pringfield, and Mrs. Stewart was re-elected. At the
convention of 1908 Mrs. Stewart was continued as president. The
association co-operated with the National American Suffrage
Association in requesting the National Republican Committee, which met
in Chicago, to incorporate a woman suffrage plank in its platform. An
active educational campaign was started to appeal again for Municipal
suffrage for women in another charter which was being prepared. This
time the charter convention acceded to the request of the women, but
the whole was defeated at Springfield. In this work important help was
given the association by the Teachers' Federation, the Chicago Woman's
Club and the Trade Union League. The Chicago Political Equality
League, as well as other affiliated suffrage organizations, took an
active part in this campaign and about 60,000 signatures to a petition
were obtained.

In October, 1909, the State convention was held in Chicago and Mrs.
Stewart was again re-elected. This year the State association
organized the Chicago Men's Equal Suffrage League with former Senator
Thomas J. McMillan, the "father" of the Illinois School suffrage law,
as its first president. The members were from many walks of life,
among them George E. Cole, founder of the Citizens' Association, who
had led in civic reform work for many years; Bishop Samuel Fallows,
one of the city's most prominent and best loved clergymen; Richard S.
Tuthill, for years an influential Judge; Jenkin Lloyd Jones, founder
of the liberal church known as Lincoln Center; Dr. Henry B. Favill,
one of Chicago's well-known physicians; Henry Neil, who was
responsible for the mothers' pension law; Andrew MacLeish, a member of
Carson, Pirie, Scott & Company, one of the city's largest dry goods
houses, and many other prominent men, including the husbands of all
the well-known suffragists. This year for the first time permanent
headquarters were opened in the Fine Arts Building, 410 Michigan
Boulevard, and Miss Harriet Grim, a student of Chicago University, was
engaged as State organizer. She spoke before women's clubs, labor
unions and parlor groups and twenty new societies were formed. Active
suffrage work was also instituted among the churches under the
management of Mrs. Fannie H. Rastall, chairman of the Church
Committee.

In the spring of 1910 the State Board decided to try suffrage
automobile tours. Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout, president of the Chicago
Political Equality Lea