Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-11-10
Wou.n's Part In the Election.

WpmenS fAIl III iHt BfSN'"
rh. official count of the vote polled at
the election on Tuesday. November =
shows that 10000 Of Dclawares lo3 lo4
reo,stran,s went to the polls and deposi'eu
.h.,- ballots As there were 81 $40 votes
cast IN the Presidential campaign OF iSIo'
,ho increase IN the total ballot Is 44ouo
or aa per cent. What part OF thus gam
may he attributed 10 the new voters uhoei
the Nineteenth Amendment can ohly pe
,pnroumated. There were total oi 81
- women IN the State who were qualifed
Il, ballot. and i is probable thst anou'
an ON0 of them exercised their newly
ACQUIRED privilege There were -o,oof
,ro,rer registered in this city. 7.5l5 IN
r,,r,I %ew Castle. 1000 in Kent. ana
$500 in Sussex county. As the total Nole
only fell ofT about 1000 as compared WIN
,be registration. II is probable that 4'ooo
i, : nOo ~ those rcfraining from voting
,ver, females OF the 49,6il registered
voters men and women, IN Wilmington,
I or did not cast their ballots, ana q
,b, - 3S3 in rural New Castle all voted
~, 80 Kcnt's registration was lo,i''
MI her total vote was only l.424 less
o4,l, lSO46 ~ the 1888 Sussex regis
,r.,r,s caSt their ballots. only 7SI refrain
ne from voting.
II seems t. he indicated, by reports
.,itsidc 81 this county. that there was
Iafrcr percentage of women net VouhR
..,,,ng ,he rec,>trants here than IN any
II th, other sections of the State MS
+, va. understood in advance would ne
,he casc while in the sections below WI
m,nrton the difference between the pon
and the registration Is largely represented
hv the women who after registering IS
Trained from voting.
- 4 sn the absentees from the polls
were women. the vote shows that q ms,
,,l, ,nc n every SIX of those registered
d,5 net vote Al all but il is probable inns
r,fIo should bc expressed as one IN zen.
Is Y1ew 81 anti-slIt.raCists claims thaf
there we're something like eighteen
women ia one II the State opposed 70
he ratification 81 the Nlnetecnth Amend
mont = claim partially confirmed by q
spbso1,,ent rnail canvass of the state. the
vote shows that women who protested
against Suffrage. prudently and wisely
,ccep,ej the responsibilities thrust upon
them. and probably about evenly diVided
tbe,, baliots between the two tickets
Thor, = nothing to indicate, in face q
At the conditions that entered into the
electioI. that either the Democratic o.
Republican party was particularly Ad-
ver.ced by the women's vote, except, O
course for the Negro women. VINO follow
,ng ne black men. voted soldly for the ke-
r,,,,l;csn ticket. The other female voters
would not have disturbed the 'normalcy
- m. naiorlties. and We may declare
that III. advent OF the women al the polis
hss changed the results scarcely al al
The daughters of the Nineteenth Amend
neUt followed their husbands almost
wholly IN casting the.r first ballots prob
sbl, this H. due 10 heTedIty- ASSOCIATION,
~ environment. l. was not 10 be expect
- however. that many Of the new voters
would venture on little political adventures
,,f tb.ir own on the first trip 10 the polls.
s. th, registration was very large
lu3.lO4 out Of d total population Of 223.
GG3-and the total vote Of the state only
about 700 below the enrolment, We
can soc that almost every one was keyed
up a. the voting point except those wom-
en- who still mai4tain that Their sex
have other and greater responsibilities
thai balloting Many of the ballots being
prepared at home possibly, the day be
for the election, there was considerable
cutting Of tickets
II il dlfhcult il view of the unusual
conditions. 70 tnd that votes Of the women
Affected the result in q single district.
The defeat for the state Senate III the
second district of Representative Nc
Naht who Was the target for. radical
sIfingl-t- ii vIew Of the shift in the vote
81 th, other sections of tie city and State.
va, mo- likely effected by q general g.
q 8. assault Tor McNabb undoubtedly
Was not greatly opposed by the women
Of his district, who were with him as
maJort, III opposition 70 suffrage. Mr.
McNabb confronted a large foreign ele-
ment men and women il his district
Who we're opposed 70 President Wilson
and I'D had been misguided IN hostility
b. has administration and to the League
of Nations. for which the Democrats
stood M McNabb's seat in the Gen
eral Assembly was vital to Republican
plans and his defeat was rather a party
than a Sufiragst victory.
McNaLls defeat, however, was not 50
pronounced as that Of the Negro candi-
date for the Legislature in the Second
Representative district Of Wilmington
The Negro's aspirations aroused the in
dignant but silent protests Of the Re-
publican voters, and his candidacy was
shot DIP ~ tho men If bis party, which
had majority enough to head off the