by Mrs. Juliet N. Martin,
Miss Olive P. Bray, Mrs. S. A. Thurston and other Topeka women, who
had a collation spread in Music Hall for the delegates on their
arrival. The press gave full and cordial reports. Lucy Stone wrote in
the _Woman's Journal_:

We found the editors of the four daily papers all suffragists.
Among these was Major J. K. Hudson, who took his first lessons in
equal rights on the _Anti-Slavery Bugle_ in Ohio and, reared
among "Friends," was ready to continue the good service he has
all along rendered. Here, too, we found our old co-worker,
William P. Tomlinson, who at one time published the _Anti-Slavery
Standard_ for Wendell Phillips and the American Anti-Slavery
Society, and who a little later, in his young prime, devoted his
time, his money and his strength to the publication of the
_Woman's Advocate_ in New York, of which he was proprietor and
editor. He is now editor of the Topeka _Daily Democrat_. Mr. B.
P. Baker, now editor and proprietor of the _Commonwealth_, did
good service to the woman suffrage cause in 1867 in the Topeka
_Record_. Mr. McLennan, of the _Journal_, is also with us.

The whole convention was interspersed with ringing reminiscences of
the heroic early history of Kansas. Mrs. S. N. Wood, who in the Border
Ruffian days went through the enemy's lines and at great personal
peril brought into beleaguered Lawrence the ammunition which enabled
it to defend itself, came to the platform to add her good word for
equal suffrage. It was a great pleasure to the officers of the
association to meet her and the other early Kansas workers, many of
whom, like Mrs. J. H. Slocum, of Emporia, were old personal friends.

Mrs. Anna C. Wait, president of the Kansas W. S. A. and editor of the
Lincoln _Beacon_, gave the address of welcome in behalf of the
suffragists. Referring to the first campaign for a woman suffrage
amendment in 1867, when Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell spoke in
forty-two counties of Kansas, Mrs. Wait said: "Nineteen years ago when
you came to Kansas you found no suffrage societies and even seven
years ago you would have found none. To-day, in behalf of the State W.
S. A. and its many flourishing auxiliaries, I welcome these dear
friends who come to us from the rock-ribbed shores of the Atlantic,
from the coast of the Pacific, from the lakes of the North and from
the sunny South, a veritable gathering of th