New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-20
Paterson Gives Sulfragists
1876 and Opponents
About 5000.
WILSON'S GUARDS
WATCH OVER POLLS
Heavy Balloting to Offset Re-
ports of Fraud from
Other Sections.


here late tonight are that Passslc
County will show an anti-suffisge ma
iority OF about $500. Two-thirds Of TINS
city's seventy-four districts gave the
surragisls 4,376 votes. but more than
5000 ballots were cast against the
frst of the three amendments. Re
suits for the others were lost sight
Of In the haste to learn how suffrage
has been dealt with
Passaic City WAS los' by 233 votes,
and with only nine dia'ricts OF the
III in the county not vet accounted
for. an anti vote of 2.057 was recorded
At tht mott psychological moment
possible came the announcement late
this afternoon that the party machines
in Newark had perpetrated frauds to
defeat the woman suffrage amendment
This news spurred large number OF
men from factories, mills and shops 20
cast their ballots. At the same time
hundreds Of commuters from Newark,
Jersey City and New York began pour
ing into this city In time TO cast their
vote.
There was a heavy vote In the morn
ing, gradually tightening until the
early afternoon, when It stopped almost
entirely. Watchers said at that time
that there had been no frauds or at
tennis NJ illegal voting. Secret Service
men visited the various polling places
az the request OF President wilson.
Women with bands Of purple, white ana
green and banners Of yellow speeded
from point TO point and reported to DR.
Mary J. Cummings, president or the
Paterson Woman's Suffrage League.
Wherever it was possible Chief Of Po-
lice Bimson ordered a policeman to do
election duty.
In contrast 70 the frauds the Newark
women watchers alleged had been per
petrated, the one hundred suiragists
who watched the polling places in Pas
sale County reported that the county
had voted clean. The presence of the
women was received with show OF
good humor BIZ the men watchers. The
voters themselves took their presence
as an accepted fact Besides the women
there were also men, who volunteered
their services to DR.. Cummings.
Prosecutor Denies Frauds.
Prosecutor Michael Dunn reported
late this afternoon that there had been
no charges of fraud brought against
any Paterson voters. The 500 promi-
nent citizen offered to the person OBJ
tanning evidence of repeating or Illegal
registration went unpaid.
Workers in the mills and factories
were almost equally divided on the suf-
frage question, with the pros little
more in evidence. II is curious fact
that many of those who claimed that
they were opposed TO the amendment
admitted they had not taken the time 70
vote. 1t is believed that the large So
cialist vote in the factories was almost
solidly "for."
Seven men who we're questioned as
they came out OF the factory of the
Columbia Knitting Mills reported FIVE
in favor and two against. At another
factory six reported "for" and four OPP
posed. A silk mill was said TO have
voted almost solidly In favor, most OF
the employees acting IN accordance with
the Socialist plank which favors woman
suffrage
Dirty politics Is my reason for vot-
ing 'yes.b was one OF the sample rea-
sons given by the men for voting in
favor Of woman suffrage.
"To better the laboring conditions FOR
women" was the answer OF another
who works in one of the silk mills.
81 want my wife to stay at home"
was the reply Of an anti factory en-
/ ployee.
Ants Blamed for Apathy.
One of the strongest props to the
hopes Of the Paterson suffragists was
the Jewish vote, approxmating 1000
Of the total Of $4,000 votes. Accord
{ ing 10 Samuel Bernstein, a court in
. al tat
was cast In favor of the amendment. A
canvas among a number Of Jewish
voters revealed the fact that most OF
them were for woman suffrage because
! they believed in equality for women
as well as men, In voting as well as
paying taxes and working.
"The ants trusted 10 the good sense
OF the men 70 defeat woman suffrage
said Mrs. Carrot A. Hobart AZ her
home. at Carroll and Ellison Streets,
to-day. "Why should something be
forced on the majority Of the women
Of the state which they do not want?
! believe il is mans peculiar sphere to
vote"
Mrs. Hobart's suggestion OF apathy
IN the part OF many ants came as a
surprise, for the charge Of apathy on
the part of voters had been the wea-
ron Of advocates Of woman suffrage
u had been the belief OF the pros
that large number OF men who were
IN favor wouldn't take the time 70 vote
for the measure
/ The general impression seemed TO
be that all men who were In favor of
the measure came out couragcOnsly
and cast their ballots in accordance
with their convictions.
Women Lose 5 to |.
Not since 1892. when the special
election upon the bill abolishing race
track gambling was carried By ire
mendous majority with a 40 per cent
turn out Of the voters, was there any
thing ike to-day's turn out at the
polls. The predictions OF light vote
were all wrong
The most remarkable thing in CON
nection with the election was the phe-
nomenal vote that was cast, the esti-
mate being that nearly rs per cent Of
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