The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-20
BIG CAMPAIGN AND PARADE BY ''SUFFS" IN COMING SUMMER At Hartford Meeting Board Decides That War for Vote
 Will Be Waged Siege of Bridgeport to Be
 gin in February or
 March
GA G. Porritt.)

A four months campaign in the four largest cities of the state and a suffrage parade in Hartford next May form the chief part of the plan | of work of the Conenctfcut Woman Suffrage Association as laid out at the meeting of the executive board l which was held this week in Hart
 ford The city campaign has already been started in Hartford, where Miss Emily Pierson and Miss Alyse Greg ory, the state organizer, are at work 1 organizing a thorough canvass of all the voters in the city. The wards are taken as the basis of organizaL- ton, and with the assistance of the
 members of the Hartford Equal Fran chise League and of the Equal Rights
 Club, Miss Pierson is arranging that every voter and every voters wife
 in the city shall have an opportunity of learning something of the move ment for Votes for Women.
 After Hartford, Waterbury is the
 next city that will be attacked by the Suffragists. Waterbury has a large
 and energetic Equal Franchise League, the president of which is Mrs. Julius
 MaItby. The members of this league
 are preparing to render efficient help to Miss Pierson and Miss Gregory when they reach Waterbury in Janu- ary. A whole month is to be spent
 in each city and the suffragists are holding themselves ready to give ad-
 dresses before any organization which
 desires to hear som mething of the movement for woman suffrage. Feb ruary7 will be here before the cam paign reaches Bridgeport, where the Bridgeport Equal Franchise League which numbers in it's ranks such lead ing suffragists as Mrs William T. ] Hincks, the former president of the state association and Mrs. s. T. Davis.
 Jr., will also be ready to undertake the work of house to house canvassing and to render all the aid in their pow CT for the furtherance of the cam paign.
 New Haven, the largest city in the state, will be the last to be the scene of the campaign. There are now four suffrage associations in New Haven, the largest of which is the New Haven Equal Franchise League, with Mrs Henry Wade Rogers as president All four organizations will enter into the activities of the campaign, and as New Haven has always proved readily re- sponsive to suffrage propaganda, it is expected that the campaign there will be most effective.
 The suffragists of New Haven and indeed all over the state of Connecti- cut have just suffered a severe loss in the death of Mrs. Louis E.. Stod- dard. Mrs. Stoddard, from the for nation of the New Haven Equal Franchise League, has been most en-
  pIe generosity in her contributions to the funds of the league and Of the state association. The meeting of the executive board was considerably saddened by the sense of her loss, and a resolution Of sympathy with her family was passed unanimously and with heartfelt emotion.
 The suffrage parade in Hartford next May will be a new departure for the sufragists of Connecticut, although this state has been we'll represented in the May parades of the last three years in New York and also in the suffrage parades in Washington The, management of the parade vii be in the hands of the executive board Of the state association and every local league is being asked for cooperation and for a large representation of it's members. Floats will also be asked from the different towns and there will be considerable emulation for the honor of presenting the best float in the parade.
 The executive board meeting of this week was the first since the National Convention of Suffragists in Washing ton- There was a large attendance and in addition to the formal busi- ness there was much discussion of the Washington proceedings and many stories were told of individual ex- periences. The members who had at tended the convention-Who had been among the forty-nine delegates from Connecticut who went to Washington were all agreed as to the fact that woman suffrage is now considered in Washington among the politicians as a very practical question. There is no inclination nowadays to make mild jokes in more or less questionable taste on the subject; but the leaders of all parties are aware that the for tunes of the next presidential election may hang upon the vote of the wom- en. There are now between three and four million women who are en- titled to vote for presidential candi- dates, and if any candidate makes himself obnoxious to the women 1t would not be difficult to organize the women's vote to securet his defeat CHATTING DISHES NOW