eration." He gave
her a check of $500, to which the New York committee added $500 more,
to hold meetings in that State.

[Autograph: Henry Wilson]

The same change of feeling was noticeable in the press. Immediately
after the Baltimore convention, when it looked as if Greeley might be
elected, the Republican newspapers were filled with appeals to the
women, and the plank was magnified to suit any interpretation they
might choose, but as the campaign progressed and the danger passed, it
was almost wholly ignored by both press and platform. The Republicans
did, however, employ a number of women speakers during the campaign,
but Miss Anthony received no money except this $1,000, all of which she
expended in public meetings. The first was at Rochester, September 20,
and, the daily papers said, "far surpassed any rally held during the
season." Mayor Carter Wilder presided, and the speakers were Mrs.
Stanton, Mrs. Gage and Rev. Olympia Brown. The series closed with a
tremendous meeting at Cooper Institute, Hon. Luther R. Marsh presiding,
and Peter Cooper, Edmund Yates and a number of other prominent men on
the stage. Henry Ward Beecher had agreed to preside and to speak at
this meeting, but at the last moment was called away.

Miss Anthony was considerably at variance with some of the Republican
politicians, however, because she and her associates, through all the
campaign, persisted in speaking on the woman's plank in the platform
and advocating equal suffrage, instead of ignoring these points, as the
men speakers did, and making the fight on the other issues of the
party. Her position is best stated in one of her own letters to Mrs.
Stanton early in the autumn:

If you are ready to go forth into this canvass saying that you
endorse the party on any other point or for any other cause than
that of its recognition of woman's claim to vote, _I_ am not and I
shall not thus go. To the contrary, I shall work for the Republican
party and call on all women to join me, precisely as we thanked the
Democrats of Wyoming and Kansas, and Hon. James Brooks and Senator
Cowan, viz: for what that party has done and promises to do for
woman, nothing more, nothing less.

Then again, I shall not join with the Republicans in hounding
Greeley and the Liberals with all the old war anathemas of the
Democracy. Greeley and all the Liberals are just as good and true
Republicans as ever; and the fact