The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-09
WOMEN LOSE IN
EASTERN STATES
Beaten by Big Maiorities in Mas
sachusetts, New York and
Pennsylvania.
DRYS ARE DEFEATED IN OHIO
G. o. P. Makes Gains, EIecting Gov
ernor of Massachusetts and May
ors of Philadelphia and Cleve-
Iand-Root Constitution
Is Defeated.

Is Defeated.
New York, Nov. 4.-Woman suffrage
was defeated decisively in all three
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 e.
0O0
Massachusetts-Th vote ran very
nearly two 70 one against suffrage.
With one precinct missing it stood:
For suffrage, 162,114; against, 294 ,497,
defeat by 1898 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:
IF the final count shows we have
not won single state, we at least
have won a 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 | 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:
I'VE 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"
Elections Tuesday furnished the
politicians with few straws to indi-
cate the direction of the political wind
for 1916.
Massachusetts elected its first Re-
publican governor since 1909, the Pro-
gressive vote practically disappearing.
In Maryland, on the other hand,
Harrington, a 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 knell 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 a
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 a 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 a 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 vote of nearly
two to one The next assembly will
stand: Republicans. 95; Democrats.
So; Progressives. l; Socialists, l.
One of the features of the result in
this city was the election of Social