interviewed on the subject and said: "That 'Exhibit
64' (relating to the alleged frauds by women) was not competent
evidence and would have been thrown out by any court. The woman who
accused herself and other women of cheating did not stay to be
cross-examined; she simply made her affidavit and 'skipped out.'
Everything tends to the belief that she was in the employ of the
opposite party."

The president of the League for Honest Elections in Denver, when
stating that about thirty arrests had been made in connection with the
frauds, said: "Of those arrested and bound over, only one is a woman.
We believe that she is the least guilty of all and whatever connection
she had with the election in her precinct was as the passive
instrument of the men in charge of the fraudulent work at that place.
Of the persons for whom warrants have been issued but not yet served,
only one is a woman. She was a clerk in one of the lower precincts and
we understand has left the city. I may say, as a result of my own
experience in connection with this League, I find that women have
practically nothing to do with fraudulent work."

[35] A Miss Elizabeth McCracken had been sent to Colorado by the
_Outlook_ to prepare an article on woman suffrage, which it published.
The statements in it were universally repudiated by the press and the
people of that State. Mrs. Grenfell said of it at this convention: "It
is as absurd to refute her assertions as to reply to Baron Munchausen
or to insist that Alice's Adventures in Wonderland never happened.
Such conditions as she describes do not exist in Colorado."

CHAPTER V.

NATIONAL AMERICAN CONVENTION OF 1905.

Until 1905 the national suffrage conventions had never been held
further west than Des Moines, Ia. (1897), but this year the innovation
was made of going to the Pacific Coast for the Thirty-seventh annual
meeting, June 28-July 5,[36] at the invitation of the managers of the
Lewis and Clark Exposition held in Portland, Ore. It was a delightful
experience from the beginning, as the delegates from the East and
Middle West met in Chicago and had three special cars from there. The
Chicago Woman's Club gave a large reception in the afternoon of June
23 for Miss Anthony, the officers and delegates. They took the train
that night; Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt joined them in Iowa and others
along the way, as it sped westward. The newspapers had given it wide
publicity and they were greeted by suffr