in the History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. II, p. 340, and in the
Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, p. 304. They, with Abby Hopper
Gibbons, daughter of Isaac T. Hopper, and Elizabeth Smith Miller,
daughter of Gerrit Smith, previously had sent an earnest letter to the
National Republican Convention which had met in Chicago in June,
asking in the name of the women who had rendered the party such
faithful service during the Civil War, that it would recognize in its
platform their right to the suffrage, but the letter received no
notice whatever.

From that year until the present a committee of women has attended
every national convention of all the parties, asking for an
indorsement or at least a commendation of their appeal for the
franchise. Sometimes they have been received with respect, sometimes
with discourtesy, and occasionally they have been granted a few
minutes to make their plea before the Committee on Resolutions. In but
a single instance has any one of these women, the most eminent in the
nation, been permitted to address a Republican convention--at
Cincinnati in 1876. Twice this privilege has been extended by a
Democratic--at St. Louis in 1876 and at Cincinnati in 1880. A far-off
approach to a recognition of woman's claim was made by the National
Republican Convention at Philadelphia in 1872, in this resolution:

The Republican party, mindful of its obligations to the loyal
women of America, expresses gratification that wider avenues of
employment have been opened to woman, and it further declares
that her demands for additional rights should be treated with
respectful consideration.

Again in 1876 the national convention, held in Cincinnati, adopted the
following:

The Republican party recognizes with approval the substantial
advance recently made toward the establishment of equal rights
for women by the many important amendments effected by the
Republican (!) Legislatures, in the laws which concern the
personal and property relations of wives, mothers and widows, and
by the election and appointment of women to the superintendence
of education, charities and other public trusts. The honest
demands of this class of citizens for additional rights,
privileges and immunities should be treated with respectful
consideration.

In 1880, '84, '88 and '92 the women were wholly disregarded. The
national platform of 1888, however, contained t