The labor standard., 1919-06-01
FAIRFIELD COUNTY SUFFRAGISTS HOLD
 LARGE MEETING

One of the most successful of Fair field County's many successful suf- frage meetings, was held at South Norwalk, Thursday, May 8, when sixty-five women from all sections of the country met together for their regular monthly conference.
 The morning session of the meet ing was occupied chiefly by the re- ports from December 17th Fairfield County leagues followed by a brief address by Miss Katharine Ludington, president of the state Suffrage Asso- citation, who gave a little of the his tory of the presidential suffrage bill and it's career through the state legis- lature.
 Miss Ludington said in part:
 "We are not defeated. Our work will not stop. A little thing like one vote in the Senate does not bother sufragists very much. To have failed to gain admission to the 1920 presidential election in the most con- servative state in New England, by only one vote is not defeat but a victory"
 Edmund F. Grove, chairman of the Republican town committee was the only man present at the luncheon which was served in the Norwalk Club House where the meeting was held. MT. Grove extended Norwalk's greetings to the suffragists and ex- pressed his warm sympathy with their cause.
 Mrs. F. Louis Slade, vice-president of the New York Woman Suffrage Party, and chairman of the Woman's Division of the Y. M. c. A., who was the chief speaker for the afternoon said that she was sure MT. Grove had come to keep her company, otherwise she would be the only voter present.
 Mrs. Slade gave an excellent ad- dress concerning the purpose of the newly formed League of Women Voters and the possible accomplish ments of the ballot. She pointed out that the League of Women Voters had no intention of forming new party or of tearing down the old ones but merely to build up clean, intelligent electorate, which should form the basis of every successful Democracy.
 Miss Caroline Ruuts-Rees of Greenwich, The County Chairman, presided at both sessions of the con- ference and took charge of the brief money raising campaign to pay cur rent expenses. Over $2O0 was raised.
 Among the women present were Mrs. A: Hyde Cole, Mrs. Wm. Lander, NAASo OA0Ao AoiAApSoli3 3AAioo 1AA0y otiO Lewis, Mrs. George Belts, Mrs. G. B. Matthews, Miss Dorothea Pinneo, Mrs. J. W. Coburn, Mrs. J. L. Allen, Mrs. H. H. Higelein, Mrs. John Cava- naugh, Mrs. G. H. Raymond, Miss c. M. Raymond, Mrs. Albert Lee, Mrs. Spencer Adams, Mrs. F. c. Goodyear, Mrs. Irving Hull, Mrs. P. w. Brooks of Norwalk, Mrs. Marion Nichol Rawson of Sound Beach, Mrs. s. c. Shaw, Mrs. H. B. Macdonald, Mrs. w. B. Allen, Mrs. F. M. Hammond, Mrs. Frank H. Riley, Mrs. H. D. Sherman of Bridgeport, Mrs. Stephen Hoyt, Darien, Mrs. G. F. Thayer, Westporr, Mrs. s. T. Davis, IT,, Fairfield, Mrs. F. c. Bursch, Riverside, Mrs. c. A. Fuller, Stamford, Mrs. H. w. Hard son, Wilton, Miss Grace Murray, Gull ford, Mrs. E. R. Newell, Mrs. R. G. Walsh, Mrs. l.. s. Cooney, Green wich, Miss Edith Hastings, Miss Maude Hull, Mrs. Wm. Richardson, Miss A. c. Judson, Mrs. c. H. Hull of Miss Louise Bigelow, Mrs. H. B. Frost, Mrs. M. D. Corbett, Mrs. w. B. Glover of Newtown, Mrs. c. Ames Merritt, Danbury, Mrs. M. c. Keeler, Miss Elizabeth Warehouse, Mrs. Adela Irwin, New