs. Deming Article II " " " " " " Miss Bulkley Article III, Sec. 1 was adopted on motion of Miss Bulkley " 2 " " " " Mrs. Deming " 3 " " " " Miss Bulkley Article IV was adopted on motion of Mrs. Deming By-Law I, Sec. 1 was adopted on motion of Mrs. Deming " 2 " rewarded and adopted " 3 " adopted on motion of Miss Washburn " 4 " " " " " " " 5 " " " " " " " 6 " " " " " Miss Bulkley " 7 " " " " " Miss Washburn " 8 " " " " " Mrs. Deming By-Law II, Sec. 1 was revised and adopted on motion of Miss Danielson " 2 " adopted on motion of Mrs. Deming " 3 " " with omission of the last clause on motion of Mrs. McDermott It was voted by Miss Washburn that sections containing controversial points be referred to the sub-committee for reconsideration. It was a vote. On motion of Miss Bulkley, it was voted that new recommendations of the sub-committee be submitted to the Executive Board. Sec. 4 was referred to committee " 5 " " " " " 6 " " " " By-Law III, Sec. 1 was referred to committee " 2 " " " " " 3 " adopted with addition on motion of Miss Bulkley " 4 " referred to committee " 5 " " " " By-Law IV, Sec. 1 was adopted " 2 was adopted with one clause omitted on motion of Mrs. Deming " 3 On recommendation of Miss Washburn it was voted to add a committee on political work, making it Sec. 3 " 4 was revised and adopted on motion of Miss Danielson " 5 " " " " " " " " By-Law V, was revised and adopted on motion of Miss Danielson " " VI, was adopted on motion of Miss Washburn " " VII, " " " " " " " " VIII, " " " " " " The report was accepted. Miss Bulkley reported informally on emergency plans of the sub-committee on Citizenship, and was granted an extension of time in which to perfect an outline of plans for the future work of the department. Miss Elizabeth Hutt, Secretary Protem. Treasurer's Report, October 1, 1919. RECEIPTS. Balance, May 12, $ 70.59 Convention Pledges 681.75 Financial Campaign 23, 512.73 Loan 7,923.80 Gifts, before campaign, 297.50 Rent of telephone (K.L.) 246.35 League dues 18.25 Citizenship Department 25.00 Sale of book 86.41 For gift to Mrs. Catt 40.60 National pledge 10.00 Miscellaneous 171.48 Mr. Tamblyn for small bills 138.88 $ 33, 223.34 DISBURSEMENTS. Salaries &Expenses $ 6,054.16 Headquarters 1,421.38 Postage 170.70 Lit & Supplies 27.12 News Bulletin 277.42 Press & Publicity 169.10 Citizenship Department 503.40 Telephone 603.55 Signature Campaign 13.02 National Pledge 2,000.00 Fairfield County 692.00 Financial Campaign 6,652.23 Loans paid 10,000.00 Miscellaneous 132.00 Total expenditures $28,716.08 Balance, Oct. 1. 4,507.26 $33,223.34 [A?] meeting of the committee on reorganization was held at 22:30 o'clock on Tuesday, September 23d, at State Headquarters, with Miss Ludington presiding. Miss Washburn, Chairman of the sub-committee on reorganization, presented the following report: The sub-committee on reorganization met on August 11 and prepared a revised constitution for consideration by the full committee. Copies of this draft were sent to the two members unable to be present and another meeting was held on September 19 at which one or two slight corrections were made. The result is the draft as now submitted to you. The chief objects which we have tried to attain are: 1. To introduce new life into our councils by increasing the number of the Executive Board. 2. To provide for an organization which shall develop greater country interest and responsibility. 3. To provide for greater efficiency by dividing the work for the Association among responsible committees. 4. To establish a more secure financial basis. It was moved by Miss Washburn, seconded by Miss Bulkley, that the Constitution and By-laws be voted upon article by article. It was a vote. Article I was adopted on motion of Mrs. Deming Article II " " " " " Miss Bulkley Article III,"Sec.I. " " " " " " 2 " " " Mrs. Deming " 3 " " " Miss Bulkley Article IV " " " " " Mrs. Deming By-Law I, Sec. 1 was adopted on motion of " " " 2 reworded and adopted " 3 was adopted on motion of Miss Washburn " 4 " " " " " " " " 5 " " " " " " " " 6 " " " " " Miss Bulkley " 7 " " " " " Miss Washburn " 8 " " " " " Mrs. Deming -2- By-Law II, Sec. 1 was revised and adopted on motion of Miss Danielson " 2 " adopted on motion of Mrs. Deming " 3 " " with omission of the last clause on