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not to run against the prejudices or the pecuniary interests of
that class. As I have said before, if it were a Prohibition
amendment which was pending I should think it exceedingly unwise to
run that campaign under the banner of woman suffrage. The average
human mind is incapable of taking in more than one idea at a time.
The one we want to get into the heads of the voters this year is
woman's enfranchisement, and we must pull every string with every
possible individual man and class of men to secure their votes for
this amendment. We should be extremely careful to base all our
arguments upon the right of every individual to have his or her
opinion counted at the ballot-box, whether it is in accordance with
ours or not. Therefore, the amendment must not be urged as a
measure for temperance, social purity, or any other reform, but
simply as a measure to give to women the right to vote yea or nay
on each and all of them. I want every woman in California to work
for the amendment, but I want her to work in the name of suffrage,
not of prohibition.

The national convention was withdrawn entirely from California, and the
W. C. T. U. women, in most places, worked under the one banner of the
suffrage amendment during the campaign. In proof that there was no
feeling on the part of the leaders against Miss Anthony, it may be
stated that she received official invitations to be present at the
birthday celebration of Mrs. Peet, in April; to address the State W. C.
T. U. Convention at Petaluma, in October; to attend the National
Convention at St. Louis in November; and to join in the farewell
reception to Miss Willard in New York on the eve of her departure for
Europe.

The managers of the woman's campaign supposed of course that the
endorsement by the Populist and Republican State Conventions meant not
only that the speakers of those parties would advocate the suffrage
plank just as they did the others in their respective platforms, but
that they also would permit the women themselves to speak for it in
their political meetings. When they applied to Mr. Wardall and the other
members of the Populist Central Committee, the schedule was promptly
furnished and they were assured that their speakers would be welcomed.
When they applied to the Republican Central Committee, to their
amazement, they were put off with an evasive answer. Meanwhile th