The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-11-09
CONNECTICUT
 SUFFRAGE NEWS
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Miss C. Ruutz-Rees of Rosemary Hall, Greenwich, who is one of the vice presidents of the National Wo- man Sufrage Association, starts next Tuesday for Nashville, Tennessee. Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton. who is also a member of the National Ex- ecutiye Board is already in Nashville, nessee more than q week ago. The National Convention of the Sutfra- gists opens on Thursday and will be continued with business sessions ev- cry day but Sunday and public meet igs every evening until November 1S.# The business sessions are to be held in the Chamber of the House Of Repre- sentatives of the Tennessee Legisla.- ture at Nashvi1le. The chamber has been gracious1y offered to the Suffra,- gists because there is no other hall in Nashville suitable for the deliber- ations of the Convention. The public meetings in, the evenings will be held in the great auditorium of Nashville, and all the proInlne ent speakers among the Sunragists present at the Conven-A ton will be heard at these meetings.
 Miss Ruutz- Rees has decisively de- clined the invitation to run again as a candidate for the National Board, a fact that will entail the choice of al new member. Other changes on the board at the coming convention will be necessitated by the refusal to ac- cept re-eIection of Miss Jane Adda1ns, Mrs. Bowen and Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett. Mrs. James Lees LaidIaws has also intimated her unw1llin gness to accept another term of office It is stated that an effort will be made to select candidates from points. well distributed over the whole of the United States. This geographical dis tribution makes the Board more rep resentative of sufragists generally. but 1t has the great inconvenience 
 for the meetings of the Board which become practically the concern Of two or three members who are so situated that they can attend regularly.
 This week Miss Emily Pierson. Miss AIyse Gregory and Miss Isabella. San help of the members of the New Mill ford Equal Franchise League have been campaigning in the small towns within reach of New Milford by auto mobile. The President of the New Milford League is Mrs C. H Wright Dr. G. H Wright, who is even more enthusiastic in the cause than his wife. has been with the Suffrage cam palgners almost every evening.
 The towns visited in the campaign l Of this week-tfae third Of Miss Pier sonIs series of sight little campaigns
 have been Roxbury. Warren, New Preston, Bridgewater, Redding. Sher- man, BrookdeId and Kent. The speak CTS at these meetings were Miss Elm i fly P1erson, Miss A1yse Gregory. Miss IsabeIla Sanders. Dr. c. Fl. Wright campaignersk will be in the region karound Norwich and the members of I the Norwich Equal Franchise League Il of which MS. William A. Norton is the President, have volunteered their laId in the campaign.
 
 carnpaigners will also have helpers from the New London Equal Fran chise League and from the new Equal 1 Franchise League, organized since the Annual Suffrage Convention in Hart ford, at Lyme The Lyme suffragists have been deliberate in taking the step of actually organizing, but they show their desire to co-operate with the State Association by the offer of help in next weeks campaign.
 The Hartford Equal Franchise League is undertaking this winter to I hold regular evening meetings open l to the public, once a month at Suf- frage headquarters. These will be l in addition to the weekly At-Homee | which were a feature of Hartford life and were highly popular last Winetr. l The Greenwich Equal Francnlse I League is also drawing up pro- granne of open meetings. and it's of i fcers feel greatly encouraged by the I outstandiKe success Of the suffrage I musicale given at the home of Mrs. HI. O. D. HaveIneyer on October 25, Ewhen Mrs. Havemeyer made her first I public speech in behalf of Votes for l Women. The impression made ln lGreenwieh bys this speech of Mrs T Havemeyer's is reported to be greater than could possibly have been pro duced by the most practfced orator whom people are accustomed to hear from the public platform. I Buy Now French & Dutch Bulbs a1.ee IfAEINI REGK & S0N