When you consider how much that amount of money would buy, in that age and country, and how usual it was to be scrofulous, when not dead, you would understand that the annual king's-evil appropriation was just the River and Harbor bill of that government for the grip it took on the treasury and the chance it afforded for skinning the surplus.
It happened in Rochester, New York on November 5, 1872, and the event--and the trial for illegal voting that followed--would create a opportunity for Anthony to spread her arguments for women suffrage to a wider audience than ever before. The Vote. Anthony had been planning to vote long before 1872.
Susan B. Anthony found guilty of voting, June 19, 1873. On this day in 1873, Susan B. Anthony, a civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th-century womenâs rights movement, was found guilty by an all-male jury in a Canandaigua, N.Y., courtroom of having illegally voted in the Nov. 5, 1872, presidential election. She let it be known that she had voted the straight Republican ticket.