New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-21
Jersey WOMEN
FIGHT ON; TURN
TOLEGISLATURE
Right to Vote for Presi-
dental Electors One
of Their Goals.
TO ASK WILSON'S AID
TOWARD AMENDMENT
DR.. Shaw Says Defeat Has
Given Movement Fresh Impe-
tus Throughout Country.

Undismayed by the adverse majority
Of more than $4,000 with which the
men Of New Jersey answered their
women's plea Tor the vote, suffragists
reformed their ranks yesterday and be
gan Immediately another drive toward
equal franchise.
Before il had even become known
how badly they had been defeated,
skirmishing began for another pitched
battle. Thwarted in their hope Of gen
eral suffrage. the Jersey women have
determined to carry 20 the Legislature
a bill granting the right 20 vote for
the Presidential electors next fall. 10
do this will require immediate action.
and this was begun while the returns
proclaiming almost universal defea'
were still sweeping in.
Barred by Tuesdays repulse from
using the ballot in this autumns cam
paign. the suffragists have determined
to participate actively, nevertheless IN
the fight for membership Of the state
Legislature The entire lower House
81 Trenton is TO be reflled by the
voters on Election Day, and one-thlrd
Of the Senate will be newly chosen.
The Legislature has the power TO al
low the women 70 vote for Preslden-
tial electors. as they do in Illinois, and
the equal franchise organizations OF
New Jersey are determined that this
partial suffrage shall be granted them
also.
In the two weeks intervening be-
tween now and Election Day com
plete canvass will be made Of all can
didates for Assembly and Senate TO
those who favor the suffrage bill the
women will lend their aid in furthering
their campaign. Those who oppose 1t
will be condemned by the su,fragists.
In this way. il is hoped. the next years
Legislature will be composed, in the
majority. of men favoring votes for
women. and will aid the equal fran
chise adherents Of Jersey in Jammlng
their Presidential suffrage bill through.
Nor do the women stop here IN their
come back" The "antis" who spoke
of crushing the cause are hnding OUT
that they have only stirred up the nor
nets nest afresh. Instead OF beng
"silenced for years 70 come the SUI
fragists are attacking the campaign
again with enthusiasm which dlsre-
cards Tuesdays returns absolutely.
Forbidden through the rejection Of the
second amendment by the electorate
10 bring the question OF votes Tor
women before the people Of the state
for another five wears. the beaten party
have already laid plans not only 70
seek a voice in the choice of Presi-
dental electors. but also TO strive anew
for q Federal amendment.
Alice Paul. chairman OF the Congres-
sional Union for Woman Suffrage, an
nounced yesterday in Washington that
the defeat in New Jersey had only
stimulated q new campaign for nation
wide suffrage.
Women are beginning to feel" she
said that the state referendum cam
paigns in which the question Of wom-
ems political freedom is left IN the
hands OF the most ignorant men voters
in the state are too wasteful and inol-
rect 20 be longer continued. 1ney are
turning 10 the national government,
asking enfranchisement by action OF
Congress"
The Congressional Union followed up
this statement later in the day by re-
auesting through a member, Mrs. Rob
ert W Baker. of Washington, that an
other audience be granted their delega-
ton by the President. This delegation
is coming from San Francisco, whore
convention Of women voters has en-
powered them TO ask for Federal
amendment.
Mrs. Baker told Mr. Tumulty that
since the Chief Executive had voted
in favor OF the cause, il was only Just
20 assume that he had changed his at
titude on suffrage, and to believe that
now he would listen to the pleas OF
committee from an altered viewpoint.
The Presidents secretary promised
that Mr.. Wilson would take up the
question.
Not content with waging campaigns
for Presidential suffrage and a fed
eral constitutional amendment, the
New Jersey women will also be active
in the struggle of their sister states,
New York. Massachusetts and Pennsyl-
vsnia, before whose celebrates the
question of universal enfranchisement
comes on Election Day.
The suffrage amendment in New Jer-
sey was probably not defeated by the
political machines of the state. With
al party organizations excluded from
,he campaign the vote would have been
slightly in favor OF the ants.
This much is certain: The politicians
Of the state, almost TO a man, opposed
the amendment bitterly and used every
effort In their power TO defeat u.
From one end Of New Jersey TO the
other there was not a single party
machine that did not fight suffrage,
most of them according to the rules Of
politics; some, Nugents cohorts in
Essex, for example, with the sugges-
tion Of fraud. For some unknown
reason the powers that be in the East
EN- states are universally opposed 10
the granting Of the franchise 70 women.
This antagonism on the part OF old
line Republicans and Democrats is d.
rectly responsible for at least half of
the majority rolled up against Jersey
suffrage Thousands voted as their
party leaders bsde them. How many
more thousands held TO the anti stand
ard through the indirect influence OF
party hostility to the cause cannot be
counted.
Yet while the machines turned defeat
into well-nigh calamity, suffrage
might have been crushed without their
aid. Jersey has shown a deep-rooted
suspicion of all radical reforms, and il
was impossible for a hastily put to-
gether organization, directed by women
inexperienced in the wiles Of politics,
TO build up for itself so strong q con-
sttuency that II would overcome this
conservatism. Much of the adverse