are now
in circulation and if the requisite number of signers is secured
the amendment will be submitted next autumn, Ohio, Nebraska and
Missouri. Then there are three half-way campaign States where the
amendment has passed one Legislature and must pass again, in
which case the decision will be made by the voters in 1915--New
York, Pennsylvania and Iowa, in the first two of which the
amendment has the very promising advantage of having been
endorsed by all parties.
The full number of twelve delegates and twelve alternates went
from the National Association to the Congress of the
International Alliance in Budapest last June, and there were many
more applicants.... During the year the national president, Dr.
Shaw, has spoken at many large meetings in New Hampshire,
Nebraska, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Florida, Missouri,
Kansas, New Jersey, Maryland, Massachusetts, Connecticut and
Michigan. She also spoke in England, Holland, Germany, Austria
and Hungary.
A mass meeting was held under the auspices of the association in
Carnegie Hall, New York, where the international president, Mrs.
Catt, and all but one of the national officers made addresses.
Every ticket was sold and a good sum of money was raised. The
headquarters cooperated with the New York local societies in the
big suffrage benefit at the Metropolitan Opera House the night
before the May parade, where a beautiful pageant was given and
Theodore Roosevelt spoke. There was a capacity audience and many
people were turned away. The headquarters have taken part so far
as possible in all the suffrage parades; that of March 3, in
Washington; those of May and November in New York and Brooklyn;
that of October in Newark, New Jersey. The association was
represented at the annual meeting of the House of Governors in
Richmond, Va., last December by Mrs. Lila Mead Valentine, the
State president, and Miss Mary Johnston, whose admirable speech
was published in pamphlet form by our literature department.
The association has cooperated as fully as was possible with the
Congressional Committee in all its most creditable year's work.
This committee is unique in that its original members volunteered
to give their services and to raise all the funds for the work
themselves. Their single
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