Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-12-17
Ten Million Women Voted.

Complete figures from MI the States
show there was total Of ~, l0l 1913 bal
lots cast at the Presidential election in
November, and that Hsrding's plurality
reached the unprecedented mark OF T.
507 ,677, which is three times greater than
the plurality given any previous candidate
for the highest office in the gift OF the
people. The largest plurality hitherto
given candidate was in 1904, when
Theodore Roosevelt was elected by vote
exceeding by 2, ,5a4 ,343 that cast for Park
er and Debbs, Democratio and Socialist
nominees. Eight years later the Democrats
elected Woodrow Wilson by the second
largest plurality ever recorded. 1t wss
2.Ie0. 900. which carried with-tt the cleo
toral vote of all but eight States and all
but o6 of the Electoral College, plurality
of 347. So it is seen that President Wilson
has led his party to its greatest victory
at the polls.
The more than 7,OOO,OO plurality is,
however, accounted for by the claims oil
the head of the German-American ele-
Inent in this country, who declares that he
and his anti-American allies turned more
than q. GOO. 600 votes en- bloc 10 the Grand
Old Party" In explaining the vote, or re-
cording it. il will be recalled that Mr..
Wilson became unpopular with the Ger
man-American voters because OF his I'm
pertinent Interference with, and blocking
Of Berlin g plans of world conquest
The fact that q, 10l ,673 votes were cast
lie. .639. .2S7 Republican; 0,13l ,70l Dem
ocratic; 9IO.477 Socialists; III ,957 Prohi-
bitionist, and 242, leo Farmer-Labor-
denotes an increase of S,57l $50 ballots
with the advent Of women as voters IN all
the States Previous to the election oi
November last. the gain in the electorate
had been about one million in each four
wears. starting as far back as 1888, when
the total vote was IL 1891 ,40S, rising from
that point until it reached 1901, l6e IN
1912, when, with the votes of women IN
several Of the States il jumped more than
1900. 900 TO lS,52S,743 in 1915 Only
three times before the recent election have
the pluralitics mounted to more than
million, indeed the parties were so evenly
divided that the pluralities were less than
600 600 in three instances, which in total
poll Of - 100000 up TO 10000 600 may
be regarded as close.
The total vote last November Of n lOl,-
673. shows an increase Of $751; $50 over
the vote Of 1915. and If we deduct ,OOo,-
600 as average gain in men voters every
four years. we may conclude that the
total number Of women who cast ballots
this wear for the fret time was about
7.5OO.OO who. with the women who
voted in Iq16-about $500, ,0O0-shows
that about l0,000,O 600 Of the fair sex ex-
pressed their choice for President through
the ballot al the election last month. And
il is rot without reason 70 estimate that
2. 600 OOO women refrained from voting
II Is interesting also 70 note that with
women voting only one-fourth OF our en-
tire population took part in the election Of
our executive so that possibly 3,5OO,otO
to 5. 600. 900 men and women did not exer-
cise the privilege Of franchise,
These statistics also show that New
York, with the surprising poll Of about p
SOC. 900 votes, IS truly entitled 70 be called
the Empire State. for her eijgihles consti-
tute more than a ninth Of the entire cleo
torate in tie United States, almost as
many as voted IN the entire South and as
many as cast ballots in the whole q New
England The Socialist vote in New ork
is semi-officiallv set down as 03.SOo;
Prohibition. 1877. Next 70 Colorado and
PENNSYLVANIA. New York led in support
Of Prohibition and topped her nearest
competitors Illinois. with 74747, and
WISCONSIN, with s0.653-olmost three TO
one, on Socialism.
These figures are more or less interesting
in showing that President Wilson's cause
has simply shared the same fate that has
attended all the great peronages Of the
late war who sought 10 silence the claim Of
militarists that might is right Lloyd
George alone remains Of all the big men
who played q considerable part II the
conduct Of the war. Premier VeniEelos,
who saved Greece from the fate that has
come upon Austria, has been beaten al
most unanimously by the faction that up
holds the pro-Gernan Constantine, the
Premier Clenenceau, who was the real
hero and savior Of France in her great
emergency, also has been repudiated and
cast aside So has the war premier Of
Italy, the Only real statesrnan Of the little
monarch. who saved bis nation from
annihilatiop and almost had re-est blish
ed her in Ter former glory. All have gone
down to defeat by verdicts az emphatic as
that registered against President Wilson's
mastery policy.
Beginning just before the New Year, the