t more
friendships, more knowledge of each other have come through the
hand-shakes here, than would have been possible through any other
instrumentality. I shall never cease to be grateful for all the
splendid women who have come up to this great center for these
twenty-six conventions, and have learned that the North was not
such a cold place as they had believed; I have been equally glad
when we came down here and met the women from the sunny South and
found they were just like ourselves, if not a little better. In
this great association, we know no North, no South, no East, no
West. This has been our pride for twenty-six years. We have no
political party. We never have inquired what anybody's religion
was. All we ever have asked is simply, "Do you believe in perfect
equality for women?" That is the one article in our creed.

There were many pleasant newspaper comments on Miss Anthony's
re-election, among them the following from the Chicago Journal:

The national suffrage association honored itself yesterday by again
electing to its presidency Susan B. Anthony. She has suffered long
for a cause she believes to be right, and it is fitting that in
these later years of her active life, when the cause has become
popular, she should wear the honors her patient, persistent
endeavor has won. Susan B. Anthony is one of the most remarkable
products of this century. She is not a successful writer; she is
not a great speaker, although a most effective one; but she has a
better quality than genius. She is the soul of honesty; she
possesses the gift of clear discrimination--of seeing the main
point--and of never-wavering loyalty to the issue at hand....

For more than forty years she has led the women of America through
the wilderness of doubt, and now from Pisgah's heights looks over
into the Canaan land of triumphant victory. Past the allotted time
of threescore years and ten, Miss Anthony may never cross the
Jordan of her hopes, but she has led her hosts safely through the
gravest dangers and trained up others well fitted to wear the
mantle of leadership. It is the hope of all who have learned to
know and appreciate this heroic woman, that her wise counsel and
earnest, faithful spirit may long continue to inspire and direct
the affairs of this great associati