motion of Mrs. McDermott It was voted by Miss Washburn that sections containing controversial points be referred to the sub-committee for reconsideration. It was a vote. On motion of Miss Bulkley, it was voted that new recommendations of the sub-committee be submitted to the Executive Board. Sec. 4 was referred to committee " 5 " " " " " 6 " " " " By-Law III, Sec. 1 was referred to committee " 2 " " " " " 3 " adopted with additions on motion of Miss Bulkley " 4 " referred to committee " 5 " " " " By-Law IV, Sec. 1 was adopted " 2 was adopted with one clause omitted on motion of Mrs. Deming " 3 On recommendation of Miss Washburn it was voted to add a committee on political work, making it Sec. 3 " 4 was revised and adopted on motion of Miss Danielson " 5 " " " " " " " " " By-Law V, was revised and adopted on motion of Miss Danielson " " VI, was adopted on motion of Miss Washburn " " VII, " " " " " " " " " VIII, " " " " " " " The report was accepted. Miss Bulkley reported informally on emergency plans of the sub-committee on Citizenship, and was granted an extension of time in which to perfect an outline of plans for the future work of the department. Mary Elizabeth Hutt Secretary Protem. October 1, 1919. A monthly meeting of the Executive Board of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association was called to order by Miss Ludington, Wednesday, October 1st, at 11:30 A.M. The minutes of the last meeting were read and accepted with a few corrections. Miss Washburn presented the Treasurer's report, showing a balance on hand May 12, 1919, of $70.50; Including this balance total receipts $33,223.34 - total disbursements $28,718.08, balance on hand October 1, 1919, $4,507.26. The Treasurer's report was accepted, Miss Washburn stating that there was still a balance of $10,000 of unpaid pledges from the financial drive. Mrs. Rawson requested that an invitation to Miss Washburn, asking her to speak at the next Fairfield County meeting to be held at Redding Ridge, be incorporated in the minutes. Mrs. Rawson wished to give the people of her county this opportunity to meet the State Treasurer, and it would give Miss Washburn an opportunity to speak on the proposed new constitution and financial program. Proposed New Constitution: It was moved by Mrs. Deming and seconded by Miss Washburn, that the new constitution be read as a whole first, and then voted upon article by article. Carried. Article I - Accepted. Article II - Acceptance moved by Miss Webster, seconded by Mrs. McDermott. A vote. Article III - Sec. 1, Its acceptance was moved by Mrs. Deming, seconded by Mrs. Dermott and become a vote, Mrs. Taylor not voting. Sec. 2, Accepted. Sec. 3. Acceptance moved by Miss Bulkley, seconded by Mrs. Austin - became a vote. Article IV - Accepted. BY-LAWS By-Law I - Sec. 1, Approved Sec. 2, " Sec. 3, " - 2 - BY-LAW I (Cont.) Sec. 4, Approved Sec. 5, " Sec. 6, It was moved by Mrs. Taylor, seconded by Mrs. Rawson, that the word "the" be substituted for "all" just before "political work" - it became a vote. It was moved by Miss Bulkley, seconded by Mrs. Taylor, "that when asking help of her county" , etc. be omitted. It became a vote. It was moved by Miss Washburn, seconded by Mrs. Deming and become a vote to omit "always" occurring just before "acting with the knowledge", etc. The acceptance of the revised section was moved by Mrs. Deming and seconded by Mrs. Austin, and became a vote. Sec. 7, Accepted. Sec. 8, Adopted. By-Law II - Sec. 1, Moved to adopt by Rawson, seconded by Mrs. Deming and carried. Sec. 2, Adoption was moved by Mrs. Deming, seconded by Mrs. Taylor and became a vote. Sec. 3, It was moved by Miss Washburn, and seconded by Mrs. Taylor, that "and individuals" be added. The amended section was adopted. Sec. 4, It was voted to add "any individual may become affiliated with the county association by the annual payment of $1.00 a year into the county treasury." Sec. 5, As proposed was rejected. It was moved by Mrs. Deming, seconded by Miss Washburn, that Section V should read "Every member of the affiliated societies of the county association and every individual affiliated with the said association, shall be entitled to one vote in the county convention." Sec. 6, Adoption was moved by Mrs. Rawson, seconded by