Mr. Train accepted and Miss Anthony at once began laying out a route for him and telegraphed:  “Begin at Leavenworth Monday, October 21.  Yes, with your help we shall triumph.  All shall be ready for you.”  If she had had any political experience, she would have made his appointments along the railroad, whose employes were largely Irish, with whom he was very popular on account of his Fenian affiliations; but in her ignorance, she arranged for most of the meetings in small towns off the railroads, where the inhabitants were chiefly Republicans.

Mark W. Reynolds, editor of the Democratic paper at Lawrence, agreed to accompany him; but when the time arrived, although Mr. Reynolds had joined in the telegram of invitation, he took to the woods, going on a buffalo hunt without any excuse or explanation.  Mr. Train made his first speech at Leavenworth, Mayor John A. Halderman presiding, Colonel D. R. Anthony, Rev. William Starrett and other Republicans on the platform.  Laing’s Hall was packed with Irishmen and when he first mentioned woman suffrage all of them hissed, but after he pointed out the absurdity of letting the negroes vote and shutting out their own mothers and wives, the tide turned and they cheered for the women.  The next meeting was at Lawrence, and here Mr. Train objected decidedly to the route marked out, saying it was too rough a trip for any man, and as Mr. Reynolds had deserted him he was for giving up the tour.  Not so Miss Anthony; she said:  “Your offer and his were accepted in good faith.  The engagements have been made and hand-bills sent to every post-office within fifty miles of the towns where meetings are to be held.  The next announcement is for Olathe tomorrow night.  I shall take Mr. Reynolds’ place.  At one o’clock I shall send a carriage to your hotel.  You can do as you please about going.  If you decline I shall go there and to all the other meetings alone.”  He replied:  “Miss Anthony, you know how to make a man feel ashamed.”

The next day when the carriage came to the Starretts, for Miss Anthony, Mr. Train was in it and, with her heart in her throat, she took her seat beside him.  The situation was entirely unforeseen and decidedly embarrassing, but she never turned back, never allowed any earthly obstacle to stand in her way.  There was a crowded house at Olathe and when the meeting closed two young men announced that they had been sent to take Mr. Reynolds and Mr. Train to Paola, and they would have to leave at 4 A. M. Miss Anthony was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Beach.  Next morning they started on time in a pouring rain, stopping at a little wayside inn for breakfast at six.  The meeting was at eleven, in the Methodist church.