One can only repeat what has often been said, that never before were
such results as can be seen on every hand in the improved conditions
for women and the advanced public sentiment in favor of a full
equality of rights, accomplished by so small a number of workers and
under such adverse conditions. Perhaps this will continue to be said
even unto the end, but their labors will know neither faltering nor
cessation until the original object, as announced over fifty years
ago, has been attained, viz.: the full enfranchisement of women.

FOOTNOTES:

[147] See Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, p. 723.

[148] For the names of the women who have addressed the National
Conventions and Resolutions Committees of the various parties in the
effort to obtain an indorsement of woman suffrage, and for a full
account of their reception, of the memorials presented and the results
which followed, the reader is referred to the History of Woman
Suffrage, Vol. II, pp. 340 and 517; Vol. III, pp. 22 and 177; and for
many personal incidents, to the Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony in
the chapters devoted to the years of the various presidential
nominating conventions, beginning with 1868.

Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake, from the National Suffrage Association,
and Henry B. Blackwell and Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, as Republicans,
presented the question to the Resolutions Committee of the National
Republican Convention of 1896 in St. Louis, above referred to; Dr.
Julia Holmes Smith, accompanied by a committee of ladies, to that of
the National Democratic Convention in Chicago that year.

[149] Miss Anthony sent a special letter to each of these bodies
worded to appeal particularly to the interests it represented.

[150] For the answer to this petition see Chap. XIX.

CHAPTER XXIV.

THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN IN THE STATES.

The preceding chapters have been devoted principally to efforts made
in behalf of women by the National-American Suffrage Association
through its conventions, committees, officers, speakers, organizers
and members. Contemporaneous with this line of action there has been
for a number of years a similar movement in the respective States
carried forward through their associations auxiliary to the National,
their committees, officers, speakers, organizers and individual
membership. Each of the two divisions has been largely dependent upon
the other, the States forming the strength of the national body, the
latter extendi