g the names
of all who believe in woman suffrage; leaving papers and tracts to
be read and circulated, and organizing equal suffrage committees in
every district and village. With this done, the entire State will
be in splendid trim for the opening of the regular campaign in the
spring of 1890.
She started eastward the very day her canvass ended, reaching Chicago on
Thanksgiving evening, and went directly to Detroit where she spoke
November 29, and was the guest of her old friends of anti-slavery days,
Giles and Catharine F. Stebbins. Her nephew, Daniel R. Jr., came over
from Michigan University to hear her and accompanied her back to Ann
Arbor, where she was entertained by Mrs. Olivia B. Hall. He thus gives
his impressions to his parents:
Aunt Susan spoke here for the benefit of the Ladies, Library
Association, and had an excellent audience; and Sunday night she
spoke at the Unitarian church. It was jammed full and people were
in line for half a block around, trying to get inside. At the
beginning of her lecture Aunt Susan does not do so well; but when
she is in the midst of her argument and all her energies brought
into play, I think she is a very powerful speaker.
Dr. Sunderland, the Unitarian minister, invited her to dinner and,
as I was her nephew, of course I had to be included. The Halls are
very fine people and as I took nearly every meal at their house
while she was here, I can also testify that they have good things
to eat. I brought Aunt Susan down to see where I lived. It being
vacation time of course the house was closed and hadn't been aired
for a week, and some of the boys having smoked a good deal she
thought the odor was dreadful, but that otherwise we were very
comfortably fixed.
Miss Anthony spoke at Toronto December 2, introduced by the mayor and
entertained by Dr. Augusta S. Gullen, daughter of Dr. Emily H. Stowe.
She addressed the Political Equality Club of Rochester in the
Universalist church, December 5. During the past three months she had
travelled several thousand miles and spoken every night when not on
board the cars. Three days later she started for Washington to arrange
for the National convention, and from there wrote Rachel Foster Avery:
I have done it, and to my dismay Mrs. Colby has announced my
high-handedness in this week's Tribune, when I intended to keep my
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