New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-07
SUFFRAG|STS IN HIGH
GLEE OVER VICTORIES
They Claim Seventy Electoral
Votes and Predict Full
Triumph in Decade.
BETSY R0SS-ING THE FAD
Sewing on Stars a Popular Pas
time-English Sister Sends
Gable Message of
Cheer.

Cheer.
II was the greatest victory in the his
tory OF woman suffrage, and the women
certainly made the most OF 1t. From the
national headquarters, at No. 5S Fifth
avenue, where DR.. Anna Howard Shaw
received excited friends and congratula-
tory kilograms all day long. down past
Mrs. Belmonts lunch room. where new
flag was flying In honor Of the occasion,
past the party" and the state" at 34th
street down to the "Blatch place" In 18th
street, where a jubilee meeting was being
arranged. the suffragists were out In
force. hurrying from one place to another
TO tell one another how glad they were.
ut is the beginning OF the end DR..
Shaw asserted. at isn't the mere WIN
ming Of four states. 1t means that the
complete victory is at hand Within ten
years every state In the Union VIII admit
its women to citizenship. and the United
States will really be a republic.
why. this very winter We VIII surely
carry Nevada, for the bill has passed the
Legislature once already. and IN SIX more
states the question will be submitted 10 the
people next year Wen get New YORK IN
1915, and the rest will be easy.
Claim 70 Electoral Votes.
Here is a telegram" she went on, l
received from Miss Lucy b. Anthony the
niece. you know. of Susan B. Anthony II
reads
Glory be, Michigan. too! NOW we
have seventy electoral votes!
"And so we have" DR.. Shaw con-
ti,ued. I'VE had thIrty-seven before. and
Yesterdays victories give us thirty-thre@
more: Michigan, fifteen; Kansas teh'
oregon. FIVE, and Arizona, three "heh
we get a majority Of electoral votes We
can hope for a federal amendment.
TT is not only victory for the women
Of America, either. England Is watching
US | had a cable message from MIS-
Henry Fawcett, one Of the English lead
ers. She said:
"A victory in one OF your states woulo
mean hope for England; in NUMBER ~
would mean victory for Great BRITAIN
DIR Shaw was down at her ONCE at
o'clock Yesterday morning. She routed
the elevator boy up out Of morning nap
death by bouncing out at him when he ar
rived with the early papers Then she
took the big map of the United States
and linked in the four more suffrage states
Michigan. Kansas. Arizona and Oregon
This she hung, still wet out In the hall,
for the ediacatlon OF the elevator boys
and her stenographers when they should
arrive at S o'clock.
After that she sent kilograms 10 all the
victorious states. and one TO Wisconsin,
where the amendment was lost, telling
the women there they had won anyway
because those who battle for the right
could never lose.
Anxious Moments.
Only the doubt upon Oregons verdict
clouded the Joy of the national pres!-
dent. When the kilograms began 10
come saying that the votes were running
close and the result was confused the
plucky little woman dropped.
"Oh. do hope we don't lose Oregon"
she sighed, and there was almost tear
in her voice. There were several tears in
tho eyes OF those around her when
they recalled how DR.. Shaw had worked
all the hot summer. travelled 1900 miles
and come home feeling sure OF oregon.
However. there Is lots OF fight left in
the suffrage leader.
II feel sure" she said. that we won
in Oregon. II they count us out, as they
did before out there, We'll fight. Yes,
we will. Wen bring legal action against
the election authorities. IL will cost S20,-
900. but We can raise II somehow"
Yes" cried Miss Caroline Reilly, press
chairman for the National I'm ready to
give my last cent, and so are others.
We're mad clean through"
A telegram was received from Mrs.
Frances w Munds. president Of the Arr
zona suffragists, and another from Mrs.
l. ]. Johnson, president OF the Kansas
suffrage association. telling OF the VIC
tories.
II know one person who Is happy To-
day." said DR.. Shaw. displaying the pict-
ure Of handsome child. THAT Is this
little boy, Mrs. Johnson's grandson. He
worked hard for the women. He's only
three years old. but he just loves to give
out yellow suffrage papers.
Boy Was the Mascot.
He was the Kansas mascot He worked
In Ohio. too, where his mother Is a SUI
fragist He felt very bad when he lost
Ohio. Then he went to Kansas to visit
his grandmother. and had better luck out
there. Bless his heart know he's happy
to-day.
1--WE are not surprised at losing Wilson,
sin, though We feel very sorry It had to
be. because the women made such a splen-
did fight there; but with the liquor in
terests in Milwaukee It was impossible to
win, OF course. The state was flooded with
anonymous anti-suffrage literature. The
Rev. Olympia Brown led the fight In Wis
consin, assisted by all the members Of the
1 a Enllette family The ScandInaviana In