The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-10-22
They viii Be important Factor in
Forthcoming Presidential
Election
HAVE 80 ELECTORAL ' VOTES
Several States viii. Vote, on the
Suffrage Question I.

Washington, d. c., Oct. 22.-In the
| general election two weeks from to-
day women will vote in six states, Cal
ifornia. Washington, Idaho. Colorado,
Wyoming and Utah, a fact which
campaign managers of the various
parties have taken into consideration
While the Progressive party was the
| only one of the three leading political
Of approval to the equal suffrage
| movement the Republicans and Demo-
| cratic leaders have shown their ap-
| probation of the Importance Of that
movement by enlisting the services of
women workers with an eye to the
result I'm the six states In which wom-
en- have been granted the full rights
| of the franchise. These six states
have total representation i'm the
| electoral college of 3S votes, divided
as follows: California Is. Colorado I,
Idaho 4, Utah 4. Washington Z, Wyo-
ming 3.
| According to the last census. Cali
| fornia has a total of 67l.3S6 women
| eligible to vote. For the other five
states the figures are as follows: Col
orado. 213,425; Utah. S5.729; WASH
ington 277.727; idaho, 69,s1s; wyo-
| ming 2S,S40.
/ 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 possibilities. To prove the
| truth Of this statement il Is but neces-
sary to cite the fact that six presi-
| dents of the United States were elect
ed by a smaller number of votes than
those which woman suffrage States
| will control i'm the next electoral col
lege.
Some Statistics.
Statistics show that President
Adams, Jefferson. John Quincy Adams
Taylor. Hayes, and Cleveland were
elected by majority of thirty seven
votes or less. In 1896, John Adams
defeated Thomas Jefferson by two
votes. In 1900 Thomas Jefferson and
Aaron Burr each received 173 votes
| The choice then devolved upon the
house of representatives, with the re-
| suit that Jefferson was elected.
In 1924 none of the candidates for
l annnUh alactnra1
votes to elect, and the choice again
| devolved upon the house of represen-
| tatives, when John Quincy Adams was
chosen. In 1910 Zachary Taylor de-
feated Lewis Cass by just thirty-siy
votes. In 1876. Rutherford b. Hayes
defeated Samuel J. Tilden by one vote
and in 1884 Grover Cleveland defeatee
| James G. Blaine by thirty seven votes
| In addition to the six states ~ir
| which women have been given tho
right to vote for president there arc
| numerous other states in which they
have the rights of limited suffrage
| In fact, there are in the United State
today only nineteen states which have
no form Of suffrage for women, ant
even i'm some of those there are cities
in which women have the right Il
vote for school officials and on tas
matters. The nineteen states are New
ada, Texas. Missouri, Arkansas. Mis-.
sissippi. Indiana, Kentucky, Tennes-
see, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Soutf
| Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia
MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, Rhode Islant
and Maine.
Equal Suffrage Elections.
Kentucky already has felt the en-
tering wedge and before the presiden-
tial election in 1910 IL Is very likel,
that half a dozen or more states
will have adopted woman suffrage, ir
addition to the six now on the roll In
the election two weeks from today the
voters of Oregon, Kansas. Michigan
wisconsin and Arizona will vote on
the adoption of contitutional amend
ments granting the fuil rights Of suf'
frage to women The equal suffrag,
leaders are confident that out OF thes,
five states some are bound to sliT
through In spite OF all the opponents
can do, and good many thousand
voters of the weaker" sex will b.
added to the present million and y
quarter after November 5.
So far the equal suffrage cause has
scored its greatest victories In tn,
far west. No state in 'the east o'
south has yet granted to women the
full suffrage rights. In Ohio. where
u vote on the matter was taken this
summer. the cause was defeated. II IL
believed. and not without reason, tha
the result In the Buckeye state will in
fluence the vote soon to be taken II
Michigan and Wisconsin. In wiscon
stn the suftragIsts are lighting har,
ana have strong hopes of success. I,
IL generally conceded. however. tina,
Kansas Is more likely to adopt the