Mrs. McDermott, and became a vote. By-Law III - Sec. 1, Mrs. Deming moved and Mrs. Rawson seconded the adoption of Sec. 1, It became a vote. - 3 - By-Law III (Cont.) Sec. 2, Adoption was moved by Mrs. Austin, seconded by Mrs. McDermott and became a vote. Sec. 3, Moved by Miss Washburn, seconded by Mrs. Deming to add "to the State Convention" following "10 delegates". The adoption of amended Section III was moved by Mrs. McDermott, seconded by Mrs. Deming and became a vote. Sec. 4, Adoption of Section IV was moved by Miss Bulkley, seconded by Mrs. McDermott and became a vote. By-Law IV - Sec. 1, Adoption was moved by Mrs. McDermott, seconded by Mrs. Austin and became a vote. Sec. 2, Adoption was moved by Miss Bulkley, seconded by Mrs. Rawson and became a vote. Sec. 3, Adoption was moved by Miss Bulkley, seconded by Mrs. Austin and became a vote. Sec. 4, Adoption was moved by Mrs. Rawson, seconded by Mrs. McDermott and became a vote. Sec. 5, Miss Bulkley moved, seconded by Mrs. Austin, that this Section be amended to read "Its duties shall be to plan for the departments of instruction, information and practical work", etc. Carried. It was moved by Mrs. Taylor and seconded by Miss Washburn to adopt the amended Section V. Sec. 6, Adoption was moved by Mrs. Deming, seconded by Mrs. McDermott and became a vote. By-Law V - Adoption of this by-law was moved by Mrs. Deming, seconded by Miss Washburn and became a vote. By-Law VI - Adopted. By-Law VII - Moved by Mrs. McDermott, seconded by Miss Washburn, that the word "revised" be introduced following "Roberts" and before "Rules of Order" It became a vote. By-Law VIII - Adopted. It was moved by Mrs. McDermott, seconded by Mrs. Rawson and became a vote that the Executive Board recommend the adoption of this constitution at the next annual convention. - 4 - It was moved by Mrs. Deming, seconded by Mrs. Rawson, and became a vote that Miss Washburn as Chairman of the committee for the new constitution deserved a vote of thanks for her splendid work. Carried. Annual Convention: Moved by Mrs. Deming, seconded by Mrs. McDermott, that the next annual convention be held on November 12th - 13th and 14th. Carried. Miss Ludington rapidly reviewed the political situation and the Board stood adjurned to meet October 15th, 1919. Those present were: Miss Ludington Mrs. Taylor Miss Washburn Mrs. Rawson Miss Bulkley Mrs. McDermott Mrs. Austin Miss Webster Mrs. Deming Miss Hutt Respectfully submitted: Mary S. Deming. MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD, June 25, 1919. A meeting of the Executive Board of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association was called to order by the president on Wednesday, June 25, at 11:30. It was agreed to waive reports of the Treasurer Press Secretary, and the County Chairmen. The report of funds from the Drive was given as about $33,000 to date. A general discussion of the financial campaign was taken up and the question of further activities for the purpose of completing the fund was raised. Upon motion made by Mrs. Rawson it was voted that our official campaign be finished and that further plans for the continuation of the raising of the fund be decided by a committee appointed by the Chair. It was moved by Mrs. McDermott and seconded by Mrs. Austin that if it is determined that the statement sent out by our Press at the beginning of the Drive has not absolved the leagues from their convention pledges, that they are in the same status as they were before the Drive. This motion was amended by Mrs. Townshend to be proceeded by the clause "in view of the fact that $100,000 was not reached". The motion was carried as amended. It was moved by Mrs. Townshend and seconded by Mrs. Rawson that the motion be rescinded. It was a vote. Miss Bulkley moved that adjustment of league pledges be left in the hands of a special committee appointed by the Chair. The motion was carried. Mrs. Rawson gave a report of the annual meeting of the Fairfield County organization held in Greenwich on June 19, at which 17p people were present and addresses were made by Mrs. Catt, Miss Hay, Lieut. Governor Wilson and Mr. William R. Palmer. Among other things the Lieut. Governor advised that the Association send a deputation to the Governor demanding a special session of the