electric address on the "Moral
Relations of Men and Women to Each Other." She was followed by Dr. Kate
Bushnell in a thrilling talk on "Legislation as it Deals with Social
Purity." Miss Anthony closed the program with a ringing speech showing
the need of the ballot in the hands of women to remedy such evils as had
been depicted by the other speakers. No abstract can give an idea of her
magnetic force when profoundly stirred by such recitals as had been made
at this meeting.

A few days afterwards a largely-attended reception was given by the
Woman's Club of Chicago to Miss Anthony, Isabella Beecher Hooker and
Baroness Gripenberg, of Finland.

In the summer of 1888, the National Association as usual sent delegates
to each of the presidential conventions, asking for a suffrage plank,
and as usual they were ignored by Republicans and Democrats. Miss
Anthony and Mrs. Hooker had headquarters in the parlors of Mrs. Celia
Whipple Wallace, at the Sherman House, Chicago, during the Republican
convention in June. They issued an open letter citing the record of the
party in regard to women, and asking for recognition, but received no
consideration. In the Woman's Tribune, Miss Anthony made this forcible
statement:

Had the best representative suffrage women of every State in the
Union been in Chicago, established in national headquarters,
working with the men of their State delegations, as well as with
the resolution committee, I have not a doubt that the Republican
platform would have contained a splendid plank, pledging the party
to this broad and true interpretation of the Constitution. Every
other reform had its scores and hundreds of representatives here,
pleading for the incorporation of its principles in the platform
and working for the nomination of the men who would best voice
their plans. Women never will be heard and heeded until they make
themselves a power, irresistible in numbers and strength, moral,
intellectual and financial, in all the formative gatherings of the
parties they would influence. Therefore, I now beg of our women not
to lose another opportunity to be present at every political
convention during this summer, to urge the adoption of woman
suffrage resolutions and the nomination of men pledged to support
them. "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" for women as well
as for men.

From Chicago Miss Anthony