The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-27
NO SCRAMBLE FOR
 THE RIGHT TO VOTE
CANVASS OF STATE SHOWS WONI-
 FEN INDIFFERENT.
Hartford courantl

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 The Connecticut Association Op- posed to Woman Suffrage has been making 8 campaign in Connecticut in the last few months, and some things that are highly interesting have de- ve1oped.
 According to the campaign plan no lobbying has been done nor will any be done by the members of the association. They have been conduct ing double campaign of education- to educate the men and women about the state on the side of woman saf- frage that suffragists do not present, and to learn for themselves the req on the suffrage question. The associa- ton started about fourteen months ago with 8 mem bership of 1900. To- day it has a membership of over B. 900, and there are hundreds of letters on file from women, saying their sympathies are with the antis, but they think it would be at least incon- sistent for them to join even an anti suffrage crusade.
 Some time ago the association be- gan a canvass to learn how many wo- men in the state had availed them selves of the privilege of voting on educational matters, a privilege they have had for many years. Returns were slow in coming in, but up to date, 145 towns have been heard from. In these towns, there is a total male en- rollment of 156, ,387, and an enroll ment of women aggregating 6,SS1. This takes into consideration that, in the returns from 145 towns, the town clerks in forty-four towns have re- ported no women at all enrolled. while some of the others have noted at the foot of the card filled over the town clerks signature, <-- registered, but have not voted in years.''
 The last United States census shows that there are 349,,349. women in Con- necticut who admit they are old enough to vote, if the constitutional right were given to them. In their various petitions the suffragists have claimed 11,50O signers. That num- Der, which may have been augmented by a few hundred since that state ment was made, is exactly 3.29 per cent. of the mum Der of women of vot- ing age, and that represents more than forty-three years of organized effort on the part of the suffragists.
 Now of the 349,349 who could vote, if they had the legal right to, the G. SS1 who have availed themselves of the limited franchise form just 1.s per cent. of the women of the state. In other words, less than 2 per cent. of the women are voting.
 One could take these cards return ed to the headquarters of the As sociation Opposed to Suffrage and make deductions enough to fill sew eraI newspaper columns. For exam ple as a test of the real desire of the suffragists themselves to vote-that is, those who have signed suffrage peti- tions-is shown in the fact that the enrolment of women has followed principally in the towns where vigor- ous suffrage campaigns have been made. This would go to show that, after gathering in 3-29 per cent, of the number they were after, they could get less than half of them to the polls. Several unusually large en- rolInnents have been found in towns where there has been some special agitation on the school question, thus bringing up the average considerably more than it normally would be.