Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-11-11
SUFFRAGISTS CONTEND
WOME7N'S BALLOT CAME
NEAR BEATING WILSON
Miss Alice Paul Declares Demo-
Gratis Have Been Taught Les
son and Will Now Pass
Federal Amendment
PLAN FOR 1918 CAMPAIGN
By GEORGE R. HOLMES

CHICAGO, Nov. li.-whatevet may be
the ultimate outcome OF the election re-
counts and contests which threaten TO be-
cloud the political horizon for days 20
come, the women voters won an over
whelming Victory at the polls Tuesday.
This Is the opinion OF most suffrage leaders.
except those who were actively partisan In
the campaign.
The women regard their victory not in
President Wilson's reelection. but In the
formidable array OF their own power which
almost prevented II.
The women at the start OF the campaign
went out Ito get Mr.. Wilson's scalp" How
close they came TO getting II can be seen
In the electoral vote. But now that it'a all
over they're willing 20 bury the hatchet
go back to Washington for the opening OF
Congress and fight tooth and nail for
national amendment which will insure all
women the ballot,
This was. briefly. the outline of the situa.
tion as explained today by Miss Alice Paul
who led the fight against the President
from her place as directing head Of the
woman's party:
From a suffrage standpoint" sho said
'T believe. IL anything, we can perhaps be as
glad we got Mr.. Wilson as II we had got
Mr.. Hughes. We won't have TO educate
Mr. Wilson any more on the suffrage uues-
tlon. We might Mr.. Hughes. Mr.. Wilson
knows what we want, and he says he IL
with us.
when we entered the campaign in mid
August we found the voting women lined
up for Mr.. Wilson because he kept us out
OF war We opposed this with he kept us
out OF suffrage and appealed to women to
show their loyalty to other women by reg
isterlng a protest vote against Mr.. Wilson's
opposition to suffrage We found that
wherever we were able to reach the women
voters they responded TO this appeal
Nearly one-half OF the total electoral
President Wilson.
In Illinois we put herculean efforts into
getting the women's vote because OF the
large number OF its electoral votes nli-
nois repudated President Wilson. We made
a particularly vigorous campaign in Oregon
We carried oregon.
I'm California we made a strenuous bat
tie, and the women there voted largely
against Mr.. Wilson, though this State was
carried by him because of the wilson-John
son harmonization with which the woman's
vote had nothing TO do.
Campaigns were made In all the suf-
frage States. and so far as we can estimate
thousands of votes were turned against Mr..
Wilson.
"Since the women's party was able, in
the few months of its existence. to keep
nearly half of the electoral votes In suf-
frage States from going to President will
son, we have every reason to believe that
by next election--in 191s-it will be so
powerful that no party will desire to incur
its hostility
THE vision of 1918 makes us confident
that the Democratic party will not again
risk defeat by having as Its opponent the
organized womens vote of the country
that rather than encounter this opposition
II will pass the national amendment in time
TO have women voter9 line up as friends
rather than as opponents
I'VE approach the coming Congress full
of confidence"