Norwich bulletin., 1916-06-19

The suffragists of Windham county held a notable meeting in Putnam Sat- urday afternoon. It was a convention of active workers, and in spite Of the rain almost every town was repre- Sented. Miss RoSamond DanielSon# chairman of the county, presided, and called upon the women to give their reports. Leagues heard from were. Danielson, by Mrs. Grace Spaulding; Putnam. Miss Anna c. Levitt; Wood stock, Mrs. F. F, Rollins; Williman- tic, Miss Abhie O. Connor; Brooklyn, Mrs. s. L. Bard; PIainfeId, Mrs John Gallup. Mrs. Orville Whiting spoke for Thompson.
 Address by Mrs. Hepburn.
 A stirring address was given by Mrs. F. N. Hepburn, president of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage associa- ticn. Mrs. Hepburn urged the women to continue their work She pointed to the fact that all the political parties had now suffrage blanks in their na- tiona1 platforms and said that the time was ripe for the passage of a suffrage amendment in Connecticut She also told in detail of the way in which the women could aid in it's pas- sage.
 A Busy Secretary.
 Miss Catherine Flanagan, office eec- retary of the c. w. s. A., spoke inter estingIy of the work done at head quarters. At times as many as 15,000 or q, 1000 letters and circulars are sent ular workers, a small army of volun- teers is occupied in getting out this material.
 A report of the sufrrage convention and parade in Chicago in the week of June 5th to sth was read by Mrs. G. i H. Day.
 Mrs. George H. Day's Report. I fFa 4P imagine they can get rid of woman suffrage by ignoring the question, they ] ought to have been in Chicago during convention week.
 Chicago swarmed with men, but it also swarmed with women, and the women seemed to be all sufragists. It is said that the suffragiets were there, and believe it. for I saw 1 Mrs. Dodge and Mrs. George in the Congress hotel. but the antis made no 1 ripple in the activities of the week.
 Anti Opposition swamped.
 The newspapers, which gave pages to the suffragists, to the Congressional | union and the new woman's party as 1 well as to the national, overlooked the antis completely, and the protest made by Mrs. Dodge against the insertion I of a suffrage plank in the republican T platform was literally swamped by the arrival at the Coliseum, at the I the women did not want the vote ot a whole army of drenched and drip ping paraders who hraved the wiRl 1 and storm-swePt avenues to prove that women did want the vote.
 We arrived in Chicago about noon Sunday, and in the afternoon we went I to the Congressional union headQuar- ters on Michigan avenue.
 There was registration desk al I which before the woman's party con- | vention was over more than 1,50t women registered. There were desks Il for the hospitality committee, the luncheon and reception committees the committee on the parade, the press committee, ard many more that | cannot remember.
 After registering there. we wished to do the same at the national head \ quarters and to learn something oi their programme, which had not been announced beforehand. We found however, that the national was keep ing Sunday and that it's headquarters fl would not be open until the next day
 Monday morning we met Mrs. Seton chairman of the Connecticut delega- ton, and went with her to register ai the nationaa headqu
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