Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-11-04
M CURES SUFFRAGE
CLAIMS SET Alright
New York Has Ism FOist Iuon II by
Coward. Stacker Element Led ny
Socialist Candidate.
OTHER STATES DEFEAT IT
Ohio and Maine. Hundred Per Cent
american states, Turn Down Pro-
pOsal by Large MaJOritics.
by CHARLOTTE L. ROW.

Two. CRITICISMS OF antisuffraEe
made by Hon Bird Mcclure IN
Tulsa papers require correction.
Mr Mcclure Is evidently not
aware ~ the COncaded fact that
woman suffrage was foistcd upon
the state Of New York 10y tb" pro.
German. pacifist, socialist voters OF
Sew York city The socialist can
didaic for mayor Morris liillQuit
appealed directly to the coward
Stacker element Of Sew York City.
with but two planks In his platform
peace t-any-price and woman
suffrage-hc spoke in German, lld-
dish and English-io audiences VINO
IN mortal terror OF their skins, nat
urdlly clutChcd the skirts OF women
and dragged them to the firing line.
Not realizing the looming menace
in the socialist campaign or Ne"
York city, the upstate voters large
~ remained away from the polls on
election day This default, com
hued with the turnover Of 100000
votes to socialism II the great cItS'
precisely offset the 10000 majority
defeat Of woman suffrage in lSl1.
Even 50. suffrage was defeated.
though hy comparatively small
majority throughout the state down
to the city line, whore the over
whclming socialist vote swept SUI
friGe upon the state.
on the same day, Ohio--a 100 per
| cent American state for the third
| time defeated suffrage by ma
| iOrity 60 per cent greater than New
Hork's suffrage success. The com
parison OF malorltieS becomes about
| 400 per cent Of Ohio over New York.
! when the relative populations OF the
! two states Is considered.
Maine. another full blooded Amer
| lean state, and tho Oldest prohibition
state in tho union, also defeated
woman suffrage last fall by a three
| to one vote.
Woman suffrage has been defeat
| ed In 10 popular elections during the
! last five years The total majoritics
I against suffrage reach almost two
! million votes. Millions OF men have
recorded their opposition to suffrage
| whereas the suffrage successes nave
| been due Invariably either to de-
! fault vote. Or-as in Montana, Ne.
! Nada and New Nork--tO a powerful
socialist influence. So strong is the
! opposition TO suffrage in the state
| Of New York that tremendous
| movement has sprung into existence
| for "A rCsuhmiSSiOn Of the question.
] W oman suffrage Will ulAlllldNtlg Vt
repealed in New York and sooner or
later it will be wiped from the books
OF the viCtimizcd states of the Tar
| west
Mr. McGuire's virtuous defense OF
prohibition ~ edifying Does he
! know that OF 2S prohibition states.
only six have woman suffrage, that
! prohibition state after prohibition
state, notably West Virginia and
| Maine. have overwhelmingly de-
feated woman suffrage; that women
voters repeatedly have voted wet
Is It possible that MIR. Mcclure is
so far behind the times that he does
not know that the most powerful
advocate OF woman suffrage in this
country. Arthur brisbane. editor-in-
chief Of the prO-suffrage Hearst
papers, which have been accused
from one end of the country OF the
other of pro-Germanism, is now be-
ing investigated by the United States
government for his alleged alliance
With pro- German brewing interests
Has MIR. Mcclure never heard that
the most brutally pro-suffrage news
paper in the country, the Washington
Times. owned by Arthur Brisbane,
was financed by the Liquor inter
csts" to fight prohibition?
Does Mr.. Mcclure suppose that