Evening star., 1912-09-01
VOTE WILL Be SPLIT
California Suffragists Divided
in Political Beliefs.
ALL PARTIES TO GET AID
Clifford Howard, Former Washing
tonian, Discusses
Conditions.

All five political parties which have
presidential candidates in the field will
receive support at the polls in November
from the women of California, according
to Clifford Howard of Los Angeles, edi-
tor of The Woman's Bulletin. who is
visiting in Washington.
Mr.. Howard was a resident of the capi-
tai for nearly twenty years. and for a
large part of the time was assistant
secretary to the Commissioners of the
District. Accompanied by his wife and
daughter Hildegarde he is visiting Mrs.
Howard's parents, Capt. and Mrs. w. w.
Case of oO7 New Jersey avenue north
west.
In Los Angeles, where he has resided
for six years, he took a leading part in
the California woman suffrage campaign
last year. On his way he spent week
in Ohio, at the invitation OF the Woman
Suffrage Association of that state, MAX
ing addresses in various cities on behalf
of equal suffrage, and has been invited
to Kansas. Wisconsin and Arizona,
where suffrage campaigns are under way.
He will address a mass meeting on wom-
an suffrage at the Chevy Chase library
building Monday evening, September 16.
Results in California.
In speaking of the results of women's
suffrage in California, Mr.. Howard yes
terday said:
$50 we'll has woman suffrage worked
out in practice that it would be diff
cult matter today to find real anti
suffragist anywhere in California. There
were tens of thousands of them before
the election last October, but the actual
results of the new political order have
so completely and conclusively dlsproven
all the opposition arguments that every
one is obliged now to concede the value
and the righteousness of equal Suf-
frage.
The contention that women will not
vote if given the ballot was answered
in Los Angeles within two months after
the October election. During that short
time 80 per cent of all the women of
Los Angeles registered. and at the
municipal election in December IS per
cent of them came out and voted-a
record never equaled by the men.
Refining Influences.
ALREADY the refining influence of the
woman in politics has manifested itself
in the changed character of the polling
places. Men are no longer willing to
tolerate quarters that are unfit for their
mothers and wives and daughters. At
the presidential primary election last
May we used forty-three schOolhouses
and eight churches and a large number
of tents, and every other place chosen
was selected with view to it's fitness
for women.
while. of course. a majority of the
women of California are progressives.
there are. nevertheless. large numbers of
each of the other parties. The California
Woman Democratic League has many
thousand members. There are probably
100000 woman democrats in the state.
There are also numerous women's Taft
leagues throughout the state, and the
socialist party and prohibition party
have thousands of women enrolled under
their banners. All of which goes to
demonstrate that the women have their
individual political tastes and opinions as
we'll as the men. and that they will not
combine together as a class and work
havoc with the business affairs of the
state and nation as many of the .antis'
seem to fear
Mr.. Howard. naddition to ching editor
of the Woman's Bulletin. is president of
the Evening City Club of Los Angeles;
secretary Of the Los Angeles Society of
Special Hygiene and president of the
Southern California League for Home
Rule in Taxation