South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-20
SUFFRAGETS LOSE
& FIGHT FOR VOTES
Returns Indicate Ants viii
Carry New Jersey by
Ng. 10000 Votes.

TRENTON, y. j.. oct. 2G-The
magnitude OF the defeat administered
TO woman suffra.e in New Jersey yes
terday was increased by returns from
outlying districts today. Election OF
hcials as a result estimated that the
ants won by from $4,000 70 10000
Though the suffrage leaders were
bitterly disappointed by the result of
the special election. they asserted that
they would continue the fight This
will be a five-year contest, as IL will
be impossible 10 submit a suffrage
amendment TO the voters until 1920.
Many charges OF fraud were made
by the suffragists, but they admitted
that this probably did not affect the
final result. Rather they laid their
defeat 10 the political machines and
the LIQUOR interests. They accused
the political leaders of not playing
fair; that instead of keeping hands off
in the fight, they meddled 10 the det-
riment Of the suffrage cause.
only one OF the 21 counties in the
state returned a majority for the
suffrage amendment. 1t carried
Ocean county, which borders on the
ocean and has a population of Usher
men and farmers. by 300 votes. Few
OF the 1891 voting districts voted in
favor Of the measure.
The leaders OF the defeated cause
Will take immediate steps TO contest
the result in the courts. They will
base their protest on the fact that the
ballots were not numbered and that
wholesale frauds were perpetrated as
. result.
Mrs. Garrett A. Hobart. vice presi-
dent Of the New Jersey WOmans
Anti-Suffrage club. declared last
night: THE woman suffrage amend
ment is Overwhelmingly defeated.
pleased. The women Of New Jersey
relied on the level headed citiZenry of
the state, and that confidence was not
misplaced"
James r. Nugent, democratic lead
er OF Essex county, who led the fight
against suffrage, said last night:
This fight meant either Wilson or
think Of man tn you made gov
ernor and then a president and then
he hits you right here (pOinting TO his
head). But 1 beat him"
Wilson District Lost.
Prest Wilson's own election district
in the borough of Princeton received
a majority of 10 against suffrage.
Gov. James Fielder was opposed to
suffrage and his voting precinct in
Jersey City gave a majority OF SO for
the amendment.
The defeat OF suffrage was due to
the fact that many men who told the
women they were going to cast their
ballots for suffrage, voted the other
way when they got into the booths by
themselves and TO the fact that the
politicians Of both democratic and re-
publican parties did not want to have
the women in politics. Therefore,
they instructed their lieutenants to
vote mo" and their orders were car
ried out
The liquor interests lined up solidly
with the ants. fearing what might
happen If the women OF New Jersey
had the vote.
Hundreds Of women in cities and
hamlets got their first insight into
practical policies by acting as duly
appointed watchers and challengers at
the polls. Some of the things they
saw did not please them at all. partic-
ularly in the city of Newark. where
many complaints were made at the
headquarters of the women's Political
union OF violation OF the election laws
by followers of Nugent Mr. Nugent
made a dead set against a woman
suffrage and did all in his power to
encompass its defeat.
Many handicaps were placed in the
way OF the proponents of the cause
IN testing the sentiment of thu men
voters.
In the first place the republican leg
islature did not specifically provide
that tho ballots should be numbered.
which is a cast iron provision of the
laws governing general elections. AL
though Sec'y of State Thomas +. Mar
tin. who IS an anti. had the power to