this
trip she was accompanied by her dearly-loved niece, Susie B., who went
with her to Rochester and spent the summer. The diary briefly records:

September 28.--Left Chicago at noon and lunched with Miss Willard
at Rest Cottage, Evanston. Her mother bright and charming at
eighty-two, and Anna Gordon sweet as ever. It was very good to see
Miss Willard under her own roof. Reached Racine in time for the
State convention, was met by a delegation of ladies and taken to
the home of Martha Parker Dingee, niece of the great Theodore
Parker, a lovely woman. Fine audiences.

October 2.--Reached St. Louis at 8 A. M. As I was looking for my
trunk I heard some one cry out, "Is that you, Susan?" and there
were Phoebe Couzins and her father. I had made my trip that way for
the special purpose of seeing her, expecting to find her confined
to the house; so I went home and breakfasted with them.

October 4.--Reached Leavenworth and found Mrs. Colby and Mrs. Saxon
ready to begin the campaign for arousing public sentiment to demand
a bill from the next legislature to secure Municipal suffrage for
women. Dr. Ruth M. Wood is the mainspring of the movement here.

This series of conventions was held in the congressional districts from
October 5 to November 3, Mrs. Laura M. Johns, manager, assisted by Mrs.
Anna C. Wait, president of the State Association, and by a number of
capable and energetic Kansas women at each place visited. Under date of
October 11, Miss Anthony wrote to eastern friends: "We are having the
loveliest weather you ever dreamed of and the most magnificent
audiences--no church or hall holding them. If our legislators, State or
national, could only see these gatherings and look into the earnest
faces of these people, coming so many miles in wagons to see and hear
and get fresh courage, they would surely answer our demands by something
else than silence." The press corroborated this description and the
following special dispatch may be taken as a fair specimen:

The seventh district convention, the third of the series, has just
closed in Lincoln, and was a beautiful ovation to Miss Anthony.
Crowded houses greeted her--every available foot of space filled
with chairs, window-sills utilized for seats, and conveyances drawn
up outside of windows and filled with listeners. People came
thirty, forty and fifty miles in