The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 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 2 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
THE SOUTH DAKOTA CAMPAIGN. (1890.) 679-696
Appeals from South Dakota; Miss Anthony lays down the law regarding
National funds; pledges of Farmers' Alliance leaders; contributions
to campaign; goes to South Dakota; Farmers' Alliance and Knights of
Labor form new party and repudiate pledges for Woman Suffrage;
insults at Democratic Convention; Republican Convention has room
for Indian men but none for white women; Miss Anthony's cheerful
letters; hardships of campaign; Mrs. Howell's description of
meetings at Madison; Rev. Anna Shaw's account of crying babies and
drunken man; Mrs. Chapman Catt's summing-up of situation;
statistics of Defeat; Miss Anthony endorsed by State W. C. T. U.
and Suffrage Associations.
CHAPTER XXXIX.
WYOMING--MISS ANTHONY GOES TO HOUSEKEEPING. (1890-1891.) 697-716
Debate in Congress on admission of Wyoming; first majority report
from House Committee in favor of Sixteenth Amendment; Wimodaughsis;
in Boston; letter of sympathy from Lucy Stone; first triennial
meeting of National Woman's Council; Miss Anthony's joy;
Twenty-third Washington Convention; breakfast at Sorosis; letter
from ex-Secretary Hugh McCulloch; leaving Riggs House; letter
describing visits in New England; goes to housekeeping; kindness of
press and people; letter from Adirondacks and John Brown's home;
stirs up Rochester W. C. T. U.; at Chautauqua; describes meeting at
Lily Dale; happiness in keeping house; speaks at N. Y. State Fair;
invites Mrs. Stanton to share her home; calls meeting to admit
girls to Rochester University; speaks at Thanksgiving services in
Unitarian church; appeals from Kansas.
CHAPTER XL.
IGNORED BY THE PARTIES--APPOINTED TO OFFICE. (1892.) 717-735
Mrs. Stanton's last appearance at National Convention; Miss Anthony
made president; home life; attends biennial meeting Federation of
Woman's Clubs; bust made by Lorado Taft; letter approving Southern
Woman's Council; ignored by Republican National Convention at
Minneapolis; "every citizen" does not include Women; bowed out of
Democratic National Convention at Chicago; Frances Willard's
beautiful tribute; at People's National Convention in Omaha; Woman
Suffrage at Chautauqua; campaign of Kansas on Republican platform;
illustrates difference in treatment of same women now and forty
years ago; appointed on Board of Managers State Industrial School;
press comment; addresses mass meeting on including Women in
provisions of New Charter for Rochester; face sculptured on theater
in Dowagiac, Mich.; John Boyd Thacher asks his father's record;
Philip Schuyler objects to his stepmother's statue in company with
Miss Anthony's; Justice Rufus W. Peckham's tribute.
CHAPTER XLI.
WORLD'S FAIR--CONGRESS OF REPRESENTATIVE WOMEN. (1893.) 737-754
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