NAWSA Subject File CONN. WOMAN Suffrage Associ Corresp. LSH-BAD. Address Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department, and refer to No, 115738 WASHINGTON D.C. April 29, 1918. My dear Madam: The Secretary of the Navy is in receipt of your communication of recent date, in which you state that the members of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association of Hartford, Conn., have passed a resolution that the American Red Cross Nurses both here and abroad should be given military rank, similar to that which has been conferred upon the Canadian Nursing Corps. I have been directed by the Surgeon General of the Navy to inform you that such consideration as is possible will be given to the resolution submitted by your organization. It may not be amiss to inform you that the Red Cross enrolls nurses for the purpose of having the nurses available for Government duty in time of emergency. When placed in active duty, however, the nurses are members of the Army or the Navy Nurse Corps according to the branch of the service to which they are assigned. The conferring of this recognition on nurses would be because of their enrollment in the Red Cross. Very truly yours, [signature] Superintendent, Navy Nurse Corps. Mrs. Rosamond Danielson, Chairman Windham County, Putnam, Conn. February 12,1918 TO POLITICAL WORKERS Dear Suffragist: Though we should not let up on the letters, telegrams and resolutions to Senators Brandegee and McLean, we can at the same time be appointing leaders for the various divisions of our political organization, which should be so perfected that it can be called upon for active service as soon as the news reaches us of the Senate's favorable vote upon the Federal Amendment. I am sending a copy of these instructions to every Senatorial District Leader, and to the Political Leaders. A copy will be sent to every Township, Ward and Voting District Leader as soon as I receive the news of their appointments. Reports of all such appointments should be sent to me at Headquarters as soon as possible. This political Organization is for the purpose of doint political work only. County chairmen and local leagues will continue propaganda work, but will also act as committees to be called on for political work such as deputations, meetings, etc., whenever necessary. It is necessary and important for the leagues to keep their identity, anticipating the day when women will be voters. For the purpose of training the women of the state for citizenship, the already existing suffrage leagues of the state will supply as a nucleus a group of women in every community. This relationship between the old organization and the political organization which is being incorporated into it should be understood by the league presidents and the township leaders. LET US HAVE A COMPLETED POLITICAL ORGANIZATION TO PRESENT AT THE APRIL BOARD MEETING! Faithfully yours, Daphine L. Lelau State organizer INSTRUCTIONS FOR POLITICAL WORKERS ADOPTED AT MEETING OF CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE, COUNTY CHAIRMEN, SENATORIAL DISTRICT LEADERS AND ORGANIZERS AT NEW HAVEN, JANUARY 20th, 1918. Divisions of Political Organization and Duties of Each. I. Executive Board. A. Plan general campaign. B. Finance central work and employ organizers. C. Conduct educational and publicity campaign from Hartford, aided by local leaders. D. Deal with legislature after it meets. II. Political Leaders. There is no one in the Democratic and Republican parties to correspond exactly with the "political leader" in our organization. Our political leaders are members of the Board and supply a neccessary step between the Central Board and the Senatorial District Leaders. They are responsible for the carrying out of the plans of the Board for political work, and have entire supervision of the political work in their sections of the state. III. Senatorial District Leaders. A. Supervise all political work in towns under them. B. Receive all reports from leaders under them and forward to Board. C. Be responsible for Senators from their districts. 1. Find probable senatorial candidates from the district and their attitude on suffrage. 2. Find dates of Republican and Democratic caucuses. 3. Bring all possible pressure to bear on uncommitted ones, privately before caudus, publicly afterward. If possible, get suffragists nominated. 4. If both party nominees are favorable, do not depend too much on that -- keep them up to the mark. Let them see that you are watching them. 5. If both are unfavorable, bring every kind of pressure to bear, such as deputations of women, prominent men in the district, petitions, letters meetings, etc. More detailed instructions and suggestions as to methods will be sent later. Get at this early and keep up until election on both candidates -- after election on successful candidate, till legislature meets. After this, letters and telegrams to him at Hartford are valuable. 6. If only con candidate is favorable try to bring the other one around. If he is hopeless, work for the election of the favorable candidate, other things being equal. 7. Be responsible for work of town leaders. - 2 - IV. Township Leaders. A. Get into touch with Republican and Democratic Town Chairmen and their committees. B. Follow same plan with representative or representatives as is given above the Senatorial District Leaders. C. Report to Senatorial District Leader in time for her to send such report to board meeting each month. D. Carry out plans of Senatorial District Leader in working with Senators. V. A smaller division will be necessary in some places, because of the size of the township. Where the township includes a city, there will be a Ward Leaders. In the ease of a large country district, where there are more than one voting district, there will be Voting District Leaders. Each Political Leader should supply herself immediately with a Connecticut manual which may be obtained from the town clerk. January 8, 1918 Miss Rosamond Danielson, Putnam Heights, Putnam, Conn. Dear Rosamond: You have by this time received the copy of the minutes with the slip containing Mrs. Hepburn's proposition. I hope you will consider this carefully before opposing it as we all did at first. I think it is very important for you to be at the next board meeting because this is a thing which ought to be discussed by every member of the executive board. The question narrows itself down to this: Shall we work independently of Mrs. Hepburn and Mrs. Bennett, which means, of course, more or less competition with them, or shall we form this fusion committee? If the committee is formed who shall be chairman? I should like to talk this over with you but doubt if I can get to Putnam on account of the uncertain train service. The one hope that we have is that we may be able to persuade Dr. Parker to take the chairmanship of the committee. Although she will join the committee on the side of the woman's party, still she has not been identified with that faction and she has the respect Miss Rosamond Danielson -2- 1/8/18 and admiration of the men of the State. The only other possibility seems to be Mrs. Stoddard of New Haven. All this is presupposing that at least one of the committee members from the woman's party side can be induced to vote for some one besides Mrs. Hepburn, who undoubtedly expects the chairmanship. I have not yet made up my mind as to the wisdom of this committee but am rather inclined to favor it as Mrs. Hepburn promises that Alice Paul and the extremists of her party will keep out of the State. If it is absolutely impossible for you to be here on the 16th will you not write me in detail just how you feel about this? Very sincerely yours, Daphne DLS: RMH In order to avoid duplicity (What could my stenog have meant?) or friction in legislative work between C.W.S.A and Woman's Party, Mrs. Hepburn proposes: A Joint Legislative Committee for ratification work alone (the two organizations to be otherwise entirely separate in their work). The joint committee to be formed of seven members from each organization so that each group is evenly represented. The committee would have full power to decide and conduct all work for ratification. The committee to be entirely independent both of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and the Woman's Party, both of which will be asked to leave the work entirely to Connecticut suffragists. Plan for co-operation between Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association and the Political Parties The Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association is non-partisan and will remain so during this campaign. We will not, as an organization, work for the candidates on the ticket of either party. (With the exception of candidates for Senate and House, where we favor the man who favors us, if he is a desirable representative of his district.) On the other hand, we will not tell our members, as individuals, not to work for any candidate, but on the contrary, will urge them to get into the campaign as actively as possible, using their own judgment as to parties. We will issue instructions to this effect. We suggest to the Democratic and Republican Parties that they issue leaflets stating their special claims on the support of the women. i.e. Attitude toward the war. Attitude toward Woman Suffrage. Attitude toward state matters and special reforms proposed. We will circularize our members with these leaflets, assuming all the expense of addressing, postage etc. We also suggest that the Parties get the widest newspaper publicity on these appeals. We will also make a public statement of our position and a public appeal to women to be active in the campaign this year. We also suggest public meetings, at which speakers from the Parties make their appeal to the women, and we shall be glad to get up such meetings, if desired. We will endeavor to secure statements from the nominees of both Parties as to their stand on Suffrage and will give them wide circulation. ADVANTAGES OF THIS PLAN FOR PARTIES It widens their clientele. It introduces a new feature into the campaign, and helps to offset the indifference to politics caused by the war. It gives a chance to get press and other publicity. It keeps the campaign on the plane of issues and a real program instead of personal attack and criticism. It makes an appeal through the press to a much wider public than the members of the Suffrage Association. ADVANTAGES OF HTIS PLAN FOR THE C. W. S. A. It will immensely increase the interest of our women in the campaign. It will give us good publicity. It will enlist the interest and services of the politicians in our cause. It will be a means of educating the (future) woman voter. Mrs. Edward Penritt Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association Press secretary 63 Tremont St., Hartford Headquarters: 55-57 Pratt Street, Hartford Telephone Charter: 6217 PRELIMINARY STATEMENT The War has brought many problems to Suffragists. They are confronted with the necessity of deciding how much of their propaganda can be carried on the view of the new conditions and the pre occupation of the public mind with the war situation. It is difficult, too, to determine the exact relation of their organization to the various forms of war service which women are undertaking. Moreover, all public spirited women are facing a serious responsibility in regard to the labor of women and children, which will be increasingly utilized and perhaps exploited under war conditions. A menacing attack is already being made in many of the States, under the guise of patriotism, against the standards of hours, wages and conditions of labor which it has taken long years of effort to build up. The seriousness of the situation in this respect can hardly be exaggerated. To meet these problems and try to formulate and direct some consistent programme for our State, the Executive Board of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association appointed Miss Caroline Ruutz-Rees, principal of Rosemary Hall, Greenwich, as chairman for War Service. Miss Ruutz-Rees has formed a Central Committee for War Service, consisting of the County Chairman and several other representative suffragists. This Committee has already held three meetings to consider the war problems in their relation to suffrage and to draw up plans of work. At the last meeting the attached resolution was adopted, and it was voted to send copies to each County Chairmen to be distributed to the suffrage leagues of the state. RESOLUTION The Central Committee on War Service of the C.W.S.A. - feeling deeply that suffrage and patriotism are synonomous and that it is vitally important that our suffrage movement should not lose headway during the war period; believing that, in order to accomplish this, our leagues, with their esprit de corps, should be kept intact and that wherever possible suffragists should find through their own organizations an outlet for their patriotic desire to do special war service; and realizing too that as organized suffragists are known to be in sympathy with all humanitarian legislation, they can through their organization influence both public opinion and legislatures more effectively than as individuals; - recommends to the local leagues the following courses of action; 1 - That if any form of work, (preferably along lines of food conservation) can be found in their community which is not being undertaken by any other organization, they should take it up as a suffrage society, inviting others interested in this line of work to come in and help them. 2 - Where others are not willing to work under the auspices of a suffrage organization, the suffrage league could form a group for the particular form of work. (I.E. "The Suffrage Canning group," "The Suffrage Garden Club," "The Suffrage Red Cross Unit") and loyally co-operate under neutral leadership with other organizations or individuals, doing the same work. NOTE; Many variations of this co-operative idea may be worked out so long as the main principal is obsered; that suffrage organizations should not lose their identity. For instance, in some places the local chairman of the National League for Woman's Service is also chairman of the suffrage war work. 3 - Where neither of the foregoing plans is possible, and suffragists find that they must work as individuals under other organizations, it is urged that they report to their league president what war service they are doing; Also, where a suffragist serves on a Committee of some other organization, she should appear on that Committee as the representative of her suffrage organization. MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association March 5th, 1919. The by-monthly meeting of the Executive Board of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association was called to order at 2:30 o'clock by Miss Ludington. The following members were present: Miss Ludington Mrs. Welch Mrs. Maxim Miss Danielson Miss Washburn Miss Webster Miss Bulkley Mrs. McDermott Mrs. Rawson Mrs. Townshend There was no report from the treasurer. Mrs. Maxim read a letter from Senator Shafroth, and also one from Mrs. Maud Wood Park, in reply to resolutions of the Board sent them last month. Miss Ludington took up the legislative work, and explained why the Presidential Suffrage hearing had been postponed. She read the statement which we proposed sending out to our Men's Council, our league presidents and political workers. A motion was made by Miss Bulkley, and seconded by Mrs. Maxim, that the proposed statement as read by Miss Ludington giving the reason for the postponement of the hearing, be sent to all the above workers. Carried. Then followed discussions on the plans for the hearing, which comes up Tuesday, the 11th. The principal speakers for our side would be Miss Ludington, Mrs. Schoonmaker, Mrs. Caine of Waterbury, Judge Ransom, if he can again be secured, and Mr. Robert Butler; also Mr. Simons, an ex-soldier from overseas. It was then decided that providing they had the time allowed that Miss Ludington would call on each County Chairman for a two minute speech, and they were to have such a speech ready should the occasion arise. Mrs. McDermott made motion , seconded by Miss Washburn, that no representative of the Woman's Party should be allowed to speak under the auspices of our organization during the regular time allotted by the Suffrage Committee for our bill. A motion was made by Mrs. Townshend, seconded by Miss Bulkley, that we carry out the plans as already made for carrying the signatures to the Capitol. - 2 - Miss Ludington then gave a report of the poll as it now stands of the Woman Suffrage Committee. Then followed a report of the poll of the Senate as it now stands. Miss Washburn made a motion, seconded by Mrs. Townshend, that Mrs. Schoonmaker be given leave to take a western trip. Carried. A motion was made by Mrs. McDermott, seconded by Miss Bulkley, that the meeting of the Legislative Committee be called at the discussion of the president. Meeting adjourned. Respectfully submitted, (signed) Ninah Parshall, Secretary, Protem. September 18, 1920. TO COUNTY CHAIRMEN OF THE CONNECTICUT WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION: A business meeting of the Association will be held at the call of the President on September 24, at 11:30 A. M. at Unity Hall, opposite Suffrage Headquarters, Pratt Street, Hartford, for the purpose of considering the relation of women to the parties, the question of whether or not the Association shall take a stand on candidates and other matters not previously acted upon by the Association. N. B. This meeting makes all the more important your presence at the Board Meeting September 22d, at which the Board will determine the matters to be submitted to the general meeting. REPRESENTATION: (1) Each county is entitled to 10 delegates at large. As there is not time for the selection of these by county conventions, each county chairman should at once call a meeting of her Executive Board, for the appointment of the delegates at large. (2) Each league affiliated with the county association is entitled to one delegate. (3) Each league having more than 10 members is entitled to one delegate for each additional 10 members. (4) An invitation should be extended to suffrage workers in the county to be present at the meeting. If the county has not filled its quota of delegates, these workers may be given credentials by the county chairman up to the limit of her county's quota. Send to Headquarters as soon as possible a complete list of delegates from your county, and bring with you on September 24th a complete duplicate list. Give credentials signed by you to each delegate, according to the following form: - 2 - This is to Certify, that ___________________ is a duly accredited delegate to the Business Meeting of the CONNECTICUT WOMEN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION