ontinuous service to the completion of
suffrage work in 1920; Champlain Lord Riley, William L. Saunders,
Everett Colby, Mrs. Mina C. Van Winkle, Mrs. Reynolds, Mrs R. T.
Newton, Miss Belle Tiffany, Mrs. Colvin, Mrs. James Billington and
Mrs. Feickert.

In June, 1913, the Women's Political Union held its first State
conference, at which the following officers were elected: President,
Mrs. Van Winkle; vice-presidents, Miss Julia S. Hurlbut, Mrs. E. T.
Lukens, Mrs. H. R. Reed, Mrs. W. H. Gardner, Miss Edna C. Wyckoff,
Mrs. R. T. Newton, Miss Louise Antrim, Mrs. Carl Vail, Miss Louise
Connolly; recording secretary, Miss Sara Crowell; executive secretary,
Mrs. Reynolds; financial secretary, Mrs. Amelia Moorfield; treasurer,
Mrs. Stewart Hartshorne. This was the only state-wide conference held
until after the referendum election in 1915 and these officers
continued to serve. The Equal Franchise Society's president, Mrs.
Vickers, served from 1911 until it disbanded in 1915. Other active
members were Mrs. H. Otto Wittpen and Mrs. Mary B. Kinsley.

On March 25, 1913, the State association held a jubilee mass meeting
in Newark to celebrate submission of a State suffrage amendment by the
Legislature. This spring it held a large and successful school for
suffrage workers in Newark and the expenses of two volunteer
organizers were paid for several months, Mrs. U. L. Decker and Miss
Dille Hastings. In August its representatives took part in the
demonstration at Washington, arranged by the National Congressional
Committee, when petitions were presented to the Senate asking for the
immediate submission of the Federal Amendment, Mrs. Champlain Lord
Riley, Mrs. Colvin, Miss Helen Lippincott, Miss Edith Abbott and Mrs.
Feickert. The New Jersey petitions of several thousand names were
unwillingly presented by Senator James E. Martine, who made a speech
against woman suffrage at the same time.

At the annual convention held in Newark in November reports showed
that the membership had more than doubled during the year, there being
now 44 local branches with over 6,000 members. Three changes took
place in the board, Miss Lippincott, elected second vice-president;
Mrs. Edward Olmsted, treasurer and Mrs. Arthur Hunter, auditor. Just
after this convention a delegation of 58 from the association and 17
from the Political Union went to Washington at the request of the
National Congressional Committee to interview President Wilson in
behalf of