The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-02-03
THE PRISON SPECIAL ID REACH
 BRIDGEPORT ON MARCH 3

them an opportunity of getting the amendment through Congress before the end of 1919.
 The time of starting the Prison Special is half past two on the after noon of February g, when the train will pull out of Washington station for Charleston, s. c. From that time until March 3, when the special will end it's tour in Connecticut, the women will have a constant success sions of meetings large and small. The large meetings will be at cities where the longer stops will be made. The small meetings will be at stations en route, where short stops will all low the women to hold rear-end plat form meetings and to distribute liter ature to the people in the stations. It seems probable that towards the end of the tour there may be some di- vision of the forces of the Prison Special. On March meetings are i planned to be held both in Boston and Hartford, and in both places some
 members of the band of campaigners | will be on the platform and address l the meetings. March 2, being Sun | day, is a good day for public meet | ings and the Connecticut Branch of | the National Woman's Party is try. ! ing to arrange to hold a mass meet 1 ing on that day in Parsons theatre,
 Hartford. March 3, the final day
 of the tour will probably be celebrat- l ed by meeting in Bridgeport.
 The general in command of the
 Suffrage Prison Speciar' is Miss
 Lucy Burns, who will leave Miss Alice
 Paul, the National chairman, in com
 mand at Washington. The chief diff
 fculty has been the need of having as
 large as possible a contingent of Suf-
 fragists in Washington throughout
 the whole time that Congress remains
 in session, and yet at the same time,
 the necessity of sending some of the
 best speakers on the tour throughout
 the country
 One of the chief differences be-
 tween this campaign and previous
 campaign waged by the National
 Woman's Party, is the larger atten-
 tion given to the Southern states. Pre-
 viously, almost all the work has been
 put into the states where women
 vote, and the voting women have al
 ways formed the chief bulwark of
 the National Woman's Party strength.
 This time the South is to receive
 special attention; because it is the South whose Senators are most ob-
 structive to the Federal Suffrage amendment. It is in the Democratic
 South that the democracy of women : is so bitterly opposed, and it is in the , South also that the sentiment of the l women in favor of Woman Suffrage
 has shown the most extraordinary growth within the last few years. Even among the men the sentiment ) for woman suffrage has made great progress, but the effect of this pro- gress is not very visible among the Senators from the South at Washing. , ton. Two Southern states have given ) the women a large measure of sui
 frage. Texas has bestowed primary suffrage on the women and Arkansas , has given both presidential and pri- ) mary suffrage. In Texas there are many testimonies to the good effect ) of the introduction of women into politics. and the example of these two states Is largely affecting the states around them. Even the Solid South ) is solid no longer in it's opposition to } woman suffrage, and there is a good 3 field awaiting the suffrage special.