the press of the country in a broad grin because, forsooth, some American matrons choose to attend a political convention.  Now do I know how Robert Purvis feels when these ‘white mules’ turn round their long left ears at him.  But let the Democrats and Liberals do what they may, the cat will mew, the dog will have his day.  Dear friend, you ask me what I see.  I am under a cloud and see nothing.”

Under date of August 19, Henry Wilson wrote Miss Anthony:  “Your cheerful and cheering note came to me in Indiana.  In great haste I can only say that I like its spirit, believe in its doctrines, and will call the attention of the Republican committees, both national and New York, to your suggestions, and trust and believe that much good may result from carrying into effect its suggestions.”

On July 16 Miss Anthony had received a telegram from Washington to come at once for a conference with the Republican committee.  Her sister and mother were very ill and she would not leave them, even for such a summons.  On the 24th another telegram came, but it was not until the 29th that she felt safe in leaving the invalids.  When she reached Washington, the chairman of the committee said:  “At the time we sent our first telegram we were panic-stricken and had you come then, you might have had what you pleased to carry out your plan of work among the women; but now the crisis has passed and we feel confident of success; nevertheless, we will be glad of your co-operation.”  He gave her a check of $500, to which the New York committee added $500 more, to hold meetings in that State.

[Autograph:  Henry Wilson]

The same change of feeling was noticeable in the press.  Immediately after the Baltimore convention, when it looked as if Greeley might be elected, the Republican newspapers were filled with appeals to the women, and the plank was magnified to suit any interpretation they might choose, but as the campaign progressed and the danger passed, it was almost wholly ignored by both press and platform.  The Republicans did, however, employ a number of women speakers during the campaign, but Miss Anthony received no money except this $1,000, all of which she expended in public meetings.  The first was at Rochester, September 20, and, the daily papers said, “far surpassed any rally held during the season.”  Mayor Carter Wilder presided, and the speakers were Mrs. Stanton, Mrs. Gage and Rev. Olympia Brown.  The series closed with a tremendous meeting at Cooper Institute, Hon. Luther R. Marsh presiding, and Peter Cooper, Edmund Yates and a number of other prominent men on the stage.  Henry Ward Beecher had agreed to preside and to speak at this meeting, but at the last moment was called away.

Miss Anthony was considerably at variance with some of the Republican politicians, however, because she and her associates, through all the campaign, persisted in speaking on the woman’s plank in the platform and advocating equal suffrage, instead of ignoring these points, as the men speakers did, and making the fight on the other issues of the party.  Her position is best stated in one of her own letters to Mrs. Stanton early in the autumn: