mention of the valuable services of Mrs. Wesley Martin Stoner
of Washington, D. C. Mrs. Stoner had been sent as the special
representative of the National Association's Congressional Committee
to make a survey of southern conditions, in the winter of 1913-14, and
reported that her observations led her to believe that the best
results would be obtained by a furtherance of the policies of the
Southern Conference and from that time she became a valued worker in
its ranks.

The conference felt that in a great measure its chief purpose had been
achieved when the Democratic party, in its national platform of 1916,
went on record for woman suffrage by State enactment. It kept up an
active organization throughout the South, however, until May, 1917,
when the war situation demanded caution in continuing a movement which
was costing over $600 a month. An additional reason for discontinuance
was that Miss Gordon, who had been donating all of her time to the
work, was obliged to give attention to her own business affairs.

[Prepared by Miss Kate Gordon.]

INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL MEN'S LEAGUES FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

The National Men's League for Woman Suffrage in the United States was
the outgrowth of the State League in New York, formed in 1910, an
account of which is in the New York chapter. National Leagues were
afterwards formed in other countries. In Great Britain the Earl of
Lytton was president and among the vice-presidents were Earl Russell,
the Lord Bishop of Lincoln, Sir John Cockburn, K.C., M.G., Forbes
Robertson, Israel Zangwill and others of prominence in various fields.
At the time of the congress of the International Woman Suffrage
Alliance in Stockholm in the summer of 1911 delegates from these
national leagues held a convention there and formed an International
Men's League. The United States League was represented by Frederick
Nathan of New York. A second international convention of National
Men's Leagues took place in London in 1912, the sessions continuing
one week. The third convention occurred in Budapest in June, 1913,
when the International Woman Suffrage Alliance held its congress and
the delegates were warmly welcomed by the Men's League of Hungary. In
1914 came the World War. At the next congress of the Alliance, in
Geneva in 1920, the International Men's League was represented by a
fraternal delegate, Colonel William Mansfeldt, president of the
National League of