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[May 1894. In hand of Anne Fitzhugh Miller]

AFM's first word for Suffrage —

Madame President —

Ladies and Gentlemen —

Your chairman, Mrs. Sackett, has asked me to say something on the topic — “ Why women taxpayers believe in Equal Suffrage ” —

Not being a tax payer myself — it at once occured to me, that this subject should be presented by some one who has personal experience in this direction, yet my interest in the whole suffrage question is so great, that I could not decline to take part in the work organized by the women of Ontario County —

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At the moment of uncertainty as to my ability to say anything worthy of so notable an occasion and of such a dignified assemblage as this — the problem was solved in a manner, which was to me — & which I am sure will be to you — most satisfactory — I shall have the honor of reading a paper which has been written for this occasion, by the venerable Mother of the Woman Suffrage movement — Elizabeth Cady Stanton.