The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2): Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty YearsHarper, Ida Husted
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The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2): Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years
Harper, Ida Husted
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Mark W. Reynolds, editor of the Democratic paper at Lawrence, agreed to
accompany him; but when the time arrived, although Mr. Reynolds had
joined in the telegram of invitation, he took to the woods, going on a
buffalo hunt without any excuse or explanation. Mr. Train made his
first speech at Leavenworth, Mayor John A. Halderman presiding, Colonel
D. R. Anthony, Rev. William Starrett and other Republicans on the
platform. Laing's Hall was packed with Irishmen and when he first
mentioned woman suffrage all of them hissed, but after he pointed out
the absurdity of letting the negroes vote and shutting out their own
mothers and wives, the tide turned and they cheered for the women. The
next meeting was at Lawrence, and here Mr. Train objected decidedly to
the route marked out, saying it was too rough a trip for any man, and
as Mr. Reynolds had deserted him he was for giving up the tour. Not so
Miss Anthony; she said: "Your offer and his were accepted in good
faith. The engagements have been made and hand-bills sent to every
post-office within fifty miles of the towns where meetings are to be
held. The next announcement is for Olathe tomorrow night. I shall take
Mr. Reynolds' place. At one o'clock I shall send a carriage to your
hotel. You can do as you please about going. If you decline I shall go
there and to all the other meetings alone." He replied: "Miss Anthony,
you know how to make a man feel ashamed."
The next day when the carriage came to the Starretts, for Miss Anthony,
Mr. Train was in it and, with her heart in her throat, she took her
seat beside him. The situation was entirely unforeseen and decidedly
embarrassing, but she never turned back, never allowed any earthly
obstacle to stand in her way. There was a crowded house at Olathe and
when the meeting closed two young men announced that they had been sent
to take Mr. Reynolds and Mr. Train to Paola, and they would have to
leave at 4 A. M. Miss Anthony was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. J. C.
Beach. Next morning they started on time in a pouring rain, stopping at
a little wayside inn for breakfast at six. The meeting was at eleven,
in the Methodist church.
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