held at Hartford, September 24, 1920. Signed _________________________ Chairman of ________________________ These must be brought by the delegates and submitted to the credentials committee. Headquarters will gladly help the county chairmen in every possible way to make our first meeting after ratification a success. Let us make the meeting after ratification a success. Let us make the meeting as large and as representative as possible, in order that the Association may continue its work in the same spirit of solidarity with which it has worked for suffrage. Very sincerely yours, Ruth McIntire Dadourian Executive Secretary. September 29, 1920. Miss Rosamond Danielson, R. D. #2, Putnam, Conn. My dear Miss Danielson: I am enclosing a copy of fliers which we are having printed for distribution throughout the state. They could be used at meetings, given out at movie houses, etc. Will you let me know how many you could make use of in your county? If you will send me a list of women who will be responsible for distributing a certain number, I shall be glad to have them mailed directly from here, or I will send them to you, just as you prefer. Very sincerely yours, Ruth McIntire Dadourian Executive Secretary. RMD/D August 20, 1920. Miss Rosamond Danielson, R. D. #2, Putnam, Conn. My dear Miss Danielson: I enclose a copy of "The Caucus and Convention System of Connecticut" which we have just compiled. If you care for more copies, kindly let me know. I have sent this to all the local political workers whose names I have on my list. For other organizations, we shall have to charge ten cents a copy, and six dollars a hundred, in order to cover the cost of printing. Very truly yours, Ruth McIntire Dadourian Executive Secretary. RMD/D August 2, 1920. Miss Rosmond Danielson, R. D. #2, Putnam, Conn. My dear Miss Danielson: Will you kindly send in to me by return mail whatever signatures you have for the "statement of Republican suffragists". I am going away next week and should be very glad to have as many names as possible immediately for publication purposes. Thank you for all you have done in obtaining the signatures. We have about 200 names at present. Kindly check on the list you send me the names of those women who are especially prominent. Very sincerely yours, Ruth McIntire Dadourian Executive Secretary. RMD/D July 17, 1920. Miss Rosamond Danielson, R. D. #2, Putnam, Conn. Dear Miss Danielson: I am enclosing herewith a number of copies of the statement of Republican suffragists. Will you do all in your power to get it circulated and signed by prominent Republican women? Please send in the sheets to me as fast as signatures are obtained, so that we may give it publicity. The statement is sent in the name of the Republican women whose names are attached, with Mrs. Austin of Norwich as chairman. Should any question arise as to a possible conflict between any local political issue and this pledge, it is well to remember that the principal issue at stake is whether women are more effective in the party of their choice as voters or as voteless women. Everything which works toward the success of ratification tends to render them active workers as voting citizens, and every woman who puts suffrage first will sacrifice the lesser issue. In connection with the political campaign, the most important work at present in addition to securing information concerning delegates to the convention is quiet work to get friendly men to get themselves sent as delegates. They will know the best means for doing this. Will you please instruct your local workers personally in this matter, for success depends upon the quietness with which the work is carried on. Further report that the convention will be held in August. Please let me know whenever you need additional report blanks and instruction sheets. Very sincerely yours, Ruth McIntire Dadourian Executive Secretary. RMD/D INSTRUCTIONS FOR LOCAL WORKERS IN REGARD TO REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION (about middle of September.) 1st.--Find what Republicans are talked of as delegates to the State Convention. 2nd.--Find stand of these men on Special Session. (Note--Do not accept general statement of ( favorable attitude as sufficient. Question ( his attitude on Special Session. ( ( ( Test of "Friendly" delegate:- Will he vote ( against nomination of any anti-suffrage ( candidate? 3rd--If delegates who are already being talked of are unsatisfactory select men whom we would like to have go to Convention (who measure up to our test). 4th--See that enough friendly men go to Caucus to secure election of our delegates. 5th--After delegates are elected, go to them (if friendly) and give them list of candidates. This work should be done as quietly as possible. Do not show these instructions to any one. Make it entirely clear that our Association is non-partisan in this work. Do not let any personal animus toward any man creep in. MEMO FOR COUNTY CHAIRMAN OR ACTING CHAIRMAN. 1. Make, with help of Headquarters, list of towns in your County where effort is worth while to get friendly delegates for Republican Convention. 2. Decide how each of these towns is to be handled ( by local women, by chairman, by organizer, or by local men.) 3. Hold a workers' conference to explain new policy and give detailed instructions--see that workers have memorandum of instructions supplied by Headquarters. 4. See that local women do their work and that they send in duplicate report blanks to you and to Mrs. Dadourian. 5. Send to Headquarters names of local workers as they are selected town by town. 6. Study political situation in County. Find from what quarters help in our fight may come and get into touch with these people immediately (W. C. T. U., churches, Prohibitionists, disaffected politicians, young progressive men, members of former Progressive Party, Labor men. Find out who is on Labor's [?ack] list.) Note:- These instructions are supplementary to and do not supercede program for work on candidates for next legislature decided upon at Board Meeting on June 3rd and mailed to absent C County Chairmen. Republican Caucuses for Election of Delegates to State Convention. The State Republican Convention for the nomination of state ticket will be held around mid-September. The rule covering the election of delegates to this convention specifies that "All primaries or caucuses for the selection of delegates to the state convention shall be held in the several towns upon the same day." The State Central Committee, at least fifteen days previous to such caucuses, must designate the days upon which they are to be held, which days must be at least ten days before the convention. The Chairman of the Republican Town Committee in each town gives notice of the caucus by posting a call specifying the day and place as designated by the State Central Committee, (he may also indicate the hour of the day) on the signpost in his town and also by publishing the call in a Republican newspaper published in the town or if there is no such newspaper, in a Republican newspaper having a substantial circulation. This notice must be given at least five days prior to the caucus. But if the Town Committee fails to all the caucus, the member of the State Committee for that district shall call the caucus upon reasonable notice. Statement of Republican Suffragists. The undersigned, women of Republican tradition and sympathies, wish to protest against the painful position in which we are being placed by our own party. The Republican Party has repeatedly promised to do its utmost to secure ratification of the Federal Suffrage Amendment in time for women to vote in the November election. Although twenty-nine of the thirty-five states which have ratified the amendment are Republican, we have good reason to believe that the Party has purposely held back from giving us the thirty-sixth state which would complete ratification. The farcical plank in the National Platform is proof enough of this intention. In our own state, the Republican leaders, returned to power by the state convention, are actively and bitterly opposing ratification, and yet, in the face of this situation, the party is actually asking those Connecticut women from whom they are withholding the vote to help in the campaign. In view of this and because we believe that the enfranchisement of half the population is a fundamental issue, we declare that we will not help the Republican Party in Connecticut by contributing money, raising money, or speaking in the campaign until the thirty-sixth state has ratified and our position as voters is made secure. July 1, 1920. Miss Rosamond Danielson, R. D. #2, Putnam, Conn. Dear Miss Danielson: In accordance with our talk last night, I am sending you a copy of the statement of Republican women. I think you are far too modest in saying that your name would be of little value. I think it would be of very great value to add to the committee. I am sure Miss Ludington hopes strongly that you will feel able to sign the statement and will appreciate everything you can do to get other women to sign. Will you please let me know by Saturday morning at the latest, as we wish to publish the names of the committee the first of next week. Thank you for your list and the information which I received this morning. With regard to the whole policy, I might say that its indirect bearing on the special session is of much more importance than any direct bearing. Every exhibition of strength on our part at the present time will make the Machine more anxious to conciliate us. Our work on delegates to the state convention will help immensely toward any future fight to break the State Machine. I think you entirely understand that the more quietly the work can be done, the better. I think that no interviewing of delegates or of candidates should be done at present. As you probably know, Miss Ludington has sent letters to the gubernatorial candidates, asking for their stand on suffrage and a special session, and many of their replies have been published. As soon as she returns from Vermont there will be a second batch of letters to candidates for Congress and other state officers. This is partly by way of putting the men on record and partly by way of serving as a smoke screen for 2 - Miss Rosamond Danielson. our other work which we wish to do quietly. In the case of L. H. Healey it would be an excellent move to find out other men who would be willing to run against him - of course, men who are favorable to suffrage. In a town or Senatorial District where we have two favorable candidates, the case is clear. We keep hands off. Where one candidate is friendly and another opposed, the case is also easy. We oppose the unfriendly candidate. Where several candidates are machine men or unfriendly to suffrage, we must try to find a substitute candidate. As an association we cannot work for the election of individuals, but if there are women who individually wish to help a candidate, it will, of course, fit in very nicely with our policy. I hope we can have a formal report sometime next week on the work so far accomplished. We are then going to chart the state for towns where the vote has been close in the past, and make a preliminary canvass of districts where a fight can be waged. Always sincerely yours, Ruth McIntire Dadourian Executive Secretary. RMD/D WINDHAM COUNTY. Local Workers. Ashford, Mrs. G. O. Balch, Warrenville X Brooklyn, Mrs. Sidney W. Bard Canterbury, Mrs. Clinton Frink Chaplin, X Eastford, Miss Alice L. Rindge X Hampton, Miss Helen W. Cartwright Killingly, Miss Grace Spaulding, Danielson Plainfield, Mrs. John C. Gallup, Moosup X Pomfret, Mrs. William Valentine, Pomfret Centre X Putnam, Miss Rosamond Danielson Scotland Mrs. Liza K. Fuller Sterling Miss Florence Douglas, R.F.D. Moosup X Thompson Mrs. Everett Fletcher, R.D. #1, Putnam Windham X Woodstock Mrs. George Wetherell, R.F.D Southbridge, Mass. June 4, 1920. Miss Rosamond Danielson, R.D. #2, Putnam, Conn. My dear Miss Danielson: At the meeting of the Board yesterday it was decided to adopt Policy 3 of Miss Ludington's outline: "To announce that we will work against the state Republican ticket and candidates for Legislature, with the exception of those men who are definitely pledged to help us get ratification" - and this amendment was added, "provided these men will agree openly to protest against their party's failure to secure a special session." As the minutes of the meeting will not be mailed until next week, I am sending you this outline of the proceedings so that you will know at once the course of action planned. It was decided not to make our policy public until after the meeting of the Men's Ratification Committee called for next Wednesday at headquarters. By that time most of our opponents will be in Chicago and it may worry them a little to know that something is going on in Connecticut, and it may also help things to happen at Chicago. If in the meantime there are any county meetings or meetings of the county executive board it will be a good opportunity to explain to our members what the plan of campaign is to be. The next problem is to decide upon the means of putting the policy into effect. This will be discussed in detail at the next meeting of the Board to be held on June 16 in Hartford at Mrs. Deming's house. As a preliminary, however, Miss Ludington asked the County Chairmen to come to this meeting with the following information relating to the campaign:- -2-. 1. List of towns in which there are likely to be contests for nomination of Republican candidates to be 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. The candidates are already being picked, as well as the delegates to the convention which nominates the state ticket. 3. List of towns which will have to be covered otherwise and suggestions for covering them. 4. So far as possible, County Chairmen will get 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 should go through hands of County Chairman and be sent by her to information bureau at headquarters. Information will in turn look up records of candidates who have previously served in Legislature. 5. In districts where machine candidate is proposed for nomination suggest name of man who might run in opposition. This sounds like a large order to cover in two weeks, and of course it will not be possible to secure all the information, but it will at least give us a start. And personally I should be glad to have the names of former legislators who are likely to be re-nominated as soon as possible, so that I can begin my end of the work. We were all very sorry not to see you yesterday. Yours sincerely, Ruth McIntire Dadourian June 23, 1920. Miss Rosamond Danielson, R. D. #2, Putnam, Conn. My dear Miss Danielson: I am mailing you, under separate cover, today the report blanks for your local town workers. These should be sent in duplicate form when filled out, both to you as County Chairman and to me at Headquarters. If you can get weekly reports from your workers, it would be splendid, but if that is too much to hope for we should at least have a fortnightly report. Please send me as soon as possible a list of your local workers. It is understood, of course, that the main work for the present will be on delegates to the State Convention. It is not always possible to do the work quietly, but I should think the more quietly you could do it now, the more effective it would be. With best wishes, Very sincerely yours, Ruth McIntire Dadourian Director, Information Bureau. RMD/D DEMOCRACY IN INDUSTRY From Address By Louis F. Post Assistant Secretary of Labor The Department of Labor was started some six years ago in the interest of the wage-earners of the United States. Mr. Wilson was the first Secretary of Labor and there has not yet been any other. In taking that position he laid down a policy for the Department. It is a policy of fairness all around. In the interest of wage-earners? Yes. But without detriment to legitimate interests of any other kind. He has often spoken of the Department of Labor in this respect as analogous to the Department of State. The Department of State represents the interests of the people of the United States in their relations to other governments; but, while it should represent those interests faithfully, it should do so with due regard for the interests of all other peoples. So the Department of Labor, representing the interests of wage-earners in their dealings with other interests, should represent them with a just regard for those other interests. It has been the purpose of the Secretary of Labor to try, in every case of a labor dispute, to get the parties concerned together. In the experience of the Department, in almost every case in which its conciliators have succeeded in getting both parties in a labor dispute to sit down at a table and face each other, there has been a friendly settlement of that dispute. And in all those six years there have been very few instances of refusal on the part of the wage-earners to sit down at the table with the other side. But employers, especially big employers, have almost invariably refused. I say that is not "democracy in industry." Where one side in a labor dispute can refuse to confer and yet hold the fort, democracy is lacking. There is no democracy in industry without collective bargaining, and collective bargaining is one thing the War Labor Board stands for. It is one of several principles laid down by that Board for war purposes which should continue to guide industry after the war. The War Labor Board was formed by nomination of five business men by the biggest business organization in war time, and of five labor men by the American Federation of Labor. The Secretary of Labor appointed them all and required each group to choose a chairman of its own. The business group chose ex-President Taft; the Labor group chose Frank P. Walsh, who has recently resigned and whose successor is Basil M. Manley. The principles which that Board laid down during the war were unanimously adopted. One of them was that of collective bargaining, and another, that no men should be excluded from employment for being members of a labor organization. There were three refusals to recognize the decisions of this Board during the war, and only three of importance. One was the Western Union Telegraph Company. This Company refused to abide by the decision of the Board, and became a public telegraph service as soon as the change could be effected. Another was the Smith & Wesson concern, which refused to abide by the decision of the Board and continued to refuse until it also was made a Government institution. The only other instance was a labor case - some employees in Bridgeport. They refused to abide by the decision of the Board until the President advised them that they had better acquiesce, and they did. That is the difference between that instance and the other two. I am not putting