legislature to ratify the Federal Amendment. $1400 was raised toward the campaign fund. The meeting adjourned for luncheon at 1:15. The afternoon session was called at order at 2:30. Mrs. Rawson moved that a statement be sent to the Press that the Drive is closed but that subscriptions will be received until the fund is raised. It was a vote. Discussion of a special session of the Legislature was taken up. On motion of Miss Bulkley it was voted that we call a meeting of our Men's Council to discuss a special session and that publicity concerning this meeting be given to the Press. It was moved by Mrs. Townshend that a special letter be sent from Headquarters to our Congressmen and Senator McLean asking them to use their influence with the Governor and legislators to bring a special session. It was moved by Mrs. McDermott, seconded by Mrs. Rawson ( 2 ) that Mr. William R. Palmer be invited to the meeting of the Men's Advisory Council. It was moved by Miss Bulkley that a re-organization committee be appointed by the Chair, this committee to report at the next board meeting early in September. The motion was carried. Miss Ludington read the following questionaire sent out by the National Association: "1. Do you favor the National American Woman Suffrage Association joining with the League to enforce Peace in a call for a National convention of the League at Washington to demand ratification of the Peace Treaty and the League of Nations Covenant? 2. Do you approve the appointment of a co-operating committee from our Association to help in convening the proposed convention?" On motion made by Mrs. Townshend and voted, she replied as follows: "In view of the fact that the Senate has not yet received the final draft of the Peace Treaty and Covenant, I do not feel ready to commit myself or our Association to a vote that the National American Woman Suffrage Association should promise in advance to work with the League to Enforce Peace to demand ratification of the Treaty". It was moved by Miss Bulkley, seconded by Mrs. Townshend that a vote of thanks be extended to Miss Parshall for the devoted work she has given to the Association. It was moved that we thank all those who served in the Drive. The meeting was adjourned. Those present were Miss Ludington, Mrs. Austin, Mrs. Rawson, Miss Webster, Miss Danielson, Mrs. Townshend, Mrs. McDermott, Miss Murray, Mrs. Schoonmaker, Miss Hinaman, Miss Parshall and Miss Hutt. -1- A meeting of the Re-organization Committee of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association was held at the home of Miss Ludington, in Lyme, on Tuesday July 29th at eleven o'clock with the following personnel: Miss Ludington Miss Washburn Miss Bulkley Mrs. McDermott Mrs. Deming Miss Ruutz-Rees Miss Hutt Miss Danielson Miss Ludington stated the purpose of re-organization- to extend the facilities for ratifying the Suffrage Amendment and to prepare women for the vote. It was the sense of the meeting that two-sub-committee be appointed: (a)-to outline a plan for citizenship work. (b)-to outline the details of re-organization of the association. It was moved by Miss Bulkley, seconded by Miss Washburn, that all those making pledges at the convention this year specify whether the money should be used for ratification or citizenship. It was a vote. It was moved by Miss Washburn, seconded by Mrs. Deming, that the funds of the association be kept under two heads; (a)-education. (b)-ratification, the overhead expenses to be divided between the two headings. It was a vote. It was moved by Miss Washburn and carried, that we recommend to the executive board that there be a further development of the organization of the association into county units, as already begun by Fairfield and New Haven Counties. It was moved by Miss Ruutz-Rees and carried, that the citizenship committee, so far as direct political work is concerned, should again be done directly under the board through the county chairman. It was moved by Mrs. Deming that the two sub-committees be appointed by the President, report back to the re-organization committee that the third week in September. It was further suggested that the committee on citizenship include a budget in its recommendations, and that members of the sub-committee need not be confined