e length of the State and the
meetings were just as enthusiastic.

The Citizens' Committee asked women to take part in the Fourth of
July celebration. The women accepted more than the men meant they
should, for they insisted that a woman should be on the program.
The Program Committee refused, and the Executive Committee said
if they did not put a woman on they should be discharged. Instead
of this they proposed that Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper should provide
sandwiches for over 5,000 kindergarten children. That was the
kind of work they invited such women to do.

The Program Committee discussed the matter, and their discussion
could be heard four blocks away, but they finally yielded and
invited me to speak. So Miss Anthony and I rode for three miles
in a highly-decorated carriage, just behind the mayor and
followed by a brass band and the fire brigade, and I wore a big
badge that almost covered me, just like the badge worn by the
masculine orator. The dispute between the Executive and the
Program Committees had excited so much interest that there were
more cheers for your president and vice-president as we passed
along than there were for the mayor....

They wanted us both to come back in the fall. I went and spoke
thirty-four times in thirty-seven evenings.

As the vice-president finished, Miss Anthony observed in her
characteristic manner: "Miss Shaw said she only went to California to
hold Miss Anthony's bonnet, but, when we left, everybody thought that
I had come to hold her bonnet. It is my delight to see these girls
develop and outdo their elders. There is another little woman that I
want to come up here to the platform, Mrs. Chapman Catt. While she is
blushing and getting ready, there is a delegation here from the
Woman's National Press Association." Mesdames Lockwood, Gates,
Cromwell and Emerson were introduced, and Miss Anthony remarked: "Our
movement depends greatly on the press. The worst mistake any woman can
make is to get crosswise with the newspapers."[105]

By this time Mrs. Chapman Catt had reached the platform, and Miss
Anthony continued: "Mrs. Catt went down South with me last year to
hold my bonnet; and wherever we were, at Memphis or New Orleans or
elsewhere, when she had spoken, Miss Anthony was nowhere. It is she
who has done the splendid organization work which has brought into the
associatio