balance of power which could not fail to compel the party of
highest intelligence to proclaim woman suffrage the chief plank
of its platform . . . . Until that good day comes, I shall
continue to invoke the party in power, and each party struggling
to get into power, to pledge itself to the emancipation of our
enslaved half of the people . . . ."

She did not live to see enough states grant suffrage in the West
to form a balance of power with which to carry out this policy.
She did not live to turn this power upon an unwilling Congress.
But she stood to the last, despite this temporary change of
program, the great dramatic protagonist of national freedom for
women and its achievement through rebellion and practical
strategy.

With the passing of Miss Anthony and her leadership, the movement
in America went conscientiously on endeavoring to pile up state
after state in the "free column." Gradually her followers lost
sight of her aggressive attack and her objective-the
enfranchisement of women by Congress. They did not sustain her
tactical wisdom. This reform movement, like all others when
stretched over a long period of time, found itself confined in a
narrow circle of routine propaganda. It lacked the power and
initiative to extricate itself. Though it had many eloquent
agitators with devoted followings, it lacked generalship.

The movement also lost Miss Anthony's militant spirit, her keen
appreciation of the fact that the attention of the nation must be
focussed on minority issues by dramatic acts of protest.