Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-20
EQUAL SUFFRAGE
DENIED AT POLLS /.
BY MALE VOTERS
Incomplete Returns From
Election Show Result {.
Is Decisive. g
SUFFRAGIST LEADERS
ADMIT THEIR DEFEAT
Even President Wilson'S Own
Precinct Goes Heavily
Against Amendment.
LANDSLIDE FAILS To CCME
Women Had Hoped for Big Vote in
Country, but Are Dis
appointed.
Women Had Hoped for Big Vote in
Country, but Are Dis
appointed.

JERSEY CITY. ~ j., October Ia
New Jerse% registered at the polls tor
day an emphatic mo" to woman's APP
peal for the ballot. Indications shortly
after midnight were that the white
and yellow banners OF votes Tor
women" had nuttercd down to defeat
in each of the States twcnty-one coun-
tics and that the majority against
adoption of the constitutional amerd-
mcnt 10 cnfranchi&c women was be-
tween 5o.OCO and G0.c0e
Undauntcd by the overwhelming t,de
against them. suffrage leaders an
nounced Tonight that they would start
tomorrow with new plans intent upon
pledging candidates for tlIe Legisla-
ture to permit them to vote next spring
for presidential electors. They have
two weeks in which to make their most
effective campaign. Candidates for .he
Legislature have been nominated by
both big parties. and will com. before
the voters for election on November .
WILSON'S SCENIENT
CONVERTS THOUSANDS
President Wilson'S recent announce
yment that he would sQte, for suffrage
In the opinion OF suffrage leaders. con,
verted thousands To theirAcause. Ills
stand, however, and the vigorous cum:
paign waSed by the women to the last
minute failed to prevent heavy vote
against adoption of tn. amendment. In
his own voting precinct. the seventh
district OF Princeton Borough the vote
WAS more than two TO one against the
amendment.
Unofficial returns from nearly two
thirds of the districts in the State
showed that in l.2:2 out of 1881 dis
tricts the vote WAS SS.2TJ for the
amendment and loi.ll? against il. n
majority of 35.Si+ against suffrage
Suffrage lost in every big city I'm the
state and in nearly every town. Whore
il did win the ma ajority was small. New
ark voted overwhelmingly against it.
Jersey city. with seven districts MISS
ing. gave ll1S6 votes for the amend-
ment and lt,59J against il. Trenton.
with seven districts missing. gave a
majority OF 2.5lS agains; it. Bayonre
gave the antisuffragists a majority Of
GA votes
In Bergen County. where thousands
OF New York commuters live. the vote
was close. Even Cape May. where the
sufrasists had thought they certainly
would win. east an adverse vote, in.
complete returns showing a majority
of 3+2 votes in 3.2l9 cast :,
'>etuInS came in inuc! more rapidly
IMAM had been anticipated. The tide
was ali one way--ag.iiSt woman s,f2
ftaTc. Leaders at the hcaduuartels OF
the suffrage association here realized
carly in the evening that only /, !a,ds
slide in the rural sections could save
INC da" FOR them. Late returns showed
thal. instead of the hoped-for land
slide. the country communities had in
many cases voted against t!ie amend
rrcnt Thi, was notably true i'm Essay
County. where nine of Newark's subj
suffrage
WOMEN ARE DEFEATED.
BIT NOT DISCOURAGED
Although defeated. the suffrage
workers have not given up the night.
Coupled with admission OF defeat. Mrs.
Fcickert embodied ii u 'omisc of n re-
ncwed light next spring
Although We anparen,ly have lost
the election in this State for woman
suffrage. she said. this will not end
the tight in New Jersey
Tile opponents of woman suffrage
IN New Jersey were Obliged to adopt
uht'ir tactics to defeat us There has
been much colonizinS in the large
cities. and ii was plainly evident 10
us months ago that il was not the in
tchtion of the political rings to give us
IL square deal In arranging the eI.c-
tion law So that the ballots would be
unnumbercd it was known that that
alone would help to defeat US"