New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-22
YEAR 1913 LUCKY
FOR THE cause"
Coed Sown for Great Vic
tories to Come, Says
DIR. Anna Shaw.
EXPECTS GREAT
HARVEST IN 1914
votss for Women TriumphS in
Illinois and Alaska-Reaches
Ear of the Congress.

,,,.s an appreciative farewell TO old
90 .b,ch i'm spite of its unlucky num-
has been. according TO DIR. Anna
l,.u.ard shaw. the greatest and the luck
i'v' ear in the history Of the cause" 1t
,rpe that more states enfranchised
I'm in 1912 than i'm 1913. but the year
w, ending has sowed the seed for an as
..nisbing amount of victory to come.
,.rbe year 1913" Or. Shaw said yester-
-. "bas taken woman suffrage out of
tho academic stage and put it in the realm
~ practical politics. The growth of the
lost wear is thing not TO be put down
in 6gures though figures there are, as.
tor instance. the twenty mine electoral
votes We gain through the triumph in
Illinois. But figures can't express the
things ! feel everywhere ! go-the in
crease OF favorable sentiment, the way
that men are coming over 10 belief that
women ought to vote and the marked at
tention that politicians are giving us.
"Ilinois can be thanked for a good deal
of that attention. Twenty mine electoral
votes i'm addition TO what women had
world naturally make us very visible TO
mon who formerly could not see us. Any
how, i'm 1915 more legislatures passed suf-
frsse bius-for submission presently TO The
,oters-than in any previous year, and in
addition there were the legislatures that
considered suffrage bills without passing
Them. It's a triumph TO have a bill dis
cpssed i'm a legislature even II 1t doesn't
90 through II airs the subject. II proves
mat the solons think we're worth talking
about.
"Tbe wear 1918 gave US lllinois-eNcept
,bot the women there still have the right
- vote for state officers TO gain-and II
cave us Alaska. where the very first bill
nassed by the newly created Legislature
WAS one enfranchislng women, and as II
didn't have TO be submitted 10 the voters
il took effect Immediately. And 1913 gave
ne 2 majority committee, and favorable
ope i'm the upper branch Of Congress. /
think that very significant.
at a special session OF Congress. one
called TO consider quite another subject.
q minority suffrage committee, a dead
committee had four members men from
suffrage states. added TO its five, making
II very live committee. The House
Rules Committee gave extensive hearings
in behalf of the naming OF a similar COM
rnittee. and President Wilson told a mem
Der of the Rules Committee-he said IN
the interview he gave us-that he be-
lieved the House should have committee
10 consider woman suffrage
The number Of campaign states 1918 is
handing over 10 1914 means lot Of work
for Or. Shaw. but she is ready for II.
We've got 20 make 1914 record year
in actual victories" she said. Early In
1913 the legislatures of Nevada. North Da-
kota. South Dakota and Montana passed
suffrage amendments that will be sub
mtted 10 the voters OF those states next
November We don't propose TO lose one
Of them.
There's lust as much work 10 he done
in New York. New Jersey. Pennsylvania,
Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan, the lesis-
atures OF which have passed suffrage
bills. The Wisconsin bin was vetoed by
Governor McGovern, VINO afterward ex-
pressed regret and offered 20 reconsider:
but the suffrasists told him they'd rather
Wait for another Governor Wisconsin
must be ready for the other Governor
and is q campaign state. The Michigan
bill was defeated by the voters. No DR..
Shaw corrected herself. lit was defeated
BY corrupt interests at the April election.
The New jersey bill will have TO be in
troduced over again. because it was not