NAWSA Subject File CONN. WOMAN SUFFRAGE Assoc- Corresp. Treasurer, LOUIS E. STODDARD, New Haven. Chairman, DAVID E. FITZGERALD, New Haven. Secretary, PATRICK B. O'SULLIVAN, Derby. The Democratic State Central Committee of Connecticut Dist. 1. Michael A. Coleman, Hartford. 2. Charles J. Dillon, Harford. 3. Thomas J. Spellacy, Hartford. 4. John R. Hayes, Manchester. 5. Andrew J. Brannan, Forestville. 6. George M. Landers, New Britain. 7. Michael J. Connor, Thompsonville. 8. Thomas E. Cahill, New Haven. 9. Edward P. Keating, New Haven. 10. James E. McGann, New Haven. 11. James F. Dinnen, New Haven. 12. Hugh Prior, Wallingford. Dist. 13. Owen Horan, Meriden. 14. Alexander E. Lynch, West Haven. 15. James A. Hynes, Waterbury. 16. Michael J. Noonan, Waterbury. 17. William R. Palmer, Oxford. 18. Bryan F. Mahan, New London. 19. William C. McLaughlin, Norwich. 20. Daniel Finn, Jewett City. 21. Michael J. Clabby, Bridgeport. 22. Patrick H. Brady, Bridgeport. 23. William F. Russell, Bridgeport. 24. Willis S. Gilbert, Ridgefield. Dist. 25. William J. Beecher, Newtown. 26. Hanford S. Weed, New Canaan. 27. Galen A. Carter, Stamford. 28. James Sullivan, Putnam. 29. John M. Bessette, Danielson. 30. Eugene T. O'Sullivan, Torrington. 31. Edward S. Roberts, East Canaan. 32. John F. Addis, New Milford. 33. Daniel J. McCarthy, Middletown. 34. Rollin U. Tyler, Tylerville. 35. George Forster, Rockville. New Britain, Conn., September 26, 1916. Miss Rosamond Danielson, Putnam, Conn. My dear Miss Danielson: - Replying to your card to me of September 13th, if you have followed, as I expect you have, the proceedings of the Democratic State Convention in New Haven, you will have seen that the resolutions of covered the suffrage matter in a way entirely satisfactory to Mrs. Bennet, Mrs. Hepburn, and Miss Pierson. I am very glad to have been of assistance in bringing this about. Yours very truly, George M. Landers Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association HEADQUARTERS: 55-57 PRATT STREET, HARTFORD TELEPHONE CHARTER 6217 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MRS. THOMAS N. HEPBURN PRESIDENT 55-57 PRATT ST. HARTFORD MRS. GRACE THOMPSON SETON VICE-PRESIDENT GREENWICH MRS. EDWARD PORRITT RECORDING SECRETARY 63 TREMONT ST. HARTFORD MISS MABEL C. WASHBURN CORRESPONDING SECRETARY 55-57 PRATT ST. HARTFORD MRS. M. TOSCAN BENNETT TREASURER 55-57 PRATT ST. HARTFORD MRS. MARY J. ROGERS AUDITOR 39 GRISWOLD ST. MERIDEN MISS CAROLINE RUUTZ-REES AUDITOR GREENWICH MRS. ELIZABETH D. BACON EX-PRESIDENT (1906-1910) 104 CAPEN ST. HARTFORD MRS. WILLIAM T. HINCKS EX-PRESIDENT (1911-1913) 152 PARK PLACE, BRIDGEPORT MISS CAROLINE RUUTZ-REES CHAIRMAN FAIRFIELD COUNTY GREENWICH MISS MARY BULKLEY CHAIRMAN HARTFORD COUNTY 924 ASYLUM AVE. HARTFORD MRS A. E. SCRANTON TAYLOR CHAIRMAN LITCHFIELD COUNTY NORFOLK MRS. CARLOS F. STODDARD CHAIRMAN NEW HAVEN COUNTY NEW HAVEN MISS KATHARINE LUDINGTON CHAIRMAN NEW LONDON COUNTY LYME MISS ROSAMOND DANIELSON CHAIRMAN WINDHAM COUNTY PUTNAM MISS EMILY PIERSON STATE ORGANIZER GROMWELL September 28, 1916. My dear Miss Danielson: I am enclosing herewith number of blank report sheets for record of the meetings in your county. We are hoping to be able to keep a record at Headquarters of the actual number of propaganda and league meetings which are held in the state and so hope that the reports will be sent in promptly. I am sending blanks to the presidents of all the leagues in your county so that they may be able to fill them in for their organi- zation. The reports for the county chairman, of course, apply more directly to the unorganized towns where they are holding meetings. I think it might be well for you to keep a duplicate of each report sent in. Very sincerely yours, [C???. Flanagan] Headquarters' Secretary. CMF/O'N Miss Rosamond Danielson, Putnam, Conn. DAVID R. LYMAN. M. D. JONATHAN GODFREY STEPHEN J. MAHER, M. D. CHAIRMAN GEORGE I. ALLEN. SECRETARY State of Connecticut TUBERCULOSIS COMMISSION HARTFORD Oct. 2, 1916. Miss Rosamond Danielson, Chairman, Windham Co., Woman Suffrage Ass'n., Putnam, Conn. Dear Friend: We want to see you at the Hotel Taft in New Haven on the 12th and 13th of October, or at least on one of those days. Why? Because at that place and in those two days the Third New England Conference on Tuberculosis will be held. Perhaps you attended the other Conferences, the one held in Bangor, Maine, and the one in Springfield, Mass. If you did, we know that you will come to New Haven on the 12th and 13th of next month. If you did not attend the other Conferences, come and learn for yourself how big an offensive is now planned against the tuberculosis trenches. One of the principal subjects of discussion will be Compulsory Health Insurance and Its Relation to the Tuberculosis Campaign. This is a very important matter to you. It concerns your pocketbook as well as your health and the health of your neighbors. And it is a subject that will be warmly discussed in every village in the state within a few years--prob-ably within a few months. Watch the daily papers for the full program. Sincerely yours, STATE TUBERCULOSIS COMMISSION. WILLIMANTIC, CONN. OCT 7 1130 AM 1916 THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS Miss Rosamond Danielson Putnam Heights, Putnam, Conn. [Williamtic?], Conn., Oct. 6, 1916. Dear Miss Danielson, It is impossible for me to attend the meeting on Oct. 10th, as it is the date of our Official Board meeting at Waterbury, but I shall hope for the success of the meeting and gave out a notice of it at to-day's meeting. Sincerely yours, N. A. Gage. White Ribbon Banner. Mrs. Lisa K. Fuller, Editor. Scotland, Conn., Oct. 6 1916 My Dear Miss Danielson I regret that your meeting will come at a time when most of our workers will be attending our W.C.T.U. state convention which meets in Waterbury next week. Otherwise there would be several who would be glad to be present. Cordially Yours Lisa K. Fuller Oct 6 1916 Dear Miss Danielson Yes, yes, four courageous females of Sterling cast ballots on October second!! I quite envy your going to the Bridgport convention. It will be fitting to have our meeting soon after, when you are filled to bursting with enthusiasm. I fear my going to the convention would be impossible. You see I feel that I have no business not to be holding a fairly cause I hope you'll find it very enjoyable. I should most certainly want to be with you, if I were going. I made Mrs. Vaughn a call this evening. She is a clever woman and I think she'll preside. She could do it well. Do bring Mr. [Hinrichs?], and doesn't "the charming daughter" sing a play?" May I not "book" her for our meeting? I'd like to. I shall try to get another musician (I might respectible job. As it is I am so enthusiastic about singing that I am willing to sacrifice job and anything else to spend these two years to study. So after I've been to Providence for lessons, I don't feel I can do the globe-trotting (imagine that term applied to a trip to Bridgeport!) that I'd like. But I'm sure you don't doubt my loyalty to the let you bring her from [Moosup?], if you have the room), and then we ought to have a few more remarks from someone. Perhaps you can suggest someone. I could use myself as a filler, at a last resort. But I'd be glad to do better. I nearly forgot the date - Nov. 9, 3 P.M. Mrs. Vaughn lives on the state road between Sterling & Quees. Keep the state road Moosup to Sterling, then inquire for her house. And lastly "Advertise." You know the codfish lays a million eggs, but we don't appreciate codfish eggs, for we don't know anything about them. But how the hen does cackle and advertise her goods! And she is duly appreciated. She knows "it pays to advertise". I am skeptical about the size of our audience, but it gives you an opportunity Father has been to the town committee meeting this evening. At nine-thirty P.M. (it is now about eleven) he phoned me to come to Sterling after him - me! a lone female! (for he can't drive his own care) When we carried another member home, and I said "If you don't send me to the legislature, you'll have to get another driver for night work" Father is the newly-elected chairman, and seems to be quite interested in The Cause. to visit us again, and that is enough to justify a meeting. If you could have seen me with an auto of women-folks on town-meeting day, you would think I was a grafting politician. Only four voted, but there will be more next year. And that is noble for Sterling. You know "we" are going to [boom?] now, for the old-time "antis" see it coming so fast that they are deciding they'd better get in line so the women won't vote against them. Our democratic town committee chairman said in three years. That's a little soon, n'est-ce pas? Don't you think I'm dissipating badly to be up at this hour? And you may have something to do besides wasting your time over so many pages. Sincerely, Blondie Douglas Moosup, Ct. R.D. Thursday THE PUTNAM PATRIOT A NEWSpaper Always Worth Reading Profitable for Intelligent Advertisers Modern Printers In Advance $1.50 Per Year Bookbinding and Engraving Putnam, Connecticut, Oct 1 1916 Telephone 40 Equal Suffrage League. Dr. To Macdonald & Williams July 3rd 3-00 1/16 Outdoor [Meeting?] 1.75 The Putnam Patriot PAID OCT 14 PAID October 4, 1916. My dear Miss Danielson: I do not know how much good it would do to have a deputation interview Mr. Archibald Macdonald. The other Republican nominee for Senator in your county has not yet been announced nor have we received word of the Democratic nominees. What we are doing in the other counties, however, is to have deputations composed of one woman from every town in the senatorial district visit the men, present the reasons why they should support equal suffrage and try to get a statement out of them. Two other things we are doing in the counties are having all nominees for the House of Representatives interviewed by the people from their own towns if possible, or by some one in the county if that is infeasible; and lastly [by] having a big public meeting held in the evening in each town to which the nominees are invited. We are trying to have the past Representative of the dominant party preside where he is favorable. These last two things certainly should be done if we are to present as good a record as we did two years ago. Do as you think best about the senatorial nominees. Sincerely yours, Emily Pierson EP/F Miss Rosamond Danielson Putnam, Conn. October 6, 1916. My dear Miss Danielson: Yesterday I went to Bridgeport and saw Mrs. Shaw and Mrs. Hincks in regard to the Convention. Conditions seem to be so congested in Bridgeport that it will be a practical impossibility to hold the Convention there. The boarding houses are crowded and so are the hotels. The Stratfield Managers say that they would not be able to reserve any rooms at all for us. Moreover they would not have to charge $125 for the Ballroom. As far as boarding houses go they are all so crowded that many beds are being used twice in the same