The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-11-17

within our grasp. The Socicty women nad
taken up the matter more than ever before,
and we had always been told that II we
could once get them On our side victory
would be easy. l think things looked
| bluer to me just then, she continued,
than they had since Susan was ar
rested for voting in 1872. Many persons
(, have forgotten that arrest and the trial
that followed the next year, but l never
shall, nor will Susan. And see"-here she
took up little black covered book-'-1
keep here for reference as souvenir
printed copy of the official report Of the
trial, together with reports of the speeches
delivered by Susan and Mrs. Matilda JOS
Ign Gage among the people before the
trial. Susan was not alone in breaking
the law Of the land as interpreted by the
Justice who tried her. There were Il, all
told, and We began cur ubiquitous pro
ceedings on the first of the days set apart
for registration that year by marching in
body up TO tie inspectors desk and de
handing that cur names be taken We
were refused at first, but we had counsel
with us. and he expoundcd the law as we
understood it to the inspectors. and Susan
assisted in clarifying their vision, so that
or the next registration day our names
We felt AT last as if we were equal in the
ewes of the law 10 the ward heelers whose
names were inscribed upon the same page.
When election day came, we all voted, one
after the other, although we were chal-
lenged and had to swear our votes in and
had been duly notified that we were 20 be
arrested and punished for daring 70 as
sumo that we were as intelligent and rs
competent TO have a voice in the govern
ment of the country as the tens of thou
sands of men whose chief idea Of pleasure
is the guzzling of whisky, and whose no.
ton of the suffrage is based on the market
price of votes.
Susan Il. Anthony's Trial.
"Well, Susan was arrested, and so were
the inspectors. Those of us who had fol-
lowed Susan in going TO the ballot box
were not taken into custody. 1t was as
summed probably that we were not respon-
sible, but were like lot of little children
and had voted because Susan did and
knew no better The trial was put off from
time to time, and Susan got around as
lively as she could to explain our side Of
the question TO the men of the county, our
political superiors, so that we might have
some show before the jury. Do you know
what they did then? Why, they got
change of veoue' and proceeded to havs
the trial in another county, at Canandai-
qua. but they didn't get ahead of Susan
much. She had made her speech in 80 of
the postoffice districts of Monroe county,
and she then proceeded to repeat it in II
of the postoffice districts of Ontario coun-
~. Moreover, she got Matilda Joslyn
Gage to help her in Ontario county, and she
spoke in CanaDdaigua and 16 other towns
of the county. For some reason they did
not change the venue again. Maybe they
thought it would not be OF any use; that
Susan would insist on having her say,
even if they tried her in Greenland before
jury Of Eskimos, and / guess she would.
1t would have done you good to have
been present at that trial said Miss
Mary while an amused look fitted over
her face. They did not even let il go 70
the jury, possibly for fear that the verdict
might be acquittal. When Judge Hunt,
who presided, was ready to declare Susan
guilty and to pass sentence upon her, he
asked her If she had anything to say why
sentence should not be pronounced. She
told him she had many things to say, and
she said them, too, though he ordered her
TO sit down about every five or six SEN
fences. The court orders the prisoner to
sit down. he would say. 1t will not al
low another word But Susan went right
ON and said all the words she wanted TO.
At last she sat down, and then the court
gave the order, The prisoner will stand
up Then the court sentenced her to pay
a fine of 800 and pay the costs of the pros
ecution. Susan said some more words
then, closing with the quotation, 'Resist-
ance to tyranny is obedience 10 God
Then the court said, Madam, the court
will not order you committed till the fine
is paid.
That made Susan virtually free again,
and she got out of the courtroom as soon
as she could, for it was a frigEtfully hot
day, and, the place being crowded with
spectators. was very uncomfortable. We
had an idea then that victory was not very
far away, hut it seems now to he almost
as far "a ever in the greatest state of the
Union. although the cause is progressing
wonderfully in the states that have been
carved out of that region which was will
derness and desert when Susan was arrest
I'd and tried ss common criminal. -
l. d. MARSHALL