The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-20

Jersey City, Oct. 20.-The big major ity which New Jersey rolled up against woman suffrage grew today. with the steady dribble of be1ated returns with dict against votes for women of not less than 55,006 majority out of ap-, proximateIy GOO votes cast at yes terday's special election.
 Of the states ,891 voting precincts, ,652 had been heard from early today. These districts gave the antis ma jority of B, ,678. the exact official re- turns being 184, 1885 votes against the amendment to enfranchfse women and 13o, TOT in favor of it. Notwithstand- ing the tremendous majority against age-greater even than that of the landslide that carried Woodrow Will son into office as governor in 1910- women workers for the cause said to- day that far from being dismayed they were fired with greater zeal than ever.
 Before the last of their heavy-eyed watchers had hled her disheartening to stir the state with a campaign which if successful, would give. wo- men the vote in selecting presidential electors next spring.
 Three weeks yet remain before gen eraI elections at which will be elected the entire membership of the lower house of the legislature.
 Suffrage workers claim that the leg islature has the power to say who shall vote for the presidential electors Now that the election is history, the suffrage leaders do not hesitate to de- clare that days before the polls opened icy considered the suffrage cause an Exceedingly uphill, very doubtful of victory. Success at yesterdays elec- ton would have amazed some of their most enthusiastic workers. The lead CTS, therefore, were not greatly sur prised at the result. On the contrary, they seemed today to be pleased with the fact that probably 130, ,000 voters in the state are record as favorfng their cause.
 The anti-sufragis profess to see in yesterdays result a, settlement for years to come of the agitation for wo- mans suffrage in New Jersey. Under the state constitution as it stands to- day, the suffrage amendment cannot be placed again before the electoral for five years.
 Women in WIlirlwind Finish.
 In the larger municipalities such as Newark, Jersey City, Hoboken, Tren- ton, Paterson and Camden, the won- en, and especially those in favor of suffrage, were out for a whirlwind finish to their bitterly fought cam paign for the vote. Street cars and wagons were covered with thousands of cartoons and picturesque posters 6e1A4AIAS hPOA IhS p0oPAS IO edAu LlS cause.
 Excited women dashed up and down the streets in automobiles be- decked with great suffrage banners and scores of them spoke sto the crowds wherever crowds would col lect, asking them to go to the polls If any voter wanted ride to Ia polling booth he got it. Hundreds upon hundreds who would not otherwise have taken enough interest to go to the polls were hunted up in their homes.
 Few localities registered a majority for the woman suffrage amendment, and in each instance these maJorities were puny, while the najorities against were heavy. In HoboI1en every one of the forty-five election districts went against the amend nent.
 President Wilson's indorsement of vote for the Constitutional amendment on which the suffra gists of New Jer- sey had built such strong hopes did not help to carry the day for the suf- fragists even in the precinct where he himself cast his ballot yesterday.
 President Wilson voted in the Sew enth Precinct of Princeton Borough. | The vote cast in that district, stood 6 4 for the amendment and 160 against, 1 a majority of almost 100.
 In the voting precinct of Governor 1 Fielder of New Jersey, who was op- | nosed to woman suferage the, amend