twenty-four hours by different people. The local women there seem to feel that it might be very embarrassing if a large number of delegates came, although they were very anxious to have the convention in Bridgeport. After leaving Bridgeport I stopped off at New Haven and went to the annual meeting of the Equal Franchise League. The New Haven women seem to feel that it would be very possible to hold the convention there and voted to hold it on November 15th and 16th. They said that it would be impossible for them to get it up any earlier. I am sorry to have to make this radical change in our plans without consulting the Board, but it seems unavoidable. Yours faithfully, KHH/F. Katherine Houghton Hepburn Miss Rosamond Danielson, Putnam, Conn. Mailed Sept 30, 1916 Dear Miss Danielson: Many moons ago you wanted to have a suffrage meeting in our town - our last was such a success. Mrs. Walter Vaughn, Sterling, Conn. is very willing, yea eager, to have one at her home. I imagine you still want to have one. I don't think, however, it will equal the one on the Hill. But we may reach a few. October is a very busy month for me. Perhaps the first of November would be good. ??? (That means, "would it?") Sterling can boast of six women voters - all made this fall - Mrs. Vaughn, Mrs. Chas. Frink, Mrs. Young, Mrs. Guffin, my sister, and myself. You can see that Sterling is not to be ignored. These cheering items will inspire your efforts for weeks to come, I feel sure. Sincerely, Blanche Douglas Thur. Your suggestion of my name to Mrs [Fuller?], as county superintendent of suffrage was fruitful. I am that! I have a certain bank that should be forwarded to you. There are lacking a few dimes, so it jingles too much to be mailed, I thought. I'll be glad to let you have it when I see you. [?] CONN OCT 10 830 PM 1916 Miss Rosamond Danielson, Putnam, Conn. CONNECTICUT WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION 55-57 PRATT STREET, HARTFORD. CONN. October 10, 1916. My dear Miss Danielson: Mrs. Hepburn has asked me to write you and tell you that the dates of November 15-16 as sent to you in her letter off a few days ago are not the correct dates for the Convention at New Haven. The correct dates are November 16 and 17. We very much regret the error, Very sincerely yours, [?] Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association HEADQUARTERS: 55-57 PRATT STREET, HARTFORD TELEPHONE CHARTER 6217 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Mrs. THOMAS N. HEPBURN PRESIDENT 55-57 PRATT ST. HARTFORD MRS. GRACE THOMPSON SETON VICE-PRESIDENT GREENWICH MRS. EDWARD PORRITT RECORDING SECRETARY 63 TREMONT ST HARTFORD MISS MABEL C. WASHBURN CORRESPONDING SECRETARY 55-57 PRATT ST. HARTFORD MRS. M. TOSCAN BENNETT TREASURER 55-57 PRATT ST. HARTFORD MRS. MARY J. ROGERS AUDITOR 39 GRISWOLD ST. MERIDEN MISS CAROLINE RUUTZ-REES AUDITOR GREENWICH MRS. ELIZABETH D. BACON EX-PRESIDENT (1906-1910) 106 CAPEN ST. HARTFORD MRS. WILLIAM T. HINCKS EX-PRESIDENT (1911-1913) 152 PARK PLACE, BRIDGEPORT MISS CAROLINE RUUTZ-REES CHAIRMAN FAIRFIELD COUNTY GREENWICH MISS MARY BULKLEY CHAIRMAN HARTFORD COUNTY 924 ASYLUM AVE. HARTFORD MRS. A. E. SCRANTON TAYLOR CHAIRMAN LITCHFIELD COUNTY NORFOLK MRS. CARLOS F. STODDARD CHAIRMAN NEW HAVEN COUNTY NEW HAVEN MISS KATHARINE LUDINGTON CHAIRMAN NEW LONDON COUNTY LYME MISS ROSAMOND DANIELSON CHAIRMAN TOLLAND COUNTY COLUMBIA MISS EMILY PIERSON STATE ORGANIZER CROMWELL October 11, 1916. My dear Miss Danielson: Mrs. Hepburn has asked me to send you the enclosed correspondence which she has had with Miss Anna C. Levitt, the president of the Putnam Equal Franchise League. Will you kindly return the correspondence for our files? Sincerely your, [?] F. Headquarters' Secretary. Miss Rosamond Danielson, Putnam, Conn. 227 Broadway, Norwich, Conn. My dear Miss Danielson: I did not reply to your letter to me in regard to the meeting for the second congressional district as I received one from Miss Ludington saying that she would communicate with you about it. As you know from her we have secured the Buckingham Memorial for the afternoon of the twenty-fifth and as she has doubtless told you, NewLondon County is to have a conference at the same place that morning. We have arranged to have a fifty-cent luncheon served at Mabrey's restaurant at one o'clock.If you know of any who wish to have it will you let me know. I trust there will be a goodly number present at the meeting. My husband is staying at Thompson while over-seeing some work on his property at Daniels.He was much impressed with the beautiful flowers which he saw in your garden as he motored past. I fear that the cold of last night ended the season for this year but we have had a wonderful fall thus far. "Fraternally" yours, Martha Bruner [?] October 18, 1916. 10/19/16 Dear Miss Danielson,- Miss Pierson is to speak at Brrokly on Saturday night, October 21, at 7:30 P.M. in Unitarian Hall, and Mrs. Bard is most hopeful that you may be able to come. Miss Fisher is with me now, and we are going, but not to speak, only to listen with rapt attention. Very cordially yours Elsie Williams Valentine MODSUP OCT 25 6PM 1916 CONN. THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS Miss Rosamond Davidson Putnam, Conn. Moosup, Connecticut. My dear Miss Danielson, Much to my regret I am unable to attend the meeting at Norwich - Have been unable to have a meeting in October as I had hoped - no one has any time. I am leaving for a ten days trip to Louisvile. Sincerely yours Bertha L. S. Gallup. Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association HEADQUARTERS: 55-57 PRATT STREET, HARTFORD TELEPHONE CHARTER 6217 6 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn PRESIDENT 55-57 PRATT ST., HARTFORD Mrs. Grace Thompson Seton VICE-PRESIDENT GREENWICH Mrs. Edward Porritt RECORDING SECRETARY 63 TREMONT ST., HARTFORD Miss Mabel C. Washburn CORRESPONDING SECRETARY 55-57 PRATT ST., HARTFORD Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett TREASURER 55-57 PRATT ST., HARTFORD Mrs. Mary J. Rogers AUDITOR 39 GRISWOLD ST., MERIDEN Miss Caroline Ruutz-Rees AUDITOR GREENWICH Mrs. Elizabeth D. Bacon EX-PRESIDENT (1906-1910) 106 CAPEN ST., HARTFORD Mrs. William T. Hincks EX-PRESIDENT (1911-1913) 152 PARK PLACE, BRIDGEPORT Miss Caroline Ruutz-Rees CHAIRMAN FAIRFIELD COUNTY GREENWICH Miss Mary Bulkley CHAIRMAN HARTFORD COUNTY 924 ASYLUM AVE., HARTFORD Mrs. A. E. Scranton Taylor CHAIRMAN LITCHFIELD COUNTY NORFOLK Mrs. Carlos F. Stoddard CHAIRMAN NEW HAVEN COUNTY NEW HAVEN Miss Katharine Ludington CHAIRMAN NEW LONDON COUNTY LYME Miss Rosamond Danielson CHAIRMAN WINDHAM COUNTY PUTNAM Mrs. Fannie Dixon Welch CHAIRMAN TOLLAND COUNTY COLUMBIA Miss Emily Pierson STATE ORGANIZER CROMWELL October 21, 1916. My dear Miss Danielson: Thank you for the additional names of the nominees. I see Mr. Ide did not get the nomination in Chaplin. Do you know how Russ stands? Do you think it is worth while having the league to do anything in Eastford, that is if there is any choice in candidates from our point of view. Sincerely yours, Emily Pierson EP/F Miss Rosamond Danielson Putnam, Conn. Oct 25. 1916. Miss Danielson - If at anytime you have any articles, or notices you wish published please send them to me - and I will gladly attend to it. Whatever I receive, and send to the "Thompson News" will also be published - in Woodstock - Southbridge and Oxford - and Webster Times - Will you tell me if you like this item I send this morning. Cordially. Ella M Carleton. Facts for "W.C.T.U. Women. Do you know, That the department of Franchise was adopted by the National W.C.T.U. in 1882, with Mrs. Mary Clement Leavitt of Boston, as its Superintendent? Do you know, That in 1876, Miss Willard made her first speech, in Philadelphia, in favor of the ballot for women, "As a protection from the tyranny of drink? Do you know That at the National Convention held in Newark, N.J. in 1876, Miss Willard spoke on Suffrage? doing so "against the tearful pleadings of her friends, that she should not do so? Do you know. That in 1883, the first resolution for the full ballot for women was passed by the National Convention, which was held in Detroit, Michigan? This is the text of the resolution. "As the strength of the [lignor?] traffic is in the law, protecting it, and [lair?] is the result of sentiment, expressed by the ballot, we therefore recognize it to be the Christian, and patriotic duty of women, to bend their energies towards securing the ballot - to the end of crystallizing their sentiments into law that shall protect the home, from the encroachment of its enemies." Do you know, That the National W.C.T.U. has been passing similar resolutions every year since 1883? Do you know, That the greatest opposition to the granting of the ballot to women, comes from the legalized liquor traffic? Do you know, That in every state where women have the vote, they have reduced the saloons, by the hundreds? Do you know, That the power of the ballot, is not only a great responsibility - but it gives the blessed opportunity to do those things which make for righteousness - joy - and peace. "We believe that God created man, and woman, both, in His own image, and therefore, we believe in one standard of purity, for both men and women, and in the equal right of all to to hold opinions, and to express the same, with equal freedom. In view of these facts, we appeal to all W.C.T.U. women to help in every way, to secure the ballot for herself - and for every other woman, on equal terms with men." UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY. Oct. 27, 1916 Miss Rosamond Danielson, Putnam, Conn. Dear Madam: Permit me to acknowledge your note of the 25th, containing resolutions approving members of Congress who voted for the Federal Woman Suffrage Amendment. With high personal regards, I am Sincerely yours, (signed) Geo P. M. Leau East Hampton, Conn Oct 28 - 1916 My dear Miss Carleton. I was glad to get your letter, and know just where you are living. I did not know that you had moved out of the State - (by not seeing you at the late Convention) which I should regret. I am glad you wrote me for the information you desire, for I think I am the only one who could give you it, since Miss Willard is gone. I was closely associated with Miss Willard, from the early days - as I was officially connected with the National W.C.T.U. from the Fall of 1876, and previous to that - was conversant with the whole work of organization of the W.C.T.U. as I was the Cor. Sec. of Conn. in those days. I was a "Good Templar" when the W.C.T.U. was started, so you see it was an easy matter to step into the womans organization. Thompson Connecticut Among the other prominent W.C.T.U. women at the beginning was another Good Templar, Mrs Mattie McClelland Brown, of Ohio - and she was at the first Convention, called to meet in Cleveland - in 1874, to organize, Mrs Brown was also at Chautauqua - when the beginning of the organization was made. Miss Willard or myself were not there. Mrs Brown served