New-York tribune., 1914-11-05
WOMEN WIN SEVEN
ELECTORAL VOTES
DR.. Shaw Calls Western
Campaign a Great
Victory.
SAYS ANTS HAD
PLENTY OF MONEY
Liquor Dealers Declared To q.
Active Against Votes
for Women"

well, we didn't get N. seven STATE,
we wanted, but We got seven electoral
votes" DR.. Anna Howard Shaw ,ad
yesterday, when the revised return,
from the West showed that Montana
and Nevada had voted "yes" on the
suffrage amendment. Montana has
four electoral votes and Nevada Ia,
three. That is an addition not 10 BE-
despised to the eighty-four electoral
votes possessed By the states where
women have the franchise now. II
we've won Nebraska, and It's an even
chance we have, that means eight more
electoral votes.
"l call our Western campaign great
victory; and even last night. when the
telegraph wires were saying we'd lost
all seven states, | didn't call h. defeat.
Lostl-we couldn't lose them, they
weren't ours 20 lose. They are there
for US 10 win, and we're winning them
at fair rate Of speed. Yes, and we'll
win New York next"
DR.. Shaw declared that the time bad
come for suffragists % protect them
selves by forcing the hand Of the
antis" in the matter Of corporation
between the ants and the liquor inter.
ests." The National American Woman
Suffrage Association, she said, was hot
on the trail Of the antis hencetorth.
"Mrs. Arthur VI. Dodge says her anti.
suffrage organization is hard up, and
was pressed for money In the Western
fight Nonsensel Thousands and thou
sands of dollars were spent ~ distrib-
uting posters and circulars against the
suffrage amendments In those seven
states Where did they get that money!
The ants cant dodge the issue Of their
connection with the liquor dealers.
WHY. two years ago the attorney OF
the LIQUOR Dealers Association IN
South Dakota came 20 me here IN ny
Office. accompanied by the secretary Of
the New York Liquor Dealers Assocs-
ton. and told me that 4 we'd pledge
him that the women OF South Dakota
would keep their hands of the liquor
question he'd pledge IN return that the
Iiouor men would keep their hands or
the suffrage question. ! told him, OF
course, that we made no pledges, that
women would vote according TO tner
individual convictions. That IS but
one of a thousand proofs we have that
the liquor dealers are an active faetof'
and the antis can't dodge the issue
Either they are cooperating Win the
Iouor men, or the liquor men nave
some means of securing the ants
SIGNED literature, which they folded Up
with their anti-temperance Literature
and threw into houses and stores IN
Nebraska, Ohio and other campaign
DR. Shaw exhibited anti-sufrsgs
nostsrs which, she said, were found
nailed UP In hundreds OF saloons u
Ohio and Nebraska. She ADDED tes'
the fear of woman'S vote which mSds
the liquor interests willing 20 "hnsSss
the anti-suffrage campaign was
SThe antis have forced the prohih-
ton issue on us. But the slHrspss
take no position on temperance, aso
except that districts where women Eo.y
are rather more likely 20 20 lol '0's.
option woman's entrancnlsemen1
far as it has gone, has shown 10 enec'
on liquor laws ~. n,
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Nas.f "AN
Shaw, chanted a paan OF victory "asn
asked how she felt about results ID we
"It's distinct victory" she ssia-
We've got two more states enyno~,
and final returns may show taa' We
have others. And the states we ge'
are ours to keep; we won't lose men.
We keep on taking states from "a.
sntis, but they cant take states IRON
u.s." .ts any
nronbecies as to whether the sunras'
ists would win New York in 1919;
That's too much like pollnelan'
she said. "They claim everything "
sight up to the last minute nStains. 80
easier But this will say, that nons
of those Western States was nsl
we'll organized when the aHlehomssIs, n,s,s
came up as New York is to-day, VIZ
the time for submission one year 0
"The antis made a fierce ngh.
Ohio, Nevada and Montana, and .Hy
appeared to have plenty OF money WIZ
which to wage it." =, NJ
The physical force deal" sn s.
Harriet Stanton Blatch declared, W"
what knocked the sufrAgists OUT !"
the states they failed TO gam