The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-02
CONNECTICUT
 SUFFRAGE NEWS
GA e. Porritt.)

As compared with any week since the middle of last summer, or with the plans laid out for the coming month, this week has been a quiet one in suffrage work, There was a meeting Wednesday evening at Sey- rnour at which Mrs. Carlos F. Stod-I dard of New Haven spoke on otes for Women. This was an alumni so- cia1 held in Odd Fellows hall not Q meeting arranged by the slffragists. she left a good impression on her audience. On "Wednesday evening there was suffrage campaign meet ing at Stafford Hollow, at which M1ss Isabel1aL Sanders and Miss Plerson both spoke Stafford has given peculiarly warm welcome to the sIf- frag1sts and several meetings have been held in the town since last sum rner-nneetings which resulted in the formation of the Stafford Equal Franchise League in September.
 The most arduous meeting carried through by the suffragishE during the week was however the one last Mon day at the Public Hall Hadlyme. Had lyme is difficult of access and Miss Emily P4erson and her cousin, M1ss Alice Pierson motored over from Mid
 d1etown to East Haddam There they
 were Joined by a. party of sufErag1sts and continued their way on foot to
 
 seven and eight miles. and the wealth CT was bitterIy cold. Undismayed the su uffragists stepped out sbraveIy ana reached the Public hall in time for the meeting which was scheduled for
 eight o'clock After the meeting was
 over the sa1ffragists returned in the same way to East HaddaIn.
 The Friday afternoon At Homes Of the Hartford Equal Franchise League which are very popular in suffrage circles in and around Hartford were
 omitted both yesterday and the Friday
 previous, as it was thought useless to attempt to gather audiences on Christmas or New Years Day. They will be resumed next Friday and dur ing January and February they will be held each week. Some excellent speakers are expected to address these meetings, to which sthe Hartford League extends g. cordial invitation to
 every suffragist in Hartford. and to all women visiting Hartford who have
 any interest in this great public ques-
 ton. of Votes for Women.
 Next week Mrs H. H. Knox of New
 Canaan will preside over meeting of
 the Fairfield County suffrage workers
 which will be held in Greenwich on Thursday. These meetings are held at intervals of two or three months.
 There are usually two sessions, and a. lunch is served to the delegates. The | 5 Ch161 DuS1a0SS or the 11feSt4IAS 4S N4Ac reading of reports of work done and Ithe laying out of plans for future ac- l tivitfes In the afternoon there is an 1 open session to which the public is l invited and at which a. suffrage speech
 is made by some visiting suffrage speaker.
 Other suffrage activities for next week include an open meeting of the
 New Canaan Equal Franchise League I on Wednesday afternoon, a meeting at NorvValk on Wednesday evening; quite a number of regular monthly
 meetings of the local leagues in other towns, and a suffrage debate in New York when Mrs T. N. Hepburn, pres ident of the Connecticut Woman Suf- frage, Association is to meet Mrs. Will
 liam Force Scott. Mrs Hepburh' s presence in New York has been ar ranged by the New York Equal Fran chise League. All the New T ork suf- frage assoctations and leagues are l opening the year with a tremend ous amount of activity, due to the fact l that 1t is confidently expected that the new Legislature will sratify the ac- ton of the previous Legislature and will send forward the amendme ent to l tho State Constitution providing for
 equal suffrage to a vote of the cleo 1 tors. Both political parties have en- sdorsed the submission of this amend nnent to the popular vote in the party
 platforms, and the governor is openly 1 favorable to woman suffrage Hence l lsthe suffra9ists are preparing for a 1 w11fr4w1nd campaign all over the State 1 in view of the popular vote, and every
 kind of publicity device is being 1 pressed into the service.
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