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64 MINUTES OF THE SUFFRAGE CONVENTION.
superintendent, and in that way reach_ the weeklies. Of
course, if the work should all be sent in it would take some
time to look it over, but it all could not go in one issue of
the paper, and the work sent in would probably cover two or
three months’ work inadvance. I think the idea a good one.
Miss Cray, Ky.:
We have a State superintendent in Kentucky. Mrs. Henry
has kept the column in the State Prohibition organ, and she
speaks of suffrage whenever possible. The Lexington asso-
ciation keeps up a column in the Democratic paper, and
another is kept up in a Republican paper. I may say that
the need of Kentucky is, some one to put something in the
papers. The fact is, I am sorry to say, that we have had
again and again invitations to keep a column in the papers,
but we had no one to do it.
The PRESIDENT:
The papers are a good deal more willing to receive items
than the women are to write them.
Mrs. BattEy, Maine:
Until our last annual convention met two wecks ago we
had no press committee. There was one appointed then,
and Ihave no doubt that Maine will be heard from in the
future. A good deal was done last year in this direction, but
we had no special committee.
Mrs. THomas, Md.:
If there is a paper in the State of Maryland which will give
every day or every week any regular portion of its columns to
woman suffrage, I do not know it. Some time ago we tried to
secure acolumn in our local paper, which was begging us to send
articles tothem. I intended to administer a great many doses
in that column ; but, while the editor was very anxious to have
such articles as, ‘*Mrs. John Smith has gone to New York,”’
he wasn’t willing to give space for suffrage items; and I°
didn’t know that I could do anything at present, but I will
keep the matter open, and for the suggestion of sending short
newsy items, I am much obliged.
Mrs. Drerrick, Mass.:-
I will say that Massachusetts indorses Mrs. Johns’ idea that
there should be a superintendent for every State, because it
seems Otherwise the work is without a head. The superin-
tendent may be in one sense a State editor, and where there
is no work she may assist the editors of the suffrage papers.