In spite of defeat in California, Susan had the joy of marking up two more states for woman suffrage in 1896. Utah was granted statehood with a woman suffrage provision in its constitution and Idaho's favorable vote, though contested in the courts, was upheld by the State Supreme Court. Now women in Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, and Utah were voters. FOOTNOTES: [387] Harper, _Anthony_, II, p. 763. [388] To Elizabeth Smith Miller, July 25, 1894, Elizabeth Smith Miller Papers, New York Public Library. [389] Harper, _Anthony_, II, p. 788. [390] _Ibid._, p. 791. [391] _Ibid._, p. 794. [392] To Clara Colby, July 22, 1895, Anthony Collection, Henry E. Huntington Library. [393] Harper, _Anthony_, II, p. 842. [394] N.d., Anthony Collection, Henry E. Huntington Library. [395] Harper, _Anthony_, II, p. 843. [396] _Ibid._, pp. 844, 859. [397] Ms., Diary, July 10, 1896. [398] Sept. 8, 1896, Anthony Collection, Henry E. Huntington Library. [399] Shaw, _The Story of a Pioneer_, pp. 274-275. AUNT SUSAN AND HER GIRLS The future of the National American Woman Suffrage Association was much on Susan's mind. This organization which she had conceived and nursed through its struggling infancy had grown in numbers and prestige, and she understood, as no one else could, the importance of leaving it in the right hands so that it could function successfully without her. The young women now in the work, many of them just out of college, were intelligent, efficient, and confident, and yet as she compared them with the vivid consecrated women active in the early days of the movement, she observed in her diary, "[Clarina] Nichols--Paulina Davis--Lucy Stone--Frances D. Gage--Lucretia Mott & E. C. Stanton--each without peer among any of our college graduates--young women of today."[400] Even so, she appreciated the "young women of today" whom she affectionately called her girls or her adopted nieces, but she still held the reins tightly, although they often champed at the bit. Recognizing, however, that she must choose between personal power and progress for her cause, she characteristically chose progress. Quick to appreciate ability and zeal when she saw it, she seldom failed to make use of it. When Carrie Chapman Catt presented a detailed plan for a thorough overhauling of the mechanics of the organization, she gave her approval, remarking drily, "There never yet was a young woman who did not feel that if she had had the management of the work from the beginning, the cause would have been carried long ago. I felt just that way when I was young."[401]