copy to each member of the General Assembly, in order to advise
that body that there were women ready to watch their official
careers and to demand from them the consideration of just claims:

INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 22, 1880.

DEAR SIR: The Equal Suffrage Society of Indianapolis, in
behalf of citizens of Indiana who believe that liberty to
exercise the right of suffrage should neither be granted nor
denied on the ground of sex, would respectfully notify you
that during the next session of the State legislature it
will invite the attention of that body to the consideration
of what is popularly called "The Suffrage Question." The
society will petition the legislature to devote a day to
hearing, from representative advocates of woman suffrage,
appeals and arguments for such legislation as may be
necessary to abolish the present unjust restriction of the
elective franchise to one sex, and to secure to women the
free exercise of the ballot, under the same conditions and
such only, as are imposed upon men. To this matter we ask
your unprejudiced attention, that when our cause shall be
brought before the legislature its advocates may have your
cooeperation.

Very respectfully yours, ZERELDA G. WALLACE, _President_.

MAY WRIGHT SEWALL, _Secretary_,

By order of the Equal Suffrage Society of Indianapolis.

The society has lately taken a new departure, giving lunches,
parties and literary entertainments, to which invitations[331]
are issued, by the officers, thus becoming a factor in the social
life of the city. The invitation, programme, and press comments
of its last entertainment indicate the character of these
reuenions, and the esteem in which they are held. These occasions
have been the means of securing for the society greater popular
favor than it has hitherto enjoyed. At the conclusion of the
formal toasts, the president called upon Gov. Albert G. Porter,
who had come in a few minutes before. He thanked the meeting for
its reference to what he had done for the cause of equal
suffrage, and announced that while he remained governor of
Indiana he would do all he could for the rights of women.[332] He
referred