whatever a candidate's other qualifications for office may
be, he must first of all have a clean record. In the old days, when we
nominated a candidate we asked, 'Can he hold the saloon vote?' Now we
ask, 'Can he hold the women's vote?' Instead of bidding down to the
saloon, we bid up to the home."

Following the dinner there was a large public meeting, at which Miss
Anthony and I were to speak. Mrs. Jenkins, who was president of the
Suffrage Association of the state, presided and introduced us to the
assemblage. Then she added: "I have introduced you ladies to your
audience. Now I would like to introduce your audience to you." She began
with the two Senators and the member of Congress, then introduced the
Governor, the Lieutenant-Governor, the state Superintendent of Education,
and numerous city and state officials. As she went on Miss Anthony grew
more and more excited, and when the introductions were over, she said:
"This is the first time I have ever seen an audience assembled for woman
suffrage made up of the public officials of a state. No one can ever
persuade me now that men respect women without political power as much
as they respect women who have it; for certainly in no other state in
the Union would it be possible to gather so many public officials under
one roof to listen to the addresses of women."

The following spring we again went West, with Mrs. Catt, Lucy Anthony,
Miss Hay and Miss Sweet, her secretary, to carry on the Pacific coast
campaign of '96, arranged by Mrs. Cooper and her daughter Harriet, of
Oakland--both women of remarkable executive ability. Headquarters were
secured in San Francisco, and Miss Hay was put in charge, associated
with a large group of California women. It was the second time in the
history of campaigns--the first being in New York--that all the money to
carry on the work was raised by the people of the state.

The last days of the campaign were extremely interesting, and one of
their important events was that the Hon. Thomas Reed, then Speaker of
the House of Representatives, for the first time came out publicly for
suffrage. Mr. Reed had often expressed himself privately as in favor of
the Cause--but he had never made a public statement for us. At Oakland,
one day, the indefatigable and irresistible "Aunt Susan" caught him off
his guard by persuading his daughter, Kitty Reed, who was his idol, to
ask him to say just one word in favor of our amendment. When he arose we
did