bye-elections confirms the Union in their view that by far the
most effective work can be done by acting strictly on non-party
lines and supporting that candidate whose record and declarations
on the subject of suffrage are the most satisfactory....

At the beginning of last November Mrs. Garrett Anderson, M.D.,
was elected Mayor of Aldeburgh; Miss Dove, M.A., the head
mistress of Wycombe Abbey School, came within two votes of being
chosen Mayor of the borough of High Wycombe. Several women at the
same time were elected as borough councillors, among whom we may
mention our colleague, Miss Margaret Ashton, the president of the
Manchester and North of England Society for Women's Suffrage. A
large Conservative and Unionist Association for women's suffrage
has been formed. Its president is Lady Knightley of Fawsley and
among its vice-presidents are the Duchess of Sutherland, the
Countess of Meath, Viscountess Middleton, Lady Robert Cecil, Miss
Alice Balfour, etc.

In December a weighty and closely reasoned statement of the case
for women's suffrage was presented to the Prime Minister by the
Registered Medical Women of the United Kingdom. The committee
were able to inform Mr. Asquith that out of 553 all but 15
support the extension of the Parliamentary franchise to women.
The case for women's suffrage was argued before the Judicial
Committee of the House of Lords in November last with great
ability by Miss Chrystal Macmillan, M.A., B.Sc. The case was
raised on the plea of women graduates of the Scottish
Universities that they were entitled to vote in the election for
the members of Parliament representing the universities. The word
used in the Scottish University Act was "persons"--all "persons"
having passed such and such degrees and fulfilled such and such
conditions were entitled to vote in such elections. The case had
been heard before two Scottish Courts and adverse decisions had
been given. The House of Lords was appealed to as the highest
Court and it confirmed the decisions of the lower courts that the
word "persons" does not include women when it refers to
privileges granted by the State.

Mrs. Fawcett spoke of the work of the Union year after year for the
suffrage bill in Parliament; of the enrollment during the present year
of over 300 men emi