New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-23
BY Ida Hustled Harper.

a fortnight hence, when the thousands
of New Workers. gather in front of the
newspaper bulletin boards to learn the
election returns, there will be as many
women as men: among the thousands
who stood there last week to get the re-
turns from the Giants and the Red sox
scarcely a woman was seen. Does this
mean that women are much more inter-
ested in the game OF politics than the
game OF baseball? It looks that way.
There were, however, some points in
connection with the recent games which
raised a good many questions In the
minds OF women. AS they passed along
the streets where the bulletins were dis
played day after day. and saw the tens
Of thousands standing there for hours.
they wondered how It happened that
these men had all this leisure. Was II
because women had invaded their field
of labor and taken their jobs? Most OF
them looked fairly prosperous: were
women toiling somewhere OF necessity in
order that these men might be oilers?
Were they Sinking their work in order
to get the score7 Are they the men who
oppose women in politics because their
place Is at home? And couldn't women
go to the polls as long as they lived
without being jostled and damned as
they were in trying 10 pass those wildly
excited crowds?
Then the financial side perplexed wom-
en- who have had economy dinned in
their ears necessarily for several years.
Half mil MID h,t "A
spectators OF these games, according to
the newspapers. and a million dollars
would not cover the bets. There must
have been a good deal Of money lying
around loose somewhere. Women won
dered also II the game was as blood
thirsty as the reports indicated. Did the
Giants knock the tar and most OF the
pitch out OF Wood" while the team
collapsed with the pitcher under wither-
ing volley OF seven hits? 1t was bad
enough that "stahl died stealing" but
still worse to read that "a double killing
would have saved three runs" although
II seems that nobody really was muir
dered. The game is little strenuous and
has its drawbacks-as II appears to
women-but they have no criticism TO
make; all they ask il like forbearance
on the part OF men toward the game
which they are Just now playing with
suffrage as the prize!
Women Understand the Ballot.
Professor Yandell Henderson OF Yale
University strongly approves Of woman
suffrage, but not until the short ballot"
is adopted. With the present long and
complicated one II Is very difficult. he
says, for men TO vote intelligently. and
II would be impossible for women. The
professor put II more politely than this.
but he was not 80 crowded for space.
Tho statement is well authenticated that
in California and those other states
where women vote many OF them have
to instruct the men OF their families, as
they have more leisure, and their clubs
are making a thorough study OF political
questions and candidates. In Oakland
father and son. prominent business men,
brought home n sample ballot for the
wife and daughter TO mark for them, and
while they were doing II the cook came
in with another which her brother a
policeman, had sent her to TX up for him!
II Is amusing 10 see the rivalry here in
New York as TO who suggested using the
public schools for polling places. This
has been done for years in those West