Connecticut western news., 1914-08-13
Is Suffrage Cause FIaggng ?

Editor News: We are aware tn at The News can gi se but brief space for suffrage articles and that is furnish ed from press secretaries in Hartford. This suffices and is satisfactory all round, but there are a few Canaan Franchise League that are in need of correction. Permit us to make the, correction as briefly as possible
 Mrs. Frank McCarty has not officially resigned her office as president; her work as nurse has, however, rendered it impossible for her to remain i'll office after the fall business meeting The office was thrust upon her much against her wishes. The work of calling meet ings and recognizing will necessarily devolve on the vice-president, Miss Ella Brown, and the other officers. Mrs. Frank Hitchcock will not, as heretofore, take the initiative in any suffrage work pertaining to the League, in the future and is not now as is generally supposed the acting president of the League. Her work for suffrage along newspaper lines has enlarged to the extent that local work for the Canaan League is out of the question. The League has 42 members, both men and women, able and efficient to carry on the work and enlarge the membership. There is no just or logical reason why this should not be done, and it probably will be.
 The suffrage dues for 1914 (only 90 cents) have not yet been paid by all members, the pledged money not yet, all of it, been paid, so we are told, to the Hartford Association. These are important matters that the peculiar and rather harassing position of the able president, (Mrs. McCarty) does not per init her to attend to. Since the other officers promised her their aid to the utmost, if she would accept the office, it is up to them to make good. The League members, it must be remem- bered, belong to one of the greatest and most important movements of the world. It is world wide. It behooves us to uphold the honor and dignity of our position as members of this great world movement. It is the right of every one to join as many associations as they may care to but it is exceedingly inconsistent to make the excuse that so many other organizations take up all our time and attention when the suffrage league preceded these later organizations by two or three years. We women make a mistake when we act in an illogical and irresponsible manner. These many organizations are entered into voluntarily and with full knowledge before hand that justice cannot be done to them all. Then the one that we are the least interested in is dropped or neglected. Then the men smile, as who can blame them ? In the Canaan Suffrage League are some of the finest, staunchest, best all round suffragists men and women that we have. ever met or known, and we certainly have met and personally known many. This isn't blarney nor society sweet stuff, we actually mean it. A word more, the Canaan Equal Franchise League was organized solely by MT. and Mrs. A. $. G. Taylor, not by Mrs. Hitchcock as seems to be generally y misunderstood. She has only been the county chairman's henchman, doing what little she could to help Mrs. Taylor in her splendid work in Litch- field county, and we want to say right here with such backing as we might have had from these splendid workers we could have, had we willed, placed our League on the foremost list of the Litchfield county leagues. Everything was in our favor. The finest speakers in the land came here without money and without price. Right now, the best speakers can be had all through this month and next, for the asking, no money is expected. A sunset meeting