The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-17
CONNECTICUT
 SUFFRAGE NEWS
GA. G. Porrftt.l

their sympathy with the suffragists in a very practical manner. During the last two weeks while Miss Ann Mar tin of the Nevada Woman Suffrage Association has been in the State she has met with a hearty response to her appeals for help. The New Haven suffragists collected seventy dollars for her, and at Hartford the gifts to- tailed $126. Bridgeport fell not much behind and at smaller places the money collected was In proportion to the audiences which she addressed.
 The campaign in Nevada presents difficulties which are not encounter ed in the East. Nevada is twenty- two times as large as Connecticut and the voters are scattered over the State in the proportion of one to every five square miles. There is strong opposi- ton to be met in the cities but in the country, the men are usually in favor Of giving anything to the women they ask. Women are scarce tn Nevada and the result is that if they asked the earth they would probably get it. Miss Martin explained the easier divorce laws of the State on this basis Men in Nevada. she said, had too high an idea, of her women to allow them to be wasted on bad m en. Hence if she asked it, she was set free.
 The plans for the Connecticut suf- frage parade which is to take place in May are now taking definite shape and already requests have been re- ceived at suffrage headquarters that certain floats shall be assigned to leagues which have selected them. The parade is to be under the charge of an art committee, and the excel- lence Of the peageant may be assunn- ed from the fact that it is expected that Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton will take the chairn1anship of this com naittee.
 The pageant will be divided into five sections. each with an allegortcal meaning. At the head as the type of courage, patriotism and womanliness will march Joan of Arc on horseback accompanied by twelve hera1ds. Af- ter her and her attendants will come the white satin embroidered Connec- ticut banner, borne by Mrs. M. Togcan Bennett and her chil This ban ner, was one of the features of the last suffrage parade in New York. The members of the executive board of the C. w. S. A. will follow the ban ner and the first section will close with a float with figures representing the principles for which the women are nding-justice and liberty.
 The other sections will be CD the proeress of women; 12) the wrongs Of the world calling for women's 'sl help ing hands; { 41a the section of the. Mems League which is to represent the political parties and will be face tfous in treatment; anl (5) women free to serve. In the last section will be carried the banner of all the coun- tries and states in which women al- ready vote. The foreign banners will be carried by natives of each coun- try in the national costumes. The American States will be represented by women in automobiles, each bear ing the State banner. After these, forming the tai1piece of the process legend "Connecticut Trying to Catch Jp.,'
 Suffrage meetings have been held in Connecticut every day for the past two weeks, sometimes both afternoon and evening. Miss Emily Pierson and Miss A1yse Gregory have been kept busy responding to calls from the league for addresses on the best way E to organize for a full canvass of the voters This work of canvassing the voters was begun in Hartford in De. cennber and for a whole month the organizers were at work mapping out the @territory for the local, workers, and appointing and instructfng ward leaders After finishing the pre1fni- nary organization in Hartford the or ganizerss have passed on to Water bury where they are now making their headauarters. Miss A1yse Greg. ory is there the guest of Mrs. Julius Ma1tby, the president of the Water bury Equal Franchise League, and the members of the league are cordially endeavoring to carry out the work that Miss Gregory and Miss Pierson are outlining.