ect to do more work
for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before. I have
not been for nearly fifty years in this movement without gaining
a certain "notoriety," at least, and this enables me to get a
hearing before the annual conventions of many great national
bodies, and to urge on them the passage of resolutions asking
Congress to submit to the State Legislatures a Sixteenth
Amendment to the Federal Constitution forbidding disfranchisement
on account of sex. This is a part of the work to which I mean to
devote myself henceforward. Then you all know about the big fund
which I am going to raise so that you young workers may have an
assured income and not have to spend the most of your time
begging money, as I have had to do.

The convention proceeded to the election of officers. Mrs. Lillie
Devereux Blake (N. Y.), who was a candidate for president, asked
permission to make a personal explanation and said: "I have received
from many parts of the United States expressions of regard and esteem
that have deeply touched me. But in the interests of harmony I desire
to withdraw my name from any consideration you may have wished to give
me." Of the 278 votes cast for president Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt (N.
Y.) received 254; eleven of the remaining twenty-four were cast for
Miss Anthony and ten for Mrs. Blake. The other members of the old
board were re-elected almost unanimously.[131]

The Washington _Post_ said: "There was a touching scene when the vote
for Mrs. Chapman Catt was announced. First there was an outburst of
applause, and then as though all at once every one realized that she
was witnessing the passing of Susan B. Anthony, their beloved
president, the deepest silence prevailed for several seconds. Lifelong
members of the association, who had toiled and struggled by the side
of Miss Anthony, could not restrain their emotions and wept in spite
of their efforts at control." The Washington _Star_ thus described the
occasion:

Mrs. Blake not being in the hall, Miss Anthony was made a
committee of one to present Mrs. Catt to the convention. The
women went wild as, erect and alert, she walked to the front of
the platform, holding the hand of her young co-worker, of whom
she is extremely fond and of whom she expects great things. Miss
Anthony's eyes were tear-dimmed, and her tones were uneven, as
she presented to the