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FSI A LV LEE TR A I a A
18 MINUTES OF THE SUFFRAGE CONVENTION.
I would further recommend that we make some provision
for representation at national conventions, by authorizing
our President to make such arrangements as she thinks best,
and circumstances seem to call for. We. do not make enough
of these occasions, and often a convention of our own held
in the same city would do good work. This suggestion might
‘be carried farther and apply to various State conventions,
and some plan adopted by State associations to gain a hear-
ing for our cause before crowds of people drawn together for
other purposes. ;
It is becoming very popular for State and county fairs to
have speakers present our cause, and I think that a State can
do no better work than to make every effort to induce man-
agers of fairs to invite a woman to speak to them at such
times. Very often the State may, with good effect, offer to
pay for the speaker the first year, if the management will
consent to give a place on the program. But this need not
be done more than one year; forin the cases of which I have
known, after they once have a woman speaker, it is found to
be such an attraction to the fair that the management will
willingly pay the speaker the next year. The same is true of
all Summer Camps and Chautauquas. At the risk of seeming
importunate, may I not urge this matter for the consideration
of our auxiliaries, and further say that now is not a day too
early to agitate the question for next summer and to write to
the managers of these societies ?
In the fall the resignation of our former Treasurer was re-
ceived, and, as we were informed that there would be no re-
consideration, it was presented to the board of general offi-
cers and accepted. The following resolution was sent to
Mrs. Spofford by our officers:
“<< Resolved, That we appreciate the long and valuable servy-
ices rendered by Jane H. Spofford as Treasurer of our Associa-
tion, and regret the necessity which compels her to resign
the position.”’
Harriet Taylor Upton was elected to fiJl the unexpired
term of Treasurer, and May Wright Sewall was elected to fill
the unexpired term of Auditor made vacant by Mrs. Upton’s
acceptance of the Treasurership. -
If I may be permitted a word upon the general work of the
Association for the year, I regard it as one of the most active
years of service we have seen.
The field work of the President and Vice-President-at-Large,
the grand series of conventions held in Kansas, the signs of
awakened interest in the South, and the openings which give