The Netherlands.

The New York Men's League soon received requests for information from
far and wide and it was evident that such a league was needed in every
State. Correspondence followed and in 1911 Omar E. Garwood, Assistant
District Attorney of Colorado, came to New York. An association of
influential men had been formed in that State two years before to
refute the misrepresentations of the effects of woman suffrage and he
was interested in the New York Men's League. While here he assisted in
organizing a National League and consented to act as secretary. James
Lees Laidlaw, a banker and public-spirited man of New York City, who
was at the head of the State Men's League, was the unanimous choice
for president and continued in this office until the Federal Woman
Suffrage Amendment was ratified in 1920. In a comparatively short time
Men's Leagues were formed in California, Colorado, Connecticut,
Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas and
Virginia.

As the years went by leagues were formed in other States and were more
or less active in furthering the cause of woman suffrage according to
their leaders. Their officers assisted the campaigns in various
States, spoke at hearings by committees of Congress and sent
delegations to the conventions of the National American Suffrage
Association. Here an evening was always set apart for their meetings,
at which Mr. Laidlaw presided, and addresses were made by men well
known nationally and locally. A delegation from the National League
marched in the big suffrage parade in Washington March 3, 1913. In
every State the members were of so much prominence as to give much
prestige to the movement. For instance in Pennsylvania Judge Dimner
Beeber was president and the Right Reverend James H. Darlington a
leading member. In Massachusetts Edwin D. Mead was president; former
Secretary of the Navy John D. Long vice-president; John Graham Brooks
treasurer; Francis H. Garrison chairman of the executive committee. A
similar roster could be given in other States. In New York the most
eminent men in many lines were connected with the league. The leagues
remained in existence until their services were no longer needed.

THE NATIONAL WOMAN'S PARTY.

The National Woman's Party was organized in the spring of 1913 under
the name of