The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-21
SUFFRAGE APPEAL
NJ. WOMEN TO PUT MATTER
BEFORE LEGISLATURE.
Also, Through National Body, to Ask
Congress for 18th Amendment, Con-
ferring Suffrage on Women.

AT the eighteenth annual convention Of
The New Jersey Woman's Suffrage Asso-
citation In the Free Public Library, this
morning, the president, Mrs. George w.
Blackwell, of East Orange. read a letter
from the national secretary asking that
New Jersey join in a movement to ask
Congress for n sixteenth amendment to
tho constitution, comforting woman suf-
frage upon the various States, and she
proposed that the New Jersey Legislature
be asked TO present the question TO the
President of the United States and the
New Jersey Representatives in Congress.
Mrs. Maurice S. Decker, of the Orange
Political Study Club, gave her opinion that
If this was done the association would
only receive the stereotyced answers, and
that the time was not yet ripe for such a
movement. Despite this, resolutions, first,
pertaining TO the joining with the national
association; second, that the request be
made TO each member Of the New Jersey
Legislature. were adopted.
The report of the treasurer, Mrs. George
NJ. Jefferv, of South Orange, stated hat
during the year the receipts were $1e4.75
and the disbursem ents were Sl06.S9. The
balance from last year was $241.71.
DIR. Mary d. Hussey, OF East Orange,
the corresponding secretary, had no writ
ten report. She stated that the usual
correspondence had been carried on with
the national officers and that satisfactory
progress had been noted In regard TO the
individual clubs.
Mrs. Emma L. Blackwell, the president,
who was In the chair. spoke of the neces-
sity Of having a chairman of enrolment
In order to keep in touch with every mem
Der of the society in the State. She said
that she had appointed Miss Mary Camp
laI1 - CI--t IIsIlA -. GIL 4I.a4 od3an
A committee on resolutions was appointed
as follows: Miss Mary p. Willetts, chair
man; Mrs. Maurice S. Decker, and Mrs.
Frank Nodine. The nominating committee
Included Mrs. Carolyn d. Wilson, Of Ocean
Grove; Miss Mary D.. Campbell and Mrs.
George M. Jeffrey.
Reports were received from the Woman's
Political Study Club. of Bayonne, the mem
bers of which had become associate mem
bers of the Bayonne Civic club. composed
Of men; the Essex County Suffrage Asso-
citation, read by Miss Grace N. Halsey, OF
..ewark, the recording secretary; the Man
asquan Civic League, read by the president.
Miss Mary b. Willetts; the Moorestown
Equal Suffrage League, who told Of the
investigation of conditions at the county
jail in Mount Holly; the Orange Political
Study Club. read by the president, Miss
Decker, who reported an increase of fifteen
members during the year, and gave a sy-
nopsis of the ways in which the clubs stud
les had broadened; Ocean Grove Club,
Plainield Equal Suffrage League, read by
Mrs. Florence Howe Hall. the president;
Riverton Political Study Club, the Short
Hills Political Study Club, read by the
president, Mrs. Z. L. Keller; the Trenton
Civics Club, and the Arlington Civic Club,
read by Mrs. Ella A. Kilborn, the record
ing secretary.
At the conclusion of the reading of the
reports Mrs. Blackwell spoke of her gratl-
hcatlon at the way in which the State as
ISOLATION had held its own, during the
wear. Mrs. Blackwell spoke of the change
in the attitude of the general public in
regard to suffrage, saying that 1t was
a great deal more willing to listen. She
| also desired that each president Of the
various clubs put forth a great effort to in
| crease their membership, so as to in
| crease the strength Of the State associa-
ton. She asked also that they bring
suffrage literature and enrolment slips be-
fore their friends.
A short recess was taken prior to the
election of officers, which will be the fea-
ture Of the early afternoon session.
During the afternoon addresses will be
given by the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw.
the Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell and
Henry B. Blackwell. The afternoon ses-
sion will be open to the public.
The following officers were elected for
the coming year: DIR. Medina De Hart. Of
Jersey City, president; Miss Mary Will
let's, of Sea Girt, first vice-president; Mrs.
Minola Graham Sexton, of Orange, second
vice-president; Miss Marie ID. Campbell,
of Short Hills, recording secretary; Mrs.
E. o. Kilburn, of Arlington. correspond
ing secretary; Mrs. Anna b.. Jeffrey, Of
South Orange, treasurer; Mrs. Mary B.
Kinsley, of Hoboken, auditor; press repre-
sentative, DR.. Hussey.
The following We're elected directors:
Mrs. Phebe G.. Wright, of Sea Grit; the
Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, of
Elizabeth; Mrs. Stewart Hartshors. of
Short Hills; Mrs. Elizabeth M. Vail, Of
East Orange, Miss Mary Campbell, of
Short Hills. and Mrs. Caroline Barnes will
sen. OF Ocean Grove.
During the noon session a social hour
and luncheon was enjoyed at De Jianne's.