collective bargaining forward especially as a democratic institution. But I do say that to deny the right of collective bargaining, and to deny the rights of organization, which necessarily goes with it, is not democracy in industry. Theories and facts go together. I do not believe in bachelor theories nor old-maid facts; I believe in their getting married and living together as one. One of my quarrels with my fact-filled friends is that they do not consider anything a fact unless it is so small that you cannot see it without a microscope. But we must get our minds familiar with two or three big facts, if we are going to have any kind of industrial democracy. The first big fact is that man must eat bread in the sweat of his face. We have never yet found any other way. This war has taught us that we cannot save up things to eat or to wear; we have to make them as we consume them. The first man had to get what he wanted to eat by his own work. But when other men came he did not want to work; he wanted others to work for him. So we had slavery. That was co-operation in industry, but it was not democratic. Another big fact is this, that there is one thing that is indispensable to work. This thing is the natural resources of the kind necessary to yield the products that man requires. When men wanted bread, or whatever we may think of when we say "bread," they always had to get at the appropriate natural resources. They had to do this in the solitary industrial period if there was one, and in the slavery period when that came. Then there came what we call feudalism. This was an advance in cooperative production. It was co-operation, but it was not democracy. You cannot have industrial democracy when workers are tied to land and the land belongs to a lord. Co-operation in industry advanced still further. We got to the period which includes the present. We now have industrial co-operation through wage-working contracts. But a contract presupposes that the parties to it stand on an equal footing when they make it. But how can that be if one party to the contract can control natural resources and the other cannot? Our wage-working forms of co-operation do not give us industrial democracy because wage- workers have to bargain with men who own the earth -- with men who control the natural resources. Neither industrial nor political democracy can exist unless every man has equal opportunity-- an equal standing in the government and on the earth. It doesn't make any difference whether the man is educated or uneducated, rich or poor; his rights and his industrial rights. He must have the right to be self- governed; that is, to co-operate with the rest of his fellows in having the government administered in the way that they want it administered. And he must have the right to be self-sustaining. Unless we have some kind of adjustment that will give to everyone an equal opportunity to live up to the full realization of his own powers and his own will to work, without making him subject to another man, except in the way of a contract made upon equal terms and not under advantages for one and disadvantages for the other, we shall not have industrial democracy. Issued by the Woman's Bureau of the Democratic National Committee, Mrs. George Bass, Chairman, Woodward Building, Washington, D. C. THE NEW AGE OF DEMOCRACY From an Address By Honorable Josephus Daniels Secretary of the Navy It has been a hundred years since this old world has been plunged into war, if we would count by heroic achievements, by the passing of old things, or if we count by the sacrifices and valor of the world. We shall never again live in the world we knew in 1914. That has passed away, and we look today upon a world as different from that as the America of today is unlike colonial days of Washington. And the man in America today who seeks in the solving of the vital problems that concern us to solve them upon old lines, or to raise old issues or hopes to call the people with ancient shibboleths, might as well sleep in the catacombs along the Salt River. We have fait that in this new day men will not hark back to ancient phrases or return to entrenched injustices, against which men have long protested. In America we shall have neither the riot of Bolsheviki nor the return of High Finance that takes from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. We shall build a great Navy, not for aggression, not for conquest, not for glory, but that this International Conference shall have behind it a police power on the seas which shall make the decrees of this conference enforced by the only power that may not endanger the liberties of the people We have passed through heroic days and seen new visions all about us. We have seen young men - mere boys as we thought them-youngsters whose fathers and mothers did not know they had found themselves, and when they went away had anxious hearts lest they should not be of the same stern stuff of which their fathers were made; but coming out from the humblest homes in America, and from homes of wealth, we have seen boys who have given a glory to manhood that makes them shine with the stars. They are coming back to us; not the boys who went away; they have learned in the grim days of war that man everywhere is the equal of his brother, and they will come back home, having sworn on the eternal altars that no slavery of mind or body shall exist in the world. We have put in effect in this war something never dreamed of or even suggested before in the history of war. We have recognized that the whole fate of the world rests upon the manhood of young men, and those of us who have had to deal with the young man as the very savior and strength of liberty have been astounded because, by reason of ignorance and indifference, legislators and par- ents have permitted many young men to grow into manhood physically deficient or diseased, so that they could not be taken into the ranks to fight for liberty. We have sought to throw around these young men zones of safety that they might have wholesome environment, and we have done this to conserve military man- power. We all hear much of reconstruction and much od conservation, but only conservation that can save this republic is the conservation of manhood and womanhood. We shall seek to rehabilitate young men who come back from the front with honorable wounds and give them the highest place in our thought and honor; and, sad to say, we shall rehabilitate some men whose wounds are not honorable but self-inflicted. Now, having learned that clean and moral lives are necessary to make soldiers, we shall act upon the truth that clean and moral lives are necessary to make citizens. And I wish, speaking for myself as Chairman of the National Social Hygiene Board, and for fifty societies organized for the education and protection and rehabilitation of youth, to ask for your sympathetic and earnest co-operation in that great crusade which we have inaugurated. It is all right to make the world safe for democracy, and no treasure or no sacrifice has been too great, The imperative task now, without any glamour, or heroism, or glory, is to make democracy safe for the world. People in far-off Russia stumbling out of autocracy into democracy, look to us for light and guidance and help. In Servia, in Roumania, in every nation which has suffered as we hardly knew man could suffer, they look confidently to us for bread, which we shall send them, but man cannot live by bread alone, and we may talk to them in the most eloquent terms of democracy, justice and equality, but the only language they will understand is what we are doing in our own country as an example for them. So that, apart from our duty to fight against junkers in America, as we fought them in Germany, it is our duty to raise the standard now and declare that the well-organized purpose in the United States to shift the cost of this war from the shoulders of the rich to the shoulders of the poor shall not succeed. These American junkers will camouflage their program of escaping their just share of the burdens by some pretense of serving the many and do it so dextrously as to make many believe they serve the people while they do the bidding of the tax dodgers. We must set our faces to constructive measures of justice which will work for the betterment of all men. For the brotherhood of man everywhere we must enlist, as men enlisted in the war, our lives, our property and our sacred honor. I have the faith that the American people, having been baptised with a baptism of unselfishness by participation in war, will receive a double portion of the spirit of walking, almost stumbling so to speak into statehood, and into equal and free government. It is for us here in America to have such government that we can commend it to the other nations, but no word of our commending it will speak half as loudly as our own example of justice and equality. Issued by the Woman's Bureau of the Democratic National Committee, Mrs. George Bass, Chairman, Woodward Building, Washington, D. C. FROM FARM TO TABLE From an Address By Hon. M. Clyde Kelly Congressman from Pennsylvania. This great era of reconstruction is important chiefly in the fact that it must be a reconstruction of ideas. After all, the world is ruled by ideas, and America is coming to realize that fact as never before. From the Fourth of July, 1776, to the Seventh of April, 1917, the fundamental idea of America was individualism - every man for himself. It served during the pioneer days when every man must be a law for himself. But the years went on, and great corporations in a kind of jungle warfare destroyed competitors and monopolized markets. We were beginning to see that the old theory was worn out. Then came the challenge of Prussian autocracy to America. The Kaiser asked his emissaries whether America could unite its warring races and parties for one supreme purpose. The Kaiser asked his agents whether America could produce sufficient foodstuffs and transport them to Europe, so that the Allies might be kept fighting until American armies should come. His agents answered, No, it is impossible. And, judged by cold logic, it was impossible. But after the declaration of war, Americans realized the task ahead, and individuals said, "Now let us get together for this great cause." Then the genius of America rose triumphant - overboard went every theory of individual liberty and the idea of every man for himself. The result was soon apparent. Under the new system of conscription millions of men streamed into great cantonments ; were supplied and trained, and streamed out again to the seaports ; 300,000 a month were sent to Europe, and not a single vessel convoyed by the United States Navy was lost through enemy attack. The Allies asked for 75,000,000 bushels of wheat, so that they might not stop fighting through sheer weakness. Our experts studied the field and said that 20,000,000 bush- els was the limit of America's exportation, but the food administration laid down its reg- ulations; Americans responded, and 85,000,000 bushels of wheat were sent to Europe. I saw the organization of America's mighty power in France during the flaming days of July and August, 1918. It was the greatest organization the world has ever seen. Great docks at the ports of France - immense ware- housed filled with supplies' the largest rail- road yards in the world - railroads built over night, and then the Motor Transport Service of the Army, with thousands of trucks carry- ing supplies from the depots to men in the front trenches. The battles of the Chateau Thierry, Belleau Wood and the Argonne For- est were not accidents - they were the result of skilled organization and systematic co- ordination. The heart of Prussia was broken by the systematic organization of America's power. Let us learn the lessons gained in fighting against the Hun in the great fight against hunger. That means organization at both ends - sending and serving. It means com- munication between. The Post Office Depart- ment has begun and experiment which furnished the means of direct communication between producer and consumer; it is the Motor Transport Service. I had the privilege of casting the deciding vote in the Rules Com- mittee which brought it last year before the House of Representatives, and $300,000 was appropriated for the experiment. Truck routes were established from a number of the larger cities of America, running to rural sections in the vicinity. It has been successful from a financial standpoint, the revenues in the less than a year amounting to $1,500,000. The school house is the natural heart and headquarters of the people. That it can be made so is not a theory but a demonstrated fact. In the Park View District, Washington City, a school house has been used as the center for the community for the last two years. It was the first established in the Unit- ed States. Some months ago a postal station was established in the school house, and the receipts have been increasing since the first day. After its establishement the people began to consider buying farm products directly. The Motor Transport Service of the Post Office Department was called into service and good with order were had from individual farmers. It was soon discovered that there must be organization among producers in order to satisfactorily serve the needs of the consumers. Then we went to the country. I had the honor of helping to organize in Mount Joy Township, Pennsylvania, the first rural school house postal station in the United States. The farmers came together, organ- ized into a community association, and under- took to take advantage of the Motor Trans- port Service of the Post Office Department. Since that time farm produce to the value of $500 per week has been coming to Park View school house from this Mount Joy community association. The truck stops each morning before the school house door, picks up the egg crates, kegs of butter, boxes of poultry, etc., and that evening they are delivered to the school house in Washington City. The pro- ducer gets more than ever before and the consumer gets his foodstuff for less. The operation of this direct marketing plan between organized communities will show very soon, and the importance of permanent road construction. A system of great trunk highways, crossing the continent east and west and north and south, can be built and paid for largely out of the receipts of this Motor Transport Service of the Post Office Department. They would be post roads as intended by the Constitution, and would be Federal highways with connecting roads built by the States and local subdivisions. No more important task could be undertaken by the government now, and it would furnish constructive employment to thousands of those who are returning from overseas with experience in road construction in France, Italy and Belgium. These roads, thus constructed, would bind the nation together in a unity which would defy the barriers of sectionalism. They would result in better schools, for there is a direct relation between poor schools and poor roads. Children are kept from school by bad roads, and frequently the average small attendance is so greatly reduced that the efficiency of the one-room country school is materially affected. Good roads mean consolidated schools, with better educational facilities. So it is that the prosaic bread-and-butter question, which makes necessary the organization of producers and consumers, and the establishment of communication between them, with no unjust and unnecessary toll levied, may well be the impelling force which will drive us to true democracy, which will be safe for us and for the world - a democracy that means not only universal liberty but universal organization, which will guarantee equal opportunity and equal justice to all. Issued by the Woman's Bureau of the Democratic National Committee, Mrs. George Bass, Chairman, Woodward Building, Washington, D. C. JUST AMERICAN Just today we chanced to meet, Down upon the crowded street; And I wondered whence he came, What was once his nation's name. So I asked him, "Tell me true, Are you Pole, or Russian Jew, English, Scotch, Italian, Russian, Belgian, Spanish, Swiss, Moravian, Dutch or Greek or Scandinavian?" Then he raised his head on high, As he gave me this reply: "What I was is naught to me, In this land of Liberty. In my soul as man to man, I am just American." Author Unknown. The Administration Program for Americanization No single fact brought out in the mobilization of our army caused so much surprise and alarm to the people of this country as the knowledge that hundreds of thousands of the young men of this country can neither read nor write. Out of the first two million men drafted 200,000 could not read their orders, nor even understand them when they heard them. We have known for long years that we had a constantly increasing number of foreigners who remained foreign in speech and thought, but we have learned that we have also hundreds of thousands of native sons, born and brought up in remote regions where there are neither schools nor compulsory school law. We have a great problem, but the Administration is preparing to meet it. The Department of Education, the Department of Labor and the Department of the Interior propose to remove the curse of illiteracy from our own untaught peoples, and to open the door of opportunity to the stranger within our gates. There are eight millions non-English speaking people in the United States. To reach all those who need this aid a similar plan to that already in operation in connection with Agricultural Extension work and the Good Roads law will be introduced in the special session by Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, and has been promised strong support on both sides of the chamber in Senate and House. It is not a sectional problem. The South has the most illiterates, but the North leads in the number of non-English speaking people, who are a prey to agitators and have been misled in many instances since the beginning of the war by Hun propaganda. They are a far more dangerous element of our population than the illiterates of the Southland. In connection with this work of Americanization the Department of the Interior has already begun a systematic plan for establishing a better relationship than has ever existed in the past between the foreign peoples in our country and the government. Writing of these new problems in the Century Frances Rumsey says. "As the sense of America's isolation has passed, so she has also realized her own comparative proportions of strength and of ignorance. She has felt stir in her the sense of a personal responsibility for the organized construction of her future, that is the moral expression of great peoples. "The Department of the Interior is selecting for each race a racial representative, to act in concert with it in all