urse Mrs. Stanton
stands for suffrage first, last and all the time, and the
conservative women who join in this celebration do so knowing that
she stands thus for a free and enfranchised womanhood.

Don't you see that for Anthony to head the fray, preside and be
general master of ceremonies, would reduce it to a mere mutual
admiration affair? The celebration is not taken away from us. We,
the suffrage women, will have our modicum of time to set forth what
Mrs. Stanton has done for our specific cause, and the other women
will have theirs. O, no, my dear, it is not possible that the
greater can be less than one of the parts which compose it.

Her own "girls," Mrs. Sewall and Mrs. Avery, could not help being a
little jealous for their general, and insisted that her name should head
the invitations, but to them she wrote:

Do you not see that for Susan B. Anthony's name to stand at the
top, will frighten the conservatives? Everybody will conclude that
the big suffrage elephant has possessed the council, body and
soul--all thrust into the suffrage hopper and the wheel turned by
S. B. A. To make me chairman will wholly spoil the intention of the
council, which is and should be to bring the fruits of Mrs.
Stanton's first demand, fifty years ago, and lay them at her feet;
not only the suffrage children, but those of education, literature,
science, reform, religion, all as one. If Mrs. Dickinson single out
the hoofed and horned head of suffrage as the commander-in-chief,
not only the nineteen other societies but all the world outside
will say it is suffrage after all; which it will be, because the
others won't train under our leadership. No, no; Mrs. Dickinson
herself must be the chief cook of this broth and appoint her own
lieutenants, one of whom, with name far down in the middle of the
list, I shall be most happy to be, and do all I possibly can to
help, but always in the name of the president of the council.

She was true to her word, and in every way assisted Mrs. Dickinson in
the immense amount of preparation necessary for what was the largest and
most perfect affair of this nature ever given in America. At her request
Miss Anthony wrote over a hundred letters to collect funds, secure the
presence of the pioneer workers among women, etc., but still insisted on
keeping herself so much in