m and the Adjutant General for this very successful
piece of work. It cooperated in the organization of a Woman's Division
of the State Council of National Defense and its president, Mrs.
Feickert, was vice-chairman of the Council. The association purchased
and operated a Soldiers' Club House and canteen in the town of
Wrightstown, near which Camp Dix was located. It was opened in
November, 1917, and was kept open until June, 1919, by volunteer
workers. Over $30,000 were raised for it, one-fifth of this amount
being contributed by Mrs. White. More than 250,000 men were
entertained there. Officers and members of the association responded
to all demands of the war.

The annual convention was held in the Capitol at Trenton in November.
Reports showed that only thirty of the hundreds of local branches had
dropped suffrage work because of their war activities, and the spirit
was one of determination that the battle for real democracy in the
United States should be kept up just as actively as the war against
autocracy abroad. Mrs. Wells P. Eagleton was elected a vice-president,
Mrs. E. G. Blaisdell a secretary and Mrs. F. W. Veghte an auditor. The
State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs was accepted as an
affiliated organization and its president, the Rev. Florence Randolph,
was made a member of the State Board. The convention voted to make
its special work for the year the collecting of a monster petition of
women, to be so worded that it could be used in Congressional work for
the Federal Amendment and with the Legislature for ratification.

In the summer of 1918 U. S. Senator William Hughes, who was pledged to
vote for the Federal Amendment, died and the candidate for the office
was David Baird, a strong anti-suffragist. As only one more vote in
the Senate was needed to pass the amendment the National Association
asked the New Jersey association to do its best to defeat him. An
active campaign was carried on for two months but he was too powerful
a party leader, though he ran 9,000 votes behind the rest of the
ticket. He voted against the amendment every time it came before the
Senate.

Because of the Baird campaign and the general unsettled feeling around
the time of the signing of the armistice the annual convention was
postponed to May, 1919, when it was held in Atlantic City. The
ratification petitions collected the preceding year had over 80,000
names of women not previously enrolled as suffragists. Mrs. H. N.
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