Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-06-04
SUFFRAGETS
LOST MICHIGAN

Washington. June o. THE claim
made by suffragists that the over
whelmiIig defeat of m suffrage
In Michigan a few weeks ago vas
due to the liquor interests, has been
crushed by the official figures com
piled and analysed by the election
authorities throughout the state. The
liquor interests are credited with con.
| verting a majority of 760 'agains votes
for women registered in Michigan last
fall, into a majority OF 9u,.14 this
spring. Yet the same interests did o
have enough Influence to make the
majority of counties opposed to equal
suffrage go wet -. "
This Is the opening paragraph OF a
statement issued by the National AS
ISOLATION opposed to WOmn suffrage
and given out today by its Washing.
ton headquarters. The statement is in
of furnishing exact figures to offset
the claims, charges or arguments of
the s%uffragists.
THE following figures continues
the report, ARE peculiarly significant.
They furnish the only reply needed
to refute the desperate efforts of the
suffragists to evade the moral lesson
given them by the voters OF Michigan:
Woman suffrage was defeated in
Michigan by a majority of 96,l44.
Seventeen of the SO counties in
Michigan gave a majority in favor OF
suffrage. urr
Twelve of these 1. are wet coun-
ties. ~ -.. 80.
"In other words, 70 per cent of the
counties giving a majority in favor OF
woman suffrage are wet counties ana
less than 80 per cent of all the coun.
ties giving a majority in favor of wO-
man suffrage are dry counties.
There are in Michigan 80 counties
which are theoretically dry under the
county prohibition system.
"Of these SO socalled dry counties,
% voted against woman suffrage.
Eighty-four per cent of the socalled
cry counties OF Michigan gave sub
stantial majorities against woman SUI.
frage.
There are so wet or %non-prohibi-
ton counties in Michigan, OF which %
voted against woman suffrage.
I'm other words, 7G per cent of the
wet counties of Michigan voted
against woman suffrage as compared
with "a per cent of the dry counties
which voted against woman suffrage.
Twelve counties in Michigan voted
for or against county prohibition on
April Z, 1913. the same day on which
oma suffrage was submitted to the
electors for the second time.
Every county voting on county pro-
hibition April Z, 1913, gave a majority
against equal suffrage. The total ma.
jority against woman suffrage in the
II counties where the wet and dry
question was the paramount issue on
the same day, was 1878.
six counties, Genesee, Ionia, San
lilac, Lenawee, Clinton and Montcalm,
voted for county prohibition by an ag-
gregate majority Of 2,519 on April Z,
1913, and at the same time gave an
aggregate majority OF 1,O26 against
woman suffrage.
"Tha other six counties. Emmett. |
Iosco, Huron, Jackson, Tuscola and
Calhoun, voted against prohibition by
an aggregate majority of 3,149 on
April 7, 1913, and at the same time
gave a majority of 5,7)7 against wo-
man suffrage.
1T is interesting to note that the
majority of those counties which voted
in favor Of woman suffrage are small,
sparsely populated counties situated
either in the Upper, Peninsular, as in
the case with Baraga, Chippewa, Co
gebic, Iron, Keweenaw, Luce, Mar
quette, O%ntonagon and Schoolcraft, or
in the pine barrens of the back woods
district of the Lower Peninsular, as
is the cas- with Altoona, Antrim, Ben
zie, Montmorency and Roscommon."