Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1916-12-30
ANNE MARTIN MAKES AN
ANALYSIS Of LATE
CAMPAIGN

Miss Anne Martin, national chair.
man of the Womans Party, has re,
turned to Washington to resume hei
work as chairman of the Congress.
slonal Union for Woman Suffrage
tor the passage of the Susan b. An
thony suffrage amendment She
states that the women voters OF the
west registered heavy protest vote
against the national Democratic
ticket. She bases this conclusion on
the situation in Illinois and Nevada
In Illinois, the mems and women.
votes are counted separately, and il
is matter OF record that 10000 more
women voted against President WI
son than for him. In Nevada we can
not separate the women's vote ioi
President from the mems vote. a.
they can in illinois" said Miss Martin
but the women's vote cast for the
Senatorship can easily be estimated
because there were certain close par.
allels between the senatorial lecto'
allels between the senatorial election
in 1914; and in 1914 the women die
not vote.
Two years ago Grant Miller was
the Socialist candidate for Senator
in Nvada; Sam Platt, the Republican
and Senator Newlands. the Demo-
cratic. In this election Mr.. Miller
and Mr.. Platt ran again as Socialis
and Republican candidates, and Sen
ator Pittman ran on the Democratic
ticket The vote undoubtedly divided
between these three candidates il
about the same proportion as in 1914
except Senator Pittman unquestion-
ably got greater proportion of the
support OF the Democratic men thar
Senator Newlands did, because large
faction OF the Democratic party
1914 was opposed to Senator New
lands reelection. Mr.. Pittman alsC
received a strong Republican vote
on account of his land bill which is
favorable to the interests in Nevada
and therefore supported ~ infiuents
Republicans as well as Influential
Democrats. Senator Pittman must
have received bigger mems vote
than Senator Newlands. But between
1914 and 1916 there. were lS00(
women voters added to the State elec-
torate. of whom more than 1l00(
voted.
In spite OF this enormous increase
OF the voting population. Senator Pitt
man received little more than 40OC
votes in excess of Senator Newlands
Suppose that the entire gain in the
vote for Senator Pittman were attrib.
uted to women, il would still be evi-
dent that women voted against him in
the proportion of three to one. But
since he received a heavier mems vote
than Senator Newlands, it is appa-
rent that the women of Nevada cast
an almost solid vote against the Dem
ocratic candidate for Senator Sen
ator Pittman received in round mum
bers 1900 votes. slightly more than
one-third OF the $4,000 votes cast il
the election. He is minority Sen
ator, and received the lowest vote
on the Nevada national ticket.
President Wilson ran about 5000
ahead Of Mr. Pittman because Wilson
received large proportion of the So
cialist and labor vote, on account of
the eight-hour law; and because Pitt
mans campaign was not benefited by
the peace issue. Undoubtedly Ne
vada women voted against President
Wilson practically two to one, and
against Senator Pittman three to one
1T is not always realized by East
ern people that the men greatly out
number the women in the West
There are 220 men TO every 100
women in Nevada. More than 220O0
men voted in Nevada IS against ,00C
or more women, Even with tho
women voting three TO one against
the Democrats the men were able by
superior numbers TO elect President
Wilson and Senator Pittman.
1t is not important, However, who
was elected. The politicians in Ne
Nada. particularly the Democrats,
know well that heavy protest vote
was cast by women against the ma
tional Democratic ticket, because OF
the Democratic administration OPP
position to national woman suffrage
and they will take this factor into
consideration before they face anotl-
err election.