exclusively to the members of the re-organization committee. The members of the citizenship committee were appointed as follows: Miss Bulkley Mrs. Schoonmaker Miss Ludington Miss Margaret Whitney Re-organization committee: Miss Ludington Mrs. McDermott Miss Washburn Mrs. Deming. Miss Danielson Miss Hutt. -2- It was agreed that the re-organization committee make its recommendations to the executive board early in October and plan to hold the annual convention the early part of November. The meeting adjourned. CITIZENSHIP FUND CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE State Headquarters, 55 Pratt St., Hartford, Connecticut. June 17, 1919. TO THE EDITOR Dear Sir:- For the benefit of those who are helping the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association by contributing to its campaign for $100,000. now being carried on, I wish to make the following statement: The Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association has no back debts not covered by pledges made at its last convention held in New Haven in November, 1918. The expenses of the work still to be done to secure the ratification of the Federal Amendment by the Connecticut legislature will be more than covered by contributions made for that especial purpose by suffragists particularly interested in that work. The rest of the money raised in this campaign will be used for the citizenship work among women which we feel to be our future obligation. (Signed) Mabel C. Washburn TREASURER CONNECTICUT WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOC. CHAIRMAN FINANCE COMMITTEE $100,000 Campaign. (Publication desired.) mmmmmm From the State Campaign Committee for $100,000 for Citizenship Work and other public services, under the auspices of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, State Headquarters, 55 Pratt St., Hartford. Released on receipt. One of the most enthusiastic workers for the $100,000 citizenship fund raised under the auspices of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association is Mayor J. J. Desmond of Norwich, who is a member of one of the teams of volunteer workers actively seeking subscription to the fund. In a letter to Mrs. Samuel Russell, Jr., chairman of the state campaign committee, Mayor Desmond wrote as follows: "I take pleasure in heartily endorsing the present movement of your association to aid in qualifying the women of our State for the proper exercise of their coming rights as electors. "Obviously the welfare of our county and state depends upon around government, end this can exist only so long as the majority of the voters understand and realize the problems requiring solution, and honestly and persistently discharge their duties as citizens. "I am fully convinced that in the part serious evils have resulted from the abstention of many conscientious electors from active participation in the really solemn work of securing public servants of integrity, capacity and efficiency, and believe that this campaign will prove very helpful in the task of overcoming this wrong. " Senator Arthur B. Bowers, of Manchester, chairman of the Committee of Finance of the Connecticut Senate, wrote: "I enclose my check for $100. I consider the movement to prepare the women of Connecticut to exercise the franchise intelligently a wise, sensible and practical movement. "I trust that the Connecticut Campaign for $100,000 will result in going over the top by at least 100 per cent. "I favor a special session of the Connecticut Legislature for two purposes. (1) to ratify the Federal Suffrage Amendment; (2) to [?] to pay the school teachers of [?] the extra salary from the State [?] which was provided for by this bill which was passed in such a hurry [?] appropriate the [?] to make the law effective. "These are two acts of sufficient purpose to make an extra s ession absolutely necessary in my opinion, and I have already begun an agitation for a special session." Harrison Hewitt, of the law firm of Watrous & Day, New Haven i n a statement said: "The imperative duty of every voter to take part in every primary, is self-evident. It needs no argument but merely to be incessantly urged upon the electorate. "To be a help and not a hindrance such action must be intelligent. This requires serious and