ccasional articles." The names of
State chairmen were given and the number of papers they supplied--New
York, 500; Pennsylvania, 336; Iowa, 237; Massachusetts, 97; Indiana,
91; Illinois, 85; Ohio, 63, etc. Mrs. Babcock asked for a vote of
thanks, which was unanimous, to Paul Dana, proprietor and editor of
the New York _Sun_, for having given during the past two and a half
years and for still giving two columns of its Sunday issue to an
article by Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, an unprecedented concession by a
great metropolitan paper. Miss Anthony added her words of praise to
Mr. Dana and to the department which she herself had been largely
instrumental in securing.[10]

One of the most popular addresses of the convention was made by Mrs.
Ellis Meredith of Denver--The Menace of Podunk--a clever satire
showing that narrow partisanship and dishonest politics were to be
found alike in New York and Podunk, Indiana.

Podunk is the place where the country is nothing, the caucus
everything; where patriotism languishes and party spirit runs
riot. It is the centre of intelligence where they hold back the
returns until advices are received from headquarters as to how
many votes are needed. The Podunkians believe it is a good thing
to have a strong man at the head of the ticket, not because they
care about electing strong men but because by putting a good
nominee at the head of the ballot it is possible they may be able
to pull through the seven saloon keepers and three professional
politicians who go to make up the rest of the ticket.... But
there lives in Podunk another class that is a greater menace to
the life of the nation, the noble army of Pharisees. They have
read Bryce's American Commonwealth and have an intellectual
understanding of the theory and form of our government but they
do not know what ward they live in, they are vague as to the
district, have never met their Congressman and do not know a
primary from a kettle drum....

The politician and the shirk of Podunk are the creatures who are
doing their noble best to blot out the words of Lincoln and make
it possible for the government he died to save to perish from the
earth. And between these two evils the least apparent is the most
real. The man who votes more than once is nearer right than the
man who refuses to vote at all. The activity of the repeater in