onfess that while I can readily understand the abject
cowardice and selfishness which prompt men and political tricksters
to urge the abandonment of the plank, I can not understand how you
or any other woman with a grain of sense can listen to such
proposals for a moment. That endorsement is our only hope. If that
fail us, our cause is lost in advance; for it will show the body of
the party what the leaders think and feel on the subject, and be a
tacit command to kill it. The hypocrisy of the whole business
should not receive from women even a show of belief. What wonder
men despise us as a shallow lot of simpletons, if we are deceived
by so thin a pretense as this? I for one protest against it so
strongly that if your committee agree to it and do not push party
endorsement, I must decline to fool away my time in Kansas. If you
give up that point I must refuse to go a single step or raise a
dollar. I am sick of the weakness of women, forever dictated to by
men. Experience has taught us what a campaign unendorsed means.
Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I
would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a
fox. No; we must have party endorsement or we are dead.

If I am not to go to Kansas, I want to know it immediately. It is
too late even now, for I refused twenty consecutive engagements for
May in one State, thinking it was all given up to Kansas. The man
or woman who urges surrender now is more a political partisan than
a lover of freedom. I care nothing for all the political parties in
the world except as they stand for justice. I can not tell you how
even the suggestion of this surrender affects me. For the love of
woman, do not be fooled by those men any longer.

Finally, as the case grew more hopeless, Miss Anthony, as president of
the National-American Association, on March 11, sent the following:

_To the Kansas Woman Suffrage Amendment Campaign Committee--Laura
M. Johns, Bina M. Otis, Sarah A. Thurston, Annie L. Diggs and
Others:_

MY DEAR FRIENDS: I have the letter of your chairman, Mrs. Johns,
together with one she forwards from a lawyer of Topeka, with the
added assertion that Judges Horton, Johnston et al., and leading
editors and politicians, are begging your committee to cease to
demand of the