to German audiences. But I have not another
minute only to thank you for your kind words about me, and to say
again, as I have said so many years, "I love and revere you."

[Illustration: Autograph: "Faithfully yours, Annie L. Diggs."]

Mrs. Johns wrote, August 27: "I think the Republicans are conscious
dimly of the increasing strength of the Populists. It looks as if they
will win, and it is generally believed the amendment will go through."
As late as October 12, Mrs. Catt, who had been speaking at suffrage
meetings for the past six weeks and whose judgment was generally sound,
said in a letter from Hutchinson:

After all the vicissitudes, hard feelings and distresses of the
campaign, it begins to look as if we were going to come in "on the
home stretch." The last two weeks have wrought wonderful changes.
The tide has set in our favor. I think the chief cause is the
published fact that we are going to count the votes to see how many
out of each party are cast for the amendment, and Republicans
understand they will be in a bad way if they don't make a good
showing. Since this came out, Morrill has spoken for the amendment.
Judge Peters, at the big McKinley meeting here, advocated it and
they tell me it created more enthusiasm than anything else during
the meeting. Cyrus Leland admits that it will carry. The
Republicans are coming over splendidly and, if the Populists stand
firm, we will surely come in with a fine majority. It seems as if
nothing can defeat us now.

Two weeks before the election, October 21, Mr. Breidenthal wrote her: "I
am confident the amendment will have 30,000 majority." Miss Anthony
reached the State October 20 and began her two weeks' tour the 22d,
speaking at Populist meetings in the largest cities up to election day,
November 6.[105] From the hour of her arrival she realized there was not
a shadow of hope for the amendment, and it was marvellous to her how the
others could have been so deceived.

At the previous election when the Populists came into power it had been
through a fusion with the Democrats. This year the Democrats had their
own ticket, and not only had ignored the pleading of the Democratic
women for a suffrage plank, but had adopted a resolution denouncing
it.[106] The great railroad strike and its attendant evils, during that
summer, were attributed by many to Populistic sentiment and created a
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