The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-02-05
Montana. North Dakota, South Dako-

montana, North Dakota, south DakO-
ia, Nebraska. Missouri and Ohio.
They we're organized. boastful and
abundantly supplied with funds.
Even in the largest of these States
they professed to be confident of vic.
tory.
Their confidence increased as tho
campaigns progressed October the
Woman's Journal reported joyously:
ohio is going to win II Ohio wins
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
and Massachusetts, will come in I'm
1915, and the country will have been
carried for suffrage" On October
81, three days before the election.
the Woman's Journal reported "Vic-
tory seems certain in Nebraska" The
suffrage leader in Missouri reported
to the journal: sentiment in favor
Of Amendment IL is growing by leaps
and bounds The Woman's Journal
of October 81 said; "In all the cam
raign States. the women have high
hopes Of the result"
What happened to these high
hopes?
The sunragists carried the two
least important States-Neyada, the
most sparsly-settled State in the
Union, with a population less than
that of the city of Lawrence. Mass;
and Montana, with a population
about one-half that of the city OF
Boston. They were defeated in the
other five States.
Measured by population. the States
which they carried have a population
of 457,92S. The States in which
they made their appeal and lost have
a population of 10,41S,614.
Measured by female population.
the whole number of females of all
ages in the two States carried for
suffrage is S,505; in the five States
which rejected suffrage, it is 5,02S,-
sos.
Measured by political power. the
States in which the suffragists won
elect three members of the national
House of Representatives. and seven
Presidential electors; the States
where they lost elect fifty Represen-
atives and sixty Presidential cleo
ors.
In one State-Ohio-there was a
nance to determine whether the suf-
rage movement is gaining or losing |
strength. In 1912. the proposed !
amendment was defeated by a ma
ority of S7.455; last November by
| majority of 1S2.9O5.
Since the elections. the suffragists |
lave been eager to disavow their |
high hopes" and they represent |
themselves as greatly pleased with |
he meager results of their cam |
,aigns. But they are really bitterly /
They had hoped to win |
-ictories which would open the way |
o success in the States which are to
'ote upon the question next Novem-
Ter. But there is nothing in the car
wing of two such States as Nevada
nd Montana to make an impression
Ipon public opinion in the East and
he South.
Last April. the Remonstrance said:
1.-THE suffrage movement has not
aimed a foot of territory through,
he vote of the male electorate, east
t the Mississippi river. Not one of
he New England States, not one of
he Middle States, ont. one of the
outhern States, not one of the Mid
lie Western States has given. full suf-
rage to women" .....
This statement is. as true now as
hen it was made nine months ago.
he strenuous and costly campaigns
hich the suffragists have made in
even States have not brought about
ny change in the situation.
The Remonstrance renews the pre-
lotion which is made last April that
the year 1915 is destined to witness
lie heaviest defeats which the suf-
age movement has yet experience
l."