The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-27
SUFFRAGE LEADERS SEEK TERRITORY
 AS YET UNWORKED
Windham County One of Sec tiOns to Be Exploited
 Next Year.
(By A. G. Porritt.)

l NeAC Y6ar.
 (By A. G. Porritt.)
 With the new year much fresh suf- frage work will begin, some of it in towns and cities where leagues and clubs have been established for some time and some of it in new territory where it is planned to break fresh ground. Many of the leagues have been more or less inactive since the State Annual Convention at the end of October Some of them sent dele
 gates to Washington to attend the National Suffrage Convention there, and some of them went to Hartford in
 November to assist in making a sue
 cess of Mrs. Pankhursts meeting there. As a result of these activi-
 ties, local work was a little neglected, and the coming of Christmas served
 also to put it a little in the back
 ground.
 This has not been the case with all
 the leagues. Many of them on the
 other hand kept up their meetings and were actively at work canvassing
 or on other forms of propaganda even
 into Christmas week. There has also
 been an active sale by suffragists,
 both at headquarters in Hartford and
 at the headquarters of local leagues,
 of Christmas cards, calendars and oth-
 CT souvenirs, all designed to carry a TSm0InDTanC9 or woman SuHTaRG Into the homes where they were received at Christmas.
 The campaign work in Hartford, where an active canvass of the vo- ters has been in progress for several weeks past also was continued irres- pective of the holidays; and the mem bers of the Waterbury Equal Fran chise League are now preparing to carry out similar campaign, as soon as Miss Pierson and Miss Gregory reach this new territory.
 Waterbury is not new territory in the strict acceptance of the term. It was one of the cities included in the winter campaign of two years ago and for the last eighteen months it has had an excellent Equal Suffrage Lea gue under the presidency of Mrs. Ju- Illus MaItby. There have been many suffrage meetings in Waterbury and these meetings are usually we'll at tended and the speakers received with ready sympathy.
 Windham County is much more of the nature of new territory than Wa terbury or than any part of the five counties where the suffragists have undertaken campaigns. Windham county is this winter to be the scene of active suffrage operations. The c. w. s. A. have secured a chairman for Windham County in the person of Miss Rosamund DanfeIson of Putnam. With the help of other members of the State Executive Board Miss Dan ielson is planning to put Windham County on the suffrage map of Con necticut. Even now it is not wholly blank. There is an equal franchise league in Putnam and another in Danielson, and although not yet or ganized into a league there are some active suffragists in Wil1imantic and Baltic.
 New chairman were secured for two other counties at the State Annual Convention. These were Mrs. H. A. Taylor to be chairman of Hartford County and pr. Esther S. B. Wood ward, chairman of New London Coun- ty. Good work is being planned by both these women and all three of the new chairmen were last week in con ference at Hartford with other mem bers of the State Board and with the two rganizers-Miss Emily Pierson and Miss A1ys Gregory-getting hints for the better carrying on of their work.
 The general plan for the suffrage parade which is to be held in Hart ford on the first or second Saturday in May-w <chever of these two dates does not conflict with the New York May parade-is being sent round to
 
 women may select the floats which they would like to undertake. Tke floats are definitely planned in order to give dignity and symbolic meaning to the pageant. They will include such subjects Justice and Preju- dice; the Progress of Women; Mary Lyon and the education of women, the entrance of women into the arts in this there will be groups repre- senting music, painting, the dram;t, &c.; women in the professions, and in the trades; the banishing of the worlds wrongs and many other sub jects.
 One of the floats is to represent the Democratic and Republican parties in their familiar gutse as the elephant and the donkey reaching after hay en- titled ''Votes for Women.'' This is in keeping with the Santa aClaus which was exhibited in the window of headquarters at Hartford, where San to Claus was handing out the donkey and the elephant to the crowd of wo- men who were eagerly demanding the vote. OAuTA nFETCER,S PTTNTSHNEJT