assumption of Andrew Jackson-like responsibility a secret. One
night last week the new Lincoln Hall was opened and when I saw what
a splendid audience-room it is, I just rushed the next day to the
agent and found our convention days not positively engaged; then
rushed to Mr. Kent and from him to Mr. Jordan and got released from
the little church, and then back I went and had the convention
booked for Lincoln Hall. I did not mean to have any notice of the
change of place go out over the country, because it makes no
difference to friends outside of Washington. Well, no matter. I
couldn't think of taking our convention into any church when we had
a chance to go back to our old home, and that in a new and elegant
house reared upon the ashes of the old. So if killed I am for this
high-handed piece of work, why killed I shall be!

A letter will illustrate her efforts for South Dakota: "I have 50,000
copies of Senator Palmer's speech ready to go to the Senate
folding-room, and thence to the South Dakota senators and
representatives to be franked, and then back to me to be addressed to
the 25,000 men of the Farmers' Alliance, etc. If suffrage literature
does not penetrate into every single family in every town of every
county of South Dakota before another month rolls round, it will be
because I can not get the names of every one. I am securing also the
subscription lists of every county newspaper. If reading matter in every
home and lectures in every school house of the State will convert the
men, we shall carry South Dakota next November with a whoop! I do hope
we can galvanize our friends in every State to concentrate all their
money and forces upon South Dakota the coming year. We must have no
scattering fire now, but all directed to one point, and get everybody to
thinking, reading and talking on the subject."

And again she writes: "With my $400 which I have contributed to the
National this year, I have made life members of myself, nieces Lucy E.
and Louise, and Mrs. Stanton. Now I intend to make Mrs. Minor, Olympia
Brown, Phoebe Couzins and Matilda Joslyn Gage life members. I had
thought of others, but these last four are of longer standing, were
identified with the old National and have suffered odium and persecution
because of adherence to it."

In the diary's mention of busy days is one item: "Went to the Capitol to
the celebration of the centennial of