make yourselves the party of the future; it is to do away with a
more extended slavery than that of 4,000,000 of blacks; it is to
secure political freedom to half the nation; it is to establish
on this continent the democratic theory of the equal rights of
the people.

In furtherance of this demand we ask you to adopt the following
resolution:

WHEREAS, Believing in the self-evident truth that all
persons are created with certain inalienable rights, and
that for the protection of these rights governments are
instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of
the governed; therefore,

_Resolved_, That the Democratic party pledges itself to use
all its powers to secure to the women of the nation
protection in the exercise of their right of suffrage.

On behalf of the National Woman Suffrage Association.

MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, _Chairman Executive Committee_.

That the women however, in the campaign of 1880, received the best
treatment at the hands of the National Prohibition party is shown
by the following invitation received at the Bloomington convention:

_To the National Woman Suffrage Association of the United
States:_

The woman suffragists are respectfully invited to meet with and
participate in the proceedings of the National Prohibition
Convention to be held at Cleveland, Ohio, June, 1880.

JAMES BLACK, _Chairman of National Committee._

Per J. W. HAGGARD.

A letter was received from Mr. Black urging the acceptance of the
invitation. Accordingly Miss Phoebe Couzins was sent as a delegate
from the association. The Prohibition party in its eleventh plank
said:

We also demand that women having privileges as citizens in other
respects, shall be clothed with the ballot for their own
protection, and as a rightful means for a proper settlement of
the liquor question.

After attending all these nominating conventions, some of the
delegates[67] went to Wisconsin where the State and National
Associations held a joint convention, in the Opera House at
Milwaukee, June 4, 5. Madam Anneke gave the address of welcome.[68]
Fresh from the exciting scenes of the presidential conventions, the
speakers were unusually earnest and aggressive. The resolutions
discussed at the Indianapolis convention were consi