The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-01-28
HOT AFTER BALLOT |. FOR WOMEN OF CONNECTICUT.
Congressional Committee to Attend Meeting of Suffra-
 gist Leaders.

Connecticut suffragists are grasp ing time by the forelock and are get ting ready for citizenship! Realizing that the right of the ballot will in- eVitably be given to them, they are planning an aggressive, political, con- gressional and civic campaign of work which will prepare them for the bal lot and which will give them in con- centrated form the political advice and training which their fathers, hus- bands, brothers and sons have receiv- ed during the 21 years which precede the balloting age. The executive board of the c. W. s. A. is planning a poli- tical organization of the state, fol- lowing the lines of the party division of the state with congressional lead- CTS, district leaders, ward leaders and town leaders.
 These leaders win direct the work in their districts. At the home of Mrs. Henry Townsend in New Haven on Wednesday, a meeting will be held at which the question of the political organization of the state will be dis cussed. This meeting will be attended by the congressional committee, the county chairmen, and those who will take an active part in the congress sional work which will be carried on by Connecticut suffragists.
 The political importance oI women 1 is being recognized nationally The national political committees have re- gently taken radical step and will admit women into the inner councils. Having crossed the suffrage Rubi- con, the Democratic party leaders have gone step further and indica- ted their belief in the speedy adop- tion of the Federal Suffrage Amend ment by the states of the Union. With out waiting for the action of the Sen ate on the amendment, the executive committee of the National Democratic Committee has indicated it's belief that the complete enfranchisement ot the women of the United States is at hand by creating an advisory com mittee to be composed of one wo- man from each state.
 The fact that a great political party should conclude such an arrangement months in advance of the earliest pos sible adoption of the amendment by the states, in the event of it's passage by the Senate, is accepted by the sui fragists as an indication that the party leaders see nothing but an early an6 complete victory ahead for state rati. fication.
 The plan for the creation of thi. advisory committee of women was adopted without hesitation and the organization is to be completed a once. Democratic women will thu! have a voice in the inner plans of the party's affairs when the nationwide vote is extended them in the near flu ture. Judging by this forehanded ac ton of the Democratic party that flu. ture will become present in time fol the women of all the states to takt part in the next presidential election lnow little more than two years dis
 tant.
 Similar action by the Republican
 leaders is certain as a result of agi
 tation which has arisen in recen
 weeks for the larger participation il the Party's councils by the Republi
 can women. In a letter to Chairman
 Wilcox of the Republican Nationa Committee some days ago, Theodort
 Roosevelt urgently advised the organ
 ization of woman's committee of tn, Republican National party, the com { mittee to be composed of one woman
 from each state in the Union. Actiol
 to this effect may be expected.