f Labor for its stand on woman suffrage and
expressing sympathy with the imprisoned "suffragettes" in England were
passed.

In 1907 little suffrage work was done by the association owing to the
absence of the president from the State. The leagues worked along many
lines, for police matrons; for "school cities"; studied the lives of
the pioneers and the constitution and laws of the State and held
public meetings with good speakers. The annual convention met in the
public library in Newark and it was voted to petition Congress for a
Federal Suffrage Amendment. Dr. DeHart was elected president and the
other new officers were Mrs. Ella A. Kilborn and Miss Mary D.
Campbell, secretaries. Miss Mary Willits and Mrs. Mary B. Kinsley were
the only other officers who had been added in the past seven years.

In 1908 at the State convention in Bayonne Mrs. Clara S. Laddey of
Arlington was elected president and Miss Emma L. Richards of Newark
recording secretary. Dr. Hussey was made chairman of the Committee on
Literature and Petitions and the Rev. Mrs. Blackwell was appointed to
write to President Roosevelt in behalf of the Federal Suffrage
Amendment, as requested by the National Association. Public lectures
by Dr. Shaw, Miss Janet Richards of Washington and others were
arranged for Newark. Dr. Emily Blackwell, of the New York Infirmary
for Women, was made honorary president.

Mrs. Laddey visited all the leagues and spoke before many societies,
including the large German Club at Hoboken. With Dr. Hussey she
attended the State convention of the Federation of Labor and obtained
its endorsement of the Federal Suffrage Amendment. She put new life
into the association and was re-elected at the State convention in
1909 at Newark. Over fifty delegates were present and it was reported
that 5,000 names were on the petition to Congress which the
Socialists, Granges, W. C. T. U.'s and Trade Unions had helped secure,
and they had given an opportunity for much educational work.
Committees on legislation and organization were formed. Mrs. Sexton
was elected honorary president; Mrs. Elizabeth T. Bartlett of
Arlington was made historian and Mrs. Mary L. Colvin of East Orange,
corresponding secretary. Resolutions were adopted in memory of Henry
B. Blackwell and William Lloyd Garrison. Professor Francis Squire
Potter, corresponding secretary of the National Association, delivered
a very able address.

In the fall of 1909 two young women in East