River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-11-11
SUFFRAGE DEFEATED
IN THREE STATES
New York, Massachusetts and
Pennsylvania Vote No.
DRYS ARE BEATEN IN OHIO
Returns Show Gov. Walsh of Bay State
Defeated by neutrality-suspicious.
Victory in New York-New
Constitution Defeated.

states where the question was an issue
In Tuesdays elections. The results
were in brief as follows:
New York-Majority against suf-
frage, 100000. New York city's anti
suffrage majority was more than g.
900.
Massa chusetts-The vote ran very
nearly two to one against suffrage.
With one precinct missing it stood:
For suffrage, 1914; against, 294, 497,
a defeat by 132,363 majority.
Pennsylvania = The opponents of
equal suffrage were victorious by
about 10000 majority.
Will Not Give Up.
| Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, president
Of the National Woman's association,
issued this statement:
eff the final count shows we have
not won single state, we at least
have won great victory in polling SO
many votes. We have lost nothing
and our opponents have won nothing,
for they have lost all the votes we
have won. We are the only victors.
If confusion had not resulted from the
vote on the constitution I think we
would have won. We shall start in
again tomorrow the first thing. We
are in this campaign for the war;
we don't give up. and mere defeat will
not stop US"
Miss Alice Hill Chittenden, presi-
| dent of the New York State Associa-
ton Opposed to Woman Suffrage, gave
this statement:
eve have said all along that we rep
resent the majority of women, and
now wish you would say for me- that
the women have won. A significant
fact is that the thousands Of voters
who did not go to the polls represent
either opposed or Indifferent votes.
The vote for suffrage is the full
strength for suffrage"
G. o. P. Wins Bay State.
Elections Tuesday furnished the
politicians with few straws to indi-
cate the direction of the political wind
for 1915
Massachusetts elected it's first Re-
publican governor since 1909, the Pro-
gressive vote practically disappearing.
In Maryland, on the other hand,
Harrington, Democrat, was victori-
Gus.
In Kentucky both A o. Stanley,
Democrat, and E. P. Morrow, Repub-
lican, claim victory. The latest re-
turns put Stanley in the lead by 10000
votes The contest was tangled up
with the wet and dry issue.
In New York Tammany defeated
the new constitution drafted by the
convention over which Elihu Root
presided. 1t has opened a question
as to whether this may not eliminate
Mr.. Root from the lists Of Repub-
lican candidates for the presidential
nomination. Some political circles in
the East declare the rejection of the
constitution sounds the death kneIl of
all future political preferments for
Mr.. Root.
New York Republicans gained two
seats in congress, one formerly occu-
pied by a Democrat, the other by
Progressive.
New Jersey, the presidents home
state, increased the Republican ma
jority in the legislature by electing
two state senators.
Statewide prohibition was defeated
in Ohio by 10000 majority. Cleveland
elected Republican mayor by 5000
majority.
South Carolina and Mississippi
went the same old way.
Tammany carried New York county
for it's candidates by pluralities rang
ing from $4,000 to $4,000. Judge
Swami, the Tammany candidate for
district attorney, was elected over
Charles A. Perkins, the Republican
incumbent, by $4,000, and Smith, the
Tammany candidate for sheriff, was
elected by a larger plurality. Tam
many has succeeded in electing a dis
trict attorney for the first time in Is
years.
The next board Of aldermen will be
Democratic by majority Of appar-
emily %. Several longtime Republican
districts were carried by Tammany
and it's allies in the other boroughs.
The Republicans retain control of
the state assembly by a vote of nearly
two to one. The next assembly will
stand Republicans, 95; Democrats,
So; Progressives, 1; Socialists, 1.
One of the features of the result in
this city was the election of a Social
ist assemblyman in Brooklyn. He is
A. 1. Shiplacoff, and he won by a close
vote over J. T. Martyr, Republican.
In New York county the Smith
Swami sweep carried into Office sew
eral Democratic assemblymen upon
whose election the organization had
not counted.
Hamilton Fish, Jr., a Progressive,
with a Republican Endorsement, in
Putnam county, judging from the early
returns, was the only Progressive to
be elected to the assembly
Boston, Mass, Nov. 4.-Samuel w
1cCaI1 ReDublicau has haen~ elected