Chapter 50

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.