The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-06-29
|1oNEN WILL PLAY BIG
PART IN THE CAMPAIGN
.rN1y.FIvE MILLION VOTES
w. LONG WAY TOWARD
wa ',,uNc NEXT PRESIDENT.

7.o,inine America has thrown her
t ;n+o the ring! From the Atlantic
81 NV pocifc. from Canada to Mexi-
Wv nandidates and campaign mana
ore turning anxiou eyes to the
ers ' Than $4,000, 1000 women voters
=, ,rill have a large part in deter
Inning the result of next November
residential election.
'' ~will the women vote as their hus-
ID do?" The average old-time pol
|a a.a and party chieftain is con-
'ineed, or wants to be, that the aver
woman voter will cast her vote
H. "ns with the husband. He doesn't
ll ong that the husband will tell his
mean :sa how to vote and that she will go
El w do H0 t. Most of the party chief
n;n. a are married and they know wo-
' sn' better than that. But they do
| Bll nIiovp that what appeals to the hus-
Pond will likewise appeal to the wife,
h least early in the game.
Women Voters May Think Differently.
Rut the women voters think differ
brtIv Women may vote more for
,nns%rSsonality" than the men have IN
+bs mast but they will delve deeply
into the issues at stake, so say the
InFrage leaders. The woman vote
f fa year is such perplexing prob
In that leaders of both parties are
frankly puzzled as to the results.
With the introduction of the femi-
,ine element into the political life of
he nation, leaders on both sides were
mick to see the necessity for an early
nrollment of the women voters. Par
V chiefs bid against each other for
he feminine vote, and in the end the
romen enrolled as they pleased, unin-
uenced mainly by any glowing
romises made.
Both Old Parties Are Prepared.
Neither side was caught mapping
nd the work of enrolling the women
nder the banners of the two great
arties has been going steadily for
ard. The women early saw the flu
lity of banding themselves together
an individual party and they soon
acame actively identified with one
the political parties.
Their influence in the national con-
,ntions has caused many an old-time
)litician to scratch his head and Won
II. But the woman vote could not
! ignored, so they were given places.
here were 26 women delegates and
20 women alternates named for the
publican convention at Chicago. The
.mocrats will send even more to
cir national convention at San
'ancisco late this month.
May Even Influence Male Vote.
Women, it is believed, will vote
n programs as personifed by men,
ut not for bad men on a good plat
,rm. Women will be as apt to in
fence thef man in his vote as the
an is the wife. That, in the main,
the way the suffragist sizes up her
ster millions of voters. One canny
oman leader remarked that wife
as much more apt to get her first
lrty inclination from her father
an from her husband-just as the
w young man voter generally gets
e impulse or leaning from dad"
A study of results in states where
omen have voted in the past gives
me interesting results. 1t was the
oman "pacifst" voter out west who
ected Wilson in 1916, many pohti
ans say. Yet in Illinois, where the
omen voted on a separate ballot
ON the men, the women gave a
rger vote for Hughes, proportion
ely, than the men did.
Women, as a rule, will probably be
ohibitionists. Yet Wyoming, the
st suffrage state in the union, for
airs had almost as many saloons as
did grocery stores, and the femi-
ne vote, as a class, apparently did
vt make an impression on this issue.
course Wyoming went "dry"
entually, but it did so when the
Try" swing caught men as well as
omen voters in the state.
On the other hand, Montana and
dorado voted dry shortly after
omen got the ballot and the "wets"
i'd women were largely responsible.
allfornia, with women voting, went
vet" so there you are. 1t is said
e democrats are eager to take on
e booze issue in a hope of sweep
g the east, but the one thing that
tiers them is the question-=how
Ill the millions of new women vot-
s regard "wet" party?