Orange, Dr. Emma O. Gantz
and Miss Martha Klatschken, started the Progressive Woman Suffrage
Society and held the first open air meetings in the State. The first
one took place on a Saturday night at the corner of Main and Day
streets in Orange, the speakers Mrs. J. Borrman Wells of England, Miss
Klatschken and Miss Helen Murphy of New York. The next was in Newark.
The crowds were always respectful, listened and asked questions. Much
literature was given out. A Political Equality League of Self
Supporting Women, a branch of the one in New York organized by Mrs.
Stanton Blatch, was formed by Mrs. Mina Van Winkle, later called
Women's Political Union.

At the January board meeting in 1910 Mrs. Ulilla L. Decker was made
chairman of organization and Mrs. Minnie J. Reynolds of the press
committee. Mrs. Laddey reported having received an invitation to bring
greetings to a meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Stevens at
Castle Point, Hoboken, to form a New Jersey branch of the Equal
Franchise League which Mrs. Clarence Mackay had organized in New York.
At an adjourned meeting on February 3 Mrs. Decker reported having
consulted Mrs. Catt, Dr. Shaw, Miss Mary Garrett Hay and others in New
York and also in New Jersey about the proposed new league. Mrs. Laddey
urged harmony among all workers and she, Dr. Hussey, Miss Emma L.
Richards and others attended the meeting at Castle Point. The Equal
Franchise Society of New Jersey was formed there with Mrs. Thomas S.
Henry of Jersey City president; Mrs. Caroline B. Alexander, Hoboken,
Mrs. Everett Colby, West Orange, Mrs. George Harvey, Deal, and Miss
Alice Lakey, Cranford, vice-presidents; Mrs. Harry Campton, Newark,
corresponding secretary; Miss Richards, Newark, recording secretary;
Mrs. Charles Campbell, Hoboken, treasurer.

The delegation of the State association to the national convention in
Washington in April rode in the procession to the Capitol and
presented a petition to Congress for a Federal Amendment containing
over 9,000 signatures from New Jersey. At the great parade held in New
York on the last Saturday in May it was represented by its president
and seven members. Its first experience with street speaking was in
Military Park in June with Mrs. Priscilla D. Hackstaff of Brooklyn as
the speaker and a respectful audience. Open air meetings were also
held in Asbury Park at which Mrs. Laddey and Mrs. Emma Fisk spoke.
Miss Richards took charge of a booth at the Olympic