Connecticut western news., 1920-08-26

from1892 to 1900. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt from 1900 to 1904; Dr. Anna Howard Shaw from 1904 te 1915, and Mrs. Catt, reelected two years before Dr. Shaw's death, from 1915 to the present time.
 Much vain knocking at the doors of congress persuaded the women that before national suffrage was achieved they must first win over enough states to make the vote of women a real political power. While Miss Anthony led the national cam paign in Washington, Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe labored with the state legislatures. They got Wyoming, as has been said, in 1869. They also got Utah in 1870, but congress upset this decision and Utah did not actually arrive at equal suff- rage until 1895. Colorado enfran- chised women in 1893, Idaho in 1896
 There, for fourteen years the case rested. Not another state was added The suffrage movement seemed to have stopped. Little was heard of it. When it came to a vote for the first time in the senate, on January 25, 1887, the score of the defeat was 34 to 16. 1t did not come up again until March 19, 1914, and never reached a vote in the house until January 25, 1915.
 With the beginning of the new century the struggle entered what is known as its political period" In 1900 the two national organizations were combined under the name of the, National American Woman Stuff rage Association. In 1909 it moved its headquarters from Warrenton, Ohio, to New York. Since then it has conducted its campaign from, New York first from offices at 5O5 Fifth avenue, partly financed by Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, and later from 171 Madison avenue, the pres ent headquarters.
 Suffrage Party Is Launched
 In the same year Mrs. Catt launch ed her woman suffrage party, or ganized first in New York city on strict political lines and copied all over the country. Through modern organization the movement gained new headway and more states began granting suffrage to their women. Washington came into line in 1910, California in 1911, Arizona, Oregon and Kansas in 1912, Montana and Nevada in 1914.
 Co The next piece of applied strategy was the presidential suffrage con- ferred by states upon their own wo- men. A Chicago woman lawyer, Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch, devised this plan of boring from within. Illinois voted for presiden- tial suffrage n 1918, North Dakota and Nebraska in 1917, and others dropped into line. Many states now had full suffrage and in others wom- en voted for presidential electors.
 The moral and political effect of this growth was enormous, but the biggest and most potent event in the history of the victory period of suffrage was the winning of the vote by the women of New York state in 1917. When New York, the back bone of the east, gave in, all the stoutest of the antis were ready to admit that the end was in sight.
 In 1912 the National American Woman Suffrage Association re- newed its drive on congress. Alice Paul and Lucy Burns then identified themselves with it. Alice Paula Quaker, as were Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony-was just back ffom England, where she had. served term in Holloway jail for mili- taney under the guidance of Mrs. Pankhurst.
 The ordinary suffrage tactics in this country were too tame for her. She did not remain long as chairman of the ola association's congress com rsittee, but organized the Congress sional Union on Pankhurst lines. Prom it developed the Nationals Wpan's party, founded in 1916. Rfee Paul's group were the "pick- eting suffragists." 1t picketed the White House in 1917, and the women were arrested and subjected to inn prisoament, which was declared it. legal by the District Court of Ap- psa1s. Alice Paul was forcibly fed. Vixen the picketers were released they hired a train-the "prson specia"-and toured the country with their propaganda.
 The militants of the Woman's par ty favored the use of spectacular meshoSs. and of bringing to bear on members of congress the weapon of Eidicule wherever they could. They made the conservatives furious, and there was much quarreling back and forth, yet it now seems to be agreed that both groups of women, each working its own way, contributed to the victory.