icers for the State Equal Suffrage Association were elected:
President, Miss Safford, Orlando; first vice-president, Mrs. C. J.
Huber, Webster; second, Mrs. Ella Chamberlain, Tampa; third, Miss
Caroline Brevard, Tallahassee; corresponding secretary, Miss Elizabeth
Askew, Tampa; recording secretary, Miss Frances B. Anderson,
Jacksonville; treasurer, Mrs. John Schnarr, Orlando; auditors, Mrs.
Anna Andrus, Miami, and Mrs. J. M. Thayer, Orlando.
In 1914 Miss Safford published a bulletin, showing that the State
Association had auxiliaries in Jacksonville, Lake Helen, Orlando,
Zellwood, Pine Castle, Winter Park, Pensacola, Milton, Miami, Tampa,
and a Men's Equal Suffrage League in Orlando with Mayor E. F. Sperry
as president and Justin Van Buskirk as secretary. Miss Kate M. Gordon,
president of the Southern Woman's Suffrage Conference, had held a
successful meeting in Jacksonville. The Orlando League had had a float
in the trades' parade of the midwinter fair and a booth at the fair
where the names of voters in favor of submitting a State suffrage
amendment were obtained. It had had "teas" for replenishing the
treasury and closed the year with a banquet complimentary to the Men's
League. A committee was preparing a program on the laws of the State
for the next year's work. The Pensacola league was arranging to issue
a special edition of the _Journal_ and have a booth at the tri-county
fair. Most of the leagues had formed classes to study history and the
duties of citizenship and had distributed literature and some of them
had held a celebration on May 2, as the National Association had
requested.
The first annual convention, held at Pensacola, Dec. 8-10, 1914,
stressed the pledging of candidates for Congress and Legislature and
securing signatures to petitions. The second, at Orlando, Feb. 3,
1915, formed congressional districts, according to the plan of the
National Association. The third, at Miami, March 15-16, 1916, arranged
for suffrage schools and planned to assist work outside the State. The
fourth, at Tampa, Nov. 20, 1917, found the members busy with war work.
The fifth, at Daytona, Nov. 19, 1918, planned to introduce a bill for
Primary suffrage in the Legislature and co-operate with the Federation
of Women's Clubs to secure it. The sixth, at Tampa, Oct. 30-31, 1919,
was devoted to plans for ratification of the Federal Suffrage
Amendment and citizenship.
While the State association could show no definite accompli
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