d that she
had spoken to seventy-five men who were strangers to her, and
secured their promise to vote against the pending amendment.
This, however, must not be mistaken for electioneering.

On Wednesday, August 15, an equal rights mass-meeting was held in
Denver, for the purpose of organizing a county central committee,
and for an informal discussion of plans for the campaign. Judge
H. P. H. Bromwell and H. C. Dillon spoke, with earnest repetition
of former pledges of devotion to the cause, and Gov. Evans said:

Equal suffrage is necessary to equal rights. It is fortunate
that we have in Colorado an opportunity of bringing to bear
the restraining, purifying and ennobling influence of women
upon politics. It is a reform that will require all the
benign influences of the country to sustain and carry out,
and, as I hope for the perpetuation of our free
institutions, I dare not neglect the most promising and
potent means of purifying politics, and I regard the
influence of women as this means.

Major Bright of Wyoming, was introduced as the man who framed and
brought in the first bill for the enfranchisement of women. Judge
W. B. Mills said: "It is an anomalous condition of affairs which
made it necessary for a woman to ask a man whether she should
vote," and referring to all the reforms and changes of the last
half century, predicted that the extension of the franchise to
woman would be the next in order.

The meeting was a full and fervid one, and great confidence of
success was felt and expressed. A committee of seventeen was
appointed[490] and this committee did its full duty in
districting the territory and sending out speakers. Mr. Henry B.
Blackwell, Lucy Stone and Miss Anthony arrived almost immediately
after this, and henceforth the advocates of suffrage swarmed
through the rocky highways and byways of Colorado as eagerly, if
not as multitudinously, as its gold seekers. Mrs. Campbell wrote
to the _Woman's Journal_:

We have now been at work two weeks. Some of our meetings are
very encouraging, some not so much so. But the meetings are
only one feature of the work. We stop along the way and
search out all the leading men in each voting precinct, and
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