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COLORADO 6 1 and Mrs. Harriet G. R. Wright, former members of the Legis- lature; Dr. Mary Barker-Bates, Dr. Minnie C. T. Love, Mrs. William N. Byers, Mrs. James B. Bel ford and Mrs. Celia Bald- win Whitehead. 1 The State Association has been non-partisan but its members personally have been connected with the various parties. This does not mean that they always have voted a straight party ticket ; they have not, neither have men, and scratched tickets are common. Women do not necessarily "vote just as their hus- bands do" but many a pair go amicably to the polls and with perfect good feeling nullify each other's vote. It is a noteworthy fact that during all the years no bill which the State association actively opposed has been passed by the General Assembly and every bill which it actively supported has been enacted into law. It has thus conclusively been proved that, while women must band themselves together for bettering the condition of their sex and for the general good of the State, yet having planned to- gether they must work out their problems through their political parties. The association has consistently opposed the so-called National Woman's Party with its "militant" methods, giving wide publicity to resolutions adopted Oct. 2, 1917, which said: "We denounce the methods and actions of the women 'picketing' the White House as unpatriotic and not in accord with the principles of this association; we declare they have impugned the good faith of the United States in the eyes of Russia and other foreign nations . . . and we request the Attorney General of the United States to institute an investigation of the association supporting (In- 'pickets' and the sources of its money supply. ..." Though actively engaged with serious problems of State government, of city administration and of home economics, the intioii has never overlooked the fact that social activities iosc who worked in the first decade of this century were: Helen L. Grenfell. Mary C. C. Bradford, Ellis Meredith. Hattir E. Westover, Mrs. John F. Shafroth, Minnie I. Reynolds, Gail Laughlin, Drs. Elizabeth Cassady, Jean Gale, Mary Long, Mary E. Bates. ROM- Ki-ld Beere and Sarah Townsend; Lillian C. Kerns, Martha A. Pease, Alice if.ll. Mrs. A. C. Sisk. Mrs. A. L. Cooper, Bessie Lee Pogue, Helen Wixson, Anna tt. Carrie Marshall, Nora B. Wright, Laura Holtzschneider, Hattie Howard, Rosetta Sarah Purchase, Helen Bedford. Inez Johnson Lewis, Eva Rinkle, Evangcline ..sa M. Tyler. Mary Nichols. Hrl-n Miller, Louise Blanchard, Margaret Keat- ing, Lillian Hartman Johnson.