So on they went, to Leroy, Burlington, Emporia, Junction City.  It was 9 o’clock when they reached the last and, as usual, Miss Anthony had to make her speech without change of dress, and a half hour later Mr. Train stepped on the platform, refreshed and resplendent.  His first words were:  “When Miss Anthony gets back to New York she is going to start a woman suffrage paper.  Its name is to be The Revolution; its motto, ’Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.’  This paper is to be a weekly, price $2 per year; its editors, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Parker Pillsbury; its proprietor, Susan B. Anthony.  Let everybody subscribe for it!” Miss Anthony was dumbfounded.  During the long journey that day, he had asked her why the equal rights people did not have a paper and she had replied that it was not for lack of brains but want of money.  “Will not Greeley and Beecher and Phillips and Tilton advance the money?” “No, they say this is the negro’s hour and no time to advocate woman suffrage.”  “Well,” said he, “I will give you the money.”  She had not taken him seriously and was amazed when he made this public statement, announcing name, price, editors, motto and everything complete.

[Autograph:  Sincerely, Geo. Francis Train]

They spoke at Topeka and Wyandotte and reached Leavenworth the Sunday previous to election.  Mr. Train spent the evening at Colonel Anthony’s, entertaining them in his inimitable manner till midnight, and after he left the colonel declared that “he knew more about more things than any man living.”  Governor Robinson and Mrs. Stanton were to close the campaign in this city the day before election, and the meeting had been thoroughly advertised, but at the last moment they telegraphed that they would be unable to arrive till evening, so it was decided that Mr. Train should remain at Leavenworth to speak in the afternoon, and Miss Anthony should keep the engagement at Atchison, announcing Mr. Train for the evening.  This she did, but at night, when a great crowd had assembled, a telegram brought word that the cars were off the track and he could not reach that city.  There was nothing for her to do but make a short speech and adjourn the meeting.

Mr. Train had promised Miss Anthony that he really would advance the money to start a paper and, in addition, had proposed to defray all the expenses of Mrs. Stanton and herself if they would join him in a lecture tour of the principal cities on the way eastward.  It was essential, therefore, for her to have a talk with him before she could make a definite statement to Mrs. Stanton, and her only chance for this was to cross the Missouri river and wait for the belated train from Leavenworth.  She found the ferryboats had stopped running for the night, but George Martin, chairman of the suffrage committee of Atchison, offered to take her across in a skiff.  Undaunted, she seated herself therein and in the dense darkness was safely landed on the opposite shore.  Here she boarded the cars and went to St. Joseph where she met Mr. Train, made the necessary arrangements and returned to Leavenworth by the first train.