New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-07
WOMEN VOTERS AVOID
PARTY AFFILIATIONS
Official Count Of Presidential Election Dem
onstrates This-The Allied Anti
Sufragists.


women have associated themselves to-
gether to make common cause with these
forces. Their position is not one OF igno-
rance, for they openly rejoiced and con-
graduated themselves over the threat
ened defeat of the suffrage amendment
In Michigan at the very moment when
the dispatches announced: "A saloon
keeper and poolroom keeper have
brought suit to have the favorable vote
Of two counties thrown out on technl-
cality." After the courts decided ad-
versey these 'antls" at their meetings
and in the papers declared that the
probable defeat i'm Michigan gave them
hope and courage. although the Governor
had just issued an official statement de
nounclng the liquor interests for their
attempt to defeat the will OF the people
by fraud" and saying: Those most
feared are certain election crooks in GER
tain election precincts, who would not
hesitate to do anything they thought they
could get away with"
Do Women Want to Vote?
For long time the only argument left
to the opponents of equal suffrage has
been that the vast majority Of women do
not want IT, The great outpourfnS OF
women TO vote IN the six states Where
they are allowed TO do so, II was sup
posed, had silenced this overworked dec
laration, but Immediately after this last
election the "antis" are using columns
OF space in the daily papers to repeat IT,
The sense Of humor was left out In their
makeup. This has been the cry In Ore
gon ever since women began to ask for
the ballot, and the little ANTI" society
in Portland kept it flying at the mast
head. The women were enfranchised on
November 5. four weeks later number
OF cities have just held elections and the
press dispatches are headed: Women
Flock to the Polls! Forty Per Cent OF
the Voters Are Women" AS this is prob
ably the proportion Of women to men In
that state the conclusion must be that
they voted quite as generally as men
This Is the record in all OF those six
states and il has been the record ever
since the women were enfranchised. az
may Re verified by the election statistics
There is but one way TO prove whether
women want 10 vote and that is 10 give
them a chance. Gilbert and Sullivan In
their most hilarious moments never
imagined anything so ridiculous as the
half column letter OF that member OF
the New York association, published
this week, just after the Oregon election,
and beginning: The last census gives
the number OF women OF voting age in
the United States as 100000 or this
number those who desire the vote, ac-
cording 10 the Suffrage Society OF this
CITY. amount to 100000. Now IL We sub
tract this number from the whole We ma
there are q 10000 who do not desire the
ballot What sort OF justice Is II that
these q 10000 women should be forced
TO vote against their will by 3OcleJ!
After begging that this terrible inJusucs
shall not be perpetrated against these
helpless beings the letter closes: Have
We 81 10000 women no rights-we who be-
Iieve Il is for the good OF our country
and our own sex that we should not vote?
In the holy name of justice give us our
'woman's rights"
La! la. did anybody ever read such rot?
In the first place. the last census gave
only 4i.6400Oo females in the United
States and IL is impossible that more
than half are OF voting age. Then there
are 2es2,ooO more males than females SO
the men would be able 10 counteract the
harm that women would do 10 the couh'
try and their own sex by voting. Nhat
they probably tried to tell the frightened
sister at the suffrage headquarters was
that 100000 women are already entitled
to vote, although that is AN eXaggera-
ton OF several hundred thousand. NO
body knows how many women want 10
vote. but Judging by the test OF those
who do vote when they are allowed u
the number is about % per cent OF the
whole Now. I'm the holy 1ame OF justice.
what right have that little 10 per cent OF
"antis'' 10 act as a stumbling block
Enalsnd's Desperate Women.
When the Psthick-Lawrences parted
company with the Pankhursts because
they could not indorse their future pro-
sramme OF militancy there was much sur-
mise as TO what further extremes IT might
be carried. This begins TO be evident IN
the destruction OF mail In boxes III tue
leading business sections OF LONDON ana
In the reported intention TO use oofnos'
To scores OF thousands OF suffragists IN
Great Britain, this will cause the deep
est sorrow and Indignation, for they sfs
az law-abiding as are those In the United
States and all other countries. Ihese
actions seem 10 be deliberately sane
toned by Mrs Pankhurst with the OBJECT
OF terrorizing the government into grant
ing the demands OF women for the fran
chise. $3.50.
In the midst OF the condemnation "nich
will be almost universally expressed the
fact must not be lost sight Of that In no
other country in the world have men
treated women who ask for the sunrsse
as have the men that compose the gov
eminent OF Great Britain. Nowhere else
have there been such unfairness, deceit
treachery and brutality. and these have
not been caused by the militant actions
of the women. but are themselves what
have driven the women TO militancI
Under similar treatment IL Is not az al
that the women OF other
countries would have retaliated In a Ike
manner
PRAISES CHINESE DRESS