The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-07
WOMEN MAKE
 FINE RECORD
Emergency Corps Held l2 Meetings Daily for Three
 Days.

Twelve meetings a day for three days, four meetings on the opening day and large final rally at the state capitol today is the record of Special Emergency Week." one of the most unique events in the history of the struggle for woman suffrage in the United States
 Forty-eight women, one from every state in the union, have been tuoring. Connecticut during the week in be- half of he Emergency Campaign. They have represented not only every state in the union, have been touring sented practically every phase and branch of women's activities along every line. There are in the group. doctors, lawyers, college professors, teachers, ex-state senators, lecturers, noted war workers, educators. social service workers, and just plain moth CTS and housewives. They have all momentarily abandoned thei4 partic- ular jobs and travelled across the country to come to Connecticut to ask Governor Holcomb to complete the enfranchisement of the women of the country in time for them to vote in 1920, and to relieve the women from carrying on a work which is settled except for final formalities.
 These women when they come tc Governor HoIcomb today will bring to him reports from the 4S rallies held throughout the state before each Of which some of the women will have spoken. Mrs. F. Louis Slade, of New York, who will be the last speaker at the hearing will present to him reso- lutions passed almost unanimously by each of these AS meetings. Tele. grams urging ratification. from nearly every governor of a state which has ratified the suffrage amendment will be presented to the governor. He will receive full reports of the attend. ance at the meetings and be inform ed auth oritativly concerning the sem timent in the state which demands that Connecticut shall not be one of the state guilty of withholding suf- frage from 9,000,000 women in the country who are not voters.
 These meetings says Miss Katha- rine Ludington, president of the Con- necticut Woman Suffrage Association, have been extraordinarily successful. Of course we had planned for 4S meetings but we were making mental alliwances for a few failures. They weren't necessary. The meetings have all been held, they have all been
 
 have been moved to larger buildings than were originally planned because the gatherings have been so much larger than were expected. The Mon day night meetings were remarkably well attended, 2,300 in New Haven, HOO in Bridgeport. 700 in Waterbury, 800 in New London. As far we know there has been no hitch in plans anywhere. We are delighted with our guests and the privilege of en- tertaining them. We are grateful to them for coming to us and we confi- dently expect that our governor will do for them and for us what we are asking of him"
 Each of the speakers will endeavor to show Governor Holcomb how the action of Connecticut will affect the women of her own state and of the entire country, and that the peculiar position in which Connecticut is now placed as the state which is responsi- ble not only for the women of it's own state but for a great number of women whose state legislatures have