of the
territory, who was a Republican and had been appointed by the President,
the members passed the bill and put it up to him to veto. To their
combined horror and amazement, the young Governor did nothing of the
kind. He had come, as it happened, from Salem, Ohio, one of the first
towns in the United States in which a suffrage convention was held.
There, as a boy, he had heard Susan B. Anthony make a speech, and he had
carried into the years the impression it made upon him. He signed that
bill; and, as the Legislature could not get a two-thirds vote to kill it,
the disgusted members had to make the best of the matter. The following
year a Democrat introduced a bill to repeal the measure, but already
public sentiment had changed and he was laughed down. After that no
further effort was ever made to take the ballot away from the women of
Wyoming.

When the territory applied for statehood, it was feared that the
woman-suffrage clause in the constitution might injure its chance of
admission, and the women sent this telegram to Joseph M. Carey:

"Drop us if you must. We can trust the men of Wyoming to enfranchise us
after our territory becomes a state."

Mr. Carey discussed this telegram with the other men who were urging
upon Congress the admission of their territory, and the following reply
went back:

"We may stay out of the Union a hundred years, but we will come in with
our women."

There is great inspiration in those two messages--and a great lesson, as
well.

In 1894 we conducted a campaign in New York, when an effort was made to
secure a clause to enfranchise women in the new state constitution; and
for the first time in the history of the woman-suffrage movement many of
the influential women in the state and city of New York took an active
part in the work. Miss Anthony was, as always, our leader and greatest
inspiration. Mrs. John Brooks Greenleaf was state president, and Miss
Mary Anthony was the most active worker in the Rochester headquarters.
Mrs. Lily Devereaux Blake had charge of the campaign in New York City,
and Mrs. Marianna Chapman looked after the Brooklyn section, while a
most stimulating sign of the times was the organization of a committee
of New York women of wealth and social influence, who established their
headquarters at Sherry's. Among these were Mrs. Josephine Shaw Lowell,
Mrs. Joseph H. Choate, Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi, Mrs. J. Warren Goddard,
and Mrs. Robert Abbe. Miss Anthony, the