The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-01-09
CONNECT TICUT
 SUF FRAGE NE WIS
fBy A. c. Porritt. l,

sunrake campaigns have been going ion all this week in both New Haven and New Britain. In New Haven the campaigning has been done by the local suffrage organizations The leader in the work is Mrs. Carlos F. stoddard ana the design is to make a thorough campaign in ward after. ward until the whole city has been gcoyereds Headquarters are to be opened in each ward and a large use will be made of voice1ess speeches, and sof suffrage exhibits. There will sbe- sides be open air speaking in the fac- tory districts and regular speaking at the headquarters. The New Haven Equal Franchise League and the New Haven Political Union are both engag- ed in word work and both these s,lf- frage organizations have accomplfsh-l ed much egecttve work during the last twelve months
 The New Britain campaign is be- 1ne g und derfalxen by the state organizers of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Associafi ion-ATiss Emily Pierson Miss Alyse Gregory and Miss Isabella San ders- The New Britain Equal Fran chise League has also given help and support. Headquarters were opened last Monday and during all the work there has been speaking several times
 
 tory districts and every afternoon and evening at the temporary headquar@ ters Among the women who have spoken in addition to Miss Pierson
 Miss Gregory and Miss Sanders are Mrs. q. IN. Hepburn of Hartford. Miss Mabel Washburn, Miss Mary BuIkIey
 Mrs M Toscan Bennett and Mrs. Por- ritt At headquarters there have been several suffrage exhibits on view One of these is the Food and Drugs Ex xhibit prepared by the Department of Agriculture at Washington and in tended as a warning against various forms of adulteratiou: the exhibit of the New York Consumers League and several more directly devoted to suf- frage for women. These consist of dolls and scenery showing the connec- ton of women in the home with the municipal government. and holding up the contrast between the enfranchised women of the West. where women are now voting in national elections in thirteen states and the Territory of Alaska and the women of the Eastern States who are still considered unwor- thy of full citizenship rights.
 It is worthy to remark that very the State Legislature last November cared to put themselves on record as being opposed to Votes for Women. Every member Of the House of Repre- | SentaElVeS hfaS tp66u caI1VaSSSQ by the suffragists and only fifteen gave replies in which they stated that they were | opposed to the submission of the con- istitutionaI amendment for woman suf- frage to the voters.
 Tomorrow the Congressi ona1 Union in Washfngton-a national suffrage ] organization which has the one object Of obtaining the passage of an amend naent to the United States Constitu- ton, holds it's annual meeting. The Executive Board of the Union includes two Connecticut woInen-Miss Elsie Hills of Norwallx, and Mrs. Mary A. Beard, wife of Professor Charles A. Beard of Columbia University, whose summer home is at New Milford. There are also several Connecticut women on the Advisory Council and 1 Mrs. George H. Day of Hartford who is one of these expects to be in Wash l ington for the meeting. Mrs. Beard and Miss Hill will also be present. Preliminary to the annual meeting there will be a. luncheon at the home of Mrs. Kent, wife of Representative I Kent of California; Mrs. Kent has l taken a. deep interest in the work o1 the Union and from her position as I san enfranchised citizen and the lead CT of the National Association of Wo- men Voters, who is able to exert a very practical influence in favor of the national constitutional amend rnent. Mrs. Kent has proved her ability for organization and leader ship by her work in connection with the Panama Exposition in San Fran ] cisco. Not only has she had lead