nd a
number of counties gave from 46 to 49 per cent. in favor.

Two weeks after their defeat several hundred New Jersey suffragists
went to New York and Philadelphia to march in the suffrage parades,
taking the biggest and best band in the State and carrying at the head
of their division a runner twenty feet long reading: New
Jersey--Delayed but not Defeated.

The State convention of 1915 was postponed until January, 1916, when
it was held in Elizabeth. There were then 215 local branches with a
membership of over 50,000. No discouragement was visible but a program
of educational work and intensive organization was adopted, money was
pledged for the salaries of three field organizers and it was decided
to have a bill for Presidential suffrage introduced in the
Legislature. Mrs. Ward D. Kerlin, second vice-president, was the only
new officer elected. A new constitution was adopted putting the
association on a non-dues-paying basis, providing for an annual budget
and re-organization of the State by congressional districts.

In June New Jersey was represented at the National Republican
convention in Chicago by Mrs. Feickert, Miss Esther G. Ogden, Mrs. E.
G. Blaisdell, Miss A. E. Cameron and Mrs. Joseph Marvel. All of the
New Jersey delegates were interviewed and twelve of the twenty-eight
promised to support a suffrage plank in the platform.

In July the Women's Political Union disbanded and its local branches
joined the State association. The national suffrage convention held
at Atlantic City in September gave a great impetus to the State work.
The annual convention met in Jersey City in November, where it was
decided to conduct a strenuous campaign during 1917 for Presidential
suffrage and for the Federal Amendment and to employ four field
organizers. The new officers elected were Mrs. John J. White, Miss
Lulu H. Marvel, Mrs. J. Thompson Baker, vice-presidents; Miss Anita
Still, auditor. The Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell and Dr. Mary D.
Hussey were added to the list of honorary presidents.

A bill for Presidential suffrage was introduced in the Legislature in
February, 1917, and everything was going finely when war was declared.
The suffrage association was the first women's organization in the
State to offer its services to the Governor and was publicly thanked
by him for its patriotic stand. At his request it conducted a canvass
of women nurses, doctors and clerical workers and received letters of
thanks from hi