The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-11-08
SUFFS TOJ0IN
OLD PARTIES
Scott at Idea of .Woman's
Party-Say 100000
Will Be Voters.

ing the formation Of woman voters
PARTY in the State OF New York; may
cease their forebodinss. women's sue
cess at the polls November 8 does not
mean sex division In politics. Women
are going TO vote every old way, just
the same as men. Take that from DR..
Anna Howard Shaw. Mrs. Carrie Chap.
man Gait. Mrs. Norman de r. White
house, Miss Mary Garrett Hay, Mrs.
James Lees Laidiaw. Mira Raymond
Brown and all ths rest Of tho su6s who
have been laboring to bring about the
late happy result at the polls.
Form . woman's party:. No. indeed"
said Mrs. LAidiAw yesterday. I'VE shall
do no strange. cruel or unusual thing.
| don't even know q woman Who wants
to run for ONCE.
Aside from office seeking. women are
like men, having many minds about
public questions We are Republicans,
Democrats, Socialists, Prohibittonists. In
dependents. everything and It's absurd
to say that Just because We are women
we would herd together in one political
pen.'
l,sOO,O women TO vote.
Naturally the sudden entrance Of
i,s00, 900 women into the electorate Of
the Empire state causes much specula-
ton as to what they will do These
figures--l, 500 .00o-are Mrs. Cats She
bases them on the fact that about that
number Of men voted In New York StAte
last election. The number OF women
actually Of voting ago in the State 10
much larger. 3,0so.S%s. but eorne are
not citizens and many Of those who are
will be Indifferent to the vote-again.
Just like the men.
This,is By far the largest bunch OF
electors ever presented to Uncle Sam
At one swocp. Illinois has an estimated
female population Of l.sss.ise of vottng
age, but not all Of them exercise the
right. California has s73.se3. Colorado
.s4S47 and Indiana soo,isA. Michigan
has s4S.s1s.
given either full suffrage or Presidential
suffrage to their women. there are now
1O,lcl,s3l women In these United States
who can 70 to the polls and say who
shall be our next President. The
women who can vote not only on Fed
eral officers but also on those OF the
State and the municipality are t.'5s.oz
And-take notice. anti-sufiragists IN
Congress and all Government ofticehoid-
ers who may still lIarbor the notion tnat
woman's place. Is the home-the number
Of electoral votes Of the equal franchise
States, not counting Ohio. which had the
bad taste to take back last Tuesday the
vote its Legislature gave It's women. Is
1SS.
The experience in all the Western
States where women vote IL that there -
not only no sex division. but absolutely
no notion that there could be any sex
division.
when I was out there ana asked the
get my point Of view" said Misc Rose
Young of the Leslie Suffrage Foundation,
! III Madison avenue. yesterday. They
are 20 accustomed to considering pub
| Lc questions along with tho men and 60
! Ing to the polls with them and voting &C.
cording to their various opinions that my
questions about what the women do pus-
zled them.
"Oh, OF course the women have their
civic clubs, such as the big one In San
Francisco, and they make their special
drive for reform measures relating to
child welfare and sanitary measures and
so on-but 80 do the good men. Together
tho public spirited men and women work
for the public good. and there's no sea
separation"
Women May F1sht waasworth.
There may be slight sex separation
in New York State when Jamos W
wadsworth. Jr.'s. term rs Senator OF the
United States expires in 1921. The
women Of New York love him not, deem
ing him the most cantankerous anti-Guf'
frage Congressman now opposing ht
Susan B. Anthony amendment. They
are, as one Of them admitted yesterday
laying for Jimmy" in a way and with
a determination which men could hardy
be expected to equal.
d, Not only II Senator Wadsworth anti
suffrage. but he let his wife be presiden
Of the national anti-suffrsge association
Tor maybe he doesn't let her. but. any
way, she is). Sex feeling may enter tn
voting booths II Senator Wadswortl
seekS reelection. but his 10 rather an iso
lated case
II the Federal amendmsnt sos
through this next session Of Congress
as Dr. Shaw and Mira Gait and the res
OF the leaders hope and believe It win
tho women may not even remember b.
1891 that wadsworth 10 an anti MaYb
he'll forget II himself by then.
The first election at which the womel
Of New York will cast their ballots
the Congressional election In the fall o
1915. There are forty-thres Rspresenta
tives from New York ana they'll all
voted upon. The New York Clerk O
Elections, to whom Miss Hay wired q
soon as she found she WAS voter I
; ask what preliminaries, II any. wer
Unnecessary before she entered into III
full dignity of that estate, assured he
: that she needn't worry. The State doe
II all. January ! all New York woms
, who are II years old and neithe
idiots, criminals lunatks nor aliens auto
: maticaliy become invested with the fu
, franchise.
: Will Vote for Next GevePneR.
Next fall they also will vote for Go,
ernor and other state oficers. The dr1
city election OF any consequence
. which they will ngurs IL the Mayoralt
contest four years from now. In b
|. tween they can cast ballots for som
{ Aldermanic candidates and such like. b,
nothing important for Father Knicksl
booker till 1891. -
There IL q possibility Of . special ole,
tion April IS. 1913. on the question (
. whether there 10 to be Q LIQUOR Loo
. option II the initiative petition hs
!. enough signatures this election will I
: held. IN that case women must remen
Fiber 10 register nfteen days before. eli
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