ance had been received. He believed the essential
principles of human freedom were involved in this demand, and he
insisted that justice required that women should help to make the
laws by which they are governed. The amendment was lost by a vote
of 24 to 8.

Mr. Storm offered an amendment that women be permitted to vote
for, and hold the office of, county superintendent of schools.
This also was lost. The only other section of the report which
had any present interest to women, was the one reading:

SECTION 2. The General Assembly may at any time extend by
law the right of suffrage to persons not herein enumerated,
but no such law shall take effect or be in force until the
same shall have been submitted to a vote of the people, at a
general election, and approved by a majority of all the
votes cast for and against such law.

After much discussion it was voted that the first General
Assembly should provide a law whereby the subject should be
submitted to a vote of the electors.

After this the curtain fell, the lights were put out, and all the
atmosphere and _mise en scene_ of the drama vanished. It was well
known, however, that another season would come, the actors would
reaeppear, and an "opus" would be given; whether it should turn
out a tragedy, or a Miriam's song of deliverance, no one was able
to predict. Meantime, the women of Colorado--to change the
figure--bivouacked on the battle-field, and sent for
reinforcements against the fall campaign. They held themselves
well together, and used their best endeavors to educate public
sentiment.

A column in the Denver _Rocky Mountain News_, a pioneer paper
then edited by W. N. Byers, was offered the woman suffrage
association, through which to urge our claims. The column was put
into the hands of Mrs. Campbell, the wife of E. L. Campbell, of
the law firm of Patterson & Campbell of Denver, for editorship.
This lady, from whose editorials quotations will be given, was
too timid (she herself begs us to say cowardly) to use her name
in print, and so translated it into its German equivalent of
_Schlachtfeld_, thus nullifying whatever of weight her own name
would have carried in the way of personal and social endorsement
of an unpopular cause. Her sister,