Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-11-04
New York State.

New York, Nov. 2.-Woman's suffrage
was decisvely defeated, a revised consu-
tuition rejected and republican majority
to the assembly and three republican con.
gressrhen elected in New York State to.
day. The supreme court election results
have not been tabulated.
With 2.0l5 of the 5,7l3 election districts in
the State reported. there were 20},ll3 votes
for suffrage and 264.010 against. A con
tinuation of this majority would mean
iG5, 900 votes against the proposal in the
entire State but the general belief was
that it would be larger than that figure.
This was due to the fact that a larger
part Of these returns came from upstate
counties. The percentage against auf-
frage in New York city was expected to
Increase the total materially. At republi-
can State headquarters it was predicted
that the majority might reach 300 600.
Figures on the constitution We're scat
terng. Returns from 405 districts out of
I,O79 in New York city gave .5117 for
and 7l,7o against. Upstate figures had
COM from only few counties. They
were against the proposal
Norman s Gould, republican, Sene'l
Falls. was elected to the national House
of Representatives in the Seth district
to succeed the late Serene f. Payne
Bertrand II. Smell of Potsdam republi-
can, succeeds the late Edwin a. Merritt
Jr., from the 31st.
William s. Bennett, a New York re-
publican, succeeds Joseph !. Goulden
democrat deceased.
In 90 of the larger cities "A republi-
can, five democratic and one socialist
mayors were elected.
Various forms of commission govern
ment were put into effect in Buffalo,
Niagara Falls and Newburgh. In Buff
falo Mayor Fuhrmann, a democrat. will
remain chairman of the commission.
Two democrats and two republicans We're
elected commissioners. The Niagara
Falls commission will name a city man
ager The mayor is a republican. Four
commissioners besides the mayor were
chosen in Newburgh All are republi-
cans In Emira all parties fused against
the democrats.
| Hopes of suffrage leaders that the
| tide which they predicted would flow
| against them in New York city would
be offset by the upstate vote We're shat
tered by the earliest returns. The larg-
est cities reported big majorities against
the proposal:
Here are some OF the returns against
It: Buffalo 1000, Rochester 4,sN0 Utica
5000, Troy 1000, Syracuse 1900, Auburn
SEQ Schenectady turned in a majority
Of about 1850 for the proposal. James
town 1850, Niagara Falls 700 and Ithaca
9o.
BY virtue of the defeat to-day, the pr
posal cannot be submitted again until
1919. It will be necessary for two Leeisla-
h. 20
the voters and one session Of Legisla-
ture must intervene between the two
votes.
At the headquarters of the National
American Womans Suffrage associa tion,
where DR. Anna Howard Shaw and her
iieutenants received fhe returns from a
telegraph instrument operated by a wom-
an wearing waist of suffrage yellow,
optimism ebbed as the heavy vote against
suffrage grew with late returns Over
tea and waters served at ten O'Clock the
women leaders of the suffrage fight dis.
cussed returns, but none would admit
that suffrage even appeared to have
lost.
You don't expect for minute, do YOU
that we are going TO admit that we have
not carried New York;" asked Dr. Shaw
"Why, the vote is coming up for us
now.
'If, when the final count comes
however, we should not have won the
ftate, we, at least, have won the
greatest victory in the history of oui
movement. We have won the largest
number of votes that have ever beer
cast for us in any State. Although
we may not have won the State, We
have won this large number of votes
md we have lost nothing: while oui
opponents have won nothing, becaus,
they had the State before. but hav,
lost the votes which we have won
SO we are the only people who hav,
won anything.
"As to Massachusetts,, ! am not a
all surprised at the way the vot
went. Massachusetts, is an exceed
ingly conservative State. l didn't ex
pect suffrage to carry in Massachu
setts.
Il hear that Philadelphia had beat
en- suffrage by $4,000. ! am not sur
prised. / lived in Philadelphia an,
know the city.
Whatever the result in New York
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. d
not let anybody think that we will
stop. even for moment This
only one battle and we are in a wal
We intend to keep on fighting an
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