matters which concern the racial, educational, and industrial activities of his own people resident in America. This representative becomes the logical means of communication between this group and authoritative American action. He is in constant touch with his own press, with the educational needs of his people, with their organizations, whether social, religious, or fraternal, with their industrial conditions, and with their various conferences and conventions through the country. He traces the origin and strength of their factional differences and difficulties ; he urges the learning of English as a means of development and self-protection, and investigates the conditions and facilities regarding this ; he creates an intelligent appreciation of naturalization ; he sees that his people have adequate representation on industrial committees ; he keeps in constant contact with the growth of their constructive needs. This representative has, as advisory to him, a conference group of twelve members of his own race. These men are chosen from as wide a field as possible ; they include representation of educational, literary, journalistic, industrial, commercial and labor interests and keep the representative constantly informed of the growth and chances of opinion in their own groups. "The first task of each representative after establishing relations with his foreign language press and his own racial organizations, is to prepare for the government a statement of the present status of his race in their country of origin. This statement is made from the points of view of, first, culture, by a study of their typical traditions, beliefs, arts and literature ; second, economics, by analysis and computation of the bases of their economic production ; third, science, by investigation of their contribution to science ; fourth, political science, by comparison between their social relations, the forms of their institutions and political ideals ; this statement is followed by a technical one which defines the present status of those of the race resident in America, where and how they are settled, where and how employed, and how far their integration into American life has proceeded. "The third statement of each representative goes a step further. This is a report on those ways and means which will best interpret America to his own race ; which will best give them American standards, and best co-ordinate their own development with that of their adopted country." Issued by the Woman's Bureau of the Democratic National Committee, Mrs. George Bass, Chairman, Woodward Building, Washington, D. C. WHY I AM A DEMOCRAT From an Address By CAROLINE RUUTZ-REES Associate National Committeewoman from Connecticut If women who are to vote should already be making choice of a political party, what should guide their choice? I do not think--good suffragist as I am--that they should make it merely on the ground of a party's attitude towards suffrage. I am proud of and grateful for the splendid support the Democratic party both nationally and in our State has given the cause nearest my heart, but it is not because of that that I call Myself a Democrat--as much of a Democrat as a woman is allowed to be in Connecticut. No, I began being a Democrat for a rather cold reason ; I remain one for a hundred warm ones. When I first came to our country a very young woman, armed with a good education and entirely familiar with the meaning of the words liberal and conservative as applied to tendencies no less than to parties, I was naturally curious as to the political parties of America. I asked-- honestly--nearly every one I met where lay the difference between Republicans and Democrats. They told me that the Republicans were for a high tariff, the Democrats for lowering it ;--but that, I thought, is a temporary question of expedience, it does not indicate cleavage in general policy ;--some of them murmured something about Centrifugal and Centripetal tendencies, and said the Democrats believed in state-rights and Republicans in strong federal control. This also seemed to me not a principle to live by. One thing I could understand when it was ex- plained to me, the passionate movement against human slavery, the passionate national feeling which had given birth to the present Republican party and brought forth Lincoln, but that issue was already settled forever. My inquiry was about tendencies from which one might postulate what path either party would follow in a given circumstance, and I was not satisfied. I believed that we naturalized citizens, who bear our country a different and perhaps more conscious love than others, are also able to con- tribute to it one thing which more fortunate na- tive citizens cannot. I mean we bring to it a knowledge of and a complete familiarity with other standards through which we get a sense of the wood and its outstanding features before the trees become so familiar that we cease to see it. I was struck at once by the pride that mer- chants seemed to take in their imported goods, their absolute contempt for American products, their asquienscence in the supposed fact that American fabrics could not be expected to be as good as European goods. They even referred to "cheap American stuff." Now, as I became enthusiastic about my new country, I resented this, especially when I found that the objects of commerce with which I was familiar were in fact inferior. The spur of keener competition, I concluded in my immature mind, was what those manufacturers needed to do their country credit - lessened protection would help them to it. I used to ask the men I knew what I should be if I were a voter, because I believed in a strong central government and also in reducing tariff protection. "You would be a mugwump," they said, and I did not like the sound of it and con- cluded then and there that I would be a Demo- crat. Maturer reflection inclined me more and more toward a belief in free trade, as I believed most people who consider the question on its aca- demic merits are inclined; and my belief in it and my conviction that the benefits of Protection to the working man were illusory, kept me a Demo- crat. All such rather chilly academic convictions faded away, however, before my slowly ripening persuasion that the Democratic party really was by history and theory committed to the cham- pionship of the rights of the individual, to a real trust in the people - a tendency more or less consistently marked from the time of Jefferson on; the conviction too that the Republican party, in spite of its idealistic interlude under Abraham Lincoln, really did inherit from its predecessors the Whigs and from the Federalists before them a regard for property and for private interests, a distrust of the people, and undue trust in the mission of the propertied and educated classes to direct and lead in national affairs, still evident, it seems to me, in their attitude today. In the words of a Connecticut Democrat, "the Repub- licans fear the ignorance of the poor, the Demo- crats fear the autocracy of the rich. And when the star of the Democratic party led them to give the country a leader second only to the Republican Lincoln, cold conviction be- came enthusiasm. It became clear to me that the Democratic party really believed that - in the words of President Wilson, "the energy and ini- tiative of the people should not be concentrated in the hands of a few powerful guides and guar- dians, as our opponents have again and again in effect if not in purpose sought to concentrate them." President Wilson's first administration pro- duced much legislation of natural appeal to women. It was clear, in his words, that the party "had opened its heart to social justice," It was also clear that it was - in his words again - the party "that could meet the new conditions of a new age." The Child Labor law, the eight-hour day for women in the District of Columbia added to that democratic measure, the eight-hour day for government employees, the Seaman's act, and the laws concerned with safety at sea, the expansion of the Public Health Service make a special appeal to women with their sex-sense of the sanctity of life; the agricultural extension act, the Parcel Post, the U. S. Employment service, the good roads law are all, in their turn, pleasing to our practical sex, while liberal minds are attracted by the anti-injunction act, the industrial employees' arbitration act, the Workman's Compensation Act, the Direct Election of Senators and the Income Tax law. From the beginning of his second term, from the very term of his candidacy, indeed, when he had the courage, as his rival had not, to deal plainly with the so-called German-American clique, President Wilson seems to me - by his steady abstinence from war until our whole people were behind him; his steady prosecution of the war; his share in the severe triumphant terms of the armistice; his high insistence on righteous terms of peace - to stand out as the greatest man save two our country has ever produced, to be the shining symbol and example of what the Democratic party should mean and stand for. He has made clear to all the high destiny of that party - he has put pride in the heart of all who belong to it. He has justified their confidence in its underlying principles, in its general aim and direction, in its power of guiding the nation aright in its international no less than in its national behavior. These are some of the reasons why I am a Democrat. Issued by the Woman's Bureau of the Democratic National Committee, Mrs. George Bass, Chairman, Woodward Building, Washington, D. C. CONSTITUTION. ARTICLE 1, Name. The name of this association shall be ARTICLE 2, Object. The object of this association shall be to secure the enfranchisement of the women of Connecticut. ARTICLE 3, Membership and Dues. Any one who believes in Woman Suffrage may become an active member on payment of dues. Any one may become an associate, or study member, on payment of annual dues. The annual dues of this association shall be. ARTICLE 4, The Officers of this association shall be a president, a vice-president, a secretary and a treasurer. Sec. 2: The business of this association shall be managed by a board of directors consisting of the officers and not less than five other members. The board shall have power to fill all vacancies. The president shall be chairman of the board ex officio Sec. 3: The board of directors shall meet at the call of the president, or at request of three members. Five members shall sonsitute a quorum. ARTICLE 5: Meetings. All public meetings shall be arranged and called by the board of directors. The annual business meeting shall be held in September or October. ARTICLE 6, Amendment. This Constitution may be amended by a majority vote of the members present at any meeting of the Association, provided the members have had at least five days notice of the intention to amend. CONNECTICUT WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION 55 Pratt Street Hartford Report of: Lisa K. Fuller Address: Scotland, Conn Date: Sept. 6. 1920 Name of Delegate Talk of for State Convention: Clarence Perry For or Against Special Session: Against What Evidence? Adverse to "Votes for Women" Will He Vote Against Nomination of Anti-Suffrage Candidates State Ticket? He will vote with the "machine" Name Friendly men Whom We Might Get Elected to Go to Convention, in Place of Undesirable Delegate: Can You Get Enough Friendly Men to Go to Caucus which Elects Delegates? Will try What Men are Talked of in Your District for the Legislature? Describe Briefly. Julian Dorranee is the only one whose name has been mentioned. He is friendly to Equal Suffrage THE ANNUAL CONVENTION of the Fairfield County Woman Suffrage Association Held at Casagmo, Ridgefield, Connecticut MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1920 Program 11:30 Address of Welcome Miss Caroline Ruutz-Rees, Chairman County Association 11:45 Business Session 12:30 Our Next Step in Connecticut Miss Katherine Ludington, President Conn. Woman Suffrage Assn. 1:00 Luncheon 2:00 Business Session Continued 2:45 Practical Issues Raised by the League of Woman Voters Mrs. Frank Shuler, Corresponding Secretary National Assn. 3:15 Progress Dr. George H. Vincent, Chairman Rockefeller Institute " . . Individuals may start movements, but it takes organizations to put them through . . the ballot is the necessity of the many, not the privilege of the few . . the peaceable weapon of civilization wherein ballots take the place of bullets . . it is the foundation on which rests our entire government." Have YOU looked into the movements that will need your support in Connecticut Next Year? "Not as a ladder from earth to heaven, Not as an altar to the creed, But simple service, simply given, To our kind in their common need." Thomas W. Joyce, 213 Watson Bank Building You are cordially invited to attend this annual convention of the Fairfield County Suffrage Association held at the home of Mins Mary Alcott in Ridgefield on Monday June Fourteenth Grace N. Murray Organizer. Connecticut's First Women Legislators Reception Committee 57 Pratt Street Hartford Conn. Telephone Charter 6217 December 31, 1920. My dear Miss Danielson: We are sending each member of the committee four dinner tickets. If you cannot use or sell them, return the extras as soon as possible, so that we may know how many reservations to make. For the tickets that you keep make checks payable to Katharine B. Day, Treasurer, and mail to 57 Pratt Street, Hartford. The tables seat ten and one can be reserved for you if you wish that number of tickets. Yours faithfully, Katherine Houghton Hepburn Chairman. December 22, 1920. My dear Miss Danielson: The thought that some sort of reception should be given to Connecticut's five women legislators has occurred to various women who feel that such a historic event as the entrance of women into the legislature of the state should in some way be celebrated. To do this we wish to form a reception committee of women whose names have been identified with women's enterprises. We hope that you will become a member of such a committee. By so doing you will not be undertaking any financial or other obligations unless you wish to. The action taken so far has been to secure the Assembly Hall of the Hartford Club for the evening of Wednesday, January twelfth, for a dinner in honour of the Connecticut women legislators. Alice Robertson, the newly elected Congress woman from Oklahoma, a former Anti-Suffrage leader, has been secured as a speaker. Further details will have to be acted on by the enlarged reception committee. The first meeting of the committee will be in the front room on the second floor at the old Connecticut Woman Suffrage Headquarters, 57 Pratt Street, on Wednesday, December twenty- ninth, at eleven o'clock in the morning. Will you kindly mail immediately the enclosed post card stating whether or not you wish to become a member of the committee, and be present at the committee meeting, if possible. The reception committee to date is: Miss Katharine Ludington, Old Lyme Mrs. George Keller, Hartford Mrs. Mary Griswold, " Mrs. Clarence F. R. Jenne, " Mrs. George B. Chandler, Rocky Hill Miss Mary C. Welles, Newington - 2 - Mrs. Josepha Whitney, New Haven Mrs. Hiram Percy Maxim, Hartford Mrs. George H. Day, Sr., " Mrs. Herbert Knox Smith, Farmington Miss Mary Olcott, Ridgefield Mrs. F. W. Seymour, Hartfield Miss Mary Bulkley, " Miss Minnie L. Bradley, New Haven Mrs. Samuel Russell, Jr., Middletown Mrs. Henriette Pinches, New Britain Miss Helen J. Bunce, " Mrs. William H. Deming, Hartford Mrs. George A. Kellogg, " Miss Dorothy Fox, " Dr. Valeria H. Parker, " Miss Robina Stewart, " Mrs. Madeline Martin, " Miss Marguerite Boylan, " Miss Edna L. Tyler, New London Mrs. Donald G. Mitchell, " Mrs. Fannie Dixon Welch, Columbia Mrs. Milton Simon, Hartford Miss Harriet C. Bliss, New Britain Mrs. Ruth McIntire Dadourian, Hartford Miss Mabel C. Washburn, " Mrs. Annie G. Porritt, " Mrs. Mary E. Welles, " Mrs. Robert P. Butler, " Mrs. George P. Chandler, " Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett, " Miss Jennie B. Darby, " Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, " Yours faithfully, Katherine Houghton Hepburn June 28, 1920. Miss Rosamond Danielson, Putnam Heights, Putnam, Connecticut. My dear Miss Danielson:- I am enclosing a copy of a story on the Citizenship Institute which has been sent to all the daily papers of the State and all the dailies and weeklies in Windham and Tolland Counties. I can insure publicity from the Hartford end, but I haven't a doubt that you will need to "poke up" the country editors a bit. I am also sending copies of this story to Miss Stoutenburgh and Mrs. Johnstone so that you may all know just what I am doing and so that you may all help me in getting your institute before the public eye. A general citizenship story was also sent out last week. This story contained a reference to the July Institute and was published in the Hartford papers. I am not sure whether any of your papers used that one or not. Best wishes for the Institute. Sorry I cannot be there. Very cordially yours, Julia M. [?] Enclosure May 3, 1920. Mrs. Catt is anxious to have all possible courtesy extended to the members of the Legislature during this week. Will you therefore, in opening your meeting, ask whether there are any such men in the audience and, if so, invite them to take seats on the platform? Very sincerely yours, Mary E. Hutt, Executive Secretary. April 30, 1920. Dear Chairman: We have had so many requests for a suggested program for the meetings next week that I am enclosing one to all chairmen. It is not at all necessary for you to follow this except that Mrs. Catt has said that she wants the leader to close the meeting. It is very important to see that a resolution similar to the one enclosed is passed at every meeting and mailed to this headquarters. When you send it in please tell us how many were present at the meeting. It may be introduced from the floor or by the man speaker at the close of his speech. The hearing before the Governor will take place on Friday morning at 11:30 o'clock Standard Time, and the visiting women are expected to be at the Bond Annex Hotel, Church and High Streets, at 10:45, Standard Time. They will be taken to the Capitol in a procession at 11 o'clock. We hope as many as can will come to Hartford for the rally which will immediately follow the hearing. It will take place on the Capitol grounds. The week will be one of the most stupendous ones in the history of the suffrage movement. Its success as a whole depends on the success of each individual meeting. With best wishes for success in your meeting, I am, Faithfully yours, Mary Elizabeth Hutt Executive Secretary. Arrangements for Meeting. 