Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-11-16
WOMEN CLAIM VICTORY
IN REBUKE TO WILSON
Suffrage Vote in Presidential
Election Will Convince Luke
warm Democrats, Says Miss
Alice Paul
A PRo-woMAN CAMPAIGN
Party Satisfied with Show of Strength.
Hope Now With
Congress
By ALICE PAUL

National Chairman Of tho Conversational Union
| for Woman'a Suffrage.
The National womens party has at
tained It's object in the campaign which has
just closed. It made the national enfran-
chsement Of women one Of the most prom.
Inent issues on which the presidential cam
| palgn was fought In the suffrage states II
| put the Democrats on the defensive II
forced them to declare greater and greater
enthusiasm for national woman suffrage
The election ended with Democrats and Re-
| publcans vying with each other as to
which was the more devoted to the national
enfranchlsement OF women.
I'm analyzng the election returns we find
| that the women responded Loyalty to our
appeal not TO give their support to MIR. Will
son because OF his opposition TO national
woman suffrage In Illinois, the only state
where the votes OF the women are counted
separately, $1,000 more women, according
To present returns voted against Mr. vii.
son than for him Thousands pledged
themselves at our meetings and in response
to our canvassIng to withhold their support
OF the President as long as he opposed the
national enfranchlsement OF women. Some
gave their votes to the Socialists. some to
the Prohibitlonist and some to tho Repub-
Leans.
Great NUMBERS of these women had orig
nally intended to give their votes TO Mr..
Wilson because he kept us out OF war
only the plea to put suffrage first caused
them to turn away from Mr.. Wilson.
REBUKE FOR WILSON
illinois was conceded to the Democrats
some weeks before election II was agreed
by the Republicans and Democrats alike
that the great women's vote in the State
would go to Mr.. Wilson because of his
record on peace Months of work by the
woman's party told. however. and on cleo
tion day II was found that the expected |
landslide to Wilson among the women had
been averted by the knowledge we had |
spread over the State that he kept us out
OF something
"The same results were obtained In |
other suffrage States, according to reports |
of our workers. In none of them can the |
women's vote he separated from that of the
men. but we can tell fairly accurately how
the women's vote went by the reports which |
the workers have sent us from each dis
trict.
These reports Indicate that the womens
party campaign was as successful in hold
ing the women's vote in line in the other
eleven suffrage States as in Illinois. While
ten Of these States went for Wilson they
did not do 80, as has been claimed by the
vote. MIR. Wilson received in these
States almost the solid labor vote, the
TTOBTtSslNe vote Hnu tne IhrfnerS vote.
"In each Of these States men outnumber
the women, in some by more than two to
one. According to the last census there
were 221 men to 100 women in Nevada
In Wyoming, 220 to 100 women: in Ari-
zona, 169 to 100, and In Utah. 121 to 100.
In California the men over twenty-one out
number the women OF voting age by 2i9OIl,
In Washington by 173,367, In Montana by
1876, In Kansas by 1886, in Colorado
oy 5s,223 in Idaho, 40,945, and in Arl-
zona by 3O,1GO.
I'm these States the landslide of the Pro-
sresslyes, the labor and farmer vote to Will
ION was sufficient to give most of the State |
o him by narrow margins despite the fact | ,
hat hosts of women who normally would
lave supported him refused to do 80 be-
ause OF his suffrage record.
PRo-woMAN FIGHT
I'VE were not concerned with the result
f the election Ours was a campaign in |
which it made 10 difference who was elect
d. We did not indorse any candidate. We ,
i'd not care who won. We were not pro- !
republican, Dro-SocalIst. pro-Prohbtlon- :
70 We're simply pro-woman. We did not I
ndeayor TO AFFECT the result In the nine !
unrage States. What We did try to do !
;as to organize protest against Mr. Will \
on's attitude toward suffrage. This we \
Id Every Democrat who campaigned in 1
he West knows this. The Democratic cam
shiBH III west GOHSlHleu almost entirely | n
an attempt to combat the Womans party $
tack. 4
I'VE now turn to the coming session of '
congress full of hope that the splendid a
rotest against the continued disfranchise-
nent OF women which the Western women I
1ade at the polls In November will be suf- Il
Client to effect the passage OF the suffrage
mendment during the coming session. O
'The loss of more than a third and nearly S
ne-half of the electoral votes in the suf
faN he
( his hostility to political freedom for G
'omen. the cosenes OF the vote in the \
ther suffrage States because of the large n
rotest vote rolled up In each OF them
gainst him must make him realize that
he women OF the West are determined to
tand by the Eastern women until fun en-
reimbursement for women throughout the I
md is an accomplished fact"