The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-20
SCHOOL VOTE
 FOR WOMEN IS
 PURE FICTION
Decision of Kleiner in New Ha- ven Case Bringing Adherents To Equal Franchise Cause.
GA. G. Porritt.)


 Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton was the hostess of the Executive Board of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Associa- ton last Wednesday, when it assem- b1ed in Greenwich for it's monthly meeting. Mrs. Seton has been serious ly i'll for a large part of the summer. She was taken i'll in London when on her way to the international Suf- frage Congress at Budapest and was obliged to return to America with out delay. Last Wednesday was the first time that she has been well enough to rejoin her colleagues on the board, but in spite of the fact that her health Is not yet fully re- stored, there were no shortcomings in her hospitality.
 Another of the members of the board to make her first appearance since the beginning of the summer was Miss Emily Pierson. Miss Pierson has rest and recuperatiOn after the siren uous activities of the winter. Up ot last Wednesday Miss Pierson had not resumed active work in connection with the suffrage cause, but she has been engaged for two weeks past on plans for the coming Winter-plans which it is intended to put into op- eration as soon as the Annual State Convention is over. The convention is to be held in Hartford at the end of October. s
 Last Saturday the county Federation Of Suffrage leagues of Litchfeld coun- ty held meeting at New Milford, un- der the chairmanship of Mrs A.. E. s. Taylor of Norfolk. The Federation was formed in April last and was signed to give unity and enthusiasm to the work of the local leagues. New Milford was well chosen as the meet ing place for the New Milford Equal Franchise League is one of the most energetic and efficient of the small CT town leagues of the state.
 The opinion rendered by Corpora tion Counsel Kleiner of New Haven in regard to the right of women to vote in that city on the question of the Teachers Tenure Act has been re- Suffragists. Uppermost is a desire which is usually suppressed, to say ''I told you -so," for the Suffragists have. insisted continually that the school vote without full suffrage will never be of much use. Their reason conviction, confirmed by experience that whenever the women begin to take a real hand in school affairs and to try to bring about changes for the politicians, the politicians will en- deavor to find means of nuIhfying their right to vote. This has already been done in several cases in this state. In New Haven the new city charter took away the women's right by making the school commissioners appointiVe- In other towns and cities the local politicians have stood firmly against the right of the women to say in re- gard to the nomination of candidates, and the candidates for the school board have been fixed up by the two parties in such a way as to leave the women practically no choice.
 The latest method, however, seems the most petty and disingenuous of any so far adopted. To say that in spite of the law giving women the right to vote on all matters concern ing the schools and the public librar- ies the women cannot vote in this election because they are only wn+ers