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subject in 1902, and the organization of a new Federal Suffrage Society, did she again take part in advocacy of this cause. But from that time she made it the chief business of her life. She threw herself into the work with utmost enthusiasm; she spared neither time, work nor money. Day and night, in season and out of season, at home in Washington, or abroad in different states where she went to lecture, everywhere and always, she represented the Federal Suffrage idea, and worked for it. Even upon her deathbed she wrote a long letter to the editor of this book describing a plan of work which she hoped to carry out the following winter, and especially urging the importance of maintaining the association for the sake of emphasizing the "original rights of women under the Constitution." This was always a strong point with her.

SUFFRAGE CONGRESS

In connection with the Association she inaugurated a Federal Suffrage Congress at the Panama Exposition in San Francisco, and with the help of the officers of the Association, Mrs. Elizabeth Lowe Watson, the first vice-president; Mrs. William Kent, Mrs. Andrea Hofer Proudfoot, and the president, Rev. Olympia Brown, a three-day congress was carried through in a manner which compared favorably with other congresses at the