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70 & 3 may 1896 remained in our mouths for over thirty years. But The Call promises to do yet more, and its promise will be kept. In the most public and irretractable manner that grand paper has espoused our cause. With such an advocate how can we fail?” Y San Francisco Call, 4 May 1896. 1. Thomas Starr King (1824–1864), a legend in San Francisco, entered the Universalist and Unitarian ministry as a protege of Theodore Parker and by 1848 was one of Boston’s leading clergymen at the Hollis Street Unitarian Church. After moving to San Francisco in 1860 as a Unitarian missionary, King played an important part in keeping California in the Union during the Civil War. (ANB.) 2. SBA spoke on the need for universal suffrage at Fourth of July celebrations in Ottumwa, Kansas, in 1865. See Papers, 1:550, and Film, 11:190–98. 3. George III (1738–1820), king of England, reigned at the time of the American Revolution. 4. This self-promotion on the part of the San Francisco Call, conducted through the mouth of a newsworthy individual, was characteristic of its style and, in the wake of its editors’ endorsement of woman suffrage, evident in every report of SBA speaking in public. ••••••••• 24 • From the Diary of SBA [3–4 May 1896] Sun. May 3, 1896. Rabbi Voorsanger Colored Church—Mr Meacham— Pastor—1 The Call—came out this morning for woman suffrage—with great head lines—declaring it was till election & victory won—, & we sent off 500 copies east & west—& in the state— Mr Noble2 of The Examiner called—the boy left my article at the Business office—so Mr Noble didn’t get it till this a.m.— he wants more frequent articles — will telegraph Hearst3 if the paper shall come out for the am’t— it would be too good to believe—if both nthep Republican & Democratic leading papers should champion us editorially— 1. J. P. Meacham was thought by the San Francisco Call to be already removed from his job as pastor of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church because “his exhortations did not bring congregation or revenue to the church.” Later in May the church was threatened with the loss of its building to pay a judgment ^ 71 against it for one of Meacham’s temporary replacements. (City directory, 1896; San Francisco Call, 23 May 1896.) 2. Francis Lester Hawks Noble (c. 1867–1948) had been a college chum of William Randolph Hearst at Harvard and followed him west to work as an editor at the San Francisco Examiner.Although he eventually joined Hearst in New York to work at the Journal and later the World, he stayed in San Francisco until 1896 or 1897.(Harvard College,Class of 1888. Secretary’s Report No. IV [December 1898], 77; Aldice G. Warren, ed., Catalogue of the Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity [New York, 1910], 515; New York Times, 4 February 1948.) 3. William Randolph Hearst (1863–1951) owned the San Francisco Examiner, the first newspaper in his media empire,though he had by this date moved to New York City to publish the New York Morning Journal. (ANB.) Mon. May 4, 1896. In San Francisco Woman’s Congress of the Pacific Coast opens this day1 1. Starting in 1894, a Woman’s Congress gathered annually in San Francisco to bring disparate organizations of women along the Pacific Coast into conversation . SBA attended the congress in 1895, but her trip to Sacramento for the State Republican Convention caused her to miss most sessions in 1896. See Gullett, Becoming Citizens, 74–79, 84–87, and Film, 35:728–43. Y Excelsior Diary 1896, n.p., SBA Papers, DLC. ••••••••• 25 • Theodore W. Stanton to ECS Basingstoke, [England] Sunday, June 14, 1896. My dear Mother: IwroteyouacardfromParisjustbeforestartingtellningp youIwouldgive you some account of the sad affair here.1 Well, I arrived here early Saturday morning with beautiful weather.Hatty broke down for a moment on meeting me but she does not look so worn out as I feared would be the case. She has worked like a Trojan since Thursday. Almost alone, though greatly aided by Alice Blatch2 & by Harry3 in some things, she arranged everything & arranged it admirably. The little coffin, set in the baby carriage, whose wheels were trimmed with flowers; the conservatory off of the parlor where the body lay; the rooms all tastefully ornamented with flowers; two little tables near the coffin holding photographs of you all—Nanny & Cousin Lizzie4 were there—& favorite books & one or two play...

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