on the Committee Miss Willard - who made the first "plan of work" and Mrs Brown was the only Suffragist there. Miss Willard was not a Suffragist - at that time. In this State, there were two Suffragists Mrs Moody of Plainfield & I. Nothing was said in the National Convention, about this matter, but in Newark, N.J. at the National Con. Miss Willard - was announced to speak, one evening, and she spoke on Suffrage, and it was then - she openly, and bravely espoused the cause. At this convention, our National paper was in the trough of the sea, and a large committee was appointed to take the paper in charge for a year. The name of the paper, was "The Womans Temperance Union" afterward changed to "Our Union" and later - in 1883, merged with the Illinois "Signal" This Committee was very large, and a sub. com. was made, consisting of Miss Willard - Mrs Mary Burt of New York - and myself - After the Newark Convention, the Com. remained two months in N.Y. working on the paper, trying to put it on its feet - and drafting a policy for it. Suffrage was talked over - and Miss Willard and myself stood by - and from that time - (as against Mrs Burt) - there, some suffrage began to appear, in it. At that time - Miss W. ( a sort of belated reformer on this question) Mrs Brown heretofore attended to - and myself were the only two suffragists in the National Con - I mean - avowed suffragists, there were some on the fence - and some "almost persuaded" but we three were the only out and out suffragists By the way - I was born, a suffragist, my father - and mother, and three brothers, were of the same thought. In 1877, the Con. met in Chicago - and little was said, of Suffrage - but at Baltimore, in 1878, it broke out afresh in a discussion - about the paper. This was a memorable Convention - on this account - There was a most heated debate - and in a speech made by Miss Willard, following one by Mrs Rounds - President of the delegates - who - by the way - had previously told Miss Willard she was convinced it was right - took it all back - and Miss Willard - arising - and pointing to her, said "And thou too - Brutus" about that time - D.L. Moody appeared in one of the galleries, and Mrs Whittlemeyer, the President, called upon him to speak, and he consumed his time in telling us what a wicked - quarrelsome lot of women we were, and how wrong it was to desire to vote - etc - etc - etc. It was very dramatic, and very funny. At Philadelphia - in 1885 - there were more believers in suffrage - and the cause grew - in the National Conventions and like wise in many of the States, especially after 1879, when Miss Willard was elected President. Every state now, has its Suffrage, Dept and even the South is alive - and doing - on the question. Mrs Deborah Livingstone - is one of the younger set - but is a great worker. The foregoing is a very brief history of the Suffrage question - in the W.C.T.U. but those were anxious and thoughtful days, for the W.C.T.U. was in the making, we were living - and working - for the future - and these days prove we were right in our fore-cast. 6 There is much now, which could be written, but the fore going will give the idea. Thompson, Connecticut I cannot see how, in these times, any one can think it worthwhile to oppose the ballot for women. Why - women are in everything now - The pulpit - press - business - they are farmers - editors, publishers, bankers, public offices, etc - etc - indeed, every girl stenographer, is an argument for votes for women - They are doctors - lawyers - & even mechanics, and everything else. The very atmosphere is charged with it, and one might as well try to sweep back the ocean, with a broom, as to try to stay this flood tide. I would not - for anything - I can now think of - make it possible for my children, and grand children, and on down - to say - my mother or - grand mother was opposed to womans voting. No Government can ever be a true Republic - until they do. 7 Thompson, Connecticut You have asked me how many members of the W.C.T.U. there are in the U.S. - In the last report - there were paid in to the National treasury $32,193.44 - this being 10 cts. for each member, of the W.C.T.U. in the U.S. - I cannot give you our exact number membership - the past year - in Conn. but about 4,000. We cannot tell how many there are in the world - for the war has so demoralized everything - but we do know our numbers are growing greatly. Miss Willard spoke on Suffrage in Newark - in 1876. In 1883 - a Department was created & a resolution passed. I hope this will help you a little - Conn. took its first stand for votes for women - in 1879. Very sincerely yours - Caroline B. Buell. White Ribbon Banner. Mrs. Lisa K. Fuller, Editor. Scotland, Conn., Oct. 29 1916 Dear Miss Danielson I have been too busy to answer your letter until now. It is my "busy time" with our state paper. The name of the Republican candidate for legislature is Gerald Waldo. I have not had an opportunity of talking with him but know him to be in favor of equal suffrage, as I have often heard him speak not only favorably but emphatically. The Democratic candidate is Leon Moffitt and he says "I am most certainly in favor of extending the franchise to women, and always have been in favor." I had an interview with him at the close of church today. So whichever is elected there is no question of how they will vote on that proposition. I wish I were younger, or at least had not been born so many years ago! I would love to work with head, heart, hands and feet. But am able to do but little aside from my paper and duties as county president. I wish you great success. Cordially Lisa K. Fuller To the Republican Voters of Connecticut: Your party platform contains the following plank: "The Republican Party, reaffirming its faith in government of the people by the people for the people, as a measure of justice to one half the adult people of the country, favor the extension of suffrage to women, but recognize the right of each state to settle the question for itself." The Declaration of Independence declared nearly a century and a half ago that governments were instituted to secure the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, "deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." The Constitution of this state, adopted nearly a century ago, declares "that all political power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority." Your party therefore has the distinguished honor of being the first of the political parties of this country to avow in a national convention that women are to be protected in their plitical rights in accordance with the principles set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of Connecticut. The principle is at last conceded that women form an intergral part of the "governed" from whose "consent" the "just powers" of government are derived and that they constitute one half of the "people" in whom "all political power is inherent". In other words the Republican Party declares as one of its principles that wome are, politically speaking, people and as such entitle to their due share in government "as a measure of justice." You will note that the scope of the declaration of principle in the Republican platform is in no way modified or limited. That delearation is made entirely without qualification of any kind. The concluding words of the plank as to state action express a prefernce for one of the two possible methods of putting that principle into legal effect. The delaration of principle, however, is not expressly or imliedly made contingent upon a recognition of that principle by any one or more states. Any state, therfore, which fails to extend the suffrage to women must either deny the principle enunciated by the Republican Party platform or deny that governmnets derive their just powers from the consent of the governed and that all political power is inherent in the people. If women are, politically speaking, people, they must be admitted as electors upon the same terms as men or else the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of Connecticut must be disavowed. You, the Republican Voters, of this state therefore have before you the obvious duty of declaring yourselves and of seeing to it that your nominees delare themselves in favor of suffrage for women. To do otherwise you must stultify yourselves and your party by denying that women are, politically speaking, people or else reject the postulate which is at the very foundation of the United States and is expressly recognized by the Constitution of this state. Connecticut Men's League for Woman Suffrage. Hartford Conn. Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association HEADQUARTERS: 55-57 PRATT STREET, HARTFORD TELEPHONE CHARTER 6217 6 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn PRESIDENT 55-57 PRATT ST.. HARTFORD Mrs. Grace Thompson Seton VICE-PRESIDENT GREENWICH Mrs. Edward Porritt RECORDING SECRETARY 63 TREMONT ST.. HARTFORD Miss Mabel C. Washburn CORRESPONDING SECRETARY 55-57 PRATT ST.. HARTFORD Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett TREASURER 55-57 PRATT ST.. MERIDEN Mrs. Mary J. Rogers AUDITOR 39 GRISWOLD ST.. MERIDEN Miss Caroline Ruutz-Rees AUDITOR GREENWICH Mrs. Elizabeth D. Bacon EX-PRESIDENT (1906-1910) 106 CAPEN ST.. HARTFORD Mrs. William T. Hincks EX-PRESIDENT (191-1913) 152 PARK PLACE, BRIDGEPORT Miss Caroline Ruutz-Rees CHAIRMAN FAIRFIELD COUNTY GREENWICH Miss Mary Bulkley CHAIRMAN HARTFORD COUNTY 924 ASYLUM AVE.. HARTFORD Mrs. A. E. Scranton Taylor CHAIRMAN LITCHFIELD COUNTY NORFOLK Mrs. Carlos F. Stoodard CHAIRMAN NEW HAVEN COUNTY NEW HAVEN Miss Katharine Ludington CHAIRMAN NEW LONDON COUNTY LYME Miss Rosamond Danielson CHAIRMON WINDHAM COUNTY PUTNAM Mrs. Fannie Dixon Welch CHAIRMON TOLLAND COUNTY COLUMBIA Miss Emily Pierson STATE ORGANIZER CROMWELL November 1, 1916. My dear Miss Danielson: Thank you for the reports of the nominees. While they are rather bad, on the whole they are the most encouraging that I have seen. You certainly are splendid getting in your reports. