ew York Graphic, contained outrageous cartoons.

Immediately after registering Miss Anthony had gone to a number of the
leading lawyers in Rochester for advice as to her right to vote on the
following Tuesday, but none of them would consider her case. Finally
she entered the office of Henry R. Selden, a leading member of the bar
and formerly judge of the court of appeals. He listened to her
attentively, took the mass of documents which she had brought with
her--Benjamin F. Butler's minority report, Francis Minor's resolutions,
Judge Riddle's speech made in Washington in a similar case the year
previous, various Supreme Court decisions, an incontrovertible array of
argument--and told her he would give her an answer on Monday. She
called then and he said: "My brother Samuel and I have spent an entire
day in examining these papers and we believe that your claim to a right
to vote under the Fourteenth Amendment is valid. I will protect you in
that right to the best of my ability."

Armed with this authority she cast her vote the next day, and advised
the other women to do the same. As the inspectors hesitated to receive
the votes, Miss Anthony assured them that should they be prosecuted she
herself would bear all the expenses of the suit. They had been advised
not to register the women by Silas J. Wagner, Republican supervisor.
All three of the inspectors and also a bystander declared under oath
that Daniel J. Warner, the Democratic supervisor, had advised them to
register the names of the women; but on election day this same man
attempted to challenge their votes. This, however, already had been
done by one Sylvester Lewis, who testified later that he acted for the
Democratic central committee. The general belief that these ladies
voted the Republican ticket may have influenced this action.

About two weeks after election, Monday, November 18, Miss Anthony
received a call from Deputy United States Marshal E.J. Keeney who, amid
many blushes and much hesitation and stammering, announced that it was
his unpleasant duty to arrest her. "Is this your usual method of
serving a warrant?" she calmly inquired. The marshal, thus encouraged,
produced the necessary legal document.[67] As she wished to make some
change in her dress, he told her she could come down alone to the
commissioner's office, but she refused to take herself to court, so he
waited until she was ready and then declined her suggestion that he put
handcuffs on her.