1. Arrangements Place of meeting, ushers, collections 2. Program Man to preside, music, ect. 3. Publicity Posters, slides 4. Attendance Telephone squad, fliers, tickets 5. Decorations Cars and hall 6. Hospitality 7. Transportation to next town. Arrangements for Meeting. 1. Arrangements Place of meeting, ushers, collections 2. Program Man to preside, music, ect. 3. Publicity Posters, slides 4. Attendance Telephone squad, fliers, tickets 5. Decorations Cars and hall 6. Hospitality 7. Transportation to next town. WINDHAM COUNTY Mrs. J. E. Sheppard - So. Woodstock Miss Ina Hinrichs - Woodstock Mrs. W. W. Rich - 351 Woodstock Ave., Putnam Mrs. Stanley Rich - 161 Church St., Putnam Mrs. M. E. Fletcher - Thompson Miss Stoutenburgh - R. D. #3 Putnam Mrs. F. U. Johnstone - R. D. #2, Putnam Mrs. E. W. Ingalls - 10 Spring St., Daneilson Mrs. Geo. H. Nichols - R.F.D #4, Putnam Mrs. C. D. Arnold - Putnam Mrs. Oscar Munyan - Thompson Mrs. Lisa K. Fuller - Scotland May H. Foss - 208 Summit St., Willimantic Mrs. F. B. Harrison - Woodstock Florence D. Wiley - Thompson Mrs. Albert H. Williams - R. F. D. #3, Putnam Mrs. John O. Fox - Putnam Mrs. J. M. Gager - 350 Windham Rd., Williamantic Mrs. Esther A. Jacobs - Danielson Mrs. W. E. Brown - Pomfret Center Mary A. Gallup - Scotland Mrs. S. Danielson - 176 Main St., Danielson Miss Rosamond Danielson - Putnam Heights, Putnam Mrs. J. B. Fullerton - 74 Windham St., Williamantic March 1, 1920. Miss Rosamond Danielson, R. D. #2, Putnam, Conn. My dear Miss Danielson: I enclose a list of subscribers to the News Bulletin in your county which you may find useful. It will at least help you to know just who is interested enough in suffrage matters to take the trouble to return the coin cards which we have sent out to our entire mailing list. I also enclose the minutes of Friday's meeting. Very sincerely yours, Mary Elizabeth Hutt Executive Secretary. SUGGESTED CONSTITUTION FOR COUNTY ORGANIZATION. Convention called to order by County Chairman. Vote to organize ) ) Appoint committees) Constitution Nominations While committees are working there could be a talk by the county chairman, or some other person, explaining the purpose of organization; the value of county organization as compared to having the leagues affiliated simply with the state association; the kind of work that can be done, political, citizenship and rousing the women to take an active interest in practical civic work. An explanation should be made of the relation between the state and county treasuries. Adoption of constitution. Election of officers. Decide on time of county meetings. October 20, 1919. Miss Rosamond Danielson, Putnam Heights, Putnam, Conn. My dear Miss Danielson: Miss Ludington expects now to motor up to your conference on Friday instead of coming on the train. She is not in town, so I can't consult her, but I imagine she will try to arrive about two o'clock, as that is the time for the conference to begin is it not? If there are any changes in this program, we will telephone you. Does Miss Ludington know where the conference is to be held? Sincerely yours, Mary Elizabeth Hutt Executive Secretary NMS/D July 19, 1919. Miss Rosamond Danielson Putnam, Conn. My dear Miss Danielson: At the last meeting of the Executive Board held on June 25 a motion was passed "that a Re-organization Committee by appointed by the Chair, this committee to report at the next board meeting early in September". In pursuance of this resolution Miss Ludington has appointed you on this committee together with the following persons: Miss Mabel C. Washburn Mrs. T. S. McDermott Miss Caroline Ruutz-Rees Mrs. William Deming Miss Mary Bulkley Miss M. E. Hutt Miss Katharine Ludington Miss Ludington has asked this committee to meet at her home in Lyme on Tuesday, the 29th, at 11 o'clock. Will you please let me know whether you can attend the meeting. Sincerely yours, Mary Elizabeth Hutt EXECUTIVE SECRETARY. The Republican Party, reaffirming its faith in government of the people, by the people, for the people, favors the extension of the suffrage to women as a measure of justice to one-half the adult people of this country, but recognizes the right of each State to settle the question for itself. --- Adopted at the Republican Convention, Chicago, June, 1916. The National Republican Committee, in meeting assembled, reiterates its belief in the necessity of enfranchisement of the women of America, and therefore calls upon the United States Senate for the immediate passage of the Federal Suffrage Amendment, and further calls upon all Republican Legislatures to ratify the amendment when presented. --- Resolution passed by National Republican Committee, Jan. 11, 1919. We, the undersigned members of the Republican party in Connecticut, urgently call upon you to vote in favor of the Federal Woman Suffrage Amendment and secure its passage at the earliest possible date. We do this believing that the time has come when the Republican party of this state should prove that it is in harmony with the policy of the National party and with the evident trend of progress. You are invited to attend a Suffrage Victory Luncheon at the Hartford Golf Club Tuesday, June 10th, 1919, at One o'clock. (Elizabeth Park Cars leave City Hall at 10 minutes past the hour and every 20 minutes.) Toastmistress, Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn SPEAKERS Mary MacArthur of England. "ENGLISH WOMEN AND THE VOTE" Mary MacArthur (Mrs. William P. Anderson) is Secretary of the Women's Trade Union League, Chairman of the Standing Joint Committee of Industrial Women's Organizations, Chairman of the Workers Side of the Women's Trade Union Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Munitions, Founder and Honorary Secretary of the General Committee of Women's Employment to the Local Government Board. At the last General Election in Great Britain, Mary MacArthur was a candidate for Parliament and received more votes than any other woman in England or Scotland. She is travelling in the United States for the purpose of studying economic and social conditions. Mrs. William P. Ladd, Middletown. "A NEW SPIRIT IN POLITICS" Mrs. Ladd is an honor graduate of Newham College, Cambridge, England. Immediately after her graduation Mrs. Ladd took up Journalistic work and Teaching in London, and was closely associated with the English Labor movement. Mrs. Ladd was born in India, and before coming to this country lived in Canada, Brussels and Sweden. She is the daughter of Colonel E. P. Taylor, an English Army officer who served in France during the entire period of the war. Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett, Hartford. "THE FEDERAL AMENDMENT" The luncheon is to be held under the auspices of the Connecticut Branch of the National Woman's Party. Tickets for the luncheon will be $1.50 each and may be secured from Mrs. George H. Day, Chairman of the Luncheon Committee, 27 Marshall Street, Hartford, Charter 6770. Please send this application for Luncheon tickets as early as possible. Tickets $1.50 each. (Make checks payable to Mrs. George H. Day.) To Mrs. George H. Day, 27 Marshall Street, Hartford, Conn. Please send/reserve ............................. tickets for the Suffrage Victory Luncheon to be held at the Hartford Golf Club on Tuesday, June 10th at 1 o'clock. I enclose check for ................................ to cover cost of tickets. Name .................................................................................... [* Windham Co. *] Chairmen of Democratic Town Committees Ashford - James E. Knowlton, Mansfield Eastford - C. A. Wheaton, Phoenixville Killingly - Alcott S. Sayles, East Killingly Putnam - J. Harry Mann Thompson - Philip Woisard, R.F.D. 52, Bridgeport Woodstock - Asa B. Seranton, So. Woodstock Brooklyn - Oscar T. Atwood, Brooklyn Canterbury - William Cone, So. Canterbury Chaplin - Burton M. Welch Hampton - Austin E. Pearl Plainfield - Dennis Donovan Pomfret - E. T. White Scotland - Daniel T. Murphy Sterling - Orren W. Bates Windham - V. L. Murphy May 14th, 1919. Dear Fellow-Worker: On talking over the petition campaign with one of the members of our Men's Advisory Council to-day, he particularly urged the importance of getting the signatures of members of the present legislature as well as the men who were defeated in the last elections. He advised this because almost invariably these men are sent as delegates to the state convention. Therefore, will you make a special effort to get the signatures of these men? I am sure you realize that this piece of work is simply to show our representatives in Congress the strength we have developed in this state, and is not done to show antagonism to any one person. Faithfully yours, Mary Elizabeth Hutt Executive Secretary. [* Sent to County Chairmen and organizers *] (1917) House Resolution No.. 28 Resolution Proposing An Amendment to the Constitution Concerning The Qualifications and Admissions of Electors Resolved by this House:- That the following be proposed as an amendment to the constitution of the state, which, when approved and adopted in the manner provided by the constitution, shall to all intents and purposes become a part thereof: that article eight of the amendment to the constitution be further amended to read as follows: every male or female citizen of the United States, who shall have attained the age of twenty-one years, who shall have resided in this state for a term of one year next preceding, and in the town in which he or she may offer himself or herself to be admitted to the privileges of an elector at least six months next preceding the time he or she may so offer himself or herself and shall sustain a good moral character, shall, on taking such oath as may be prescribed by law, be an elector. Resolved:- That the foregoing proposed amendment to the Constitution be continued to the next session of the general assembly and be published with the laws passed at the present session. Passed in the House of Representatives May 8, 1917 Frank E. Healey Speaker of the House This is now - 1919 - House Joint Resolution _ No. 104 Opinion by Ex-Chief Justice Simeon E. Baldwin. In reply to an inquiry from a member of the present General Assembly Judge Baldwin writes as follows: "Any constitutional provision is subject to repeal by an amendment of the Constitution. Amendment VIII of the Constitution of Connecticut (as amended by Amendments XI and XXIX) provides that any male citizen of the United States, aged 21 or more years, who can read English, has lived in the State a year and in the town for six months, and has a good moral character, "Shall", on taking the election oath, be an elector. The pending amendment, proposed by the House of Representatives in 1917, strikes out the requirement of sex. If now adopted it would control the other amendments to the Constitution, so far as inconsistent with them. The latest Act of legislation or of amendment of a Constitution impliedly repeals all laws or amendments, which are not consistent with it. Amendment VIII, as it now stands, names certain requirements, on compliance with which any citizen shall be made an elector. This, in my opinion, would strike out any requirement of reading, or of reading English. Nor could any amendment of the proposed amendment be made by this Assembly. It must be either approved as it stands or not at all. (Signed) Simeon E. Baldwin. New Haven, Conn., April 21, 1919 In view of the above opinion on House Joint Resolution No. 104, (just received), the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association feels that it cannot conscientiously uphold a bill which might remove the educational test for both men and women voters, and therefore is entirely unwilling to support this amendment. Opinion by Ex-Chief Justice Simeon E. Baldwin. In reply to an inquiry from a member of the present General Assembly Judge Baldwin writes as follows: "Any constitutional provision is subject to repeal by an amendment of the Constitution. Amendment VIII of the Constitution of Connecticut (as amended by Amendments XI and XXIX) provides that any male citizen of the United States, aged 21 or more years, who can read English, has lived in the State a year and in the town for six months, and has a good moral character, "Shall", on taking the election oath, be an elector. The pending amendment, proposed by the House of Representatives in 1917, strikes out the requirement of sex. If now adopted it would control the other amendments to the Constitution, so far as inconsistent with them. The latest Act of legislation or of amendment of a Constitution impliedly repeals all laws or amendments, which are not consistent with it. Amendment VIII, as it now stands, names certain requirements, on compliance with which any citizen shall be made an elector. This, in my opinion, would strike out any requirement of reading, or of reading English. Nor could any amendment of the proposed amendment be made by this Assembly. It must be either approved as it stands or not at all. (Signed) Simeon E. Baldwin. New Haven, Conn., April 21, 1919 In view of the above opinion on House Joint Resolution No. 104, (just received), the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association feels that it cannot conscientiously uphold a bill which might remove the educational test for both men and women voters, and therefore is entirely unwilling to support this amendment. Opinion by Ex-Chief Justice Simeon E. Baldwin. In reply to an inquiry from a member of the present General Assembly Judge Baldwin writes as follows: "Any constitutional provision is subject to repeal by an amendment of the Constitution. Amendment VIII of the Constitution of Connecticut (as amended by Amendments XI and XXIX) provides that any male citizen of the United States, aged 21 or more years, who can read English, has lived in the State a year and in the town for six months, and has a good moral character, "Shall", on taking the election oath, be an elector. The pending amendment, proposed by the House of Representatives in 1917, strikes out the requirement of sex. If now adopted it would control the other amendments to the Constitution, so far as inconsistent with them. The latest Act of legislation or of amendment of a Constitution impliedly repeals all laws or amendments, which are not consistent with it. Amendment VIII, as it now stands, names certain requirements, on compliance with which any citizen shall be made an elector. This, in my opinion, would strike out any requirement of reading, or of reading English. Nor could any amendment of the proposed amendment be made by this Assembly. It must be either approved as it stands or not at all. (Signed) Simeon E. Baldwin. New Haven, Conn., April 21, 1919 In view of the above opinion on House Joint Resolution No. 104, (just received), the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association feels that it cannot conscientiously uphold a bill which might remove the educational test for both men and women voters, and therefore is entirely unwilling to support this amendment. Opinion by Ex-Chief Justice Simeon E. Baldwin. In reply to an inquiry from a member of the present General Assembly Judge Baldwin writes as follows: "Any constitutional provision is subject to repeal by an amendment of the Constitution. Amendment VIII of the Constitution of Connecticut (as amended by Amendments XI and XXIX) provides that any male citizen of the United States, aged 21 or more years, who can read English, has lived in the State a year and in the town for six months, and has a good moral character, "Shall", on taking the election oath, be an elector. The pending amendment, proposed by the House of Representatives in 1917, strikes out the requirement of sex. If now adopted it would control the other amendments to the Constitution, so far as inconsistent with them. The latest Act of legislation or of amendment of a Constitution impliedly repeals all laws or amendments, which are not consistent with it. Amendment VIII, as it now stands, names certain requirements, on compliance with which any citizen shall be made an elector. This, in my opinion, would strike out any requirement of reading, or of reading English. Nor could any amendment of the proposed amendment be made by this Assembly. It must be either approved as it stands or not at all. (Signed) Simeon E. Baldwin. New Haven, Conn., April 21, 1919 In view of the above opinion on House Joint Resolution No. 104, (just received), the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association feels that it cannot conscientiously uphold a bill which might remove the educational test for both men and women voters, and therefore is entirely unwilling to support this amendment. May 1st, 1919 TO THE MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD: A special meeting of the Executive Board of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association will be held on Monday, May 5th, at 11:30 A.M. at Headquarters to consider the subject of finance and reorganization. It is most necessary that a full board is present. The following motion was passed at a special meeting yesterday, April 30th: "The Executive Board of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association will not endorse any State referendum bill which may be started on its passage in the House at this session". Very sincerely yours, Mary Elizabeth Hutt st. Executive Secretary. June 4, 1921. Miss Rosamond Danielson, R. F. D. #2, Putnam, Connecticut. My dear Miss Danielson: In order to wind up the affairs of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association it is necessary to call one more meeting of the Executive Board. It has seemed to some of us that it would be a pleasant thing to get together, in connection with that meeting, all those who have served on the Board since November 1917, when I took the Presidency. The meeting has been set for Friday, June 10th, at my home in Lyme. it would give me the greatest pleasure to have you present that day. I will see that you are met, if you will let me know what train you arrive by, and also have you taken to the train again in the afternoon, - and I will serve an informal luncheon between sessions of the board. Faithfully yours, Katharine Ludington Lyme, Conn. June 15, 1921. Miss Rosamond Danielson, Putnam, Conn. My dear Miss Danielson: At the last convention of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, in November, 1920, the Executive Board was empowered and instructed to wind up the affairs of the Association. Pursuant to these instructions the Board, together with members of previous boards, met at the home of MIss Ludington in Lyme on June 10th, and heard the final report of the Treasurer, which showed that when certain outstanding moneys come in the books will balance and the Association will go out of existence with account closed. It was voted that the silk banners - state and county - together with the records of the Association from its earliest days, should be presented to the State Library in Hartford, and the Connecticut League