ich went toward their expenses. California, as her
contribution to the national fund, raised $1,000 through a committee
consisting of Hon. George C. Perkins, Mrs. Ellen Clark Sargent, Mrs.
Knox Goodrich, Hon. W. H. Mills, Miss Sarah C. Severance and Dr. Alida
C. Avery. This was used to pay the expenses of Matilda Hindman for eight
months, as one of the campaign organizers and speakers.

As Miss Anthony was on her way to a meeting June 3, she received a
telegram which sent her at once to Huron, where the annual convention of
the Farmers' Alliance was in session. Upon arriving she found her
information had been correct, that the Alliance and the Knights of Labor
had combined forces and were about to form an independent party. She was
permitted to address the convention and in the most impassioned language
she begged them not to take this step, as it would be death to the woman
suffrage amendment. She appealed to them in the name of their wives and
daughters at home, doing double duty in order that the men might attend
this convention; she reminded them of their pledges to herself and the
other women to stand by the amendment, and showed them that, of
themselves, they would not be strong enough to carry it, and that the
Republican party, unless sustained by the Alliance, would not and could
not support it. Her appeals fell upon deaf ears, and the old story was
repeated--the women sacrificed to party expediency.

The Alliance of 478 delegates, at its State convention the previous
year, November, 1889, after Miss Anthony's speech and after she had met
with its business committee, had passed this resolution:

_Resolved_, That we will do all in our power to aid in woman's
enfranchisement in South Dakota at the next general election, by
bringing it before the local Alliances for agitation and
discussion, thereby educating the masses upon the subject.

The Knights of Labor, at their annual convention in Aberdeen, January,
1890, had adopted the following:

_Resolved_, That the Knights of Labor, in assembly convened, do
hereby declare that we will support with all our strength the
amendment to the State Constitution of South Dakota, to be voted on
at the next general election, giving to our wives, mothers and
sisters the ballot.... We believe that giving to the women of our
country the ballot is the first step towards securing those reforms
for which all true Knights of La