The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-11-07
ISSUE wins BY
100000 VOTES
OHIO IS LOST
Prohibition fails to carry in Buck
eye State. Women jubilant
in Gotham
SUFFRAGE WORKERS SEE
NATION VICTORY SOON
New Jersey Carries Local Option
Republicans Win
Also
VETS ARE LEADING

VETS ARE LEADING
Cincinnati, Nov. 7.-With only
40 precincts to hear from the
anti-prohibition forces maintained
. lead Of 3,753 at noon today on
Detailed figures reported from all
the countries In Ohio except Har-
rison. Harrison county sent an
estimate that the county would
40 dry by $500 votes, but this esti-
mate was not included in the pre-.
. cinct figures, which gave from
5,327 precincts out OF 5,756 In
Ohio, for prohibition 474,5s1,
against 47s,334. #
New York, Nov. THE women
citizens of New York state were Civ
en- unlimited suffrage in yesterdays
election by majority expected to
reach 100000. With 1,34S out Of 5,772
election districts, missing, the vote
stood 533,519 for the amendment, and
446,791 against. In Greater New
York, which reversed its stand Of
1915, the suffrage leaders predicted
that the missing 272. election districts
would greatly increase the already
l~Ako M! !orl.y. Ine complete vote tor
the city was 334,Ol1 for suffrage, as
against 241, ,S15s opposed. Ii
In her enthusiasm DR.. Anna How
ard Shaw, suffrage worker for forty
years, came to the city headquarters
to cheer the women who had spent
hours watching the polls She said
she could scarcely wait for morning
to have q huge diamond added to thir.
teen others set in the Susan B. An:
thOny pin she woreiat her throat to
represent New York the fourteenth
state to give women the franchise.
New York has taken It out of the
unlucky thirteen Glass; she told the
women clustered around her, not a
few of them fifth moistened eyes,
land now Ill take the midnight train
for Washington, back to my job as
chairman of the wOmen's committee
OF the council of national defense,
with ten times as much heart for the
work"
The women weary from their days
work, but supremely proud of the re-
suit, remained at both headquarters
until past midnight.
Nearly two million women will be
enfranchised by the electorate of New
York state.
The big suffrage vote was polled
in New York City, where the size Of
the suffrage vote was surprise to
most of the political leaders and ev-
en- to some of the suffrage workers.
The outstanding feature of the elec-
tions in the United States yesterday
was the apparently assured victory
for woman suffrage in New York
state by a majority of approximately
10000. While the suffragists were
winning in the east, early returns
from Ohio indicated defeat for them
in that state.
Two states, Ohio and New Mexico,
voted on prohibition
Incomplete returns from Ohio
showed that the contest In that state
was very close, with the drys leading
by a small margin. The prohibition
lists evidently had carried New Mex
leo. So
The entire republican state ticket,
headed by Governor Samuel w. Nc
Call, won an overwhelming victory
in Massachusetts, while the democra-
tic state ticket. headed by Westmore-
land Davis for governor, was success
full in Virginia.
Interest in the municipal elections
centered upon New York, where John
f.. Hylan, democrat defeated Mayor
John p. Mitchell, candidate for re-
election, by a plurality of more than
100000, The entire Tammany city
ticket also was elected. The social
lists vote showed gain of more than
400 per cent over that cast in the
municipal campaign four years ago.
The bipartisan judicial ticket in Chi.
cago defeated by plurality estimated
at $4,000, the socialist candidates
standing on an anti-war platform.
The attempt Of Senator Penrose,
backing the so-called town meeting
candidates. to oust the Ware brothers
from control in Philadelphia upon the
face of returns up to midnight appears
to have been unsuccessful, but at tnat
hour both sides were claiming VIC
tory.
VIM. A. Magee, former mayor OF
Pittsburgh, seemingly was defeated oy
+. v. Babcock. wealthy business
man. Both are republicans.
Harry L. Davis, republican, was re
elected mayor of Cleveland.
Charles w. Jewett, republican, was
chosen mayor of Indianapolis.
By electing George W. Smith mayor
of Louisville, the republican party in
that city scored their first victory In
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