$2 per year; its
editors, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Parker Pillsbury; its proprietor,
Susan B. Anthony. Let everybody subscribe for it!" Miss Anthony was
dumbfounded. During the long journey that day, he had asked her why the
equal rights people did not have a paper and she had replied that it
was not for lack of brains but want of money. "Will not Greeley and
Beecher and Phillips and Tilton advance the money?" "No, they say this
is the negro's hour and no time to advocate woman suffrage." "Well,"
said he, "I will give you the money." She had not taken him seriously
and was amazed when he made this public statement, announcing name,
price, editors, motto and everything complete.

[Autograph: Sincerely, Geo. Francis Train]

They spoke at Topeka and Wyandotte and reached Leavenworth the Sunday
previous to election. Mr. Train spent the evening at Colonel Anthony's,
entertaining them in his inimitable manner till midnight, and after he
left the colonel declared that "he knew more about more things than any
man living." Governor Robinson and Mrs. Stanton were to close the
campaign in this city the day before election, and the meeting had been
thoroughly advertised, but at the last moment they telegraphed that
they would be unable to arrive till evening, so it was decided that Mr.
Train should remain at Leavenworth to speak in the afternoon, and Miss
Anthony should keep the engagement at Atchison, announcing Mr. Train
for the evening. This she did, but at night, when a great crowd had
assembled, a telegram brought word that the cars were off the track and
he could not reach that city. There was nothing for her to do but make
a short speech and adjourn the meeting.

Mr. Train had promised Miss Anthony that he really would advance the
money to start a paper and, in addition, had proposed to defray all the
expenses of Mrs. Stanton and herself if they would join him in a
lecture tour of the principal cities on the way eastward. It was
essential, therefore, for her to have a talk with him before she could
make a definite statement to Mrs. Stanton, and her only chance for this
was to cross the Missouri river and wait for the belated train from
Leavenworth. She found the ferryboats had stopped running for the
night, but George Martin, chairman of the suffrage committee of
Atchison, offered to take her across in a skiff. Undaunted, she seated
herself therein and in the dense darkness was safely landed on the
opposite shore. Here