Evening star., 1917-11-07
Last Total Was SO, ,133.

element in the country is opposed to
the war. cloaking themselves behind a
vote for the socialist party.
By an estimated plurality of 10000
the bipartisan ticket returning the sit
ting judges of Cook county {Ill.) bench
defeated socialist ticket. There tho
socialist ticket also appealed to an
anti-war and anti-American sentiment,
German settlements outside the city Of
Chicago voting for that ticket.
The woman suffragists we're tubilant
today over their success in New York.
1t is the first of the big eastern states
Rhode Island has given them presiden-
tial suffrage. The vote In Ohio, where
the suffrage granted the women by
the state legislature was rejected on a
referendum to the people yesterday.
was disappointment to the women.
With New York in the woman suf-
frage column as an entering wedge,
the suffragists believe they will soon
be able to add other states. They feel
renewed confidence in their ability also
to get a federal constitutional amend
ment through Congress.
Have Full Suffrage.
The twelve states which now have
full suffrage for women are Washing
ton, Oregon, Montana. Idaho. Wyoming,
Nevada, California, Utah, Arizona, Col
orado. Kansas and New York.
In 1913 the Illinois legislature grant
ed presidential and municiapl suffrage
to women. and last winter the legis-
latures Of Ohio, Indiana, North Dakota,
Michigan. Rhode Island and Nebraska
took similar action. while Arkansas
granted woman suffrage in the state
and presidential primaries.
The courts of Indiana have recently
6ecided "the Indiana suffrage law
unconstitutional, but sufrragists con-
tend that the question of presidential
L.
cision, since the federal Constitution
specifically provides that the state leg
islatures shall designate the electors of
the President of the United States.
They claim also that the Ohio cleo
tion yesterday is open to challenge
on the same constitutional grounds.
But even without Ohio and Indiana
women will help to choose 17S members
of the electoral college: with Indiana
and Ohio, If those states are regained,
the electoral vote which women will
help to determine will number 217
Eighty-three Representatives in Con-
gress and twenty-four United States
Senators will be elected by the votes
Of women as well as of men.
Prohibition continued its successful
onward morch yesterday, adding one
more state to the totally dry column,
New Mexico.
Out in Ohio. the prohibitionists, as
did the suffragists. received a setback.
being defeated. but by a comparatively
close vote, according to the latest re-
turns. When prohibition was last
voted on in Ohio. it lost by 100000
votes Yesterday, it was a neck and
neck race. Prohibitionists today de-
clared that the amendment would have
won had 1t not been impossible to get
many of the farmers to the polls ow-
to the lack of labor on the farms.
States Now Totally Dry.
The totally dry states today are
Maine, Kansas North Dakota. Okla
homa, Mississippi. North Carolina, Ten
nessee, West Virginia. Virginia, Colo
rado. Oregon, Washington. Arizona,
Alabama, Arkansas, Iowa. Idaho, South
Carolina. Nebraska, South Dakota.
Michigan. Montana. Utah. Indiana, New
Hampshire and New Mexico.
resolution proposing a federal con-
stitutional amendment for prohibition
was passed by the Senate at the last
session OF Congress A vote on it was
postponed In the House until the COM
ing session. The prohibition element
is confident it will pass the House also.
With the adoption of woman suffrage
in New York the prohibition question
loomed large there today. The pro-
hibisionists are confident that the
women will help them win their fight
in the Empire state. and that at least
two-thirds of the woman voters will
support the cause Of prohibition.
Under an act of the New York legfs-
lature, the cities of New York state are
to be allowed to vote on local option
next spring. This was the first victory
ever obtained by the prohibitionists in
that state. In the case of New York
city. however, a special provision was
made calling for a given number of
voters to petition for vote on the
liquor question before the vote could be
taken. With the women in New York
city now enfranchfsed, the prohibitions
lists believe they can not only get
sufficient number of voters to sign such
a petition. but also that they can carry
the city eventually.
Predicts Victory for Amendment:
OF the twelve states in which women
have full suffrage eight are in the dry
column and four are not. Those which
are not dry are New York, California,
Wyoming anti Nevada.
ITO the National American Woman
Suffrage Association. with its eyes
fixed on the federal suffrage amend
ment. nothing in the world could mean
votes for the women of New York"
was the comment today of Mrs. Helen
II. Gardener of the congressional COM
mittee of the national association.
1.-The votes of those women will
translate themselves into votes of con-
gressmen. and the federal amendment
Is practically won. Moreover. the New
York suffragists had already an
nounced that, whatever the outcome of
the election. they would Immediately
concentrate their forces upon Congress.
and there are 1.014,o00 women enrolled
in the New York woman suffrage party
women who now are voters.
"The Ohio defeat does not discourage
US. The referendum in that state was
held on petition of the antis to reject
the presidential and municipal suffrage
bill passed by the Ohio legislature last
winter. Petitions to the number of S27
were circulated by saloonkeepers, bar
tenders and brewery workers. and in
the four counties where suffragists
were allowed a hearing by the courts
they invalidated 5000 signatures out of
5000. The liquor men won this election
and the women lost. but the women will
appeal from Ohio drunk to Congress
sober. We have no doubt which way
the decision will lie,"