New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-07
LESSONS OF SUFFRAGIST
DEFEAT IN OHIO
That Women Are in Politics to Stay, Is the
Most Pregnant Demonstration OF the
Recent Election in That State

years after an amendment campaign mas
failed and find all their forces loyal ana
ready 20 try again. This will be the case
/ in Ohio. whether they start next year or
later
Some OF the other states undoubtedly
/ will be carried for woman suffrage at the
/ November election. and each one gained
makes the next struggle easier. Legs
3 latures meet iu all the states next win
ter and IN some OF them amendments
I undoubtedly will be submitted. There will
/ be defeats and victories. but the move
ment will go steadily on. state by state.
I Public sentiment IN favor IS constantly
/ increasing. and there is no basis for e1-
/ oect.ng a reaction. Tho entrance OF
women into the public life OF every COM
munitv has made the next step inevitable.
Women in Politics to Stay.
/ The one fact n connection with this
national campaign which stands out most
distinctly is that women are IN politics,
and 10 may reasonably be assumed that
they are IN 10 stay The more than a
million and q third who are voters. OF
/ course. are a. much a part OF the political
I body as men are. and give evidence Of
taking more interest than men n the
issues al stake. Undoubtedly the women
voters will be more than doubled - an
other Presidential campaign. The present
number OF suIrag1sts which runs up into
50 many thousands that they cannot De
counted. will be several tines multi piled.
/ and. as their question vii more and NOR.
] -
| be from now OF IN the midst OF q political
/ contest mort OF the time.
/ FIRST they must interest themselves In
/ the selection OF candidates for the Legs
laturs: then n their election. next 81
/ lobbying for the suffrage bill u n fails
! they must DO the work al over again, n
/ q Passes and the question Is submitted.
/ then comes such campaign as they have
iust had IN Ohio. Where this ends IN
I failure they must 90 back 20 the very BE-
GINNING. az they have done n various
states over and over again. where q re-
suits IN success. then they are N the
very thick OF q polirca! ngnt. az nov n
/ Colorado. California and the rest 81 the
states where they are enfranchised
/ From every point o. view g. rnuEt De
I admitted that women are now IN the
midst OF politics and thi- makes futile
/ one O, the strongest Arguments Agaius,
giving them ths su-rage-that . would
I take them into political re. Whatevgr
/ the evils that vers % foiloV-ahandoned
homes neglected families. d.staste for
marriage. loss az wornanly instinctE-they
are sure 20 come now. whethcr women
get the vote or not T. WASN'T the mere
dropping OF ballot n the box that was
! o. produce This general chaos be- = was
woman n politics. Well. she r. there.
and whatever is % be VIII be. II men
refuse q give her the su-rags cror now
TIL doomsday they never can pot he
hack where she was before she started
out 20 get q.
{ The question men nov have u face "a
whether women shall 20 into POLITICS with
the dignity o. ersranchiserrcrt. which a.
ways commands a measure - respect Or
with the stigma Of Acknowledgement
which always causes a feeling % con
tempt some jealous women were dis
I tributing campaign literature in the lower
part OF New York a few days ago when
d half-crunksn mar attempted 70 inter
I
I panior. they ain't votersf' THIS was
the crude way OF expressing what many
other men feel IN a more Esntlemanly
manner Candidates and party leaders
grasp at stTaws, and.so they welcome the
help or women in the campaign. out the
average man looks upon them as a Joke.
The Truly Feminine Trait
They are amusing-thAt must De id
r1ittsd Their daily interviews may be
described a. the male campaign orators
! speeches n tabloid form. Their eulogies
7 OF their respective candidates are as
much alike a. the platforms those caadi-
dates are supposed 20 stand on. The
Progressive ladies issued a programme Of
the work they expected 20 DO IN the
states where a woman suffrage amend
ment is % be voted on and headed the list
with Nevada. where one has not vet been
submitted Miss Boswell. chairman OF me
Republican Women's Bureau says that
she II for that party because 'fn all ihs
states where women can vote the fran
chise was given them by the Repub-
ncans" which r. not wholly true OF
single state Mrs. YawgeT, president OF
the New YORK women's Republican club.
works for that party because Republican
men always keep their word She has
evidently never tried % get a bill through
the Legislature OF her state
Mrs Hartman. head Of the Democratic
Women's Committee. says they won't
push the suffrage question because their
candidate is on the fence In regard 10 Il.
and he might fan OF. though she didn't
say that one thing that fts him for
the Presidency however. Is that he got a
law IN New Jersey limiting the hours o.
women wage esrners 20 ten a day. But
Governor DIX, or New York. got one At
the same time limiting them 10 nine
hours a day. and that didn't help his !
boom for the Presidency. or late they
have all begun 20 tell what their candi-
date viii do for women and children. but
there the Progressives have cinch. for
their platform promises large In this re-
spcct while the Democratic says not
word or the subject and the Republican
agrees only 10 limit effectively the labor
or women and children" "a pledge OF very
doubtful meaning.
n only the advocates OF woman suf-
frage were doing this most strenuous
campaign work that has yet been done
by women II might be made to bear the
blame OF this as II does 81 everything
else that women take u into their heads