and the little Spartan band on the other. The contest was as
exciting as it was brief, and despite the great odds of money,
official power, political superiority, and the perfect machinery
of party organization in favor of her opponents, Mrs. Gordon
received about 200 votes, besides as many more which were
rejected owing to some technical irregularity. Among those who
took part in that novel campaign and deserving special mention,
was the venerable pioneer familiarly called Uncle Jarvis, who had
voted a straight Whig or Republican ticket for fifty years, and
who for the first time in his life scratched his ticket and voted
for Mrs. Gordon.

In July, 1871, California was favored by a visit from Mrs.
Stanton and Miss Anthony, who awakened new interest wherever
their logical and eloquent appeals were heard. Their advent was
hailed with joy, and they received marked attention from all
classes, the clergy not excepted. Every lecture given by them
drew out large assemblies of the most influential of the
citizens. Indeed, they received a continual ovation during their
stay in San Francisco. After Mrs. Stanton returned to New York,
Miss Anthony remained and traveled in California, Nevada, Oregon
and Washington Territory several months, speaking at conventions
held in San Francisco and Sacramento, besides lecturing in all
the principal towns, winning for herself great praise, and a
deeper respect for the cause she so ably represented. A
complimentary banquet was tendered her in San Francisco on the
eve of her departure eastward, at which eighty guests,
distinguished in art, literature and social life, sat down to a
sumptuous collation spread in the Grand Hotel.

In the early part of that year, 1871, Hon. A. A. Sargent and wife
returned to California from Washington, his term as
representative having expired, and both took an active part in
the work of woman's political enfranchisement. Mr. Sargent, with
commendable bravery, which under the circumstances was indeed a
test of courage, delivered an address in favor of woman suffrage
at a convention held in San Francisco, just on the eve of an
important political campaign, in which he was a candidate for
reelection to congress, and also to the United States Senate. Of
course, those opposed to woman