were alive, or if Senator Ferry were in this room, they would remember that I followed in their train in Michigan, with larger audiences than either of those Senators throughout the whole canvass.  I want to say, too, that although those Senators may have believed in woman suffrage, they did not say much about it.  They did not help us much.  The Greenback movement was quite popular in Michigan at that time.  The Republicans and Greenbackers made a most humble bow to the grangers, but woman suffrage did not get much help.  In Colorado, at the close of the canvass, 6,666 men voted “Yes.”  Now I am going to describe the men who voted “Yes.”  They were native-born white men, temperance men, cultivated, broad, generous, just men, men who think.  On the other hand, 16,007 voted “No.”

Now I am going to describe that class of voters.  In the southern part of that State there are Mexicans, who speak the Spanish language.  They put their wheat in circles on the ground with the heads out, and drive a mule around to thrash it.  The vast population of Colorado is made up of that class of people.  I was sent out to speak in a voting precinct having 200 voters; 150 of those voters were Mexican greasers, 40 of them foreign-born citizens, and just 10 of them were born in this country; and I was supposed to be competent to convert those men to let me have as much right in this Government as they had, when, unfortunately, the great majority of them could not understand a word that I said.  Fifty or sixty Mexican greasers stood against the wall with their hats down over their faces.  The Germans put seats in a lager-beer saloon, and would not attend unless I made a speech there; so I had a small audience.

MRS. ARCHIBALD.  There is one circumstance that I should like to relate.  In the county of Las Animas, a county where there is a large population of Mexicans, and where they always have a large majority over the native population, they do not know our language at all.  Consequently a number of tickets must be printed for those people in Spanish.  The gentleman in our little town of Trinidad who had the charge of the printing of those tickets, being adverse to us, had every ticket printed against woman suffrage.  The samples that were sent to us from Denver were “for” or “against,” but the tickets that were printed only had the word “against” on them, so that our friends had to scratch their tickets, and all those Mexican people who could not understand this trick and did not know the facts of the case, voted against woman suffrage; so that we lost a great many votes.  This was man’s generosity.

MISS ANTHONY.  Special legislation for the benefit of woman!  I will admit you that on the floor of the constitutional convention was a representative Mexican, intelligent, cultivated, chairman of the committee on suffrage, who signed the petition, and was the first to speak in favor of woman suffrage.  Then they have in Denver about