has presented the subject to more national conventions
of various associations. In early days this was because she was one of
the few who had the courage to take this new and radical step, and
also because she was the only one who made the suffrage the sole
object of her life and was ready and willing to work for it at all
times and under all circumstances. In later days her name has carried
so much weight and she is so universally respected that she has been
able to obtain a hearing and often a resolution where this would be
difficult if not impossible for other women. However, in national and
State work of this kind she has had the valuable co-operation of the
ablest women of two generations. In no way can the scope and extent of
these efforts be better understood than by reviewing Miss Anthony's
report to the National Suffrage Convention of 1901, as chairman of
the Committee on Convention Resolutions. It is especially interesting
as a fair illustration of the vast amount of work which women have
been doing in this direction for the past thirty years.

After stating that the names and home addresses of most of the
delegates to all the national political conventions of 1900 were
obtained, Miss Anthony submitted copies of four letters of which 4,000
were sent in June from the national suffrage headquarters in New York,
signed by herself and the other members of the committee--Carrie
Chapman Catt, Anna Howard Shaw, Ida Husted Harper and Rachel Foster
Avery.

(To the Republican delegates.)

The undersigned Committee, appointed by the National-American
Woman Suffrage Association, beg leave to submit to you, as
delegate to the approaching Republican Convention, the enclosed
Memorial.

The Republican party was organized in response to the demand for
human freedom. Its platform for the last forty years has been an
unswerving declaration for liberty and equality. Animated by the
spirit of progress, it has continued to enlarge the voting
constituency from time to time, thus acknowledging the right of
the individual to self-representation. This principle was
embodied in the plank adopted at the Chicago convention of 1888,
and has been often reaffirmed: "We recognize the supreme and
sovereign right of every lawful citizen to cast one free ballot
in all public elections and have that ballot duly counted." We
appeal to the Republican party to susta