The Washington herald., 1920-11-04
CALLS WOMEN !
HELP TO POLLS
Carrie Chapman Gait Says
Influence on Conditions Is
= Already Apparent.
CASTS BALLOT EARLY
Votes for Cox and Against
Wadsworth, Regarding
Latter as Foe.
CASTS BALLOT EARLY
by CONSTANCE DREXEL.

NEW YORK, Nov. 3.-Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait. president Of the Ma
tional American Woman Suffrage
Association, voted early. Half-past
seven o'clock found her and Mary
Garrett Hay at the polling place
Of their district. Mrs. Gait voted
for Cox and against the re-elec-
tion of Senator wadsworth. Miss
Hay, a staunch Republican, who
renounCed her membership on the
Republican National Executive Com
mittee to be free to try to defeat
senator Wadsworth, voted for
Harding but against Senator Wads-
worth. Both Mrs. Gait and Miss
Hay voted in favor OF Miss Harriet
May Mills. candidate for secretary
Of State on the Democratic ticket
The suffrage leader, who has
given thirty years of her life to
make votes for women possible,
praised the transformation that
women's voting had already brought
about at the polls.
Sees Improvement Already.
Though the women of New York
State were able to vote two years
ago, this is their first Presidential
election" she said. Though l did
not vote. visited some of the poll
ing places four years ago, and l
can see marked change because
of wOman's entrance into the cleo
tOrate. We can see the result of
the citizenship classes and all the
studying that women have done in
preparation for their new duties"
AS for the results of the election,
Mrs. Gait is particularly interested
in the count of the vote for Sem
ator Wadsworth.
Tt will be impossible, however"
she said, Ito obtain any definite re-
suits until late tonight, or else to-
morrow.
Old Methods in Country.
TT must be remembered that in
the country districts old methods
are still in use. anN in some places
the returns have to be carried quite
A distance on hOrsebac to reach
the telephone or telegraph wires
and thus be counted in the grand
total
Therefore the women of New
York will not know until very late
bout the final returns in the coura-
GeOus fight they have made to de-
leat Senator Wadsworth."
At suffrage headquarters and at
the offices assigned to the women's
bureaus at both Republican and
Democratic national headquarters.
speculation was rife as to whether
the next Congress of the United
S%1tes would rave a woman mem
bsr. New York State has a woman
c. Csrdidate for the Senate on the Pro-
h bition ticket. She is Mrs. Ella
A BOOle. Miss Rose Schneider
aaE= iS candidate for the United
:,t-its H-lI;e on the Farmer-Labor
tI=Eet.
Prospects Not Bright.
As matter of fact the entrance of
women into full suffrage has not
brought about as yet any great push
for women in Congress. Only two
or three of the far Western States
have promising nominees, but these
are so far West that, with the dir-
terence in time. the results could not
he expected this evening. Anne
Martin, running as an Independent
fer the Senate to represent Nevada,
and Esther LovcjOy. running for a
seat in the lower house of Congress
on the Democratic ticket in Oregon,
have the best chance to win.
But 1t was considered very doubt
full in suffrage headquarters and in
Republican and Democratic head
quarters that the new Congress
NO1l1d have a u-ornop r,ap,hor