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your promptness and the nice clear, legible form in which they appear. I am to speak at Woodstock on the afternoon of the 8th. I arranged it as I am to be at Sterling the next day. Do go out if you find it convenient. Thank you so much for the shoe-strings. I really like them very much, but I still envy you a little. Please remember me to Mrs. Danielson, Miss Danielson and Mr. Danielson. Sincerely yours, Emily Pierson EP:F Miss Rosamond Danielson Putnam, Conn. HARTFORD. CONN NOV 1 630 PM 1916 THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS Miss Rosamond Danielson Putnam Conn. Bank #123, [?] Thank you C. E. Galley COPY OF LETTER from Mr. Swain to Miss Mathewson Pomfret Center, Conn. Nov. 6, 1916. My dear Miss Mathewson Until convinced that at least two thirds of the women of this state, over twenty one years of age, are in favor of women's suffrage, I shall feel obliged to oppose it. If the time ever comes when I am convinced that two thirds of the women of the state really desire to assume the burden, I trust I shall be able to listen to arguments with an open mind. Respectfully, Edward Swain. Dear Miss Danielson, Thank you, and sincerely, for your message of this morning. "Suffrage first" always even if reluctantly we must sometimes speak. The matter is so "in the air" that forgetfulness on my part will be all that is required. With appreciation, yours cordially Minna E. S. Taylor Norfolk 9th Nov. 1916 Office of Windham School Board Willimantic, Conn., Nov 10 1916 Dear Miss Danielson, I hear you had an interview with Mr Frank Fenton and that he was very much pleased and considered you a good representative of your cause. I saw Mr Laramee who was also elected, and he assured me that he would probably be guided by Mr Fenton in the matter of suffrage as well as in other matters. If you are in Willimantic at any time I know you will be glad to meet Mr Laramee Office of Windham School Board and will find him a very pleasant as well as a very able business man. Your seed about a suffrage speaker for the Girls' Club has fallen on fertile ground and I understand the girls are anxious to have one. Don't send Dr. Parker as the American Thread Company is going to have her for something very soon and the Girls' Club may ring in on that. Here's betting a Republican legislature won't vote for woman's suffrage - Yours Katharine J. Spaulding 39 Dwight St Brookline Mass 24 Nov. 16 My Dear Miss Danielson I thank you for literature on suffrage just received. Please notice change of address - also that I am neither more nor less "honorable" than previous to 7th November! Yours sincerely Edward A Swain EMB Brisk-to-High B:S Pomfret Conn Nov. 8 Dear Miss Danielson, These two notes Miss Mathew - [?] sent to me, with the suggestion that I show them to you. We faced Mr. Davenport with the hope that he was, as had been said, favorable to us. He declared that he had made no statement that could be so construed; that he always had been against suffrage for women on the simple grounds that he was an old fashioned man and believed that w.p.i.i.t.h.! I.S.N. Yours always cordially, EMB. Brooklyn, Conn. Nov. 14, 1916. My dear Miss Danielson I enclose the best report we can make & hope it reaches you in time. Please don't forget we also wish you to pledge $10 for State Work from Brooklyn E.F.L. Good luck to you. Yours sincerely Catharine K. Bard. Willimantic, Connecticut Nov. 12, 1916 My dear Miss Danielson, Your letter received. I would be only too glad to have Miss Pierson speak before the "Girls Club." If I can find it possible to attend the next meeting of the "Girls Club," I will bring the matter up to see what can be done. Sincerely yours, Abbie O'Connor Votes for Women Meeting Women Do Want the Vote These Women Have Said So International Council of Women Representing over 7,000,000 women. National Federation of Women's Clubs Representing over 1,600,000 women. Every State Federation of Women's Clubs where women vote, and many where they do not vote. National Women's Trade Union League. National Order of Maccabees. International Council of Nurses. World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union. American Nurses' Association. Women Should Have the Vote These Men and Women Have Said So National Educational Association. National Grange (men and women engaged in farming). American Federation of Labor. National Miners' Federation. National Purity Conference. National Association of Letter Carriers. National Association of Post Office Clerks. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Farmers' National Congress. Grand Council of United Commercial Travellers. These Represent Millions Of Men And Women. Speakers Miss Rosamond Danielson Mrs. Walter J. Bartlett Mr. Eric H. Johnson Morse Lot Corner Church and Providence Streets Putnam, Conn. To-Night at 8 o'clock The Putnam Boys' Drum Corps Plainfield Conn. Nov. 23rd 1916. Dear Miss Danielson: - Your letter rec'd. last night. There was a meeting of Deborah Avery Putnam Chaplin, D.A.R. last week & another will not be held until Jan. so many of our members are antis, I do not know whether it will be best to bring up the question of leaving a meeting here. As there is a Suffrage League in town it seems to me they are the ones to do it. Some of members of League are members of D.A.R. Yours sincerely Martha L. Eaton. Miss Rosamond Danielson, Putnam, Conn. My dear Miss Danielson:- You are cordially invited to attend the first New Haven County Woman Suffrage Convention to be held at the New Haven [Lams?] Club, Sat. June 10th 1916. At this time there will be a report made by a representative suffragist from each of the twenty-six (26) towns in the county - each town having its own banner. The program includes the following speakers, viz: - Mrs. Chas. G. Morris, author of the "Jonathan Papers," Mrs. Kingsley Blake, Miss Pierson, Mrs Hepburn & Mrs. Carlos Stoddard county chairman, also originator of the idea of county conventions. There will also be some musical numbers. If you were present at the Board meeting last Wed., you are already familiar with the vote passed to have similar conventions held during the summer in each of the other seven counties in the state. Trusting you may be present on June 10th. Very Sincerely Rilla Bishop Spencer Sect'y. Guilford, Conn. May 22, 1916. (Mrs. Fred'k C. 122 Broad St.) Willimantic, Conn., November 25, 1916 Miss Rosamond Danielson, Putnam Heights, Putnam, Conn. My dear Miss Danielson: I have your letter of November 6th and regret delay in answering it. In behalf of the Club, I will be very glad to accept your offer to send a speaker to us, but would prefer to wait until after Christmas before taking advantage of your offer, as every one seems to be unusually busy just now. I will write you again early in January and we will then make arrangements for having this talk on some date convenient to us both. Thanking you, I am Very truly yours, E. Grace Ottenheimer President, Windham Girls' Club. 41 lewiston Ave. Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association HEADQUARTERS: 55-57 PRATT STREET. HARTFORD TELEPHONE CHARTER 6217 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn PRESIDENT 55-57 PRATT ST., HARTFORD Mrs. Grace Thompson Seton VICE-PRESIDENT GREENWICH Mrs. Edward Porritt RECORDING SECRETARY 63 TREMONT ST., HARTFORD Miss Mabel C. Washburn CORRESPONDING SECRETARY 55-57 PRATT ST., HARTFORD Mrs. M. Toscan Bennett TREASURER 55-57 PRATT ST., HARTFORD Mrs. Mary J. Rogers AUDITOR 39 GRISWOLD ST., MERIDEN Miss Caroline Ruutz-Rees AUDITOR GREENWICH Mrs. Elizabeth D. Bacon EX-PRESIDENT (1906-1910) 106 CAPEN ST., HARTFORD Mrs. Carlos F. Stoddard Chairman New Haven County New Haven Mrs. A. E. Scranton Taylor CHAIRMAN LITCHFIELD COUNTY NORFOLK Mrs. William T. Hincks EX-PRESIDENT (1911-1913) 152 PARK PLACE, BRIDGEPORT Miss Mary Bulkley CHAIRMAN HARTFORD COUNTY 924 ASYLUM AVE., HARTFORD Mrs. Herbert H. Knox CHAIRMAN FAIRFIELD COUNTY NEW CANAAN Miss Katharine Ludington CHAIRMAN NEW LONDON COUNTY LYME Miss Rosamond Danielson CHAIRMAN WINDHAM COUNTY PUTNAM Miss Susan B. Pendleton CHAIRMAN TOLLAND COUNTY HEBRON Mrs. John H. Allen CHAIRMAN MIDDLESEX COUNTY SAYBROOK Miss Emily Pierson STATE ORGANIZER CROMWELL November 27, 1915. My dear Miss Danielson, Thank you for the enrolments secured by Mrs. Bartlett. Will you kindly let me know about Miss Todd as soon as possible, as I now have nine dates for her and she is only coming for twelve days. I enclose herewith a list of the league officers in your County also a list of members as I have them on record here. Very sincerely yours, C.M. Flanagan Headquarters' Secretary. CMF/L. Miss Rosamond Danielson, Putnam Heights, Putnam, Conn. Danielson Equal Franchise League. Berriman Jennie Danielson, Conn. Bell Mrs. A. G. Dean Mrs. Florence B Kingsbury Mrs. Charles Logee Miss Cora M. Meissner Mrs. P. L. Paine Mrs. John Pike Mrs. W. K. Robinson Mrs. Rienzi Spaulding Grace Waldo Mrs. Isabel Adams Mrs. Clarence Jacobs Mrs. Ester Danielson Mrs. George News Bulletin List Danielson, Conn. Mrs. John Waldo Danielson, Conn. Mrs. Milton Shumway " " Miss Ella Day " " Mrs. Clinton Atwood " " Mrs. T. E. Hopkins " " Mrs. W. I. Bullard " " Mrs. Hugh K. Mason Brooklyn " Mrs. Leonie Shippee East Killingly Conn. Miss Ruth Burluigame " " " Mrs. James Burluigame " " " Mrs. E. S. Aldrich " " " Mrs. French " " " Mrs. L. A. Cutler " " " Mrs. A. W. Buffington " " " Mrs. Edward Aldrich " " " Mrs. E. A. Cord " " " Associate Members of Danielson Equal Franchise League. ✓ Mrs. Simeon Danielson Danielson Conn. ✓ Miss Frances Danielson " " ✓ Mrs. Charles Smith " " ✓ Mrs. E. W. Ingalls " " [I.?] McNealy [*[crossed out] MEMBERS OF BROOKLYN EQUAL FRANCHISE LEAGUE. [*15 / NOV 1/1915.*] Mrs. Sidney Bard. [*✓-----------Brooklyn*] Mrs. E. A. Blake [*✓*] Mrs. H. L. Mason [*✓*] Mrs. J. S. Bard. [*✓*] Mrs. William Valentine [*✓*] Mr. J. S. Bard [*✓*] Mr. S. W. Bard [*✓*] Mrs. Henry Copeland [*✓*] Miss Frith [*✓*] Mrs. C. G. Lawton [*✓*] Mr. O. F. Atwood [*✓*] Miss Charlotte Scarborough [*✓*] Mrs. A. E. [*Kinmouth ✓*] Miss Emily Hallock [*✓*] Pomfret Centre, Conn. Mrs. Susie G. Williams [*✓ Brooklyn, Conn.*] [I.?] McNealy Putnam Equal Franchise League Arnold. Mrs. C. D. 176 S. Main St. Putnam Bartlett Mrs. W. J. 76 Elm Beard Mrs. W. L. 106 Grove Bloxham Miss Nellie L. Day-Kimball Hospital Brady Sarah Putnam. Conn Barber Miss Elivra " " Bruce Anna G. " " Byrne Elizabeth and Katherine, " " Coldwell Mrs. James " " Child Elizabeth C. 17 Grove Street Cogan A. Beatrice " " Danielson Miss Rosamond Putnam Heights Dougherty May I. " " Eaves Mrs. Helen " Conn. Evans Miss Bertha " " Hail Josephine D 42 Walnut St Howard Mrs. Byron E. 25 Livery St. Johnson Mrs. Eric H. 89 Kim St. Jones Gertrude M. 76 " " Kennedy Mrs. Ida Putnam. Conn. Levitt Anna C " " Mrs. V. D. Levitt " " Lewis Mrs. Evelyn " " McDonald Esmerelda 18 George St. McKenna Abbie & Mrs. Elizabeth. Mechanicsville, Conn. Meinken, Mrs. H. C. 16 Fremont St. Miller Mrs. G. N. Putnam, Conn. Putnam Morse Alice 49 Pleasant St. Morse Mrs. Ernest 29 King St Nichols Mrs. George H. Putnam Conn Rich Mrs. Walter " " San Souci Miss Julienne 19 Elm St. Stohr Berths Putnam Heights. Tatem Mrs. James B. Tatem St. Tatem Miss Eden Grove St. Waterman Mrs. C. Fred Putnam Conn. Weaver Mrs Charles S. Thompson, Conn. Webster, R. Psyche Day-Kimball Hospital Whitney Mrs. Eyta Putnam, Conn. Wheaton Mary Park St. Wilcox Alice Putnam, Conn. Nikoloff Mrs. S. 119 School St. United States Senate, COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR, WASHINGTON, D. C. November 26th, 1915. Rosamond Danielson, Putnam Heights, Putnam, Conn. My dear Madam: Your letter with enclosures addressed to Senator McLean came to hand during his temporary absence and will be called to his attention at the first opportunity. Sincerely yours, [?] SECRETARY TO HON. GEORGE P. McLEAN. ROBERT L. OWEN, OKLA., CHAIRMAN. GILBERT M. HITCHCOCK, NEBR. JAMES A. REED, MO. ATLEE POMERENE, OHIO. JOHN F. SHAFROTH, COLO. HENRY F. HOLLIS, N. H. BLAIR LEE, MD. KNUTE NELSON, MINN. JOSEPH L. BRISTOW, KANS. COE I. CRAWFORD, S. DAK. GEORGE P. MCLEAN, CONN. JOHN W. WEEKS, MASS. JAMES W. BELLER, CLERK. UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON BANKING AND CURRENCY. December 6th, 1915. Rosamond Danielson, Putnam Heights, Conn. My dear Madam: Please pardon this delay in my acknowledgment of your favor of November 28th transmitting resolutions passed by the Equal Franchise Leagues of Connecticut. I have been in the South for ten days, or I should have notified you of their safe arrival at once. Sincerely yours, George P. McLean Report of the Treasurer from Nov. 4th to December 19th, 1916. Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association. Receipts Cash on hand 1010.02 Miscellaneous 169.61 Pledges 2726.00 Dues 386.25 Contributions 32.00 Salaries 70.00 Lit. and Supplies 361.02 Banks 30.40 Fairfield Co. Fund 246.70 New London Co. 216.29 Parade 50.00 Swetman Campaign 1200.00 National Fund 45.00 6543.29 Disbursements Hdqtrs. Running Exp. 154.49 Lit and Supplies 767.20 Office Supplies 23.21 Printing 125.45 Org. Expenses 197.62 Salaries 642.00 General Expenses 392.11 Banners 20.15 Rent 416.66 Swetman Camp. 81.03 Equipment 269.71 Fairs 21.00 Press 30.75 Parade 2204.36 Tel. Express Postage 264.90 Fairfield Co. Fund 92.78 New London Co. Fund 90.32 5793.74 Cash on Hand 749.55 6543.29 Just before Christmas 1916 Dear Miss Rosamond Danielson, That was such pleasant picture that you painted in my book of life just a week - ago. snow outside and cold and inside comfort and hospitality and good cheer. It was a Christmas card, a Christmas story and a nice loving Christmas feeling. The little scrap of paper carries kind greeting's to you and all your folks from Katharine [Mullins?] Guilford Conn A. E. Scranton Taylor Norfolk, Conn. Chairman in Conneticut forthe Congressional Committeeof the Nation al American Women Suffrage Association. Miss Rosalind Danielson Dear District Chairman, The accompanying sheets containing information taken from the card catalogue (in Washington of the Congrnssionad Committee of the N.A.W.S.A) concerning the Congressmen from our State, will require some explanation. Yu will understand, of, course, thet that votes of the members as recorded on these sheets are all taken from the Congressional Record, and therefore are disputable. The votes they received int eh 1914 elections are taken from the Congressional Directory and the World Almanac. As to the nature of the measures themselves, let me explaee as follows. The Senate vote, of course, on the Bristow-Mondell resoletion needs to comment. The "Heflin substitute" referred to in the records of the Democratic representatives [,wasa?e] was the motion of Representative Heflin of Alabama in caucus that the Democratic party declares woman suffrage to be a question for the states. This motion was offered as a substitute to a motion forthe creation of a standing committee an woman suffrage in the House corresponding to the Senate committee of the same kind. To avoid alignment on the question of woman suffrage itself the caucusadpoted to the substitute motion. A.E. Scranton Taylor Norfolk, Conn. The Webb-Keyon bill of 1912 was designed to prevent the shipment of liquor into prohibition states for use in violation of the laws of those states. It was passed without roll call, but two votes which were recorded are of interest as showing the meber' attitudes on the entire question; (a) TheO'Gorman amendment, providing that nothing in this act should be construed to forbit the interstate shipment of liquoe for personal use of the owner oro consignee or members of his family. (this amendment, was was regarded by friends of the original bill as designede to defeat the purpose of the measure. Senate vote only ) (b) Passage of Webb-Kenyon bill over President's veto. The question of open caucus (i.n., whether sessions of Democratic caucus should be open to the public.) The Childres's )ureau; the bill to create this Bureau, which was introduced in 1912, was fought in the first place by an effortto refer it to an unfriendly committee. We have reported to you your members' attitude on this roll call, also their attitude on the question itself of establishding the Children's Bureau; this also in 1912. In 1914 there was an appropriation bill providing for the extention of the Children/s Bureau work to include especially investigations of infant mortality. This was reported from the committee with the additional fund cut out, and was at first debated adversely in the House, but subsequently passed after strong protest all over thecountry. A. E. Scranton Taylor Norfolk, Conn. The "phossy Jaw bill, as you no doubt know , was designed to eleminate from the manufacture of matches by means of taxation the poisonous phosphorus which caused frightful disease to the workers. There was no roll call in the Sanate, but the House vote was recorded. You would find it interesting and worth your while to have a copy of the congressional directory. I enclose a slip of yollow paper on whichyou will notice spaces to be filled in with information concerning your congressman. (you need not sign the blank unless you wish, the Congressional Committee wishes to have as much detailed information as possiple in regard to the new congressmen. The"National" is going to make a great effort to push along the federal work I believe the proposed meeteng (to be held next month in Hartford under the auspicesof "the National") will prove of much value in the Connecticut work So soon as I know the date I will let you know and I hope you will surely come to it. When you have done with the yellow slip will you kindly send it back to me With best wishes sincerely yours, Amelia E. S. Taylor Norfolk Conn. January 25 ,1916 [*P. S. I have just had word from N. Y. that Mrs [?] will come to [?] the Conference, Please be sure to come to it, it will be worth while.*] PIONEER SUFFRAGISTS OF CONNECTICUT JOHN HOOKER, Hartford ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER, Hartford EMILY P COLLINS, Hartford HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, Hartford FRANCES ELLEN BURR, Hartford MRS. B. M. PARSONS, Hartford REV. DR. N. J. BURTON, Hartford MRS. MARSHALL JEWELL, Hartford EMILY J. LEONARD, Meriden JUDGE JOSEPH SHELDON, New Haven ABBIE B. SHELDON, New Haven REV. PHOEBE HANAFORD, New Haven MRS. SUSAN J. CHENEY, South Manchester CHARLES CHENEY, South Manchester WARD CHENEY, South Manchester REV. OLYMPHIA BROWN, Bridgeport GEORGE A. HICKOX, Litchfield MARY C. HICKOX, Litchfield JULIA SMITH, Glastonbury ABBIE SMITH, Glastonbury Meyer & Noll Print "I have never heard an argument made against woman suffrage which might not have been urged with equal force against manhood suffrage. 'A government of the people, by the people and for the people' will never be realized in this county till women have the right to vote." JOHN H. LIGHT, Attorney-General of Connecticut. Lest We Forget "The present generation can hardly realize what insulting epithets were heaped upon the early workers by public speakers and the press." JOHN HOOKER, in "Reminiscences." Isabella Beecher Hooker Her efforts secured just property rights for women. Harriet Beecher Stowe Her pen secured freedom for an enslaved race. Both lived and died classified, as far as the franchise is concerned, under the Laws of Connecticut with Children, Idiots and Convicts. Designed and Published by Mrs. Kendrick of Hartford The District of Columbia Branch of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage Invites You To Meet the Visiting Delegates to the National Convention Thursday Evening, March the First Nine O'clock at National Headquarters 21 Madison Place Lafayette Square 1916 Feakins 1917 In sending forth our booklet this season we are offering a few persons whose work we will manage exclusively, thus enabling us to give the best possible service to committees. A wide variety of successful speakers has been chosen, and in each case a person who speaks with authority on the subjects selected. Most of them have been appearing successfully on the public platform for a number of seasons, and are in great demand. In order to secure the best terms, by having engagements made with as little traveling as possible, early application is urged. The people offered have been found especially valuable on the lecture courses of colleges, schools and women's clubs. We hope to be permitted to serve your organization. Other offerings may be made later in the season. Send for individual circulars and detailed information. William B. Feakins Telephone, Bryant 9634 Times Building, New York Frederick Palmer No doubt the war lecture of the past season was Frederick Palmer's My Year of the Great War, with motion and still pictures. Hundreds were turned away from his lecture in Carnegie Hall, New York, in November; and in March, when he sailed, many requests for lectures remained unsatisfied. In a number of cities his lecture was repeated by request this season, and application has already been made for next season. The University of Michigan Committee wrote: "Lecture drew large audience; greatly enjoyed by all... description vivid. Other Universities should hear him." Mr. Palmer was the only accredited American correspondent with the British forces on the continent. Colonel Roosevelt says: "He has seen more modern warfare than any other living American writer." Beginning, at the age twenty-four, with the Greco-Turkish War in 1897, he has reported eight wars and insurrections. Among his books are: The Vagabond; The Last Shot; Through Manchuria with Kuroki; and My Year of the Great War. Mr. Palmer will return from the war zone in Nov. with new lecture and new pictures. East until Jan., then Far West. "Lectures can be given without pictures Dodd, Mead & Co., N.Y. Dr. Yamei Kin: What of China? Republic or Empire? In these times of stress, what is happening to her Government and her 400,000,000 people? Are they "pro" anything? Are they for or against preparedness? WHat of the twenty-one demands made by Japan? ARe friendly relations between China and the United States likely to continue? What of the progress of Women? What about Woman Suffrage? These and many other questions are answered by Dr. Kin in her lectures on The Women of China; What Has Happened to China as a Result of the European War; The Significance of the Forward Movement in China, etc. Dr. Kin was the first Chinese woman to receive the degree of M.D. in the United States, graduating with honors when barely of legal age to take a diploma. She has traveled extensively in her own and other countries. While she naturally brings the Chinese point of view to bear in her interpretation of events, she is international in her thinking. her English is perfect; she has natural gifts as a speaker. "The foremost woman physician of China" -- New York Evening World. Available throughout the season. Alfred Noyes Since Alfred Noyes' first visit to America he has been Lowell Institute Lecturer, has appeared in fifty-six different universities and colleges, has received honorary degrees from some, and is now visiting Professor at Princeton University, lecturing on Modern English Literature. He has spoken in one hundred and fifty different cities. Chicago University's Senior Class wrote, "Mr. Noyes scored a tremendous success, not only for himself but for us as a Senior Class." Professor Carruth, Department of English, Leland Stanford, Jr., University, wrote, "one of the most captivating readers of poetry I have ever heard." Mr. Noyes may be secured for reading of his own poems or lectures on Optimism in the Poetry of the Future; Shakespeare and the Sea; Hamlet; The Secret of Shelley. Mr. Noyes goes to England in May and will return to America in January, 1917. He will speak in the South and Middle West until the middle of February, when he will go to Princeton. From there he will make short lecture trips. In the early fall of 1917 he will go to the Pacific Coast, returning East in January, 1918. Mrs. Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale: Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale is entering her sixth year under this management. Sought after first because she was an actress and a member of a family that for three generations had held a distinguished place in English dramatic and literary life, she very soon earned for herself a place as lecturer on poetry, drama, feminism, and English and American politics. She has recently given, with great success, Shakespearian recitals, and lectures on Beauty and Health in Dress (with models). Mrs. Hale had the faculty of pleasing various types. One newspaper said, "She radiates personality;" another, "She is distinctly beautiful, eloquent, brilliant, clever, and witty." A College President said of The Drama as a Social Force, "It was full of instruction, entertainment and inspiration." Her book, What Women Want,* is considered by many the best book on feminism. Her Novel, The Nest-Builder* will be issued in September. Other lecture subjects are Poetry as a Social Force (with readings); What Feminism Is; The Feminist Movement in the Drama (with readings); Women's Suffrage. Available in the East until Feb. 1, 1917. Pacific Coast tour, Feb. and March, 1917. *Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York Norman Angell: No subject is going to be of greater interest during the next year than foreign policy. America is entering upon a new era and will be compelled to make decisions in foreign problems little considered heretofore. "No writer," says the London Times, "has done more to stimulate reflection on International politics than Norman Angell. "He is," says the New York World, "in the minds of very keen thinkers a towering figure in international affairs." An American authority for many years familiar with lecturers said after hearing Mr. Angell: "His lecture was one of the most convincing I have heard by any speaker on any subject for a long time. He has a great gift of packing clear-thinking into a simple statement free from passion or prejudice and backed by abundant, thoroughly- digested knowledge." Among other lectures, Mr. Angell offers the following: The Future Foreign Policy of America; The Need for a Declaration of American Policy; America and the World State; The Dangers of Half-Preparedness; First and last Things in American Life. C. Houston Goudiss: For the Season of 1916-17, Mr. Goudiss, Food Expert and Publisher of the Forcast Magazine, America's Pure Food Champion, has prepared the following lectures on Food, Sanitation and Diet: Is the American Physically Prepared to SHoulder a Gun? The Unwarranted Prejudice Againt Canned Foods; Women's Clubs and The Pure Food Movement; The High Cost of Foolishness; Progress of Food Legislation; Our Self-Made Sicknesses; The Food that Fails to Feed; The Conquests of Disease; We Are What We Eat; Child Building -- A New Science; The Value of Standardized Products. For many years Mr. Goudiss has been consistently fighting for the cause of Pure Food and Health, as a writer, publisher and lecturer, so that he will need no introduction to those familiar with the Food Reform Movement. Though he brings expert knowledge to bear upon Food and kindred subjects, he feels that his topics so closely concern the whole people that his lectures are couched in language so simple that it can be understood by all classes. Witter Bynner BOTH as a poet and playwright Mr. Dynner has made for himself, by his human and direct art, a place unique in America. Beginning with his "Ode to Harvard" and other poems, which won high tribute from critics like William Butler Yeats, Alfred Noyes and Edmund Clarence Stedman, he startled the literary world in 1913 with his famous one-act play, "Tiger" of which the London Bookman says "we doubt if so much of actual life and appalling significance were ever packed into such small compass before." Then came "The Little King" a poignant act, vivifying the lost Dauphin, and in 1915 his English version of Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris written for Isadora Duncan. The New World, his Harvard Phi Beta Kappa poem, 1914, Josephine Peabody Marks calls "a beautiful book, a brave book, high above the petty and quarrelsome standards of so much present-day verse....overwhelming by contrast with its accent of deep truth." Readings: The New World, The Little King, Iphigenia in Tauris, Lyrics and Selections. Lectures: The Return of the Poets, My Faith in Equal Suffrage. Raymond Wyer THERE are few lecturers on the subject of art who know how to relate art to life. This is Raymond Wyer's special claim to a place on the lecture platform. he is not exclusively a lecturer on art - one with his interests could not be; he also speaks acceptably on sociological subjects. That he is a lecturer who interests people may be seen from the following from the Omaha World- Herald of December 13, 1915. "His delicacy and refinement of expression were charming and he held his audience in almost a tense spirit of interest." Brought from England three years ago to organize the Hackley Art Museum, he has since caused considerable stir in the field of art, the Boston Transcript in one issue having given three columns to a defense of his position. Mr. Wyer is specially interested in giving his lecture on Art Development in a Community. A lecture by him usually "starts something" and is, therefore, recommended to women's clubs. Benjamin Chapin No man on stage or platform has been so closely connected with the character of Abraham Lincoln as Benjamin Chapin. In his famous portrayal, in monologue form, of his own drama, "Lincoln," a character drama of life in the White House, Mr. Chapin has made the martyred President live again. The presidents of several colleges have given his work their hearty endorsement. The Independent said of him "Every city, town and hamlet should see him." After he appeared on the Teachers' Lecture Course in the high-school is Passaic, N.J., last season, the president wrote that people rang her telephone continuously for two or three days to congratulate her on Mr. Chapin's successful evening. Mr. Chapin is engaged in making a series of Lincoln features, presenting, in photo drama form, the principal events in the life of Lincoln. He is, therefore, not available for a full season, but a limited number engagements will be accpted if dates can be arranged to fit into his plans. "In the interest of patriotism and civic virtue, I wish all might see and hear this character study; it is inspiring, brilliant, profound." - Newell Dwight Hillis. Winter Russel WINTER RUSSELL, editor, author, pacifist, knows our nation not only as a student and observer, but also as a member of the bar and politician. With an eye for facts, he looks to the real needs of our nation both for defense and for peaceful progress. His motto is: Don't stop others, act yourself; don't destroy, build. He applies this to labor, capital, farm, small business, press, philanthropy, art, the military, education, home and the church. It has been said of him: "He is a former, not a reformer. He sees wheat, not weeds. He doesn't grieve over the wrongs of to-day, but shows the rights of to-morrow. He is less concerned with what we are than with what we can and should be. He has vision." Among his subjects are: Peace or War? The Menace of Militarianism, Civic Preparedness and Defense. The latter subject may be treated in a course: 1. Shall We Wait for War to be Our Taskmaster? 2. Industrial Chaos or Organization? 3. Social Strife or Co-operation? 4. Civic Discipline and Spirituality. 5. Our Promised Land. The Following Persons will be Available for a Few Engagements: Cecil Sharp, English authority on the folk-dance, will be available, with stereopticon illustrations. He will have motion pictures of the sword dance by eight men and the Morris dance by sixteen men. He also may have another man and two women dancers to assist him. Thomas H. Mawson, Lecturer on Landscape Design at the University of Liverpool, author of Civic Art, sent word as we were going to press that he will be available in the fall of 1916. Laurence Housman, who was so well received this season, may be available next season ; if not, then the season after. Definite information later. Rabbi Wise, head of the Free Synagogue, New York. Louis H. Wetmore, formerly literary editor of The New York Times, associate editor of The Catholic World Library. Literary and social subjects. Mrs. Theodore W. Parsons, author of Brian Culture Thru Scientific Body Building. Mrs. Harriot Stanton Blatch, available in the West from April to November, 1916. Charles Rann Kennedy, author of The Servant in the House. William B. Feakins, Manager Times Building, New York When in New York Visit The Forecast Magazine's Permanent Educational Food Exhibit In connection with its offices in the heart of New York's best shopping district, The Forecast has established an exhibit of Pure Foods. Here one can see commercial food products; charts showing their composition and food value, and learn many interesting and valuable facts concerning our daily foods. The Exhibit is entirely free, being a part of The Forecast's program of service to the consumer. The Forecast Magazine is a liberal education in Food and Home Efficiency covering the entire field of Domestic Science. It is the only magazine of its kind published in the country to-day. Send 25c in stamps for 3 mo. Subscription Sample Copies 10 cents; $1.00 yearly The Forecast also maintains a Bureau of Information that answers questions regarding foods and household appliances free of charge. Write for our chemist's report on any product and test this service for yourself. No obligation incurred. Write to-day and get acquainted. The Forecast Magazine, 6 E. 39th Street C. Houston Goudiss, Publisher New York, N.Y. 1916 Times SQ. STA Miss R. Danielson Rutuam [*CS*] The Honorable JEANNETTE RANKIN The only woman in