e redemption of the world.

To a letter from Henry B. Blackwell, urging her to be non-partisan if
she could not be Republican, she replied, July 9:

The difference between yourself and me, and Mrs. Johns and me, is
precisely this--that you two are and have been Republicans _per
se_, while I have been a Republican only in so far as the party and
its members were more friendly to the principle of woman suffrage.
I agree with you that it will be in line with Mrs. Johns' ideas for
her to work for the Republican party, false though its platform and
its managers are to the pending amendment; but I could not do so.
The rank and file of the Populist men of Kansas may not possess
equal book or brain power with the Republicans, but they are more
honest and earnest to establish justice, and 337 of their delegates
had manhood enough to break out of the whiskey-Democratic bargain
which their leaders, like the Republican fixers, had made. No, I
shall not praise the Republicans of Kansas, or wish or work for
their success, when I know by their own confessions to me that the
rights of the women of their State have been traded by them in cold
blood for the votes of the lager beer foreigners and whiskey
Democrats....

I have not allied and shall not ally myself to any party or any
measure save the one of justice and equality for woman; but the
time has come when I strike, and proclaim my contempt for the
tricksters who put their political heel on the rights of women at
the very moment when their help is most needed. I never, in my
whole forty years' work, so utterly repudiated any set of
politicians as I do those Republicans of Kansas. When it is a mere
matter of theory, a thousand miles from a practical question, they
can resolve pretty words, but when the crucial moment comes they
sacrifice us without conscience or honor. The hubbub with the
Republicans shows they have been struck in the right place. I never
was surer of my position that no self-respecting woman should wish
or work for the success of a party which ignores her political
rights.

These few extracts from scores of similar letters, speeches and
interviews, show the position consistently and unflinchingly maintained
by Miss Anthony, and justified by many years of experience in such
campaigns. During the summer of 1894