not
done--probably because a large number of the best seats were filled by
Russian laborers wearing badges inscribed "Against Woman Suffrage and
Susan B. Anthony." We remained, perforce, in our rear seats, finding
such interest as we could in the back view of hundreds of heads.

Just before the convention was called to order it was announced that a
delegation of influential Indians was waiting outside, and a motion
to invite the red men into the hall was made and carried with great
enthusiasm. A committee of leading citizens was appointed to act as
escort, and these gentlemen filed out, returning a few moments later
with a party of Indian warriors in full war regalia, even to their
gay blankets, their feathered head-dresses, and their paint. When they
appeared the band struck up a stirring march of welcome, and the entire
audience cheered while the Indians, flanked by the admiring committee,
stalked solemnly down the aisle and were given seats of honor directly
in front of the platform.

All we could see of them were the brilliant feathers of their
war-bonnets, but we got the full effect of their reception in the music
and the cheers. I dared not look at Miss Anthony during this remarkable
scene, and she, craning her venerable neck to get a glimpse of the
incident from her obscure corner, made no comment to me; but I knew what
she was thinking. The following year these Indians would have votes.
Courtesy, therefore, must be shown them. But the women did not matter,
the politicians reasoned, for even if they were enfranchised they would
never support the element represented at that convention. It was not
surprising that, notwithstanding our hard work, we did not win the
state, though all the conditions had seemed most favorable; for the
state was new, the men and women were working side by side in the
fields, and there was discontent in the ranks of the political parties.

After the election, when we analyzed the vote county by county, we
discovered that in every county whose residents were principally
Americans the amendment was carried, whereas in all counties populated
largely by foreigners it was lost. In certain counties--those inhabited
by Russian Jews--the vote was almost solidly against us, and this
notwithstanding the fact that the wives of these Russian voters were
doing a man's work on their farms in addition to the usual women's work
in their homes. The fact that our Cause could be defeated by ignorant
labo