history ever elected to the Congress of the United States will deliver her first lecture since her election at CARNEGIE HALL Friday Evening, March 2nd, at 8:30 P.M. SUBJECT: "LET THE PEOPLE KNOW" You will want to see and hear the first woman Congressman. Endorsed by Senator Weeks:- Miss Rankin's election to Congress is significant in the annals of the political history of the World, and her unusual knowledge of public affairs, her profound earnestness, and her tremendous energy will make her a conspicuous force in National Legislation. Washington, D.C. Times, Jan. 14. - Predictions that Miss Jeannette Rankin, the only Congresswoman, will "make good," were freely stated by Congressman Stout, who is being relieved of duty in the House by Miss Rankin, before the members of the Missouri Society last night. Christian Science Monitor:- Miss Jeannette Rankin is no novice in public life, and she is no stranger to the country. When the presiding officer in the next House of Representatives recognizes "The Lady from Montana," no timid, hesitating, thin, or wavering voice will begin with, "Mr. Speaker," but rather, a voice pure and steady and resonant, and one certain, not only to enlist the attention of members in their seats, but to call others out in streams from the cloak and committee rooms. Excerpts from an Editorial in the New York Globe by Dr. Frank Crane:- When Miss Jeannette Rankin of Missoula, Montana, takes her seat in the National House of Representatives among 434 men, it will be a sight for men and angels. It will be an act symbolic of the progress of the human race. The Nation will watch her as the fond Mother watches her baby take its first step. Carlyle called Dante "the voice of ten silent centuries." Miss Rankin will be the voice of forty. The incident will be another mark of democrazy coming of age. Tickets now on sale at Carnegie Hall Box Office. Seats 50c. to $2.00, Boxes $15.00 and $18.00 MAIL ORDERS WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION Management LEE KEEDICK, 437 Fifth Avenue, New York City HEAR THE Hon. JEANNETTE RANKIN The only Woman Congressman at CARNEGIE HALL Friday Evening, March 2nd, at 8:30 P. M. READ HER RECORD. Was in charge of the campaign that put suffrage through the Montana legislature in 1911-1913. As chairman of the Montana Suffrage Association, campaigned throughout the state in the fight for equal suffrage in 1913 and 1914. Was Field Secretary of the National Suffrage Association and was sole lobbyist for suffrage in the New York legislature at the session of 1912. Had charge of the Suffrage bill in the legislature of Delaware, Florida, North Dakota and New Hampshire. Worked in the United States Congress during two sessions in the interests of national suffrage. Has studied industrial and social conditions in almost every state in the Union. Has campaigned in every county in the state and through her suffrage and club work has become familiar with the conditions and needs of Montana. Was born in Montana and is a graduate. of the University of Montana and of the New York School of Philanthropy. Went to New Zealand to study the social and industrial conditions in what is reputed to be the best governed country in the world. SHE STANDS FOR: National Suffrage. Child Welfare. Tariff Revision for the protection of the worker. State and National Prohibition. Greater publicity in Congressional Committees. Farm Loan Law. New York.N.Y. TIMES SQ. STA. 1917 U.S.POSTAGE 1 CENT 1 Miss Rosamond Davidson Putnam Conn Management LEE KEEDICK (See Other Side of Card) 437 Fifth Ave., New York City Telephone 201-3 Noxid Columbia, Conn. 1-1-17 My dear Miss Danielson:- On the receipt of your letter I sent word to my four Leagues as well as a Great many other suffragists in Goll and I asking them to write Congressman Freeman as well as other Rep. [?] time. With The Seasons Greetings [?] Cordially yours F. D. Welch Mrs. Edward Porritt Press Secretary 03 Tremont St., Hartford Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association Headquarters: 55-57 Pratt Street, Hartford Telephone Charter #0217 III January 3rd, 1917 The third meeting of the Executive Board of the C.W.S.A of the year 1916-17, was held at the Suffrage Headquarters, January 3rd, 1917, Mrs Hepburn President in the Chair. The meeting was called to order at 11.30 a.m. The members of the Board present were Mrs Hepburn, Mrs Seton, Mrs Bennet Miss Washburn, Mrs Spencer, Miss Bulkley, Mrs Bacon, Mrs Rogers, Miss Pierson Mrs Dey and Mrs Porritt. Miss Sleden and Miss Flanagan were also presentt. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and accepted. The report of the Chairman of Hartford County was read and accepted. There were no reports from the other count[??]s. Mrs Seton then reported as chairman of the Budget Committee. She report- ed a tentative Budget of $24,000. The visible resources of the C.W.S.A. were found to amount to about $20,000 and the Budget had consequently to be reduced. After a vigorous discussion various economies were effected. Among these was the cost of the News Bulletin which it was agreed should be issued twice a month during the legislative session and once a month for the remainder of the year. Mrs Hepburn also stated that Mrs Bartle[?]t ex- pected to quit on the first of May. The Budget as agreed upon was as followed:-- Organisers' salaries and expenses $6.510 Headquarters,-- rent, salaries, light, telephone, office supplies,etc 6,882 Literature and supplies 2,400 Press 775 News Bulletin 800 Legislative work 500 National pledge 2,000 " dues 150 Exhibits and banners 100 Convention expenses 150 Folding machine 2[?]4 Miscellaneous 500 The sources of income were as follows:-- Fledges at Convention 13,147 Mrs Wood for Miss Pierson's salary 2,100 Rent pledge 2,500 Sale of Literature and supplies 1,200 To be riased by committee on at, pledge 1,333 Mrs Wood for Miss Planagan's salary 600 Mrs Seton then moved that the annual budget for the year 1916-1917, be- ginning Octover 1st, be $21,00--$1750 per month. Motion Carried. It was moved that all salaries that had been voted by the Board the treasurer should be authorised to pay when due without further O.K. from the President and Vice-President, and that organizers' salaries be paid in advance. Motion carried. Miss Pieson then took up the discussion of the legislative work. The report on the present Legislature showed:-- House. Opposed 65 actively and hopelessly Favorable 73 Possible Plus 26 Possible Minus 17 Non-committal 6 Questionable 4 Not interviewed 67 Senate Opposed 13 Favorable 7 Possible Plus 3 Possible Minus 1 Miss Pieson pointed out that there was not a majority favorable to suffrage, but that it might be possible to get through the bell giving excise suffrage. The temperance sentiment might be counted upon to help. There was more enthusiasm for the right to vote on licence among our own members than for any other suffrage right. for are Seton moved thatthe C.W.S.A. work and place emphasis on the bill for the excise franchise. Motion carried. Miss Pierson told of her effort to secure a room at the Capitol. She had made a tentative arrangement that the women shown have the use of the old Senate Chamber to meet the Representatives by arrangement. If this plan was carried out it would meet the objection of some of the representatives to being seen by the Suffragists in the lobby, and also fewer women would be necessary than when it was a point to make a strong showing of women in the lobbies. Mrs Hepburn proposed the appointment of a city committee on hospitality and reception to report on suitable entertainment for Representatives and Senators. The plan was to allow the men to become acquainted with some of the Suffragists--women of their own kind with whom they could be at ease, and who would show them that suffragists were just women. Then the C.W.S.A. could have one luncheon or tea to which would be required would be the getting of letters from all leagues and getting constituents--men and women, especially men--to see the Representatives in their own towns. A vote of thanks to Mrs Seton for her work over the Budget was then carried There was little to report on the special suffrage issues of the newspapers. Mrs Welch had seen the Editor of the Willimantic Chronicle and had taken up the matter with the Norwich bulletin--both hopeful. The meeting then adjourned. Annie G. Porritt, Rec. Sec. Thompson, Connecticut Jan 10, 1917. Dear Miss Danielson, At the last meeting of the Suffrage League, of Thompson not being present: I am told I was appointed to take the Presidents place- and lead the meeting which is to be at Mrs Fernando Ross's- on Monday- the 16th. Had I been there, I should have declined, not feeling competent. In church affairs, and withe W.C.T[?]N. services I should feel more at home. Mrs Bixby- our President, was the one who nominated me. I do not know how you conduct your meetings- so I am visiting you. So tell me- by just writing down the duties- or order- or programe the President is expected to carryout, and in their order. I believe they are to read the rest of the "Constitution" - and go on with the Amendment. What other business shall come before the meeting? They wish me to write something upon "history of Suffrage movement". When is the proper time to give this - before or after the readings? Do you ask for an offering? and if the Secretary is absent - shall I appoint someone to act protem? and what else should come up - please tell me. I don't want to make mistakes. I do not expect there will be many there. I have never known any of the "up town" ladies to come down here - to anything - save Mrs Knight who sometime comes to the Inn. "How goes the battle" if there is anything new - or important which you would like announced - I should like it. Both Mrs Ross - and Mrs Bixby, are inclined to leave everything to me Mrs Ross - who is a very capable business woman - thinks - as hostess she will have enough to do - and Minnie is to assist her - and pour. Mrs Knight says she is going to bring several members with her, providing they wish to come. I thank you very much for the lovely picture of your home it is beautiful - I know. I am sending you a little old - very old-fashioned money bag, which are coming in style again - and are not [very?] plenty. I have its history - and if you would like - will send it to you, its quite interesting and still, I do not know if you are as fold of old thing, as I am. Thompson, Connecticut What a lovely day it is, there are quite a number of the lovely "Blue Jays" out on my lawn, but how very hatiful they are to other birds smaller than themselves I hope you are well and happy and that I may see you soon, it seems so long. But you are so busy, but I am going to ask you to [???] and spare a moment occasionally to think of me. Most cordially yours, Ella Carleton. [???] Edward [P?r?????] Press Secretary 63 Tremont St., Hartford Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association Headquarters: 55-57 Pratt Street, Hartford