didn't 'give' us those 29 States--we had to work pretty hard to
get some of them!" An emancipator is not the man who takes the
prisoner all the way to the door and lets him look out but the
man who actually unlocks the door and lets him go free. Once in
history the Republican party played the part of a genuine
emancipator. Now it looks very much as if it was playing petty
politics.... At the time of the last State Republican convention
the Hartford _Courant_ obligingly explained that the suffrage
resolution it passed was a pretense and really meant nothing--a
statement, it is only fair to say, repudiated by many honorable
Republicans. Now it is Chairman Roraback, who, with happy
unconsciousness that he is exhibiting his party in a "yellow"
light, tells the public that the national Republican platform
should not be taken seriously.... "The leaders of the party," he
says, "put in the suffrage plank to please women in the voting
States but they meant nothing by it." Are the men who are to lead
a great party as double-faced and untrustworthy as Mr. Roraback
paints them? Were they laughing in their sleeves as they wrote
the solemn pledges in the rest of the national platform? We
wonder if Connecticut Republicans will let Mr. Roraback smirch
the party honor unchallenged.

The course for the State Suffrage Association is clear. We must
play our part in this sector of the national suffrage struggle
and we must let our opponents see that they can not keep American
citizens out of their fundamental rights with impunity.

A committee of Republican women circulated a pledge to give no money
or work for the Republican party as long as women had no votes. Three
influential Republican women travelled to Columbus, O., to put before
the Republican National Executive Committee the opinions of Republican
women who were questioning the sincerity of the party in regard to
woman suffrage. In August thirty Connecticut women, headed by Miss
Ludington, went to New York by appointment to call upon Will Hays,
chairman of the National Republican Committee, and ask him what the
party was doing to secure ratification in Connecticut. He received
them in the national headquarters and Miss Ludington, who spoke for
the deputation, reminded him that his party was taking the credit for
the ratification of the Federal Suffrage Amendmen