Immediately after the Washington convention, Miss Anthony went to fill a lecture engagement at Kalamazoo, the arrangements made by her friend, the widely-known and revered Lucinda H. Stone.  She spoke also at Grand Rapids and other points in Michigan.  At Chicago she was fortunate enough to have a day with Mrs. Stanton, also on a lecturing tour, and then took the train for Leavenworth.  At Kansas City the papers said she made “the success of the lecture season.”  She spoke in Leavenworth, Lawrence, Topeka, Paola, Olathe and other places throughout the State.  Although it was very cold and the half-frozen mud knee deep, she usually had good audiences.  At Lincoln, Neb., she was entertained at the home of Governor Butler and introduced by him at her lecture.  At Omaha her share of the receipts was $100.  At Council Bluffs she was the guest of her old fellow-worker, Amelia Bloomer.  Cedar Rapids and Des Moines gave packed houses.  She lectured in a number of Illinois towns, taking trains at midnight and at daybreak; and, waiting four hours at one little station, the diary says she was so thoroughly worn-out she was compelled to lie down on the dirty floor.  On the homeward route she spoke at Antioch College, and was the guest of President Hosmer’s family.  According to the infallible little journal:  “The president said he had listened to all the woman suffrage lecturers in the field, but tonight, for the first time, he had heard an argument; a compliment above all others, coming from an aged and conservative minister.”

She spoke also at Wilberforce University, at Dayton, Springfield, Crestline, and in Columbus before the two Houses of the Legislature.  At Salem she ran across Parker Pillsbury, who was lecturing there.  When she took the train at Columbus “there sat Mrs. Stanton, fast asleep, her gray curls sticking out.”  Then again into Michigan she went, speaking at Jackson, Lansing, Ann Arbor and other cities.  Mrs. Stanton had preceded her and it was many times said that her lecture needed Miss Anthony’s to make it complete.  Then to Chicago, where she spoke at a suffrage matinee in Farwell Hall and at the Cook county annual suffrage convention, and dined at Robert Collyer’s; back to Iowa, speaking at Burlington, Davenport, Mount Pleasant and Ottumwa; over into Nebraska once more, from there returning to Illinois; into Indiana, thence to Milwaukee and points in Wisconsin; and once more to Chicago, where, as was often the case, she was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Fernando Jones; from here across to Painesville and other towns in northern Ohio; then on to numerous places in western New York, and finally home to Rochester, April 25, having slept scarcely two nights in the same bed for over three months.

Such is the hard life of the public lecturer, the most exhausting and exacting which man or woman can experience.  During all this long trip Miss Anthony had met everywhere a cordial welcome and had been entertained in scores of delightful homes.  Her speech on this tour was entitled “The New Situation,” and was a clear and comprehensive argument to prove that the Fourteenth Amendment gave women the right to vote.  Although composed largely of legal and constitutional references, it was not written but drawn from the storehouse of her wonderful memory, aided only by a few notes.