New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-04
philadelphia's Big
Anti Suffrage Poll
Prevents Victory.
GET MAJORITY
SIDE CITY
Work of Machine Over
comes Lead of l2'5OO
with $4,000.
DFFEAT REAL TRIUMPH
Loss by Small Margin Regarded
BY All Party Leaders as
Practical Success.
~, c,.r,,s ,s TAs rricunsl

rI.h,,g Penn, Nov. S.-The prsc-
- .o,,t;e,srs IN Philadelphia cost
psD,,vlvanis the honor Of being the
s,.. state In the East TO declare for
mirage. according 20 the latest and
slro.t complete returns on the suf-
,,sge amendment referendum.
Carving with them majorities IN
,b,r,v.two counties ranging anywhere
from rs to 800, the sutfragists bore
dawn on the Quaker City with q net
majority Of 1855 over all the ants
eould raise in the other counties out
side Of the big city on the Delaware.
Then they crashed into Philadelphia's
$4,000 adverse majority and went down
n glorious defeat by approximately
g5OO-nearly 10000 less than the vote
By which the Jersey suffrage amend
nen; was defeated.
The part which Philadelphia played
IN the defeat OF suffrage is simply but
wildly told In the complete returns
from hfty-seven Of the sixty-seven
counties in the state. With sentiment
for and against about even in the ten
counties yet TO be heard from, these
ffiy-seyen counties, IN fact. tell the
whole story The suffragists captured
thiry.two of them, runnig up q gross
majority NJ s6,O75 in that particular
group. In the twenty-four counties out
side Of Philadelphia which the ants
corrslled they got gross majority o.
only 1850
But the practical politicians in the
city, which Lincoln Steffens once char
seierized as corrupt and contented
had not distributed sample ballots and
other equipment in vain. Philadel-
phis's famous little home saving brl-
gade, led By Generals McNichol ana
Ware. came across with $4,000 no
votes. and the suifragists conceded that
when il comes 70 cinching q victory the
well oiIed machine was mightler than
the yellow slip
They are not faint hearted, how
ever, these Pennsylvania suifragists,
and, even though the Ware -McNlchols
steam roller did iatten out three years
Of hard work in a single day, they
refuse 10 admit that woman suffrage
has actually been defeated in the Key
stone State. They say II has only
been POSTPONED. Moreover, they con
sider the meagre majority Of 3l,50O
against them iu the light of q triumph,
not merely because the antis forecast
a 100000 defeat for them, but because
they accomplished what every expert
Cneed politician in the state regarded
as impossible when they went to PM
tdelphia with any kind Of suffrage
majority
The night before election bets were
freely made in both Philadelphia ana
Pittsburgh that the sufiragists wouId
hot carry more than six counties at
most Half a dozen Of the small rural
counties were conceded 10 them, but
that was all Allegheny, Lachawanna'
Luzerne and all the other big mining
counties we're regarded as prizes Tar
out Of their reach. Yet the returns
show that they captured every one OF
these count.cs a 'c"he0y by 5'",
Laekswanra by $500, Luzerne by 1000
and Nortfumb berland by 500. In the
latter county they accomplished the
miraculous by carrying the town Of
Shamokin A Pennsylvania will a2-
preeiGie what this means. A New
Yorker will get the same thrill by
imagining that the "drys" carried Long
Acre Square
But this was not all The sufragists
swept the entire northern and western
tiers, from Susquehanna 10 Washing
ton, and then. just 20 show what fine
form they were in, they invaded Berks,
home OF the typical Pennsylvania
Dgiehmsn. and carried away 6,565 votes
ost Of a total Of l0.703 cast on the
amendment
The following table shows the ma
loriiies the Pennsylvania suffragists
rolled up in the thirty-two counties
ieey carried: