The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-03

"Woman's place is in the home" were
e~addening to the suffrage leaders. on
county after another sent in a ma.
JoritS against-Albany. 5000; Duchess
600: Erie. 14.100; Niagara, 300; West.
chester. 5000.
Here and there. though the spots
were few but precious to the sorrow
IuI leaders. there were close contests
Rock.and. In fact. seems to have given
suffrage a ma iority Of 81. and Cort-
idnd. one OF h q most prosperous coun-
ties In the State. turned down the
proposition by a hare 50 votes. The
only counties that gave a majority for
suffrage were Cattaraugus. Chatanqua.
Rockland and Schenectady.
Close IN som~ Committee.
1t was close in Fulton Hamilton and
in Nassau. and there were several
other counties where the antis' vote
was nothing 10 brag about.
But all In all, M State and down
city, the result clearly indicated that
New York Is by no means ready to
admit women to an equal share. with
men In the rights Of the ballot.
Generally regarded. the sweep
against suffrage displayed about the
same tendencies and chararferistirs
in New York and Massachusetts;
about the same strength In little COM
munities and thicklv populated cities.
Farmer ard city man seemed to en-
terrain similar notions about the
proposition. No city OF any size reg
istered a majority for suffrage.
Buffalo. Rochester. Syracuse. Utica,
Albany, in this state: Boston, In Mas
~sachusetts; Pittsburg and Ph.ladel-
phia, In Pennsylvania. spoke vlgor-
ously against the propaganda.
The result in no wise aston.shcd
close political observers. but 1t was
a staggering disappointment to the
ardent suffrage workers of this city
especially, who had believed that theiy
earnest. tempestuous campaign in the
past few weeks deserved better than
IL received.
Ftrst Figures saddening.
The little post village If A~cushnct. in
Bristol county. Massachusetts,. supplied
the frst suffrage returns received in
tho three States. and the figures were
saddening to the leaders of the cause.
1os votes against the proposition and
only ~ for 1t. Thereafter the handwrit-
Ing on the wall. SO far as Massochu-
sets was concerned. became plainly re-
vealed as village after village and town
after town declined to approve Of the
notion that women had a right to vote.
Hawley. Holbrook. Hanover. Everett.
Plymouth. gave m'joritles Of . to /
or moro against suffrage. and as early
as \ y. NJ. It was estimated that suf-
Crane was beaten in the city OF Bos-
ton by 100, 600.
Evidently the vote on suffrage In the
Ray State had nothing TO do with party
lines, because the candidates for Cover
nor. Mccall. Republican. n walsh,
Democrat. were running a pretty race.
while woman suffrage WAS being showed
under.
Hndly beaten Enrly.
In this State 1t was apparent NJ a
very early hour that suffrage was badly
beaten. The first returns received from
the greater city came from two election
dictricts of the Fifteenth Assembly dis
trict In Manhattan. where voting ma
chimes we're used. and at 5 .O5 l.. NJ. the
figures indicated how y: ohtless. for the
present at least. had been the stout
hearted efforts Of the women campaign
ers In these districts the vote was 1893
against. l52 for.
Shortly thereafter as the hand east,
hand counted vote vas tahulatcd the
drift became clearly apparent. Then
the up-Stat. cities that use voting ma
chine began to r"por heavy mnjoritIes
n eventually the returns came Hood
ing In. all of one color. n hue which
seemed jet black to the women that have
worked SO un;iringly but rosy enough |
70 the outspoken ants.
The vote seemed ~ demonstrate one !
thing. that fer the present at least, suf-
frage cannot hurdle the .%Alieghanies.