The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-03
SUFRAGISTS HOLD ]. STATE CON VEN TON
 IN HARTFORD SOON
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 ne annual convention of the Con necticut Woman Suffrage association is to be held in Hartford on Thursday and Friday, October 22nd and 23rd The sessions of the convention will begin at noon on Thursday. when the delegates will assemble dor the ap- pointment Of committees and other preliminary work. In the afternoon the chief part of the work will be the reading of reports by the officers of the association, by the county chair men and by the presidents of the local leagues The great number of reports that must be made to the convention makes it necessary to have a rule that county chairnen be limited to ten minutes and presidents of local leagues to five minutes. At 6:30 in tho even ing 8 dinner will be held at the Hotel Bond. which will be attended by the delegates and their friends. At this dinner representatives of the 1farious political parties will be invited to re- ply to toasts. It is worthy of remark that only one political party in Con necticut-the Republican has failed to insert a suffrage plank in it's plaf- form and that many members of the Republican party are individually in favor of passing a measure for a. silf-. frage amendment to be submitted to the voters of Connecticut.
 On Thursday evening, taking advan- tage of the presence in Hartford of so many women from all parts of the state, it is planned to hold a mass meeting of protest against war. This meeting will be held in Parsons the tre, and it is planned to have repre- sentative men, of national fame, to address the meeting. To this meeting an invitation will be extended to all lovers of peace whatever their views in regard to woman suffrage. It will be a peace meeting, not a suffrage meeting, and it's object will be to ex- press the won1en's point of view in Ie- gard to the war which is devastating Europe.
 The election of officers and the dis cussion Of policy for the coming year will form the business of the conven- ton on Friday. LSunrage policy is be- coming question Of first importance in view of the enormous spread of suffrage sentiment in the United States and the fact that Connecticut suffra- gists are counting with much conf dence on the passage of the suffrage amendment through the lower house at Hartford, when the legislature to be elected on November 3rd comes into session early in 1915. The rela- tions of the state association to the National American Woman Suffrage association will also be clearly OK pIained This year the Connecticut Suffrage association contributed as its yearly dues to the national associa- tion no less than $750, besides dona- tions to special funds which have been raised by committees Of the state as sociation or given by leagues and in dividuaIs
 The most important fair that has this week is that at Berlin, September 29ths and 3oth There was a good rep resentation at this fair as there was also at the Rockville and Granby. the Brooklyn and Chester fairs of last week. The New Britain Equal Fra chise league did much of the work at the Berlin fair. This year the workers at the fairs report that they find peo- pie much more ready to sign the suf- frage petitions than in any previous year. and that they do not seem to require so much explanation as in for uer days. Everyone now knows some thing about woman suffrage and while there is as yet considerable indiffer- ence there is little antagonism to the idea of votes for women.
 The call has ben Issued for the an- nual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage association to be held at Nashville, Tenn, Novem- Der 12-17. The date has been chosen with view to the elections of No vember srd. It is expected that the suffragists vii have reason for many