u decide to abandon the
demand for political endorsement and active help, as the first and
chief object of this spring's work, you may count me out of it; for
I will not be a party, even though a protesting one, to such a
surrender of our only hope of success.

I came home for a rest over Sunday, after speaking five successive
nights in five different counties, in our New York campaign, and
these letters with the weak--the wicked--thought of not demanding
of the political leaders to make their parties help carry the
amendment, raged through my brain all night long. How to put the
shame of surrender strongly enough was my constant study, sleeping
and waking alike. No, a thousand times no, I say; and if you do
yield to this demand at the behest of men claiming to be your
friends, you make yourselves a party with those men to ensure your
defeat. The speakers will advocate no measure, and the vast
majority of men will vote for none, which is not approvingly
mentioned in the platform. If you give up trying for political
endorsement, or fail after trying, all hope of carrying the
amendment will be gone. So, over and over I say, demand party help!

Lovingly but protestingly,

SUSAN B. ANTHONY.

Mrs. Johns, of course, indignantly rejected the imputation that she was
not working night and day to secure a plank from the Republican
convention. She was a most efficient manager, but the cause of her
weakness and that of the other women, was that they were trying to serve
two masters. The very fact that the Republican men were begging them not
to ask for a plank, shows the power which the women already possessed in
their municipal suffrage, and they should have had the courage to stand
firm in their demands for recognition in the platform, for the dignity
of their cause and their womanhood, whether there were hope of getting
it or not. There is no doubt that Mrs. Johns did make an earnest effort
to this end, but there is also no doubt that every Republican leader
understood that even if the party did not endorse the suffrage
amendment, she and her associates still would be no less Republicans and
would work no less vigorously for the party's success. Miss Anthony's
Kansas correspondence during 1894 comprises 300 letters and all confirm
the statements thus briefly outlined.

The Republican po