of WOmen Voters was made residuary legatee of the other property of the Association. We wish that it had been possible to have you present with us at this last meeting. After the business of the meeting was closed, our minds turned back over the long history of the Association, and in the course of our reminiscences your work was spoken of with appreciation and gratitude. The Association was dissolved by the passage of the following Resolution: Whereas, The work of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, begun in 1869 and carried on through years of indifference and ridicule, then through years of bitter opposition to general acceptance, and finally to complete accomplishment, and Whereas, At the final convention of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, held in Hartford in November, 1920, the executive board was empowered and directed to wind 2 - Miss Rosamond Danielson up the business of the organization, and to complete its dissolution, therefore. Be it Resolved, That we now declare the business of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association to be completed and the association was dissolved. Now as our movement passes into the history of the State and Nation, we send our greetings to you our fellow- worker, and wish you Godspeed. Faithfully yours, Katharine Ludington Mabel C. Washburn Mary Bulkley Mary S. Deming Edna L. Tyler Susan T. Couch Ruth McIntire Dadourian Katharine Houghton Hepburn Katherine B. Day Annie G. Porritt Julia W. Russell Maud T. Hincks August 20, 1920. Dear Suffragist:- Tennessee has ratified, making the 36th state, and our enfranchisement is apparently secure. At the present time, we cannot tell how much may be done by our opponents to delay the proclamation of ratification by Bainbridge Colby, Federal Secretary of State, but we are acting on the assumption that suffrage is won and are laying our plans accordingly. The Executive Board met yesterday and made the following decision:- That the Connecticut Suffrage Association should not be disbanded or a League of Women Voters formed until after the November election. While suffrage is apparently won, we still have work to do in our own state and we believe that this work can be done better by the old Connecticut Suffrage Association than by a new organization. No program of work will be decided on until another Board Meeting, and possibly a state-wide workers' conference, is held. You will receive notice of this as soon as we have time to lay plans. In the meantime, do not think for a moment that because the 36th state is won our work is over and we can slacken morale. Our work is not over. One chapter is closed and a new chapter begun, and we know that the members of the Connecticut Suffrage Association can be depended on to start this new chapter with unabated determination and spirit. We realize that you will want to be informed on many points in connection with the machinery of the coming election. A full statement will be sent to you next week. In the meantime, we enclose information on the question of our stand toward candidates for the Republican nomination for Governor which we know you will want to have before the caucuses on August 26th. No plans were made by our Executive Board for a Connecticut jubilee, because we feel that the rejoicing of Connecticut women is tempered by the fact that we are not receiving enfranchisement through the action of our own state. Nevertheless, we are all rejoicing together to-day and girding ourselves to enter on our new responsibilities with the desire to serve uppermost in our minds. -2- May I say how proud I am to have been President of an Association that has done the work that this Association has done and shown the spirit of unswerving courage and devotion which you have shown. Among the telegrams of congratulation that are pouring in on us is the following from Massachusetts: "Congratulations. Your state fight helped focus attention of whole country on issue." Although we wish Connecticut had been the 36th state, we can feel satisfaction in the thought that if we had not held our sector in the fight, victory might have been indefinitely delayed. Faithfully yours, Katharine Ludington President. 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 and Printing. (Mrs. Schoonmaker and Mrs. K.) Makes out program, getting speakers, ect., notifies them of their place on program, asks for their time of arrival, ect. 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, ect. In county, through visits to towns, notices to clubs and churches, fliers mailed to leaders, ect. Keeps record of attendance during Institute, and a registration book. Chairman of Hospitality. Arrange hospitality, including meals, for speakers, meeting them at trains if necessary, ect. Arranges for room hospitality, not meals, for out-of-town attendants. Has information about boarding-places. 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 desired. (Suggestion--- college campaign groups or church women generally give meals.) - for profit for their own group. Am sending one of these to Mrs. Welch. Will you and she make some plan of cooperation at once? Mrs. Welch leaves for San Francisco on June 28. Other chairman to be added if necessary. Each chairman to be free to chose her own committee or assistants. INFORMATION ON CANDIDATES ELEVENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT Vote for ONE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN ROBERT L. MORAN ............... Democratic Business, real estate. Age, 35. 6 years in politics. 22 years in Borough. Alderman 3 years. Vice-Chairman of Board of Aldermen 2 years. President Board of Aldermen, 1 year. Straight party man. Answers 1, "Not until this question is decided by a referendum vote of the people." Favors 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Actively supported 3, 4, 5, 7, 9. Opposed to 10 because not yet proved practical. Favors 11 when better prices may be thus obtained. X FIORELLO H. LAGUARDIA ............ Republican Lawyer, age 36, 10 years in politics. 12 years in Borough. U. S. Consul, Deputy Attorney General, Congressman, 1917 to present time. Straight party man. Against 1, because "there is no use enacting legislation which cannot be enforced." Favors and has actively supported 2, 3, 4. Favors 5 for such public utilities as gas, water and electricity, 6 (which he promises to work for, if elected), 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 for small purchases only. JAMES ONEAL ............. Socialist Writer and lecturer. Age, 44. Nearly 2 years in Borough. 20 years in politics. Straight party man. Answers 1. "For enforcement of all constitutional amendments." Favors 2, 3, 4, 5 ("if it leaves the way open to increasing control by the workers of the conditions of employment"). 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (if machines are proof against tampering). Against 11. EDWARD A. PACKER . . . . . . . . . . . Prohibitionist Business insurance. Age, 70. 49 years in politics. 20 years in Borough. Straight party man. No answer to questionnaire. JOSEPH DANA MILLER . . . . . . . . . . . Single Tax Editor, publisher and magazine writer. Age, 55. "Not in politics." 12 years in Borough. Straight party man. Answers 1. "Not in favor of the law, but for the enforcement of all laws." Favors 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 19. Opposed to 3 and 11. Favors 5 for control only. MICHAEL A. KELLY . . . . . . . . . Liberty Did not answer questionnaire. JOHN DONAHUE . . . . . . . . . . Social Labor Did not answer questionnaire. Vote for TWO JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT FOR THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT IRWIN UNTERMYER . . . . . . . . . . . Democratic Age, 33. Tammany designee. Has been director in a number of important companies. Member of firm of Guggenheimer, Untermyer & Marshall, in connection with which he has acted as counsel for many large companies and taken part in much important litigation. ROBERT L. LUCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Democratic Age, 57. Tammany designee. Chairman State Board of Claims; Justice of the City Court 1 year; Justice of the Supreme Court since May 7, 1919. has argued many appeals in Court of Appeals and Appellate Division. Considerable trial work. Varied experience as referee. X JOSEPH E. NEWBURGER . . . . . . . . . . . . . Republican Age, 66. Democrat but nominated by the Republican organization for re-election. Refused renomination by Tammany organization. Justice of the City Court 5 years; Justice of the Court of General Sessions 10 years; Justice of the Supreme Court 14 years. 29 years judicial service. X PHILIP J. McCOOK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Republican Age, 46. Regular Republican nominee. Director of Mayor Mitchel's Defense Society. Director of the Draft for N. Y. City. Trustee of Hunter College. Varied experience in trial of cases and as referee. Now acting as Special Master (Federal Referee) for the Brooklyn Rapid Transit tort cases. Party man in National affairs; independent in local affairs. ADOLPH WARSHAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . Socialist Age 42. Regular Socialist designee. Part owner of paper mill and paper jobbing business. Has practiced law 6 years. GEORGE H. STROBELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Socialist Age 65. Regular Socialist designee. Business man. Interested in social educational work. No experience in court trials except as a litigant. Vote for THREE JUSTICES OF THE CITY COURT THOMAS T. REILLY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Democratic Age 36. Tammany designee. Assemblyman 1 year. Experience in court trials. LOUIS WENDEL, JR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Democratic Age 46. Tammany designee. Alderman 7 years; Assistant District Attorney of New York County since June, 1916. Experienced in all Courts of New York State and U. S. District and Circuit Courts. Large experience as referee. JOSEPH M. CALLAHAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Democratic Age 33. Tammany designee. Member of Assembly 2 years; Democratic leader of Assembly 1 year. County Clerk of Bronx County 1918 to present time. Large experience in trial work. Has acted as referee about 30 times. X RICHARD H. SMITH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Republican Age 62. Democrat but nominated by the Republican organization for re-election. Refused renomination by Tammany organization. Assistant Corporation Counsel; Member of the Assembly 1 year; Justice of the City Court 10 years. Elected Justice of the City Court in 1909 on Fusion ticket. X WILLIAM H. CHROSCH . . . . . . . . . . . . . Republican Age 41. Regular Republican designee. Alderman. Trial counsel for over 20 years. Experience as referee. As counsel for Harlem Board of Commerce was instrumental in opening Harlem Speedway and establishing Willis Avenue line. Chairman of local school board. Vote for THREE JUSTICES OF THE CITY COURT THOMAS T. REILLY . . . . . Democratic Age 36. Tammany designee. Assemblyman 1 year. Experience in court trials. LOUIS WENDEL, JR. . . . . . Democratic Age 46. Tammany designee. Alderman 7 years; Assistant District Attorney of New York County since June, 1916. Experienced in all Courts of New York State and U. S. District and Circuit Courts. Large experience as referee. JOSEPH M. CALLAHAN . . Democratic Age 33. Tammany designee. Member of Assembly 2 years; Democratic leader of Assembly 1 year. County Clerk of Bronx County 1918 to present time. Large experience in trial work. Has acted as referee about 30 times. X RICHARD SMITH . . . . . . . . Republican Age 62. Democrat but nominated by the Republican organization for re-election. Refused nomination by Tammany organization. Assistant Corporation Counsel; Member of the Assembly 1 year; Justice of the City Court 10 years. Elected Justice of the City Court in 1909 on Fusion ticket. X WILLIAM H. CHOROSCH . . . . . Republican Age 41. Regular Republican designee. Alderman. Trial counsel for over 20 years. Experience as referee. As counsel for Harlem Board of Commerce was instrumental in opening Harlem Speedway and establishing Willis Avenue line. Chairman of local school board. X HENRY K. DAVIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . Republican Age 50. Regular Republican designee. Twice President Bronx County Bar Association. Served as Bronx Parkway Commissioner. Has tried hundreds of cases in all New York Courts. Experience as referee. Believes "Party principles have no part in the proper conduct of a judicial office." HENRY GILBERT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Socialist No reply to questionnaire. JACOB HENNEFELD . . . . . . . . . . . Socialist No reply to questionnaire. DAVID PANTIEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Socialist No reply to questionnaire. Vote for ONE SURROGATE JAMES A. FOLEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Democratic Age 37. Tammany designee. Member of the Assembly 5 years; member of the State Senate 7 years; Minority Leader of Senate 1919; Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1915; Chairman Telephone Investigating Committee 1 year. Practising attorney 16 years. Introduced minimum wage bill in Senate in 1919 and obtained its passage. X JAMES O'MALLEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . Republican Age 45. Regular Republican designee. Clerk to Justice Laughlin of of Appellate Division; Assistant District Attorney, New York County 7 years; Special Deputy Attorney General, May, 1917, to present time. Extensive experience in trials as public official and in private practice. ISAAC M. SACKIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Socialist Regular Socialist designee. Age not given. Practising lawyer 10 years. CHARLES E. MANIERRE . . . . . . . . . . . Prohibitionist Age 60. Lawyer. Vote for ONE JUSTICES OF THE MUNICIPAL COURT FIFTH DISTRICT EMBRACING ELECTION DISTRICTS 1-19 THEODORE H. WARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . Democratic Age 36. Tammany designee. Assistant District Attorney 4 years; Member of Assembly 1 year; Council to State Industrial Commission 3 years; Trial Counsel for N. Y. City Railway Co. and Aetna Insurance Co. and Workmen's Compensation Commission. Now Justice of Municipal Court, appointed in 1919 to fill vacancy created by death of Judge Coleman. X ABRAM ELLENBOGEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . Republican Age 36. Regular Republican designee. Member of Assembly 5 years; Member of Joint Legislative Committee to simplify Civil Practice of State. Experience in trial work in all courts and as referee. Active in enactment of new Municipal Court Code. Vote for ONE MEMBER OF ASSEMBLY ELEVENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT LEO A. KAHN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Democratic Importer and manufacturer of metals, aged 41. Public school education. 25 years in district. Member of Assembly 1918-1919. Party man in regard to important issues. Reserves right to use his own judgment in other matters. Answers 1. "I believe in the enforcement of all laws." Favors 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (specifies State Health Insurance based on English system), 9, 11. Opposed to 7 and 8. Uncertain about 10. WILLIAM C. AMOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Republican Business man. Graduate of Baltimore City College. 12 years in district. 20 years in politics. Assemblyman 1917-1918. Party man except on legislation dealing with social betterment. In 1 believes in the enforcement of all laws both for benefits so obtained as well as to prove the evils of bad laws and seek to accomplish their repeal. Favors 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (if prepared by non-partisan commission), 9, 10, 11. Opposed to 8 and 12. SIMON BERLIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Socialist Dentist, aged 49 years. Graduate of N. Y. College of Dentistry. 7 years in district. Straight party man. Favors 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, with any plan that will have prevention as the large factor rather than compensation, 7, provided unprejudiced, 9, 10, 11. Opposed to 8 and 12. ROSCOE L. RECORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prohibitionist No reply to questionnaire. ISAAC M. SACKIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Socialist Regular Socialist designee. Age not given. Practicing lawyer 10 years. CHARLES E. MANIERRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prohibitionist Age 60. Lawyer. Vote for ONE JUSTICES OF THE MUNICIPAL COURT FIFTH DISTRICT EMBRACING ELECTION DISTRICTS 1 - 19 THEODORE H. WARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Democratic Age 36. Tammany designee. Assistant District Attorney 4 years; Member of Assembly 1 year; Council to State Industrial Commission 3 years; Trial Counsel for N. Y. City Railway Co. and Aetna Insurance Co. and Workmen's Compensation Commission. Now Justice of Municipal Court, appointed in 1919 to fill vacancy created by death of Judge Coleman. ABRAM ELLENBOGEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Republican Age 36. Regular Republican designee. Member of Assembly 5 years; Member of Joint Legislative Committee to simplify Civil Practice of State. Experience in trial work in all courts and as referee. Active in enactment of new Municipal Court Code. Vote for ONE MEMBER OF ASSEMBLY ELEVENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT LEO A. KAHN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Democratic Importer and manufacturer of metals, aged 41. Public school education. 25 years in district. Member of Assembly 1918-1919. Party man in regard to important issues. Reserves right to use his own judgement in other matters. Answers 1. "I believe in the enforcement of all laws." Favors 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (specifies State Health Insurance based on English system), 9, 11. Opposed to 7 and 8. Uncertain about 10. WILLIAM C. AMOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Republican Business man. Graduate of Baltimore City College. 12 years in district. 20 years in politics. Assemblyman 1917-1918. Party man except on legislation dealing with social betterment. In 1 believes in the enforcement of all laws both for benefits so obtained as well as to prove the evils of bad laws and seek to accomplish their repeal. Favors 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 (if prepared by non-partisan commission), 9, 10, 11. Opposed to 8 and 12. SIMON BERLIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Socialist Dentist, aged 49 years. Graduate of N. Y. College of Dentistry. 