The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-11

tnan One-I1au LiAC DACSAAANNo u ~
state. Figures at hand, however, in
clude most of the more thicI1iy popu-
lated districts.
San francisco, Oct. 11.-Apparently
the fate of woman suffrage in Cali
fornia depends upon the vote OF san
Francisco. With 1,257 out of 2'fI2 pre-
cincts in the state outside OF san Fran an
cisco heard from woman Suffrage mas
a clear majority of 5,195 votes, the vote
being so. .567 for and 1882 against.
Outside of the counties around san
Francisco bay the state apparently
voted strongly in favor of granting the
ballot to women, and later returns
from the state at large may swell the
majority now standing for woman
suffrage. In San Francisco, however,
the vote was heavily against equal sui
frage. The registrar office up to a.
m. had not been able to tabulate the
returns from the % constitutional
amendments voted on but late returns
last night indicated that the majorit5
against woman suffrage in San Fran
cisco would not exceed five thousand
and might drop below that figure.
Emphatic on Recall.
California voters expressed emphatic
approval of the sO-caIled progressive
legislation fathered by the present
recall of all elective officers, including
the judiciary, was buried under an
avalanche of favorable votes, and the
amendment providing for the initiative
and referendum rolled up a majority
but little less than that for the recall
proposition. The amendments prOvid-
ing for the extension of the powers OF
the state railroad commission over al
public utilities and increasing its rae
making powers also were approved, as
were the amendment providing for a
divided session of the legislature, al
lowing counties to have free holders
charters fixing four years as the mini
mum period for the use of public
establishment of inferior courts, and
making the clerk of the supreme court
an appointive office
Aside from the suffrage amendment
only two provisions, both of lesser po-
litical Importance, are in doubt. These
are No. 19 relating to the issuance of
railroad passes to public officials and
No. p, exempting certain property
from taxation
Heavy Vote on Suffrage.
On the ballots thus far counted, the
suffrage amendment polled the great
est number of votes, the count in 1867
precincts out of 3,143 in the state
showing 6o,96S votes for, and $3.50
against; the recall amendment poIIel
90,367 for and 2S,72S against; the in
itiative and referendum polled 85, ,746 foc
and 27,747 against; the amendment
making the state railroad commission
appointive and increasing its member
ship from three to five received 81 .671
for and 39,625 against. In these four
amendments centered the greatest
public interest. large proportion of
voters failing to mark their preference
on any other of the questions on the
ballot.
One of the paradoxicaI features
shown by the returns was that in San
Francisco where the suffra gists have
carried on an ardent and well managed
campaign, a majority of II, 900 against
was shown in the count of three
fourths of the precincts.
-eeturns up to midnight indicated
majority of 10000 against suffrage but
from that hour returns from interior
cities and from the southern part OF
the. state steadily cut down the ..anti''
majority.