gram of work. Mrs.
Andreas Ueland, president of the Minnesota Suffrage Association, was
chairman of the large committee of arrangements. The conference opened
with a mass meeting in the Auditorium Sunday afternoon, Mrs. Ueland
presiding. The invocation was pronounced by Dr. Cyrus Northrop,
president emeritus of the State University. The conference was
welcomed by Mayor Wallace G. Nye and Mrs. Peterson responded.
Professor Maria L. Sanford of the State University; president Frank
Nelson of Minnesota College; Mrs. Nellie McClung of Alberta, Can.;
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the International Suffrage
Alliance and the National American Association, and others made
addresses. An evening mass meeting was held in St. Paul. At a banquet
attended by 500 guests Dr. George E. Vincent, president of the State
University, made his first declaration in favor of woman suffrage.
Twenty-six States were now members of the organization and nearly all
of those who took part at this time were prominent in the activities
of their various States. The _Woman's Journal_ said: "It was a
magnificent and glorified Work Conference." Mrs. Peterson was
continued as president and Mrs. Ueland and Miss Elizabeth J. Hauser of
the Ohio Suffrage Association were placed on her committee, the latter
to act as chairman for arranging the next conference.

The sixth annual meeting of what had now become an important factor in
the movement for woman suffrage took place at Columbus, O., May 12-14,
1917, in Hotel Deshler. At the Sunday afternoon mass meeting in
Memorial Hall, the Hon. William Littleford of Cincinnati, president of
the Ohio Men's League for Woman Suffrage, was in the chair and a
number of eminent men and women were on the platform. The speakers
were Governor James M. Cox and Mrs. Catt. The Governor strongly
endorsed the movement and pledged his support. Mrs. Catt gave a
masterly review of its progress throughout the world. Twenty-one
States were represented on the program. An important feature of this,
as of several preceding conferences, was the reports of what women had
been able to accomplish in the many States where they were now
enfranchised. Organization and political action in order to carry
State amendments formed the principal theme of discussion. Mrs. John
R. Leighty of Kansas was elected president with Mrs. Ueland and Mrs.
Grace Julian Clarke of Indianapolis on her committee to arrange for
the next conference. The shadow of w