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1 ORGANIZATION AND MEMBERSHIP. :
i In the past year the Association turned its attention to organiza- 5
’ tion and membership. We are in the “pink tea” stage of suffrage as .
g’ compared to the work our predecessors had to do, but in organization 1‘
‘ we are as yet very new. At the animal meeting of 1912 we numbered 1
, 11 local leagues with 1,779 members. At the annual meeting of 1913 i
l we were able to report that we had fully organized leagues in 20 i
" counties, chairmen in 21 and membership in 24 others; a total of 65 i
’ counties entered out of the 120 counties of the State. The total of the i
l membership report the day before our meeting closed was 4,452. Sev- '1
eral hundred have been reported since. We confidently expect to have i

5,000 by the first of January. 1}

PUBLICITY WORK. i

Our most important publicity work has been getting out and pay- 3.

ing for a plate page on suffrage. Supplied to one hundred newspapers 1

through the State, there is little doubt that in almost every case this E

material will be used, because it is in such convenient form. Addi- i

tional news items have been sent out in plate form without expense to j

. us. The city papers have been pretty well supplied with suffrage j’
matter, some of them printing weekly columns devoted to suffrage. I

SUFFRAGE PARADE. 1

At the Perry Centennial Celebration in Louisville in the fall our 1

suffrage organization availed itself of the privilege sought and given ,5

/ to have a suffrage section. The parade was not large in numbers, but i
' it was beautiful and very effective. I believe it was the first sufirage i
parade south of the Mason and Dixon Line. {

FAIR TENTS. 1

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We maintained tents at the State Fair in Louisville, the Bluegrass 1

‘ Fair in Lexington and the Germantown Fair in Mason County and a i
rest room at the McCracken County Fair. Literature was distributed "

, at several other fairs and Chautauqua meetings. Nearly a thousand ;
new members were gotten at our tent during the week of the State i

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‘ OTHER ORGANIZATIONS REACHED. ‘
An address on suffrage was made at the annual meeting of the i

‘ Kentucky Federation of Women’s Clubs. The Federation thereafter 1
gave its endorsement to woman suffrage. Speakers on suffrage were

afterward offered to the local clubs of the Federation, and a number ,

_. have availed themselves of this privilege. Addresses on suffrage were i
“ made at the meeting of the State Press Association and of the State ‘
‘. Farmers’ Institute, both important bodies of men to be reached, and i
i at the meeting of County Superintendents of Education and School .
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