, while she was being thus harassed,
she kept steadily on, speaking and working in the New York campaign and
preparing to return to Kansas in the fall. She wrote to the Republican
and the Populist central committees, offering to speak on the suffrage
question upon their platforms. The former, through its chairman, Cyrus
Leland, declined her offer.

To John W. Breidenthal, of the People's party, she wrote: "Do you not
think it will be a great deal better, both for the suffrage amendment
and the Populist party, if in all the announcements it shall be
distinctly stated that Miss Anthony speaks only on the subject of
woman's enfranchisement?" To this he replied, August 6: "I leave the
matter entirely with you whether you confine yourself only to the
suffrage amendment, or whether you add to that the discussion of the
other questions now attracting public attention." Meanwhile she had
been receiving cheerful messages from the Populist women of Kansas,
among them a long and cordial letter from Annie L. Diggs, written August
16:

Nearly everything along the line of my experience and observation
would make you glad. I have large audiences, say the best and
strongest things I know for suffrage and always find the heartiest
response. I see more and more the wisdom of your insistence on
platform mention. Oh, I am so thankful that I, too, saw straight
before it was too late to get the Populist endorsement. I have been
speaking almost constantly, sometimes twice a day, and at every
meeting other speakers and _candidates_ say the best kind of words
for the amendment. Governor Lewelling speaks in warm endorsement,
reports to the contrary notwithstanding. I can not say that he does
so always, but he did at the three meetings which we held together.
The Populists who wanted to shake my head off at the convention,
give me, if possible, warmer greetings than the others. They are
truly glad they took that righteous step....

We Populists wish so much for you and Miss Shaw to come to Kansas.
People constantly ask me if you will talk for the Populists when
you come. I answer that you will talk suffrage at Populist meetings
and will also say that, inasmuch as in Kansas the Populists endorse
suffrage, therefore the party ought to win. Is not that your
intention? How I wish I could describe to you some of the success I
have had in talking