Telephone Charter #817 News Bulletin Series III. No.3 January 5th, 1917 A happy new year to all the Suffragists of Connecticut! This is a wish to which Suffragists have a special claim, for we are all endeavor- ing by our work and sacrifice to bring happier years to the whole world. We look forward after the vote is won to better laws and more efficient administration of the laws; and above all we look forward when men and woman are working together to make of the country and larger home to the fulfilment of the promise of "Peace on Earth, Goodwill among Men." It is for us this year and in this state to help bring about this great reform. The session of the Legislature opened on January 3rd. Three suffrage measures will at once be introduced. The first is the resolution for the amendment of the State Constitution granting full suffrage to women. The only step in regard to this measure that can be taken this year will be to pass it through the House of Representatives. It will then have to await the 1919 Legislature for the second stage, which is its passage by two thirds majorities through both Houses. The second suffrage measure is for municipal and presidential suffrage such as the Illinois women enjoy. This measure of enfranchisement can be passed in the present session by a majority vote in each House and the signature of the Govern- pr. Its passage would mark a tremendous advance in the movement for full suffrage. It would give women the vote in all town and city elect- ions, but not for the members of the Legislature nor for Senators and Congressmen. The women would however be able to vote for president. The third measure for the vote on excise question. This would [remit the women -who now all have the right to vote on school and li- brary questions-- to vote also on license or no-license. There are many reasons for believing that this bill has a very good chance of becoming law, even if the Legislature should refuse to grant any larger measure of enfranchisement. More than half of the towns in this state are already under no-license and the towns send in many cases two representatives to the Legislature equally with the big cities. The W.C.T.U and other prohibition and temperance organizations and all in favor of this measure, as are also many churches and social organizations. Many men who would oppose full suffrage for women are favorable to giving them the vote or license. The chief opponents are the liquor interests and it is difficult to imagine that the women who are opposed to women suffrage will like to line up with the liquor interests opposing this bill. The success of any suffrage measure in the present legislature will largely depend on the work done by suffragists in the constituency of each of our Representatives and Senators. You will have instructions from Miss Emily Pierson, who is in charge of the legislative work, as to what you can do to forward the work. The session is short. Be ready to do your utmost that the present opportunity may not be lost. There was a special meeting of the Executive Board on Wednesday, January 3rd when a Budget for the year's work was agreed upon. This Budget was drawn up by Mrs. Seton. It calls for an expenditure of about $20,000 for the year. Any suffrage enterprize calling for extra ex- penditure will have to be financed by contributions specially raised for the purpose. On Wednesday, January 18th Mrs. Seton will speak under the auspices of the Y.W.C.A. at Bridgeport on Woodcraft Girls --a move- ment which indirectly has been most helpful to women suffrage. The Newtown League has been working to preserve the beauties of Ponta- tuck Glen at Sandy Hook. The property owners, the selectmen and the tree warden were interviewed, and the cooperation of the local paper-- the New- town Bee was secured. The league is also planning a series of entertain- ments to raise money for its state and national pledges. The Hartford Junior League gave a play on December 29th, called "The Woman of It". It was so successful that the girls were asked to repeat the play at a New Year's party given by the South Manchester Equal Franchise League on January 3rd, at which Mrs. Day and Miss Mullen were the Speakers. NEWS From Suffrage Headquarters, For publication Friday Hartford. January 12th, 1918. The introduction into the Legislature of a bill giving women the right to vote on licence and no-licence in all elections in this state is arousing great interest and enthusiasm among the women both of the Suffrage organisations and of the W.C.T.U. Already about half the towns of Connecticut are under no-licence,and undoubtedly there would have bee a number more dry towns had the women had the right to vote on the question in the elections of last November. The liquor men were sure of thi fact and the opposition to woman suffrage in the ranks of the labor utopia,as shown in the convention of the State Federation of Labor last September,came from the Bar-Tenders' Union and other unions interested in the liquor trade. The speaker for the Bar Tenders' Union plainly stated that he opposed woman suffrage because the women would put the liquor men out of business. At the beginning of 1917 there were nineteen states under total prohibition. Of these six were states where women vote and thirteen were non-suffrage states. Prohibition therefore does not depend on women's votes alone,but it is noteworthy that more than half of the eleven states where women vote were dry while not much over a third of the man-suffrage states had gone for prohibition. In the election four more states adopted prohibition by popular vote of which one was a woman suffrage state--hitherto known as the wettest state in the Union. This was Montana,where the women had had the vote only two years and where they used it in the first election to vote the state dry. Another woman suffrage state voted dry indirectly. In the last session of the Legislature a dry law was passed and vetted by the Governor. The election turned on whether this governor should be reelected or another man,pledged to prohibition legislation should be chosen. The result was in favor of prohibition and it is expected that Utah will be in the dry column before the end of the present session of the State Legislature. This will make eight dry states,where women vote,out of eleven--a very much better showing for pr ohibition than is made by the mansuffrage states. Only California,Nevada and Wyoming remain wet,and in California much more than half of the state is dry under local option; and the wine industry and the vine growers make the passage of a prohibition amendment very difficult. In Wyoming and Nevada the proportion of men to women is more than double--greater than in any other state. In 1898, as a result of certain misrepresentations, a statement approving equal suffrage was issued, signed by the governor, three ex-governors, both United States Senators, two ex-Senators, two Representatives in Congress, the Chief Justice and two Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, three Judges of the Court of Appeals, four Judges of the District Court, the Secretary of State, the State Treasure, the State Auditor, the Attorney-General, the Mayor of Denver, the President of the State University, the President of Colorado College, and the presidents and officers of numerous women's clubs. Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association HEADQUARTERS: 53-57 PRATT STREET, HARTFORD TELEPHONE CHARTER 6217 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MRS. THOMAS N. HEPBURN PRESIDENT 53-57 PRATT ST., HARTFORD MRS. GRACE THOMPSON SETON VICE-PRESIDENT GREENWICH MRS. EDWARD PORRITT RECORDING SECRETARY 63 TREMONT ST., HARTFORD MRS. FREDERICK C. SPENCER CORRESPONDING SECRETARY GUILFORD MRS. M. TOSCAN BENNETT TREASURER 55-57 PRATT ST., HARTFORD MRS. MARY J. ROGERS AUDITOR 39 GRISWOLD ST., MERIDEN MISS MABEL C. WASHBURN AUDITOR 9 GILLETTE ST., HARTFORD MRS. ELIZABETH D. BACON EX-PRESIDENT (1906-1910) 106 CAPEN ST., HARTFORD MRS. WILLIAM T. HINCKS EX-PRESIDENT (1911-1913) 152 PARK PLACE. BRIDGEPORT MISS CAROLINE RUUTZ-REES CHAIRMAN FAIRFIELD COUNTY GREENWICH MISS MARY BULKLEY CHAIRMAN HARTFORD COUNTRY 924 ASYLUM AVE., HARTFORD MRS. A. E. SCRANTON TAYLOR CHAIRMAN LITCHFIELD COUNTY NORFOLK MRS. SAMUEL RUSSELL, JR. CHAIRMAN MIDDLESEX COUNTY MIDDLETOWN MRS. CARLOS F. STODDARD CHAIRMAN NEW HAVEN COUNTY NEW HAVEN MISS KATHARINE LUDINGTON CHAIRMAN NEW LONDON COUNTY LYME MRS. FANNIE DIXON WELCH CHAIRMAN TOLLAND COUNTY COLUMBIA MISS ROSAMOND DANIELSON CHAIRMAN WINDHAM COUNTY PUTNAM MISS EMILY PIERSON STATE ORGANIZER CROMWELL To the Affiliated Leagues: January 17, 1917. Enclosed you will find a statement giving an argument for or refuting one of the stock arguments against Woman Suffrage. Please write a short letter to send to the Legislators, embodying the substance of this statement. The letter is to be multigraphed on your league stationary, signed by your president, and sent to the Representatives and Senators. If your league can attend to this at home, let me know by return mail and I will send you the names and addresses of the men. I will ask you to send me in return a copy of the letter you send. If you cannot have the letters done send me your letter and I will have it multigraphed at Headquarters, and will return it to your president to sign and send out. In case you want us to multigraph it and you have league stationary send me immediately 250 sheets with envelopes. If you have no league stationary send the names of your officers, revised up to date, and I will have the stationary printed. The cost of sending out these letters is as follows: 250 sheets of stationary printed -- $1.25 " envelopes---- 1.10 addressing--- .25 250 stamps----- 5.00 multigraphing---- 1.75 express on letters---- .23 Total --------------- $9.58 Leagues which can pay for all or part of the expense of their letters are urged to do so. If you want an extra amount of your stationary printed for league use let me know and add the amount you wish to spend in this way. It is better to have these letters which embody arguments, typewritten, since long hand written letters are seldom read. Do not fail to let me have your reply by the end of this week. Sincerely yours, Emily [P?] NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION January Twenty Seventh, Nineteen Hundred and Seventeen Miss Rosamund Danillson, Putnam Heights, Putnam. Conn. My dear Miss Dannillson: Dr. Shaw does not expect to return North until the first of May, and as she is in Massachusetts during the week of May sixth she would have a day or two which she could give, during the week of May sixth, if you would like to arrange for a day at that time. Dr. Shaw would probably be able to come back to Connecticutt some time during the latter part of May, if the first date given is not satisfactory for you in which to arrange a meeting. Sincerely yours, Lucy E. Anthony Private Secretary Florence Villa, Fla. Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.