The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-18

session will be devoted chiefly to the
 reading of the reports of the officers of
 the Association and of the Presidents
 or other representatives of the local
 leagues These reports will consti-
 tute history of the suffrage activities
 in this State during the past year.
 The first work done by the Asso-
 citation after the Convention at New
 Haven of October 1912, was the nine
 teen weeks campaign. This campaign quite the most ambitious suffrage
 campaign ever conducted in Connec-
 ticut, was planned and carried out by
 Miss Emily Pierson, State Organizer. A band of workers was secured-hve
 workers at the opening of the cam paign, afterwards increased to eight and in each city chosen as the scene of suffrage campaigning headquarters were secured. There were daily and evening meetings at Headquarters dur ing the week that the workers spent in the city, and outdoor street and fac tory meetings were also held at speci- lied hours. The campaigners called on all prominent residents in the city. and also attended meetings of all clubs leagues, associations and unions which were willing to receive a suffrage speaker.
 As at first planned this campatgn was to last ten weeks and ten cities were to be visited. As the weeks went OA4 l4S P4c11 WAS so SUCCESSFUL ana the work so encouraging that subscrip- lions and gifts were forthcoming to enable the. campaign to be continued for nine weeks longer. Meriden. Bridgeport and Hartford were incIud- ed in the later weeks of the campafgn which lasted until the time of the hearings before the Joint Committee of the Senate and the House of Rep resentatives of the Legislature on the bill for amending the constitution of the State to grant full suffrage to wo- men.
 This bill was defeated when it came to thhe vote in the House, but the de- feat did not cause any discouragement to the members of the c. w. S. A They recalled the fact that it was the first time in the history of the State that a vote had ever been taken on a constitutional amendment for the en- of women, and taking into account the innate conservatism of the State they felt that they had good reason to be pleased that they obtained as good a vote as they did in it's favor. Since last May there has been an immense increase in the of feeling in favor of woman suffrage. The near prospect of fed era1 action by the amendment of the constitution of the United States has brought the matter home as a Ques- ton of practical politics, and the c. w. B. A. reels confident that last May was the very last time that a measure for the enfranchisement of women will be rejected by the Legislature of Connecticut. It may be that the Legislature here will not have the op- portunity of enfranchising Connecti- cut women. If the bill for the con gress at the next session all that Con> stituttonal amendment passes in Con- nect1cut will be asked to do will be to rat1fy the amendment. Judging by the readiness with which the last Leg lslature passed the Eighteenth providing for the direct election of Senators, there is little doubt that Connecticut would climb over on the winning side, when wo- man man sufrage becomes question of an imminent feature
 The reports of the officers, besides accounting all this suffrage history will also include the story of the financing of the Association and of the numer- ous and generous gifts by means of which the work has been carried out.