The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-29
CONvEN TON OF SuFFRAGlSTS TO BE IN LIAR RTFORD. Growth of the Association Makes. Capital Most
 Central Point MAY ASK PLEDGES
 FROM CANDIDATES Votes for Women Advocates Protest Against
 War
HIM. G Porr.itt.l


 necticut Woman surrage association
 will be held this year at Hartford It has been usual in the past to hold the
 convention in different town each
 year. This year is a departure from this rule, as the convention was in
 Hartford in 1s1S. The reason for the change is that now that the associa.- fion has grown to so large a size 1t is necessary to consult, the convenience of the majority of the delegates who will attend and Hartford is the most central and accessible point in the state The association also has it's headquarters in Hartford and it is felt
 advisable to have the convention in the same city as the headquarters. | The precise date for the convention to some extent on the convenience of the speakers whom it is desired to secure tor the mass meeting in the evening of the first day of the com vention. The proceedings this year will have more political character than ever before The e. W. S.. A was long an organization for the pushing Of the necessary legislation for ob- taining votes for women; and plans in regard to the election of candidates Ns the legislature and in regard to pressure to be brought upon the legis- lature after it convenes in Hartford will occupy the attention of the dele- gates
 Suffragfsts this year have pushed into many of the summer resorts, no- Htably Atlantic City, Saratoga and Newport. The Congressional Union
 the organization which has done so much to push the amendment to the United States Constitution on Con- gress-is holding a conference to-day and to-morrow in Newport The i'm
 mediate purpose of this conference IS to perfect a plan of campaign for the defeating of Congressman and Sena- tors in the coming elections. The Congressional Union is non-partisan. It offers its services to no party. But it does set iseIf to defeat parties if they set themselves in opposition to the legislation which it so much de- Esires.
 The Newport conference is being held under the management of the Executive Committee, of the e. U. or which Miss Alice Paul is ChairmaA and of which Miss Elsie Hill. daugh- ter of Ex-Congressrhan E. J. Hill, Is a member Among the women who are attending it there are several whc have a more or less close connection with this state. Mrs. Helena Weed. and Miss Clara Hill are going from Norwalk; Mrs. William Prendergast. wife of the Comptroller of New York lis going from her summer home at Colebroolx; Mrs. ohm Rogers. Jr., of New York also goes from her sum mer home in Ridgefeld, and Mrs. Mary A. Beard wife of Prof. Beard of Columbia University goes from New Milford. Mrs Beard is member of the Executive Committees In order that Connecticut suffra- gists may be well informed concern ing the plans and work of the Con- gressional Union Mrs. Edward Por- ritt, of Hartford, who is in charge of the Connecticut suffrese press work. has also gone to the Newport confer ence A lunch was arranged for to- day in the Charming parlors at which Mrs Lawrence Lewis of Philadelphia l was the toast mistress, and this ev- ening there is reception in honor of the members of the Advisory Coun- oil and the guests of the c. U. in the Casino Parlors.
 1 The important business sessions are this afternoon and to-morrow af- ternoon. The plan of campaign both l in the east and in the western states will be thoroughly discussed To- morrow at five Mrs. O. H. F. Belmont gives tea. and in the evening there will be a garden party at Hill Top, at
 which the speakers will be Mrs. Bel mont, Mrs. Donald R. Hooker, sister of Mrs. Katherine Houghron Hepburn l of Hartford, President of the c. w. s. l A, and other well known suffragists. 1 Suffragists are joining largely and ! heartily in the protest against war
 which is held to-day in New York
 City. This is not suffrage enter prise, nor are the suffragtsts making
 use of it to advartise their propa- ganda; but in this as in all other
 good causes, suffra agists are sharing in I the fullest and most energetic man ner. When woman suffrage is univer- sal it is claimed that there will be no more war. whether this claim will be realized or not it is impossible ] to say; but women of all shades of
 opinion are at one in the their hatred of the horrors and barbarities of war.