7 years in district. Straight party man. Favors 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, with any plan that will have prevention as the large factor rather than compensation, 7, provided unprejudiced, 8, 10, 11. Opposed to 8 and 12. ROSCOE L. RECORD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prohibitionist No reply to questionnaire. ALDERMAN Vote for ONE THIRTEENTH ALDERMANIC DISTRICT EMBRACING ELECTION DISTRICTS 1-17, 39, 41, 42 JOHN W. HORAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Democratic Did not answer questionnaire. JAMES J. SULLIVAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Republican Professional man; profession not specified. Age 38. College education. 10 years in district. 10 years in politics. Straight party man. Answers 1. In favor of legislation for enforcement of all provisions of U. S. Constitution. For 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 for small amounts and articles purchased produced or controlled by single manufacturer. Favors 5 for municipal control only. KARL HEIDEMAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Socialist Teacher. Age 52. University education. 4 years in district. 12 years in politics. Straight party man. Answers 1. "Absolutely against prohibition." Favors 2, 3, (with a commission elected by employees only), 4 (if hours are limited to six), 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Against 11. ROBERT HOUGHTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Prohibitionist Stationery engineer, aged 72. 20 years in district. 10 years in politics. Straight party man. Favors all questions in questionnaire. Vote for ONE ALDERMAN FIFTEENTH ALDERMANIC DISTRICT EMBRACING ELECTION DISTRICTS 33-38, 40, 43-46 THOMAS P. THORNTON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Democratic Retired business man; business not specified. Age 50. Born in Ottawa, Ontario. 20 years in district. 15 years in politics. Public school education with business course. Straight party man. Favors all the questions in questionnaire except 5 and 11, which he is against. MAURICE A. BURKE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Republican Yarn Dyer. Age 39, Grammar school education. In district all his life. 10 years in politics. Deputy Sheriff N. Y. County, 1914-1915. Alderman 2 years. Straight party man. Favors 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Against 5 and 11. MAURICE CASPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Socialist No reply to questionnaire THOMAS J. FOLEY . . . . . . . . . Independent Labor League No reply to questionnaire Vote for ONE ALDERMAN TWENTY-FIFTH ALDERMANIC DISTRICT EMBRACING ELECTION DISTRICTS 18-32 SAMUEL R. MORRIS . . . . . . . . . . Democratic Republican Position in Sheriff's office. Age 50. Public school education. 29 years in politics. Straight party man. Democrat nominated by both parties. Answers 1. "I am in favor of enforcing any legislation on our books. Favors 2, 3, 4, 5 (under certain conditions and certain utilities), 6, 7, 8, 9, 11 (where clearly for public benefit). Uncertain about 10. THERESA MALKIEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Socialist Lecturer. Age 45. 20 years in politics. Educated in Russia. Straight party woman. Favors 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8. 9. Favors 6-hour day in 4. Opposed to 10, 11. INFORMATION ON CONDIDATES To be Voted for November 4, 1919, in the ELEVENTH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT Issued by The League of Women Voters of New York City, 373 Fifth Avenue This information as to the candidates whose names you will find on your ballots November 4th, is being widely distributed in the hope it will make for the choice of the better men of those offered. It has been obtained from answers to a questionnaire sent out by the above non-partisan league whose aim is to help New York to a better government by interesting women in the character and ability of the candidates for office. Katherine Ely Tiffany Chairman Manhattan Borough League of Women Voters. Further information may be had at 373 Fifth Avenue, where returned questionnaires are on file. WHAT WE NEED IN OUR HOME DISTRICT 1) PLAYGROUNDS. 2. BETTER PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITIES. 3. INCREASE OF CLEAN POPULAR AMUSEMENTS. 4. HELP IN HOUSING PROBLEMS. 5. WATCHFULNESS AS REGARDS HEALTH AND SANITATION. 6. AIDING IN MATTERS OF EMPLOYMENT. 7. GATHERING AND SPREADING USEFUL INFORMATION, SO AS TO SECURE BETTER TEAM PLAY. (over) The Manhattanville Community Council is non-sectarian, non-political. It is one of fifty councils actually at work for community betterment in Greater New York (Borough Headquarters now at 117 West 46th Street, Telephone Bryant 248) It believes in the old American method of discussion and publicity. Give us an office and an executive secretary for the Manhattanville region, 110th St. to 135th St., Morningside and Eighth Avenues to the Hudson River, and watch things improve. F. L. Camp, 29 Claremont Ave. Some Members of the Advisory Board include: Chairman Advisory Board Prof. Robert E. Chaddock Columbia University Father McChaill Dean Howard Robbins Cathedral of St. John Send check to Wm. B. Smith, 2nd Treasurer, 611 West 127th Street. The bill goes before the House for a second reading, by title. The Speaker says "tabled for calendar and printing." The House Clerk has it placed on the calendar, which are distributed by the Judiciary and Engrossing Committees and is salaried. The bill must lie at least one day on the desks before it comes up for its third reading, by title. The House Chairman or other member of the Joint Committee explains the bill, and all the representatives may vote upon it. If the vote is favorable, the bill, after being held one day for a possible reconsideration, passes to the Senate for its second reading there, when the President tables it for the calendar. It already has appeared in print in the files on the senators' desks. After having lain on the desks for at least one day, it may be voted upon in the Senate. The Senate Chairman or the other senator on the Joint Committee explains the bill. If the Senate votes favorably, the bill goes to the Engrossing Committee, where every detail is carefully scrutinized as to correctness, and the Engrossing Clerk, the Speaker, and the President affix their signatures. The bill is then sent to the Secretary of State, who transmits it to the Governor, who signs or vetoes. All bills carrying money must go also to the Appropriations Committee. Most bills have various vicissitudes which this diagram cannot portray. The routine as here indicated is laid down by the Joint Rules of the General Assembly, and by the General Statutes. THE MECHANISM OF LAW-MAKING IN CONNECTICUT A DIAGRAM OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY Copyright 1920, by Florence Ledyard C. Kitchelt DEPARTMENT OF CITIZENSHIP CONNECTICUT WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION 55 PRATT STREET, HARTFORD, CONN. 6 THE PATHWAY OF A BILL IN THE PROCESS OF BECOMING A LAW Explanation A bill may be introduced by either a representative or a senator. This diagram shows a "House Bill," so named when introduced by a representative. It is given its first reading, by title, by the clerks of both houses. These clerks are not legislators, but are salaried officials elected by the members of their respective houses. All bills are referred to joint committees by the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate, who are the presiding officers. The President is the Lieutenant-Governor. These committees number over forty, and are named "Agriculture," "Labor," "Manufactures," "Railroads," "State Prison," etc., etc. Every member of the legislature is a member of one or more of these joint committees, all being appointed by the Speaker and the President Pro Tem of the Senate who are elected from among the legislators by their fellow-members. These committees generally consist of eleven representatives and two senators. Each Joint Committee has two chairmen, the House Chairman and the Senate Chairman, the latter presiding at committee hearings. The Joint Committee holds a public hearing on all bills refered to it. Substitute bills or new bills originating in the committee are not given a public hearing. A private, executive session of the committee must be held not later than two weeks after each hearing. If a majority of the members present vote in favor, the bill comes out with a favorable report. It now goes to the Clerk of Bills for examination as to proper form and phraseology. This clerk is appointed by the Judiciary and Engrossing Committees and is salaried. He stamps "examined and approved" on the bill. Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association Headquarters: 55-57 Pratt Street, Hartford Telephone Charter 6217 President Miss Katharine Ludington, Old Lyme Vice-Presidents Mrs. Grace Thompson Seton, Greenwich Mrs. C.E.A. Winslow, New Haven Mrs. Harrison B. Freeman, Hartford 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 Chairmen of Counties Hartford County Miss Mary Bulkley, Hartford New Haven County Mrs. Henry H. Townshend, New Haven New London County Miss Edna Tyler, New London Fairfield County Miss Caroline Ruutz-Rees, Greenwich Windham County Miss Rosamond Danielson, Putnam Litchfield County Mrs. A.E. Scranton Taylor, Norfolk Middlesex County Mrs. William P. Couch, Cromwell Tolland County Mrs. Fannie Dixon Welch, Columbia March 19, 1920. To all Officers in the Conn. Woman Suffrage Association: As you know, the Republican State Convention for the election of delegates to the National Republican Convention is to be held in New Haven next Tuesday and Wednesday, March 23rd and 24th. Without doubt, the question of a special session to ratify the suffrage amendment will be one of the issues raised, and we urge our members to be present at the opening session on Tuesday night and on Wednesday. We should exert every effort to make a formidable showing of our strength in order to back the men who will make this final fight for us. Please see to it that your town is represented by suffragists and that the delegates know it. The Association has taken a reception room at the Hotel Taft for Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday which will be a meeting place for suffragists and delegates to the Convention. One thing more, - will you get five men to send telegrams to the member of the Resolutions Committee from your district at about noon on Tuesday to the Republican Convention, Music Hall, New Haven, urging him to support a resolution calling for a special session to ratify the suffrage amendment. The member from your senatorial district is Archibald Macdonald. Let our showing at this convention be a climax worthy of the spirit which has united women through these fifty years in their unyielding fight for political freedom. Katharine Ludington President. NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION March 20, 1920 New Willard Hotel Washington, D. C. March 8, 1920. Miss Rosamond Danielson, Putnam, Conn. My dear Miss Danielson: In preparation for a national program of community organization, I am calling a conference of representatives of State and National organizations to meet in Washington on the 20th of March. The importance of such a conference and program lies in this. The American people are now facing many problems -- problems which are causing divisions among us. These problems cannot be ignored. They must be squarely met and wisely settled. To this end, they must be considered by our whole people and considered from the vantage ground of the common interests of people as human beings, not in head-on conflict as separate groups. Democratic community organization, as I see it, opens the only sure road to such national unity and constructive action. Hence the promotion of community organization on Democratic lines constitutes just now a challenge to every thoughtful American. One object of the conference will be to discuss the celebration of June 14th as "Neighbors' Day," with a nation-wide program of neighborliness and community activities, -- pageants, songs, meetings, etc. Such a one-day celebration might serve to emotionalize the community idea and prepare the way for more definite community organization. We shall want the advice and assistance of every national group interested in promoting a more vital and satisfying Americanism. Can you attend this meeting? Will you please indicate the particulars on the enclosed card and reply on the earliest possible mail? Sincerely yours, [M?] K Lane 1920 March 10th. Dear Miss Ludington:- Can we give even more publicity to opinions on the action of the Federal Amendment? The Governor told Mr. Gilpatric yesterday that he thinks women will not be able to vote in Connecticut even after ratification is complete until the world "male" is erased from the state constitution.- "as is the case", the Governor said, "in at least 15 other states". Please do not quote Mr.Gilpatric in this connection. Mr. Gilpatric understands that a special session of the Connecticut legislature will be called as soon as 36 states have ratified. Always sincerely, May 26, 1919. TO CONNECTICUT SUFFRAGISTS: The Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association has built up for itself a position of importance in the state as a body of women organized to secure full enfranchisement and to train themselves and other women for the use of the vote. Now that the passage of the Federal Suffrage Amendment seems assured - - - and may already be a fact before the receipt of this letter - - it is necessary for us to face the future and realize our responsibilities We must not only secure ratification of the Federal Amendment by the Connecticut Legislature, but we must maintain and develop an organization for the training and guidance of the women voters as well. A program for this should be presented at the Annual Convention of the Association in the Fall so that in the interval before we become full voters all our work can be directed toward a definite purpose. After we get the vote, we shall be eligible to reorganize as an auxiliary of the newly formed League of Women Voters. (A leaflet describing this new movement is enclosed.) In view of these interesting possibilities opening before us, the time has come when the Association must have regular means of support. The amount pledged each year at the convention is not sufficient to meet the increasing responsibilities of the Association. A fund should be secured by some systematic means which will ensure support for at least a year ahead. If this can be done, it may not be necessary to raise any large sum of money at the Fall Convention of 1919. The Executive Board feels that the raising of this fund should come in the near future, for the following reasons: 1. The Association has just gone through an active legislative campaign, and although our presidential suffrage bill was defeated by one vote, yet we developed so much political strength that taken together with the passage of the Federal Amendment, we are in the position of victors. But the fight is not over. Ratification must be secured, and we may face a hard struggle. We should fortify, and use as a base of future operations, the strong political position gained during the legislative session. 2. An active money-raising campaign at this time will be a spirited demonstration of our morale and our determination to see our Cause through to success, and will also evidence our sense of responsibility for training the new women voters. 3. A systematic campaign will develop an army of new workers and afford an opportunity for widespread publicity as to our aims and ideals. In short, as money is immediately needed, and as a campaign at this time is good strategy, it has been decided to undertake a drive under expert campaigners of large experience in the United War Work, Red Cross and other drives. The Executive Board has set $100,000 as the sum to be raised. In this fund will be included the $15,000 pledged at the Convention of November, 1918, credit being given in the quota allotted to each County and league for the amount (aggregating $10,000.) which they have already paid in against these pledges. We propose that this sum shall carry us through to November, 1920. What will this "drive" involve for the Association? This is the question that will occur to all our members. All work connected with it will be voluntary. But, we hope - - and in view of the magnificent response of the Association to all calls for help during the legislative campaign, we confidently expect - - that our entire membership will want to help, as generals, captains or members of teams or, committees. The plan of the drive is, in outline: A State Central Campaign Committee, assisted by State Finance, Publicity and Speakers' Committees, and backed by an honorary committee of 100 prominent men and women. A Campaign Chairman and Finance, Publicity and Speakers' Chairman for each county. Under the County Chairman, Township Chairman and generals with districts, apportioned according to population. Under each general, five captains, who in turn gather teams, composed of nine other persons each to do the actual canvassing. The "drive" will be conducted in the week of June 9 to 16 and the time before that will be occupied in perfecting the organization. You will get all further information through your county chairman. The Executive Board in deciding to undertake this campaign has done so in anticipation of the loyal and enthusiastic support of every member of the association. Very sincerely yours, Katharine Ludington President. Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association Headquarters: 55-57 Pratt Street, Hartford Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Presidential Suffrage Bill by Joseph P. Tuttle, ex-Judge of the Superior Court. I have been asked by some of your members for an opinion as to the power of the legislature of this State to grant to women the right to vote for presidential electors. To answer this question it is necessary to revert to the fundamental principles of our state and national governments. The powers of the latter are those expressly granted to it by the States as defined in the Federal Constitution. In the second paragraph of section 1 of article 2 of that Constitution, the States have expressly limited their right to determine the manner in which presidential electors shall be chosen and by the same paragraph the right to determine such manner of appointment is conferred upon the legislatures of the States. It seems incontrovertible, therefore, that the State of Connecticut as such has no authority by its Constitution or otherwise to either limit or circumscride the power of the legislature in determining the manner in which the presidential electors shall be appointed. A provision in a State Constitution under which a state seeks to withdraw any of the powers conferred upon the Federal Government by the National Constitution would be void, but it does not appear that the Constitution of Connecticut has ever undertaken to regulate in any way the appointment of presidential electors or the manner thereof. Our State Constitution provides for the qualifications of electors for the choosing of State and certain Town officers. It does not attempt any such provision with regard to presidential electors. The power of the legislature being absolute and neither limited nor attempted to be limited by the State Constitution, the question arises whether it may confer the appointment in part upon the women of the State. I am of the opinion that it can. I think the legislature can make the appointment itself or provide that appointments be made by the Governor or other State officers or by a special committee chosen for that purpose, or that it may provide that they shall be appointed by the men and women of the State under reasonable and proper regulations as to qualifications. Presidential electors are now appointed under section 636 of the General Statutes, that is in the manner prescribed by the legislature. I am clearly of opinion that the legislature may in its wisdom withdraw that power of appointment from the male electors of the State and confer it upon both male and female electors as above indicated. (Signed) Joseph P. Tuttle April 11, 1919. Hartford, Conn. April 3rd, 1919. Miss Rosamond Danielson, Putnam Heights, Putnam, Conn. Dear Miss Danielson:- Congratulations on getting a most favorable statement from Judge Shumway. We are having it typed and sent to every man in the legislature, and I am sure that it will go a long way to offset the efforts of the opposition. I am writing Judge Shumway a line of thanks for his kindness in doing it for us. I am so glad that you can go to Boston and take another representative from your County. It should be a most stimulating conference. Believe me Very sincerely yours, Katharine Ludington March 1st, 1919. Dear County Chairmen and Organizers:- "Strike while the iron is hot" must be our slogan this coming week. Leave the signature campaign to others temporarily, Miss Ludington says, and concentrate on the legislators. Already you are working with your senators. Continue up to the day the Senate votes. (Confidential. We hope the Woman Suffrage Committee will vote favorably and quickly - therefore, the Senate may have a chance to vote by March 6th.) 258 representatives are in the House. Lay plans to have everyone interviewed, at home, with neighborhood help if possible as to his stand on Presidential Suffrage, before March 11th. (Neighborhood help is essential. Men must not suppose Presidential Suffrage is a scheme "cooked up" at Hartford and lacking state wide demand.) Send your reports of each man's stand as you get it: all reports should be in not later than the earliest mail Tuesday, A.M., March 11th. Deo you want copies of these "General Arguments?" How many? Send women from your County to help us here with our lobby this week. We at our end will do our utmost to make the bill a success. Three cheers for the Senates of Maine and North Carolina! & Taft! Yours fraternally, Florence Ledyard Kitchelt Legislative Secretary. February 20th, 1919. Miss Rosamond Danielson, Putnam, Connecticut. Dear Miss Danielson:- We expect that the hearing before the Woman Suffrage Committee on our Presidential Suffrage Bill will come March 4th. In a day or two, we shall send to league presidents, etc. information about presidential suffrage and a plan of work for educating their local representatives upon this subject. The vote first will be taken in the Senate, and may come a few days after the hearing. Our object now is to insure the passage of our bill in the Senate. Will you do what you can with Senator McDonald? I suppose Senator Adams is hopeless, but we do not feel that way about Senator McDonald; presidential suffrage is a new thing and it has to be explained to the men. Miss Ludington feels that the local women must show a desire for presidential suffrage to their own senators and representatives, in addition to the efforts we are making here at the Capitol. Miss Ludington suggests a deputation to Senator McDonald, headed by yourself, to urge him to vote "yes" on the Presidential Suffrage Bill. Enclosed are presidential suffrage arguments. Those especially applicable to Republicans are for your own private consumption - not to be distributed on paper. The yellow leaflet is for general distribution, and more will be mailed to the league presidents and political leaders within a day or two. Yours very sincerely, Florence Ledyard Kitchelt Legislative Secretary. [* Our experience at the Capitol has pointed Conclusively to the fact that it is a mistake to ignore a man because we believe him opposed. How about asking Mrs. Minnie Torrey of Central Village to help with another deputation to Sessions Adams? Sen. A. bows pleasantly as I pass him --- at least he seems to feel kindly toward us.*] January 20th, 1919 Dear Miss Danielson From the present outlook, the chance of the Federal Suffrage Amendment passing before the end of the 65th Congress (March 4th) seems small. There is a possibility that a spring session of the new Congress may be called, in which case the Amendment might go quickly through both houses and come before our legislature for ratification before its adjournment, but this, too, is doubtful. Although we should not give up hope of the Federal Amendment in this session and should redouble our efforts to get it passed, we must face the possibility of delay until the fall of 1919. In that case what Suffrage Measure shall we try to get from this legislature? We have worked hard to get a favorable legislature. What shall we ask them for? And, further, what shall we do to hold the internet of our organization and keep up it "morale", - for we must face the fact that from the present outlook we must stay organized for suffrage work for two years longer. Shall we accept the State Referendum bill and work for that? All indications are that we can get that passed by this legislature, - but we should have to face the work and expense of a summer's campaign to convert the individual voter. Or shall we again introduce the bill for Presidential and Municipal Suffrage which was nearly passed by the legislature of 1917? This would mean a big piece of work with this legislature but if won, we should have a large measure of franchise, and would be in a strong position to influence the next Congress to pass the Federal Amendment. If we do not, we could still fall back on the State Referendum bill. The bill for Presidential and Municipal Suffrage would in all probability be referred to the joint Woman Suffrage Committee of the Senate and House. The majority of this committee are favorable, and with a favorable President of the Senate ( Lieutenant Governor Wilson) and Speaker of the House ( Judge Walsh) our chances are good that it would come before the legislature with a strong endorsement. Will you give this question careful thought and come to the Board Meeting on Wednesday prepared to decide it, as we should, in case we decided to introduce the Presidential and Municipal bill, have to have it before January 31st. Faithfully yours, Katharine Ludington [* We had this on each legislator's desk - Jan. 16. *] Votes for Women Announcement The Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association wishes to call your attention to the fact that our Headquarters 55 Pratt St. will be open from 8.30 A.M. to 5.30 P.M. daily Telephone, Charter 6217. Members of the legislature wishing to confer with us in regard to suffrage measures or other legislation for which they wish our interest will be welcome. Katharine Ludington, President. Florence L.C. Kitchelt, Legislative Secretary. ( REPORT. MRS. F.L.C.Kitchelt. (Ten days out for vacation.) Aug. 19-Sept.18, 1918. Signatures for month,72. Since April 1st, 1211. MEETINGS. Aug.23.Chaplin. Red Cross business meeting. Present, 60. (Held partly in honor of Miss Jane Clark, 84 yrs. old, birthday preceding day, knit 33 prs. socks with hands crippled with rheumatism. Presented with purse of $20 by fellow-townspeople. Found her name written in clear, strong hand on our suffrage census.) Aug.29.Plainfield. Lawson mill. 25 Sept.3.New London canvassers' meeting, 4 " 5 " " Suffrage League, 11 100 4 meetings, average attendance, 25. NEW LEADERS. Assistant organizer for Windham and Tolland counties, to give all her time not later than Oct.1st,Miss Esther Blankenburg. Signatures secretary for New London, Mrs. Donald G. Mitchell, Granite St. Windham County. Willimantic, 3rd ward, Miss Alice Fry, 383 Jackson St., [* who is working hard in the hardest ward, & now has 60 names, not in the count below. *] Hampton, town leader, Miss Helen W. Cartwright. Canterbury, " " , Mrs. Clinton E. Frink, asst., Miss Morgie Deerflinger. Plainfield, Miss Rose Beaudry and Miss Evelyn Hudson, workers in the Lawson mill, are taking canvass. New London County. Leaders for five wards, named at Sept. 5th meeting, Mrs. Donald G. Mitchell and four others. PUBLICITY. Article about Rockville and other Tolland leaders and our conference, and resolution passed, in Rockville Leader. Mailed copies to leaders and to Senators McLean and Brandegee. Date, Aug. 20. The Woman Citizen; Willimantic public library takes weekly copies from Mrs. Niles. Found displayed in New London library with the Suffragist and the Woman Patriot. Movie in Rockville showing suffrage sentiments and opinions, engineered by Miss Blankenburg and Miss Fitch. POLITICAL. Mr. Sam'l Butterworth, manager of Lawson mill, Plainfield, said at recent state Republican convention Sessions Adams told him he had a delegation of 50 anti women to protest against the vote. Mrs. Torrey of Central Village has enquired and no one else seems to know of any such delegation. [* Mrs. Niles reports 440 more signatures, received, total 1569 *] Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association HEADQUARTERS: 55-57 PRATT STREET, HARTFORD TELEPHONE CHARTER 6217 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MISS KATHARINE LUDINGTON PRESIDENT 56-57 PRATT ST., HARTFORD MRS. GRACE THOMPSON SETON VICE-PRESIDENT GREENWICH MRS. THOMAS W. RUSSELL RECORDING SECRETARY HARTFORD MRS. HIRAM PERCY MAXIM CORRESPONDING SECRETARY 276 NORTH WHITNEY ST. HARTFORD MISS MABEL C. WASHBURN TREASURER 55-57 PRATT ST., HARTFORD MRS. HENRY H. TOWNSHEND AUDITOR NEW HAVEN MRS. MARION NICHOLL RAWSON AUDITOR SOUND BEACH MISS DAPHNE SELDEN STATE ORGANIZER 55 PRATT STREET HARTFORD MRS. WILLIAM T. HINCKS EX-PRESIDENT (1911-1913) BRIDGEPORT MRS. THOMAS N. HEPBURN EX-PRESIDENT 1910-1911 AND 1913-1917) HARTFORD ------------------- MISS MARY BULKLEY CHAIRMAN HARTFORD COUNTY HARTFORD MRS. CHAS. G. MORRIS CHAIRMAN NEW HAVEN COUNTY NEW HAVEN MRS. WILLIS AUSTIN CHAIRMAN NEW LONDON COUNTY NORWICH MISS CAROLINE RUUTZ-REES CHAIRMAN FAIRFIELD COUNTY GREENWICH MISS ROSAMOND DANIELSON CHAIRMAN WINDHAM COUNTY PUTNAM MRS. A. E. SCRANTON TAYLOR CHAIRMAN LITCHFIELD COUNTY NORFOLK MISS MARY D. WEBSTER CHAIRMAN MIDDLESEX COUNTY MIDDLETOWN MRS. FANNIE DIXON WELCH CHAIRMAN TOLLAND COUNTY COLUMBIA [* Letter sent to township leaders -*] January 3rd, 1919. CONFIDENTIAL & IMPORTANT READ Dear Leader:- The Connecticut Legislature meets on January 8th, organizes, and adjourns till January 15th when it begins the regular work of the session. It is possible that the Federal Suffrage Amendment may pass the United States Senate by January 15th. In that case it will be immediately referred to the legislatures of the several states for ratification, and may come before our legislature by January 20th. The main purpose of our signatures campaign is to impress Connecticut Legislators with the demand of Connecticut women for suffrage. Unless we can get the names in, get them accurately counted and arranged for presentation to the legislature before our measure is voted on all our vast work of canvassing will have gone for nothing. If we can complete our canvass, it may be the decisive factor in securing a favorable vote. All that is needed is work. Reports from all sides show that sentiment is overwhelmingly in favor, but this harvest must be garnered. The anti-suffragists claim 60,000 names. Shall we let them have the field practically unchallenged, or shall we confront them with a substantially larger number of names. If we do not outstrip them it will put us in an acutely mortifying position before the legislature. Which outcome of our efforts do you prefer? This is plain talking but we must face the facts. If your town has gone over the top, keep on canvassing and make up for the slacker districts. If you still have a large number of names to get, consult your county chairman and she will help you. If you have not been working in the campaign but will begin now send to headquarters for blanks like the enclosed. 2 Let us get together and put this thing through! Faithfully yours, President. On January 1st we had filed at headquarters 46,II3 names Your town has sent in ____________________________ and we should like to get ____________________________ Executive Secretary. [*Miss Danielson.*] Work with Legislators, to be completed January 8th. Forms of Persuasion and Education. 1. Deputations 2. Resolutions- a- Churches b- Granges c- Lodges, etc. d- Women's Organizations. 3. Republican or Democratic state central committeemen and town committeemen, or other politicians [publications]. 4. Mayor Fitzgerald or Mr. Spellacy, for backward Democrats. (Ascertain which the legislator admires more). 5. Leading prohibitionists for backward prohibitionists. 6. Letters and interviews from prominent men and women, of the locality and of the state. 7. Circularization with pertinent suffrage literature. Dear Miss Danielson: Will you see that one or all these forms are applied to all the legislators of your county, except to those unalterably in our favor? If you need the services of the legislative secretary in regard to any of your legislators, will you please notify her at once? Circularization is done at Headquarters. Yours to win, and to win now, Florence Ledyard Kitchelt Legislative Secretary- Dec.10_'18 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 Apr. 16 - May 14, 1918 Report - organizer F. L. C. Kitchelt. Signatures, 330 Names, (551 since April 1st). Leaders, 13 accepted Secretary 29th Senatorial Dist., Mrs. Sarah Niles, Willimantic. Willimantic. 1st ward, Mrs. C. D. Stone. 2nd '' Miss Marion Niles. 3rd '' Miss Bessie O'Connor [*asst. by Miss Harriet Taber.*] 4th '' Mrs. J. M. Gager. No. Windham. Mrs. Ray Harris So. '' Mrs. C. L. Clinton Windham Center. Mrs. Robt. Pegrum Scotland township. Mrs. Mary A. Gallup Chaplin '' Mrs. Merrit Welsh Sterling '' Miss Blanche Douglas Moosup — Mrs. Thos. Seaton Central Village - Mrs. Geo. R. Torrey Other workers have taken enrollment sheets. (over) Apr. 16 - May 14 p. 2. Report of organizer, Mrs. F. L. C. Kitchelt. Meetings. W.C.T.U. Willimantic. present, 30 Missionary, Storrs Congregational Church '' 12 Willimantic organization meeting, '' 16 '' Women's Charitable Fund. '' 15 '' Windham Girls' Club. '' 25 Moosup Chautauqua Circle. '' 6 '' Red Cross. 10 Central Village, Ladies' Aid, Congregational Ch. 22 Plainfield Grange. 10 '' Ladies' Aid, Cong. Church. 9 Moosup organization meeting at Mrs. John C. Gallup's. 8 — Thompson Suffrage League. 17 13 meetings, averaging 14 people 180 May 8, 11 telegrams sent from Moosup and Central Village, (solicited by F. K.) to Sen. McLean One was from Chas. Bragg, Republican leader for Plainfield township Democratic State Central Comm. Endorsed Wo. Suffrage. 20th Senatorial Dist. voted Yes 29th + 35th '' '' absent. Note Milimantic wards You had list not quite straight on your report to Miss Selden January Twenty third, 1 9 1 9 Dear Miss Danielson:- An emergency meeting of the Executive Board will be held at Headquarters in Hartford on Tuesday, January 28th at 2 P. M. to discuss the advisability of introducing a bill for Presidential or Presidential and Municipal Suffrage in the present session of the Legislature. As all new legislation has to be in by January 31st the decision as to whether we wish to introduce such a bill must be made early in the week. Members are urged to come to Hartford early in the morning so as to attend a session of the Legislature which begins at 11:30 A.M. Very sincerely yours, Ninah Parshall Headquarters Secretary. $100,000 From Connecticut in Seven Days for Advancing Good Citizenship and in the Interest of Woman Suffrage Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association Campaign Headquarters 55 Pratt Street, Hartford, Conn. America is Giving Women the Vote - - - The Women Must Give America An Intelligent Vote Telephone: Charter {6217 { 9344 PRESIDENT - Miss Katharine Ludington STATE CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN - Mrs. Samuel Russell, Jr. Speakers Chairman - Mrs. Harry Tyler Smith Publicity Chairman - Miss Mary Bulkley Finance Chairman - Miss Mabel C. Washburn County Campaign Chairmen 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 Upton Johnstone Middlesex:-Mrs. O. W. Noble Tolland: - Mrs. Fannie Dixon Welch June 14, 1919 DEAR FELLOW WORKER: Since no campaign teas were held to-day, according to plan, our report must estimate the returns. Last evening after announcements had gone to the press that $16,000.00 was on hand, that amount was exceeded by several hundred dollars, and Friday was a most encouraging day. The total to-night is about $25,000.00. The final days of a campaign are always, of course, the days on which the greater part of the money comes in. To-day, Sunday and Monday should and must be exceedingly fruitful. Certain sections of the state have the canvass well under way but are asking for a few days additional time to complete their quota. In consultation with the campaign directors it will probably be thought advisable to allow an extension of time providing arrangements are such that intensive work for three or four additional days will be vigorously and successfully pushed. This possibility will be taken up through your county chairman Monday. However, we ought to have the whole amount, or a large part of it, by Monday evening, and I know that you will use every possible means to "go over the top" Monday. If you are near the goal possibly you and a few of your friends will cover the balance. We want every town chairman in the state who gets the fall amount of the quota any time Monday to wore state headquarters thus: " (Town) has gone over the top with a total of __________ dollars". We shall make an honor roll of the above towns with the name of the chairman and shall release report of these to all papers in the state through the Associated Press. Your co-operation is fine, and every bit of your splendid effort is appreciated. The officers and directors in the campaign join me in this word. Sincerely yours, Julie W. Russell STATE CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.