followed three hearty cheers for "woman suffrage."[89]

The Leavenworth _Commercial_ of Nov. 14, 1867, had the following
editorial:

A CONTRAST.--Miss Susan B. Anthony and Mrs. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton left yesterday afternoon for St. Louis, from whence they
go to Omaha, and from that place, in company with Geo. Francis
Train, start on a general lecturing tour through the principal
cities of the West and East. Their subject, of course, in all the
places at which they will speak, will be, "Woman Suffrage"; and
we believe they will speak with far more than ordinary
encouragement. Kansas, the only State in which the subject was
ever submitted--though under the most adverse of
circumstances--has spoken in a manner which has rather nerved
than dispirited these tried and faithful champions of their own
sex.

The two propositions were submitted, in this State, under
circumstances wholly dissimilar. While negro suffrage was
specially championed and made the principal plank in the
Republican party--made almost a test of membership and of loyalty
to it and the government--female suffrage stood, not simply as an
ignored proposition, but as one against which was arrayed all
party organizations, whether Republican, Democratic or German.
And yet, notwithstanding this ignoring of the question,
notwithstanding the combined and active opposition of these
powerful and controlling organizations, nearly as many votes were
cast for female suffrage as for negro suffrage.

And if we go outside of our State, and take a look at the
influences that were brought to bear upon our citizens, the
result seems still more striking and remarkable. On the side of
negro suffrage stood Congress, and its policy in the South; also
all the leading radical journals in the country, and that branch
of the pulpit to which radicals had been taught to look for
political wisdom as well as orthodox religious sermons. The whole
enginery of the radical party, and of that party's tactics, was
brought to bear upon the State. Party pride, party prejudices,
and religious beliefs were each and all fervidly appealed to on
behalf of negro suffrage. But in respect to woman suffrage,
matters were far different. Even those in the East, whose
eminence and eloquence had served to throw broadcast the i