CHAPTER LVI.

NEW YORK 839-873

Battle-ground for Woman Suffrage -- Conventions for fifty years

-- Great campaign in 1894 to secure amendment from Constitutional

Convention -- Governors Hill and Flower recommend women delegates

-- Parties refuse to nominate them -- Miss Anthony speaks in all

the sixty counties -- Vast amount of work by other women -- In

New York and Albany women organize in opposition -- 600,000

petition for suffrage, 15,000 against -- Convention refuses to

submit Amendment to voters -- Long-continued efforts in

Legislature -- Liberal laws for women -- School and Taxpayers'

Suffrage -- Many women in office -- Superior educational

advantages -- Political and other clubs.

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