. Ackerman,
Emerson P. Harris, Richard Stevens, the Hon. James C. Connally and
Mayor Victor Mavalag of Elizabeth. They passed resolutions
"reaffirming their sympathy with the great world movement for woman
suffrage"; "heartily approved" of the Federal Amendment; pledged their
"untiring support" of the State referendum; spoke at legislative
hearings; raised money; addressed meetings; appointed a State
committee of 63 members which met monthly; appointed a committee with
George M. Strobell, chairman, that marched in the parade in Newark,
Oct. 25, 1913; held a mass meeting in Elizabeth at which Mayor George
L. LaMonte and Mrs. Forbes-Robertson Hale spoke, and helped in many
ways.

[120] The History is indebted for this chapter to Mrs. Lillian F.
Feickert, president of the State Woman Suffrage Association 1912-1920.

CHAPTER XXX.

NEW MEXICO.[121]

As the railroads were few and automobiles almost unknown in New Mexico
in the first decade of the present century, and as the distances were
great and cities and towns widely separated, there was no attempt to
organize for woman suffrage. In 1910 the Women's Clubs were called in
convention at Las Cruces through the efforts of Mrs. George W.
Frenger, secretary of the General Federation, and Mrs. Philip North
Moore, then its president, was in attendance. A State Federation was
formed with Mrs. S. P. Johnson of Palomas Springs, president; Mrs. Sam
J. Nixon of Portales secretary, and several department chairmen were
named, Mrs. W. E. Lindsey being chosen for the Legislative Department.

This department through its bold stand for woman suffrage and better
laws for women and children easily became the foremost factor in the
federation. At each yearly convention one evening was given to the
discussion of the benefits which women would receive from the
suffrage. Almost before it was realized suffrage had become popular
with both men and women. The delegates carried the messages from the
State conventions to their own clubs; suffrage discussions became the
regular program for one meeting each year in almost every club and
generally made converts of those taking the opposition. Women began
searching the statutes and questioning their attorneys and husbands in
regard to laws. Their interest became such that no Legislature during
the federation's existence has proposed any law derogatory to the
rights of women and children, but when attention has been called to
unfair laws, so