Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-11-19
WOMEN EXPLAIN
VOTE CAST IN THE
SUFFRAGE STATES
Suffragist Leaders Found
Women Lined UP for Will
son When They Entered
Campaign in August.

Chicago, Nov. 1s.-The result Of the
the equal suffrage states and the eff
feet of that campaign on the national
woman suffrage cause, was discussed
by Miss Alice Paul, national chairman
Of the Congressional Union for Wo-
man Suffrage, in a statement issued
here after the returns were all in from
the suffrage states. The statement
follows:
Now that the election IL over we
will return at once to Washington to
begin preparations for work with the
coming session of congress.
Never before has the national suf
frage amendment occupied a position
of such prominence as today. 1t was
one Of the Issues on which the cleo
ton was fought in the IL states where
women vote. Both parties throughout
the campaign devoted great effort to
trying to prove to the women voters
their devotion to the enfranchisement
Of women. When the two great ma
tional parties vie with each other in
proclaiming their enthusiasm for suf-
frage for women we feel assured that
| the passage of the suffrage amend
ment by congress is near at hand.
| More than third and nearly half
| Of the total electoral vote cast In the
suffrage states went against President
| Wilson. The electoral vote cast by
Illinois and Oregon would have gone
to Mr.. Wilson had he commanded the
| great women's vote in these states.
He would almost certainly have re-
ceived the woman's vote had 1t not
been for the Woman's Party plea to
women not to support him because Of
his opposition to national woman suf
frage.
when we entered the campaign the
middle of August we found the voting
women lined up for Mr.. Wilson because
he kept US out of war We opposed
that cry with the counterplea that he
| kept US out of suffrage and appealed
to women to show their loyalty to other
women by registering protest vote
against Mr.. Wilson's opposition to suf-
4 frage. We found that wherever we
were able to reach the wome~ voters
they responded to this appeal.
ILLINOIS THE HUB.
i I'VE put particularly determined 'ef-
forts into swinging the woman's vote
of Illinois because of the large num-
Der of electoral votes.
4 III the Woman'S rarity, winch was
born only last June, was able in the
few months of its existence, to keep
between third and a half of the cleo
toral votes In suffrage states from go
ing to Mr.. Wilson, we have every rea-
son to believe that by the time the
next election comes In 1918 1t will be
so powerful that no party will desire to
incur its hostility. The vision of the
haf
the Democratic party will not risk de-
feat again by having as its opponent
the organized womans vote of the
country. that rather than encounter
this opposition It will pass the national
amendment in time to have the woman
voters line up as its friends rather than
rs its opponents.
I'VE approach the coming session of
congress full of confidence that the
remarkably vigorous and far-reaching
campaign which the Womans Party
has put up and its unexpected success
in holding in line nearly half of the
electoral votes which were claimed for
Wilson because he had kept us out of
war will be sufficient to convince the
Democratic party that 1t is unwise
longer to court the hostility of suf-
fragists and will lead them to give
their support to the national suffrage
amendment. passing 1t through con-
gress Immediately"