The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1912-10-30

In the general election one week
hence women will vote in six states
California, Washington, idaho,
Colorado, Wyoming and Utah-a
fact which campaign managers OF
the various parties have taken into
consideration. While the Pro-
gressive party was the only one of
the three leading political organi-
cations to give its official stamp of
approval to the equal suffrage
movement, the Republican and
Democratic leaders have shown
their appreciation of the import
ance of that movement by enlist
ing the services of women workers
with an eye to the result in the six
states in which women have been
granted the full rights of the fran
chise. Those six states have a to-
tai, representation in the electoral
college of 38 votes, divided as fol-
lows: California, Is; Colorado, q;
Idaho, q; Utah, A; Washington, z;
Wyoming, 3.
According to the last census Cal
ifornia has total of 671,3 1856
eligible women to vote. For the
other five states the figures are as
follows: Colorado, 213, 425; Utah,
IS, 729; Washington, 277, 1877: Ida
ho, 69,818; Wyoming, 28,840.
That the choice of a President
and Vice President of the United
States in the coming election may
depend upon the votes of the
women in the six states named is
easily within the range of POSSIBLE
titles. To prove the truth of this
statement it is but necessary to cite
the fact that six Presidents of the
United States were elected by a
smaller number of votes than those
which woman suffrage states will
control in the next electoral col
lege.
Statistics show that Presidents
Adams. Jefferson, John Quincy
Adams, Taylor, Hayes and Cleve-
land we're elected by majority of
thirty-seve votes or less. In 1896
John Adams defeated Thomas JEFF
ferson by two votes. In 1900
Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr
zach received 173 votes. The
hoice then devolved upon the
fiouse of Representatives, with The
result that Jefferson was elected.
In 1924 none of the candidates
or President received enougI
electoral votes to elect, and tn
,'holce again devolved pm III
House of Representatives, when
John Quincy Adams was chosen
In 1910 Zachary Taylor defeated
Lewis Cass by just thirty six votes.
In 1875 Rutherford B Hayes de
:eated Samuel j. Tilden by on,
tote, and in 1884 Grover Cleve
and defeated James q. Blaine BY
thlrtv-seven votes.
In addition to the six states il
which women have been given tn,
right to vote for President, there
are numerous other states in whict
hey have the rights of limited
suffrage. In fact, there are in the
United States today only nineteen
states which have no form of suf-
frage for women, and even in some
Of these there are cities in which
women have the right to vote for
school officials and on tax matters.
The nineteen states are Nevada,
Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Mis-
sissippi, Indiana, Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
South Carolina, North Carolina,
Maryland, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island and Maine.
Kentucky already has felt the
entering wedge and before the
Presidential election of 1915 it is
very likely half a dozen or more
states Will have adopted woman
suffrage, in addition to the six now
m the roll. In the general election