Ida, as a black woman, did not seem as an able contender against Francis Willard. Yet, she held up her own in the skirmishes that arose between the two of them.

ThingIda readily jumped at the chance to take her campaign against lynching abroad once more in 1894. She was sponsored by the Society for the Recognition of the Brotherhood of Man (SRBM ), headed by Isabelle Mayo. Yet this second trip was peppered with one difficulty after another. Ida's first trial came from a division that had formed between Isabelle Mayo and Ida's friend, Catherine Impey. Impey had written a letter professing love to a sponsor of SRBM, a man named Dr. Ferdinands. Ferdinands did not feel the same way towards Impey and showed the love letter to Mayo. Mayo, becoming distraught at Impey falling for a foreigner (Ferdinands was Asian) and thinking that the woman's actions had tainted the image of the Society, promptly requested that Impey give up her membership. Catherine Impey flatly refused to do this, though Isabelle Mayo succeeded in swaying other members of the Society to her side.

ThingWhen Mayo approached Ida and asked that she condemn Impey as well, Ida shocked her by calmly declining. In Ida's eyes there was nothing wrong with interracial romance; she had addressed that very subject in the Free Speech back in Memphis. Needless to say, Ida's decision did not sit well with Mayo. She influenced the Society to significantly decrease funding for Ida's campaign. No longer would Ida be able to have the extensive speaking tour she had counted upon. With no one else to turn to, she sought aid once again in her friend Frederick Douglass, who wrote her a letter of recommendation that backed her cause.

ThingIda's second trip became even rockier when she got locked in a serious of fiery debates with Frances E. Willard, a prestigious leader of the American Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). Ida never hid from the public her opinions of Willard, whom she stated maintained her high upstanding in society by catering to wealthy whites who were prejudiced against blacks. Ida cited an interview Willard had done in which she claimed, "The colored race multiplies like the locusts of Egypt. The grog-shop is its source of power. Better whiskey and more of it' has been the rallying cry of great dark-faced mobs in the Southern localities where local option was snowed under by the colored vote." Willard had even gone so far as to suggest that blacks were out of control criminals, saying, "The safety of women, of children, of the home is menaced in a thousand localities at this moment, so men dare not go beyond the sight of their own roof-tree." Brazenly, Ida had Willard's interview published in the Society's journal, the Fraternity. When the article came out Willard and her sponsor, Lady Isabel Somerset, were enraged and lashed back out at Ida. As a result, the rest of Ida's trip was hampered by the battle that raged between the two parties. Still, the fact that Ida was even able to hold her own against Willard was in fact remarkable, since Willard had been highly esteemed by England, whereas Ida was seen by some critical newspapers as an annoying firebrand involved in matters way over her head.

ThingDespite all of the turmoil surrounding Ida she did not lose focus of her reason for traveling in the first place: to expose the cruel lynch law that was thriving in the United States. During her tours she met with England's Parliament, spoke to people of Queen Victoria's staff, conducted numerous interviews, and held lectures before thousands of people. As Ida once wrote to Douglass, "I welcome gladly every opportunity to spread the truth and shall continue to do so as long as I am here."