your aid to such nominees; you can not in self-respect work
for such a party. It has repulsed you, pushed you back, said to
you "go hence."

The Republican party, with Grant and Wilson as its
standard-bearers, opens its doors to you. By its fourteenth plank
it invites your aid and co-operation.

Shall it not have it? Women of the South, will you not work for
your own freedom? Women of the North, will you not strive for
your own enfranchisement?

There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune.
But we must take the current when it serves our turn,
Or lose our ventures.

For us to-day this tide has risen; for us to-day the current
serves our turn. Let us lay aside our party preferences. Let us
one and all forget our many grievances of the past; let us forget
the many times we have been ignored, buffeted, and spurned by
politicians. Let us throw our whole influence of voice and pen
into this campaign, and in making it a success for the Republican
party, make it a success for ourselves.

And now an especial word to the Women Suffrage organizations of
the country. Prepare to hold mass meetings in all the large
cities of your States; be ready to co-operate with Republican
committees; send into the election districts your best women
speakers, circulate addresses and documents throughout every
school district; persuade fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons
to work and vote for Grant and Wilson; offer your own votes, as
in many election districts women's votes have already been
received and counted; in every possible way throw the whole
weight of your influence on the side of the Republican party. By
persistent, united action for one party during this Presidential
canvass, the women suffragists of the nation will make themselves
felt as a power by both.

Women speakers, do not hesitate, do not vacillate; let no party
or personal consideration bias you to act against the Republican
party at this momentous crisis. Remember we owe to it a debt of
gratitude that it has made for us this opportunity, that it has
thus launched our cause into the political arena, where it must
go on and on till justice and equality to woman shall at last
triumph in a true Republic; "a government of t