l present itself. It is a great step to get this first
recognition; it carries the discussion of our question legitimately
into every school district and every ward meeting of the
presidential canvass. It is what my soul has waited for these seven
years. From this we shall go rapidly onward.

Miss Anthony and Mrs. Hooker attended the National Democratic
Convention at Baltimore, July 9. The latter some time before had
repudiated her life-long allegiance to the Republican party, because of
its treatment of woman's claims, and had declared her belief that their
only chance was with the Democrats. The Baltimore Sun thus describes an
interview in the corridor between the Hon. James R. Doolittle,
president of the convention, and Miss Anthony and Mrs. Hooker: "Mr.
Doolittle's erect and commanding figure was set off to great advantage
by his elegantly-fitting dress-coat; Mrs. Hooker, tall and erect as the
lord of creation she was bearding, with her abundant tresses of
beautiful gray and her intellectual, sparkling eyes; Miss Anthony, the
peer of both in height, with her gold spectacles set forward on a nose
which would have delighted Napoleon; the two ladies attired in rich
black silk--the attention of the few who lingered was at once attracted
to the picture." But Mr. Doolittle justified his name, as far as
extending any assistance was concerned, and the ladies had not even
seats on the platform.

As an example of the way in which the politicians tried not to do it
and yet seem to sufficiently to secure such small influence as the
women might possess, may be quoted a letter from Hon. John Cochran, of
New York City, to Mrs. Stanton, his cousin: "I think Baltimore should
speak on the subject. I am sorry Cincinnati did not. Any baby could say
that fourteenth formula in the Philadelphia platform; but I would say
something more if I said anything at all. Come, see if you can rig up
this shaky plank and give something not quite suffrage, but so like it
that all the female Sampsons will vote that it is good." The Baltimore
convention, however, could not be induced to adopt even a rickety plank
which might fool the women. Miss Anthony writes in her diary: "The
Democrats have swallowed Cincinnati, hoofs, horns and all. No hope for
women here."

While the Republican plank was unsatisfactory, it was the first time
Woman ever had been mentioned in a national platform and so many
glittering hopes were held out by the Rep