men of Kansas should be
enfranchised. In this he was sincere, as he believed thoroughly that
women ought to have the ballot. He was an inimitable mimic and was
unsparing in his ridicule of those Republicans who had battled so
valiantly for equal rights but now demanded that American women should
stand back quietly and approvingly and see the negro fully invested
with the powers denied to themselves. He had a remarkable memory, an
unequalled quickness of repartee, a peculiar gift of improvising
epigrams and, while erratic, was a brilliant and entertaining speaker.
He was at this time about thirty-five, nearly six feet tall, a handsome
brunette, with curling hair and flashing dark eyes, the picture of
vigorous health. He was exquisitely neat in person and irreproachable
in habits, and had a fine courtliness of bearing toward women which
suggested the old-school gentleman. Miss Anthony often said that all
the severe criticisms made upon him for years had not been able to
impair the respect with which he inspired her during that most trying
campaign. Mrs. Stanton, essentially an aristocrat and severe in her
judgment of men and manners, spoke most highly of Mr. Train in her
Reminiscences.

Some of the friends in Kansas were opposed to the contemplated lecture
tour, and letters were received from the East urging that it be
abandoned. Mrs. Stanton was accustomed to defer to Miss Anthony in such
matters.[45] The latter felt that they had been deserted by their old
friends and supporters and the breach was too wide to be soon healed.
Here was a man of wealth and high personal character, who offered to
arrange a lecture tour of the principal cities of the country, pay all
expenses and at the end of the journey furnish capital for a paper. It
seemed to her she could best serve the cause she placed above all else
by accepting the offer, and she did so.

As time was limited, Miss Anthony had to make arrangements for hall,
etc., by telegraph, which cost Mr. Train $100. The series commenced in
Omaha, November 19, and continued in Chicago, Springfield. St. Louis,
Louisville, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse,
Albany, Springfield (Mass.), Worcester, Boston and Hartford, ending
with a great meeting in Steinway Hall, New York, December 14. Mr. Train
engaged the most elegant suites of rooms in the best hotels for the
ladies, secured the finest halls, and this was remembered as the only
luxurious suffrage tour they ever