founded on March 4, 1912 at a meeting at the New
Brunswick Public Library. Emma McCoy (1884–1945)
of New Brunswick was elected temporary chairman
turned down by the state legislature in the spring 1912
organizing rallies, and distributing literature. Emma
issue of a New Brunswick newspaper,
News
editor of the Home News
standard of morals for men, and another for women? It
has been said that women will never get the ballot because
it would injure them morally and socially. Is it immoral
herself carried the club’s handsome yellow banner, which
sister Lillie, fellow teacher Chrissie Bartle (1865–1947) of
New Brunswick, and Lucy Wilson (b. 1885), a farm owner
Constitution, New Brunswick Political
Study Club
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