Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-01-28
ANTI" REPLIES TO
SENATOR SHAFROTK
Mrs. Mcmahon Takes Issue
With Figures on Voting
in Illinois. )
HINTS JUGGLING OF FACTS

Mrs. ]. Alex Mcmahon. in charge of the
headquarters of the District OF Columbia
Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage.
gave out the FOLLOWING statement yester-
day afternoon:
''In the Congressional Record of January
p. 1917. Senator Shafroth of Colorado has
printed some statements regarding the
number of women voting in Illinois which
would lead the reader to suppose that
the women of Illinois voted as generally
as or nearly so as the men, The facts
are that the official vote shows that 1,136,-
o07 men and s76,7o0 women voted in that
state for the presidential candidates in
1916, or a fraction over $50 men to every
100 women. Illinois has practically as
many women men eligible to vote as
considerable percentage of the men over
twenty-one years of age in that state are
aliens. while not nearly so large a per-
centage Of the women of voting age are
aliens
How They Voted in Chicago.
1.-THE statement by the senator that
Illinois uses a separate ballot for women
would, TO the ordinary reader, seem an
attempt to convey the idea that women
voted proportionally in as large numbers
as men, but the official vote at the city
election April 4, 1915, shows 326,i99 men
voted and only 240,195 women, or 232
men voted for every 100 women who cast
their ballots. and this at city election
where We have been told by the suffragists
women would be of such great help
with their votes and have enacted with
their ballots such beneficial laws for pure
cial good for children in the home. Yet
We ind 232 men to every 100 women
voting in Chicago
The article of the senator gives the
fngton and Connecticut. II he had de-
sired to really arrive at the facts about
women neglecting to vote when given
the ballot. and wanted to compare
states 1000 miles apart. like Connecti-
cut and Washington, where voting con-
ditions and laws are different why
did he not compare the oldest suffrage
state, wyoming twhere women have
oeen voting for over two generations.
and certainly where they have been
born and reared in suffrage state they
ought to vote if there is any possibility
OF ever getting women to vote in any
great numbers). which has 1.314 more
men of voting age than Delaware, yet
Delaware men cast more votes for
PRESIDENT than the combined votes cast
oy both men and women in the oldest
suffrage state-Wyoming.
Charges Juggling With Facts.
when people are inoculated with
the votes for women germ they seem
to lose all respect for actual facts re-
garding the cause and seem to try to
delude themselves by false figures, mis-
leading and Illogical conclusions, in
order to bolster up the dangerous folly
OF woman suffrge. and in so doing
make women believe men are their OPP
n Avr@ L.
laws which they must enforce, If they
are enforced. and reversing all nature
by putting women at mems work, and
thereby reducing mans responsibility
TO woman, which can only result in
loss to woman and the race, Tor with
out mans protection and without his
feeling of responsibility to woman CIV
ilization will turn backward and human
happiness be IMPAIRED"