The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-26
NORFOLK LED
CAPTIVE BY
SUFFRACISTS

It may be because woman suffrage
| is now the style, and not to be in
terested in it is to be behind the
times, that the meetings at Canaan
Norfolk, Pleasant Valley and New
Hartford have been 80 we'll attended
cause is becoming fashionable, and is
gaining adherents every day among
the people of consequence in Con-
necticut. This is we'll illustrated al
Norfolk OF all the towns in the
State, Norfolk probably enjoys the
worldly wealth in proportion to its
size and population. The beautiful
homes and the lavish expenditure OF
money on the public good have made
Norfolk the synonym Of refinement
and culture And it was the people
of Norfolk full, representative
audience-that gathered in the Ed
ing to hear Mrs. Rheta Chflde Dorr,
and DR.. Anna Howard Shaw plead
for votes for women.
Mrs. Dorr put before her hearers
the case of the working women, who,
weaker less well-trained and tradi-
further handicapped by being de-
prived Of the protection Of the fran
chise. DR.. Shaw, the veteran leader
of the suffra gists of the United States,
spoke of the need Of the vote for the
women in the home, the impossibility
of exercising proper care and control
over the little. lives entrusted to the
mother, so long as she has no say in
the government of the city, state or
nation.
Norfolk was friendly territory for
the suffrage campaigners; for just re-
Gently a suffrage league; under the
presidency of Mrs. A. E. Scranton
Taylor has been organized there. This
league which counts among its men,
bers many of the most important
men and women of the town, gave a
warm welcome to Miss Pierson and
her band of campaigners. and the
meeting there. was one of the most
successful of the tour.
Besides the Norfolk meeting the
suffragists this week have held meet
ings in the series of towns stretching
from the northwest to the southeast
Hartford. At Canaan the principal
speaker was Mrs. Edward Porritt of
Hartford, and the meeting there
showed an abundant result Of the
seed sown last May at a meeting held
at the home of Mrs. Frank Hitch
cock. Over hundred members were
enrolled at the Canaan meeting and
q, league is now in course Of forma-
ton among the residents of the town.
After leaving Canaan and Norfolk
the suffrage party made its way 10
Riverton and Colebrook River. where
the meeting was held in the Chapel
Pleasant Valley and New Hartford
occupied their attention for the last
two days of the week.
At every meeting there have been
on sale suffrage buttons of the as
sUciation-purple, white ana green
and the letters c. w. S. A. and the
motto, "Votes for Women" Judging
by the number sold, there will be 1T
least one visible trace Of the CAM
paign in Litchfield County left be-
hind when the party leaves for home
One man who when first asked to go
to the meeting growled out: What
for should I be going to a thing like
that?" after he had yielded to temp
tation and persuasion, as his sex his
done since the days of Adam, and had
listened to the pleadings of the suf-
fragettes, bought no less than four
Of these buttons and was seen Ieav-
ing the meeting with every one of
them in plain evidence on his coat
and hat.