not a change in plan. Such calm unconcern he could not endure. He
was accustomed to emotional panics. He was not accustomed to a
leader who had weighed every objection, every attack and counted
the cost accurately.

Her ability to marshal arguments for keeping her own followers in
line was equally marked. A superficial observer would rush into
headquarters with, "Miss Paul, don't you think it was a great
tactical mistake to force President Wilson at this time to state
his position on the amendment? Will it not hurt our campaign to
have it known that he is against us?"

"It is the best thing that could possibly happen to us. If he is
against us, women should know it. They will be aroused to greater
action if he is not allowed to remain silent upon something in
which he does not believe. It will make it easier for us to
campaign against him when the time comes."

And another time a friend of the cause would suggest, "Would it
not have been better not to have tried for planks in party
platforms, since we got such weak ones?"

"Not at all. We can draw the support of women with greater ease
from a party which shows a weak hand on suffrage, than from one
which hides its opposition behind silence."

She had always to combat the fear of the more timid ones who felt
sure with each new wave of disapproval that we would be
submerged. "Now, I have been a supporter of yours every step of
the way," a "fearful" one would say, "but this is really going a