New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-14
THE WoMEN GHO VOTED.
SOME PHASES or ELECTION DAY.

From Tho Boston Transcript
Such ladies' as the Listener has met who voted yes
to-day are very well pleased with the movement
some OF them 10 not care so much for the speclnc
result ia the hallOng as they DO for ne demons
community What especially delights Ii O. "a d Ms
y this morning Who Welded a labOrins Oar Ia tho
suffrage are proved false BY yesterdays experience
" omen won't take the trouble TO vote men ndvo
ai paass %t No8 What wa The result Yesterday
The day an epitomc Of tho DeiuG. and yet inc
vomcns vote as got very fully indeed and ea-
pccially in the precincts where our contemp'uous
male friends would have expected tho far OF wcIns
hornets 10 be greatest. ard NJ on the Back Bay,
contains pretty fair proportion Of NE woman afraid
of-hcr-houu,t element. and YET what vas ne st9ry
women out Of a registry OF seventy VOteL Ia aa
vas he lowest TIporon IN tnf TA ~ TX IP Voted
in precinct e. 149 out % Id voted; and IN precinct
how he mems vote In IA, same ward compared with
the Womca's. and find Tat in every precinct, WIN
te exception Of the first, the proportion OF registered
women Who voted considerably greater than the
Xxx Law And In the fashionable part Of the West
Fnd he story was the same in ~ The precincts
there a friend of mine who had registered was visited
bv one Of the committee haste early In the afct-
non ana toll that She was the only slscrei
In tie procuct who had not voted and that SIC must
hed voted a few minutes before. after the member Of
the committee had LEI, ne loIs ~iSe Se 51'
"a; there any precinct 10 tbs city where The enuio
Tls last oicston was addressed to Crirsby, who
Is well known As scohcg on tie subject 81 woman
suffrage and who had come ~ I'D uuc 10 hear ne Iasa
% this statement scarcely. sall 10 Oh,
here; the women: according 70 tae figure, aidnt
cast but about 1000 voieo-lD.Vi on pap ON ia,
tout II their toal registration OF ~. r,
a lot OF you must have been AFRAID oil getting WEI
That fnlrev said tho lady IS obtained by sub
tracing the total OF Mr. Schindler's vote which was
of Uarts and O'Briens vote, which represented the
whole OF tie male vote. But know perfectly Wen
hat a good many did not vote for MI ochind-
ler They scratched him good dea-don't you smile,
now, at the poor JOKES that yCtt own idis m,na Ssg
Tosenis the minimum of what the women's vote cond
have been Unfortunately mere IS no way OF gellns
noos Jun. - naIv 70 oo9 women must have voted
Grpsby was about to make some cynical remark
bur Mrs Y did not stop TO listen 70 IT, .,o
And here Is this very signlnc H, thlng ne
below the registry must have been in south Boston
at the Moth End, and IN Tho other quarters where
any figure, because tie women who voted were ex-
heads so there IS that masculine objection to WON
sake Of this pfoof am Just glad that the weather
yesterday was outrageous, ms iead OF being line, Ike
Tii "a nrobablv enoua. Of this little dalorie-Mrs
Y made 10 more OF a mOnoiogue than dialogue,
~, ~ ~ CONAN Suffrage cause But since This con.
versaiion the Listener has heard OF any number OF
woman suiiragsfs derive satisfaction. OF the
lsoIute decorum which maintained at all the
polling places 81 the main sources OF con
rraiulstoa. The male politicians were considerably
surpTised at tie saeaciiy and "smartness' Of the
women ballot distributions IN discovering the split
tickets and other electoral tricks. and thoir peril
nacity In circunventinc them In one ward, where
diversion hal been made by putting upon the school
committee ticket a name Of man who had refused
10 run and where another name had been purposely
misspeled. the ladies' politely pursued the voter.
with the informal ion hat the ticket fraud, ana
their warfare upon this ticket effective that
NOT one ~ lie split ticesthonGh they had been pro
pared with good deal OF expcnse-got into the ballot
iuN In spite Of their ncwncss 10 the polling place
and tho tricks Of the politicians ne women yesterday
certainly showed themselves sharp-eyed and self
pos sessef Their frminin' Qul~kness j. likely % PVT
u new Stumbling block into the way OF managers WHO
undertake produce political results by pure iflck-
cry.