NEW jEfeSEY 429 at Asbury Park in August opened the campaign and local meet- ings were held in every county. A Governor and a majority in both Houses were elected who w r ere pledged to ratification. A Men's Council for Ratification was organized in December with Everett Colby as chairman, Governor Edward I. Edwards and U. S. Senators Joseph S. Frelinghuysen and Walter E. Edge as honorary chairmen and 54 of the most prominent Democrats and Republicans in the State as vice-chairmen. This was not an active organization but the fact that the leaders of their parties allowed their names to be used had considerable influence upon many legislators. In January, 1920, campaign headquarters were opened in Trenton near the State House in charge of Miss Julia Wernig, field organizer of the association, where a great deal of literature was given out and other work done. On January 27 in Crescent Temple, Trenton, the Ratification Committee staged the most spectacular suffrage mass meeting over held in New Jersey. Its special purpose was to present to the Governor, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House the huge suffrage petition containing almost 140,000 names of women, arranged by counties and towns. The hall was beautifully decorated with American flags and suffrage banners and a fine band played at intervals. The speakers were Governor Edwards, President of the Senate Clarence E. Case, Speaker of the Assembly W. Irving Glover and Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National Suffrage Association. The twenty-one county chairmen and representatives of the women's organiza- tions composing the committee were seated on the platform and at the proper time each came forward with her petitions and was presented to the Governor and the legislative officials by Mrs. Feickert, who presided. About 1,200 women and most of the
- Mature were present and there was much enthusiasm.
RATIFICATION. The Federal Suffrage Amendment was sub- mitted by Congress June 4, 1919. The resolution for ratifica- tion was the first measure introduced when the Legislature con- vened in 1920, by Senator William B. MacKay, Jr., of Bergen county and Assemblyman Henry G. Hershfield of Passaic county. A public hearing W8I lu'M February 2 with Mrs. Feick- ert chairman. The principal suffrage speakers were U. S. Sena-
