tion and
representation are of right inseparable, it is recommended
that you give the people of Iowa an opportunity to express
their judgment upon the proposed amendment at the
ballot-box.

At the request of the State Association, Miss Matilda Hindman was
granted a hearing before the legislature, and most respectful
attention was accorded to her able address. Miss Anthony was also
invited, and, at the suggestion of Mrs. Savery, she engaged the
opera-house. The seats reserved for the members were all filled,
and every part of the house occupied. The day following, the vote
in the House was taken, and carried by 54 to 40. After a careful
canvass of the Senate, it was found that there were ten votes to
spare; but alas! when the day for final action came the amendment
was lost by one vote.[410]

In 1880 Senator Gaylord of Floyd county made a speech, giving
twenty-one reasons why he voted against the submission of the
proposition for the enfranchisement of women, which was published
in full in the Des Moines _Register_, and thus sent broadcast
over the State. Mrs. Bloomer replied to Mr. Floyd through the
same paper, meeting and refuting every objection, thus in a
measure antidoting the poisonous influence of the senator's
pronunciamento.

In the spring of this year Dr. Harriette Bottsford and Mrs. Jane
C. McKinney were appointed by a caucus of Republican women, to
the Powesheik county convention, to choose delegates to the State
convention. They presented their credentials to the committee,
and the chairman reported them as delegates. On motion, they were
accepted--but some men soon bethought them that this was
establishing a bad precedent, and began maneuvering to get rid of
them. This was finally done by declaring the delegation full
without them--two men having been quietly appointed to fill
vacancies after the ladies had presented their credentials. Mrs.
McKinney made a spicy speech, saying they did not expect to be
received as delegates, but wished to remind the men that women
were citizens, tax-payers and Republicans, but unrepresented.

At the Greenback State convention of 1881, Mrs. Mary E. Nash was
nominated as the candidate of that party for State superintendent
of schools. Mrs. Nash declined the honor i