allowed to cast a
ballot, then the opportunity of the unbiased editor has come and the
rash claimant is admonished in fatherly, protecting tones to 'Remember
that only in the Home'--he always spells home with a capital in this
connection--'should a woman be in evidence.' He almost weeps when he
pictures the dire consequences that would inevitably result should
women enter the uncleanly pool of politics. Chivalry would become
extinct--chivalry being the guiding principle, according to the
unbiased editor, on which men act--and then would tired men no longer
give up their seats in trolley cars to masculine women and no longer
would they accord equal pay for equal work, as they chivalrously do
now!"

Turning her shafts on Mr. Bok, editor of the _Ladies' Home Journal_,
and ex-President Cleveland's articles in it, Miss Campbell evoked so
much laughter and applause that Miss Hauser became anxious as to the
effect on the representatives of the press who were there and called
on Mrs. Upton to calm the tempestuous waters, who offered some "golden
precepts" for dealing with editors, among them the following: "Keep
the paper fully informed of all suffrage news. If there is something
unpleasant in it and the reporter tells you that the editor and not
himself is responsible for it, smile and believe him. Take the
reporter into your confidence and let him absorb the impression that
you trust him implicitly. The result will be that you and your cause
will get the best of it. In a word, treat the newspaper reporter as
you would any other gentleman and in the long run you will profit by
it. If you are the press representative of your local organization try
to have from time to time items of news pertaining to matters other
than that of woman suffrage. Use the telephone lavishly and let your
home be a sort of stopping place for the reporter in his routine work.
When you present such an attitude toward the press the editors cannot
find it in their hearts to refuse if you want a little space for
yourself and your cause." The Baltimore _Evening Herald_ commented:
"From the foregoing it will be observed that in the dark and devious
avocation of working the unsophisticated editor, Mrs. Upton is truly a
past mistress, entitled to wear the regalia and jewels of the
superlative degree."

Mrs. May Arkwright Hutton of Idaho told of the excellent results of
woman suffrage on the politics of that State. Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead,
chairman of the Commi