our duty to be partisans. Woman suffrage is
not the only issue. In almost every political contest one party
is right and the other wrong. Everybody is bound to do what he or
she can to promote the success of the right side. If no moral
questions were involved, political contests would be ignoble and
insignificant. We value suffrage mainly because questions of
right and wrong are settled by votes....

Every woman, equally with every man, should be affiliated with
some political party.... Every manifestation by women of
intelligent interest in political questions helps woman suffrage.
Political questions necessarily become party questions, for we
live under a government of parties.

A non-partisan attitude is a phrase which needs definition. If
"partisan" means "our party, right or wrong," then no woman and
no man should be a partisan. An attitude of moderation and
conciliation befits every candid person. I am for holding equal
suffrage paramount to ordinary political questions, but I am not
for repudiating party ties altogether. Woman suffrage, though the
most important question, is not always the one to be first
settled. It is not the only question. Voting, though the most
direct form of political power, is not the only political power.
Women's interests and those of their children are involved,
equally with those of men, in every question of finance,
currency, tariff, domestic and foreign relations. They have no
right to be neutral or apathetic. So long as they remain silent
and inert they command no attention or respect. I maintain,
therefore, that affirmative political activity, working by and
through party machinery, is the duty of every individual
citizen--whether man or woman.

In States where a suffrage amendment is pending, in meetings
where suffrage is advocated, party politics should be laid aside
for the time being. In religious meetings no distinction should
be made between Republicans, Democrats or Populists. In political
meetings no distinction should be made between Methodists,
Baptists or Presbyterians. In suffrage meetings there should be
no distinction of sect or party. But we hold our individual
opinions all the same.

MISS ANTHONY: I want to say that you can not possibly divide
yourself up as Mr. Blackwell su