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348 & as that of any man he ever heard on a political platform.” The return address on this letter to ECS was that of the Republican National Commercial and Industrial League. (New York Times, 20, 22, 26 September 1900, 7 February 1901; New York Tribune, 1 November 1900, 16, 25, 30 October 1901, 29 October 1902; Evening World, 29 January, 29 October 1901.) 2. Num. 27:7. ••••••••• 157 • Ida Husted Harper to ECS 17 Madison St., Rochester June 5, 1900. My Dear Mrs. Stanton:— Your card is just received. Miss Anthony arrived at home last Saturday night, in spite of our utmost endeavors to persuade her to stay over for the suffrage convention in Brooklyn. The thought of the immense amount of work piled up here weighed on her mind so that she could not enjoy anything. She reports everything beautiful at the Boston festival. 1 She was invited to be the guest of the Blackwells during her stay, but preferred to stop at a hotel in Boston. However, she spent Sunday at Dorchester, 2 and had a day with the Garrisons at Brookline. She then went down with Miss Shaw and Lucy Anthony to their summer home on Cape Cod for two days. Miss Shaw has rented her cottage for the summer,but her address until July first will be “The Haven,” Wianno, Cape Cod. 3 I suppose you know that she, Miss Anthony and Mrs. Catt are to speak at Chautauqua July 14, and a great time is expected. Dr. Vincent 4 probably will go into his cave upon that day, and put a stone up in front of the door. How splendid it would be if you could give one of your great addresses on that occasion! Yet after all, when one thinks of it, how many thousands more it is possible to reach with the pen. My department in the Sun is not exactly what I wish it to be. I have to feel my way very carefully with Mr. Dana. Frequently he leaves out the paragraphs which I was most anxious to have appear, and sometimes the others are run together and jumbled up in a style which almost sends me to bed; but the way the articles are copied and the letters I get from all parts of the country make me feel it is best to hold on to our space. I try very hard to make the articles light and popular,and to sugar-coat the suffrage so that it will go down. 3 june 1900 ^ 349 If every prominent woman in the country would come out boldly as you did last Sunday, it would set the Republicans to thinking; 5 and how I do wish they would do it! But they will not. They will be like dumb, driven cattle in this campaign, as in all of the others. All the obstacles piled on top of each other are not a thousandth part as discouraging as the women themselves. Your letter to the Mothers’ Congress was read early in the proceedings, but toward the last, when there was danger of the Congress stampeding for suffrage, they suppressed Miss Anthony’s. Possibly the influence of the many male mothers who were in attendance may have had something to do with this, but the female mothers who were in charge were quite capable of the whole thing. 6 Notwithstanding such instances, however,the masses of women undoubtedly are being converted to a belief in woman suffrage. As you know, I am struggling with the fourth volume of the History, and I am sure I have your sympathy. The work is not so difficult, however, as when you undertook it; for with the annual reports, the Tribune, the Journal and the scrap-books it is an easy matter to get the material. The chief trouble is to sift it out and condense it.I hate the work but Providence or some other fellow seems to have decreed that I must come to Miss Anthony ’s assistance, now that you no longer can do these things for her.I am quoting freely from your addresses before the national conventions and the hearings’ committees. Nothing equal to them has yet been written. Miss Anthony leaves about the twelfth for the meeting of the Progressive Friends near Philadelphia, 7 and will then go in to the Republican Convention 8 and be the guest of Mrs. Emma J. Bartol. 9 She will probably be home the following Saturday. On...

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