prolonged study and a constant keeping in touch with events so as to have a basis for forming an opinion on candidates and policies. The public is general and women in particular have made all too little study on these subjects. "It follows necessarily t hat educational work such as the program of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association contemplates is urgently necessary and that in doing it they will be rendering a great and patriotic public service." Elaborate plans have been made for the annual convention of the Fairfield County Suffrage Association, to be held in Rosemary Hall, Greenwich, on Thursday, June 19. The meeting promises to be the largest and most interesting ever held by the County Association. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, will be the principal speaker. A number other prominent people will be present, and addresses will be delivered also by Lieutenant Governor Clifford B. Wilson, Miss Katherine Indington, president of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, Hon. R.R. Palmer, Miss Caroline Ruutz-Reese, Miss Grace Horton Murray and others. The convention, which will take the form of a jubilee in celebration of the passage of the Federal Suffrage Amendment, will begin at 11.30 A.N. and continue through the day, with luncheon served at 1 o'clock. mmmmmmmmm MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association May 12th, 1919. A special meeting of the Executive Board of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association was called to order at 12:40 at Pratt Street Headquarters by Miss Ludington. An addition was made to the last minutes which had been omitted. It had been moved, seconded and carried that a sub-committee consisting of Miss Bulkley and Mrs. Taylor go to New York to interview Mr. Tamblyn and Miss Thorpe regarding the financial campaign. It was moved by Mrs. Rawson that we would not wait for Mrs. Taylor's arrival, but that Miss Bulkley give the report on the committee's trip to New York. The report was accepted and opened up much discussion. Mr. Hall appeared at 12:30 representing Mr. Tamblyn ready to answer questions, and outlined the plan of campaign with its objects which are briefly given. "The object of the campaign is to raise money to advance the interests of woman suffrage in the state of Connecticut, to assist in the passage and ratification of the Federal Suffrage Amendment, and to prepare the women of this state for the use of the vote." Miss Danielson moved, seconded by Miss Bulkley, and it became a unanimous vote that the conditions as outlined in Mr. Tamblyn's plan are satisfactory and that his plan be accepted and carried out. It was moved by Miss Bulkley that Mrs. Joseph Alsop be asked to be a campaign chairman - seconded by Mrs. Maxim and became a vote. It was decided that if Mrs. Alsop could not accept that we ask Mrs. Samuel Russell to act as campaign chairman. It was voted to ask the following women to serve on the committee of seven with the campaign chairman:- Mrs. Samuel Russell, Miss Ludington, Mrs. Fleck, Miss Trumbull, Miss Washburn, Muss Bulkley, Mrs. Worrall and Mrs. James Stokes. It was moved by Mrs. Deming that when Miss Ludington interviewed Mrs. Alsop it would be suggested that our place has been left on the committee that she might appoint a person to work with her. - 2 - Miss Ludington brought to our attention the shortness of time to work on senators and representatives in Washington, and told us of a plan to send petitions to Senators Brandegee and McLean and Congressman Tilson signed by prominent Republican men through the state, and one to Congressman Lonergan signed by prominent Democrats, especially of Hartford County. Miss Danielson moved that the petition plan as outlined be accepted and carried out. It was a vote. Miss Ludington read a letter from the Child Labor Federation asking for our enrolled membership. It was moved by Mrs. Deming that the letter to the Child Labor Federation be left to Miss Ludington to answer. The meeting adjourned at 5:45. Those present were: Miss Ludington Mrs. Rawson Miss Webster Miss Danielson Mrs. Townshend Miss Bulkley Mrs. Taylor Mrs. Maxim Mrs. Welch Mrs. Deming Respectfully submitted, Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.