extended an official welcome. Among the speakers was Professor Frances
Squire Potter, national corresponding secretary. Mrs. William M. Ivins
gave her impression of the suffrage movement in England and Miss
Carolyn Crossett spoke on the meeting of the International Woman
Suffrage Alliance in London, which she attended with Dr. Shaw. Not
since the constitutional convention in 1894 had so much work been
reported. The State president or vice-president had attended meetings
in 41 counties. All-day meetings were held in all the cities on the
Hudson River with excellent speakers, including Dr. Shaw. The
president, vice-president and corresponding secretary, Miss Alice
Williams, remained at Albany for three months, speaking and working in
the towns in the eastern part of the State. Three large
Self-Supporting Women's Suffrage Leagues joined the association.

In 1910 both the State association and the Woman Suffrage Party wrote
Chairman Timothy Woodruff of the Republican and Chairman John A. Dix
of the Democratic State Committees requesting a hearing at the
conventions. They were politely referred to the Resolutions
Committees. They went to the Republican convention at Saratoga
Springs, carrying their literature and the printed resolution which
they wished the committee to put in the platform: "We believe that the
question of woman suffrage has reached such a degree of importance
that the Legislature should submit an amendment for it to the voters
of the State." The committee allowed ten minutes; Mrs. Crossett
presided and presented Mrs. Mary Wood, national organizer of the
Republican women; Miss Mary Garrett Hay, a leader of the New York
Woman Suffrage Party and other able speakers but no attention was paid
to their request. This program was repeated at the Democratic
convention in Rochester with the same result, and this had been the
experience for years. At this time candidates all over the State were
being interviewed and women went to many county and city political
conventions asking for endorsement of equal suffrage, seldom with
success, although the politicians admitted that the time for acting
was not far off.

The convention met at Niagara Falls in October, 1910, in the
auditorium of the Shredded Wheat Biscuit Company, and was welcomed by
Mayor Peter Porter. Mrs. Crossett responded and gave her annual
address, which, she said, would be her last as president. Her home was
in Warsaw in the western part of the State an