ntended, and said that
her political flag, if it were to float at all, would be found in
another camp. She would not desert her colors for office. In 1884
Mrs. H. J. Bellangee and Mrs. A. M. Swain were regularly
accredited delegates to the National Greenback convention, held
at Indianapolis, Ind., to nominate a candidate for the
presidency, where they were received with the greatest courtesy.

The annual meeting of 1882, at Des Moines, was remarkable for the
number of clergymen, representing nearly all the different
denominations, who took part in its proceedings, each of the nine
seeming to vie with the others in expressing his belief that the
ballot for woman, as for man, was a right, not a privilege.
Bishop Hurst of the M. E. Church, made an able speech. The
executive committee sent a memorial to the Republican convention,
held in June for the nomination of State officers, asking a plank
in their platform favoring the submission of the woman suffrage
amendment. The request was not granted. Leading politicians who
professed to believe in equality of rights for women feared that
to do so would make too heavy a weight for the party to carry, it
having already incorporated a prohibition plank in its platform.
The committee also interviewed 500 editors, asking them to open
the columns of their papers to the advocacy of woman suffrage.
One hundred and twenty replied favorably, while many were
courteous and others brusque in their refusals.

A committee on legislation (Mrs. Narcissa T. Bemis, chairman) did
good work during this session of the legislature, and also
published a tract composed of contributions from twelve leading
ministers of the State, called "The Clergymen's Tract." This was
sent broadcast. Nine hundred of the clergy were favored with a
copy. The Ministerial Association, held in Des Moines, passed the
following:

_Resolved_, That we are heartily in favor of woman suffrage
as advocated by your association, and regard the same as a
proper subject for pulpit-teaching, and, as opportunity
offers of furthering said cause in our pulpit ministry, we
will avail ourselves of the same.

During this year the State Society contributed liberally to the
Nebraska campaign. Mrs. Nancy R. Allen and Mrs. Mary B. Lee