farewell.
CHAPTER XLVI.
MRS. STANTON'S BIRTHDAY--THE BIBLE RESOLUTION. (1895-1896.) 839-862
Miss Anthony stirs up papers with resolution on Kansas men;
description by Chicago Herald; seized with nervous prostration at
Lakeside, O.; sympathy of people and press; secret of vitality;
letter on maternity hospitals; on "hard times;" on woman's dress;
Mrs. Stanton's birthday celebration; Miss Anthony magnanimously
refuses to take the lead; tribute from Tilton; appreciative letters
from Mary Lowe Dickinson, Mrs. Leland Stanford; Twenty-eighth
Annual Convention; Utah admitted with Woman Suffrage; women of
South Australia enfranchised; resolution against Woman's Bible;
speech on Religious Liberty; grief over action of convention; view
of the Bible; Suffrage will emancipate from Superstition; Nelly
Bly's racy interview; loud call from California; can not refuse but
goes to the Golden State.
CHAPTER XLVII.
THE CALIFORNIA CAMPAIGN. (1896.) 863-893
Effort to secure Woman Suffrage Bill from California Legislature;
State committees formed; county conventions; Mrs. Sargent's
hospitality; work of women throughout the State; attitude of press;
the Call declares for Woman Suffrage; Republican Convention; Miss
Anthony and Miss Shaw before platform committee; tributes to Mrs.
Duniway and Mrs. McCann; Populist Convention; Prohibition
Convention; Democratic Convention; women's ratification;
headquarters opened; principal speakers; great work of Miss
Anthony; social courtesies extended; goes to Portland and Seattle;
can not go to Idaho; Suffrage plank in National Republican
convention repudiated; tour of Southern California; letters to Miss
Willard and Mrs. Peet on holding National W. C. T. U. Convention in
California; action of Chairman Republican State Committee;
attempts of Women to speak at Political conventions; the Call
coerced; the orators "flunk;" Liquor Dealers fight Woman Suffrage;
efforts to register new voters; amount of money raised; Women
outwitted by State officials; Defeat; summing-up of vote; a
touching sight; pleasant campaign; State Suffrage Convention; Mrs.
Sargent's tribute; homeward bound.
CHAPTER XLVIII.
HER LETTERS--BIRTHDAY PARTY--BIOGRAPHY. (1896-1897.) 895-911
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