The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-04
FAIR SEX A BIG FACTOR
 IN TONfORROW'S ELECTION

For the first time in American polf- es niiI nIofy Se tne mnartan o eta ae speG5 tomorrow's Presidential election in the United States. The ladies are to fornia. Washineton state. Idaho Colorado Utah and Wyoming. It :s estimated that more than a million of the fair sex will have stile right to the polls tomorrow. The States which have granted the ballot to women in 1s,1t nsstionai confssts haye total S 9f Iege- California leads with thirteen votes, Colorado has seven, Washing ton the same number. Idaho and The effect that the votes of women will have on these thfrty-eight cleo toral ballots may be considerable. and will be the next occupant of the White House. All of tias six suffrage States went Republican in the last exception of Colorado, which gave Bryan a plurality of z,sA4. Women have voted for President In Wyorning since 1869, in Colorado since 1893. and in Utah and Idaho since 1898, but this will be the first national election in which the fair sex will vote in gether control twenty votes In the consin and Kansas sthe voters viii amenGmenD giving women the ballot. and the same issue is being fought out in other States Enthusiastic suf- fragfstS predict that before another. four-year period has rolled around. they win have at least twenty stars in their flag.
 Statistics just compiled by the United States Census Bureau show that of the white voters eligible to take part in tomOfrows election, over fsps Hnstn,fd 1T gre of forsssa asa birth dst Ns enaturalized foreigners in the United States About seventy per cent. of the Teutons have been naturalized. shown by the natives of Ireland about sixty-eight per cent; Canada, f1fty-one per cent. England, f1fty-nine e cent. Comparativeiy few of the i'm migrants from southern Europe have taken out their naturalization papers cent. are voters; Hungarians, four teen per cent. and Russians. twenty six per cent l's
 The negro vote is an important one and in many States the black brother holds the balance of bower. In Pennsylvania there are 10000 negro voters; Maryland has 65,0O0; Ken New York about 50.OO0 each; Ohio and Oklahoma about 45, ,0o0 each, and many other States a considerable and possibly deciding number.
 Coming down to rock-bottom facts however. the individual voter, male, or female, white or black, foreign. born or native, has nothing to do with clectfng President of the Unit ed States. The voter merely casts ballot for Presidential eIector. and 532 of the men so chosen will decide on President and Vice President. If they wish. they can choose John Smith of Painted Post as President, or the sporting editor of this news paper, and the sovereign voters can not say them nay. In case tcmor- rows election of electors is so, close that a majority of the electors are unable to agree. the choice of the next President will devo1ve upon the House of Representatives. It does not necessarily follow that the man who receives the greatest number of popular votes will be elected Presi- dent Blaine had more popular votes than Cleveland, and TiIden more than Hayes, but both failed of the Presidency.
 Election Results
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