oman suffrage but pledging itself to select men
for offices who were committed to a belief in it. The political
district plan was adopted for future work, in accordance with the
recommendation of the National Association. The headquarters were
opened at 208 Hale Building, Philadelphia, October 7. Street meetings
were inaugurated in that city the next summer and the speakers were
received with amazing cordiality. Mrs. Price was re-elected president
at the convention which opened in the Mayor's reception room, City
Hall, Philadelphia, Nov. 23, 1911, Mayor John E. Reyburn granting this
courtesy.

Owing to the necessity of giving the work state-wide scope the
convention held in Philadelphia Nov. 26, 27, 1912, recommended moving
the State headquarters to Harrisburg and this change was effected in
December. In March a Men's League for Woman Suffrage had been
organized with Judge Dimner Beeber of Philadelphia as president and
more than 100 prominent members enrolled. Fourteen new organizations
were formed during the year but the larger part of the State was still
unorganized. The national suffrage convention preceded the State
convention and gave an impetus to the movement. An evening mass
meeting in the Metropolitan Opera House made the record of the largest
and most enthusiastic suffrage meeting ever held in this city. [See
Chapter XII, Volume V.] The association now had 7,211 members. Mrs.
Frank M. Roessing of Pittsburgh was elected president and this young,
practical woman was principally responsible for changing the character
of the work from purely propagandistic lines to recognized business
standards.

The annual convention met in Pittsburgh, Oct. 28-30, 1913, the
president's term of office was lengthened to two years and Mrs.
Roessing was reelected. The State Grange and the Federation of Labor
reaffirmed their suffrage resolutions and the International
Brotherhood of Firemen went on record in favor. A proposition to
submit the question of woman suffrage to the voters had been favorably
passed on by the Legislature and waited action by a second.

Great strides were made in 1914. A press department conducted along
professional lines supplied all the papers of the State with live
suffrage news and there were suffrage editions of several papers. Miss
Hannah J. Patterson of Pittsburgh had charge of organizing the Woman
Suffrage Party along political lines out of the State association, and
to Mrs. Roessing and her belong