The Washington herald., 1914-11-15
'No Election Ever Satisfies
Everybody Says Ida Hus-
ted Harper, IN AnaIyzing
Campaigns Conducted for
and Against ''VOtes for
Women. !"
By ma HUSTLED HARPER.


There never was an election which
satisfied everybody. but that OF last
: week seemed to deal out Joy and sor-
s row in about equal measure. The Dem
socrats rejoice because results were no
s.worse and the Republicans because
tisy turned out to be as favorable ss
they were. The suffragists were
thankful to get as much as they did
and the ''antis"E were disappointed be-
cause -sufragists got anything Tbs
returns taken as a whole prove lit
tie more surely than usual that when
. man Is alone in. q polling booth win
his lead pencil and his God there is
no telling what he viii do" Defeated
. parties are apt to think that he was
; alone" simply with his lead pencil
This is the view taken by the advocates
8 of woman suffrage. who. knowing the
: evil, forces behind most Of those VINO
vote against It feel that no divine In
Huence directs the marking Of their
ballots,
At the time this is written. almost a
week after the election, no -oficiaI
!, returns on the woman suffrage amend
ments have yet been received. Whicn
Asives a feeling Of Apprehension IL &p-
.
tana have certainly been carried, aud
experienced suffragists had little ex-
= recitation OF winning at best more than
= three States. They understand fully
e that large and enthusiastic public meet
r ings. immense petitions ard the IN
dsrsement OF practically all the organ :
-izations Of men and women in state
=. 40 not necessarily meau a victory on
election day as II is not until then that
e. the opposition fully shows Its hand
The friends do all the shouting. the
enemy does most of the voting. ID
was unfortunate TO have seven state
e campaigns on hand at once. as IL re-
-duired more money and workers than
were available to carry them 70 sue
-ess hut the women of every State
are now anxious to make the effort and
Il is not unlikely that two years hence
will find even more In the field includ-
q, Ing those who lost this time.
There has been marked difference in
the editorial comment since the last cleo
ton from that Of few years ago. Then
a defeat in one State, which generally
was ALI that voted, was headlined
Woman Suffrage Doomed" Death
Knen of Woman Suffrage" but this year
in commenting on the loss Of hve the pa
pers in general said It would be merely a
temporary check on the movement and
that two years from now the results OF
this years work would have favorable
returns The doom and death kneil have
men souHded only By the president of
re aFeI- suffrage association in her ON
tc3si comment on the results OF the cleo
tons The backbone Of the movement
IS broken" said Mrs. Dodge oh. no, L
tEsn't: only a few vertebrae have been
adIsIocated and they will be put back into
place. Since election day two suffrage
:dueetings have been held in New York
~ rrh than
was raised and IN the other 1O5.61s.
Surely this doesn't indicate a broken
backbone or any. occasion for death
kneI.
Allied with Liquor Interests.
EVERY means Of the demagogue was
used by the advocates of woman suf-
-frage" said Mrs. Dodge. but she failed
TO particularize except to say that Presi-
dent Anna Shaw stated from the plat
form that Miss Minnie Bronson was the
biggest liar on earth except Mrs. George,
of Boston. DR.. Shaw said that In the
heat and excitement Of the campaign; in
her cooler moments she would not have
attempted to judge which Of the anti
suffrage speakers and writer's is Of most
heroic size In this respect Mrs. Dodge
and the other anti-sunrage leaders should
keep very quiet about campaign meth
ods. as never before was the alliance be-
tween their organization and the liquor
Interests so open and shameless, al
though the limit seemed to have been
reached in the Michigan campaign last
year. Its literature was folded in with
theirs and circulated throughout Ohio by
their agents. On the placards in the
paid-for space on the street cars asking
= the voters to cast their ballots against
the prohibition and local option amend
Tnents were the words: See cards on
opposite side OF the. car" and on these
were printed: Vote against the woman
Suffrage amendment. The Liberal Advo-
cate. published in Columbus, official or
gan Of the Ohio Liquor League. published
a series OF articles by the woman busi-
ness secretary Of the Cincinnati Associa-
tion Opposed to Woman Suffrage. In one
issue was q picture Of Mrs. a. ]. George,
who was speaking for the association