she boarded the cars and went to St. Joseph where
she met Mr. Train, made the necessary arrangements and returned to
Leavenworth by the first train.

On election day the Hutchinsons, Miss Anthony and Mrs. Stanton, in open
carriages, visited all the polling-places in Leavenworth, where the two
ladies spoke and the Hutchinsons sang. Both amendments were
overwhelmingly defeated, that for negro suffrage receiving 10,843
votes, and that for woman suffrage 9,070, out of a total of about
30,000. These 9,000 votes were the first ever cast in the United States
for the enfranchisement of women. How many of them were Republican and
how many Democratic, and how much influence Mr. Train may have had one
way or another, never can be known; but it is a significant fact that
Douglas county, the most radical Republican district, gave the largest
vote against woman suffrage, and Leavenworth, the strongest Democratic
county, gave the largest majority in its favor.

The Commercial, the Democratic paper of this city, said:

When we consider the many obstacles thrown in the way of the
advocates of this measure, the indifference with which the masses
look upon anything new in government and their indisposition to
change, the degree of success of these advocates is not only
remarkable, but one of which they have a just right to feel proud.
To these two ladies, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
to their indomitable will and courage, to their eloquence and
energy, is due much of the merit of the work performed in the
State.... While in the recent election these ladies were not
successful to the full extent of their wishes, they have the
consciousness of knowing that their work has been commensurate with
the combined efforts of party organization, congressmen, senators,
press and ministers to enfranchise the negro, and that the people
of Kansas are not more averse to giving the franchise to woman than
to the black man.

During the campaign the usual order was for Miss Anthony to speak the
first half hour, making a clear, concise, strong argument for suffrage
as the right of an American citizen, pleading for the negro as well as
for the women, and urging men to vote for both amendments. She then was
followed by Mr. Train, who insisted that it would be one of the
grossest outrages to give suffrage to the black man and not to the
white woman, and pleaded earnestly that the wo