SUFFRAGE FOR WOMEN
VOTED IN PHILIPPINES
MANILA, P. 1., May 1. Woman suffrage came back to the Philippines to-day, the only Oriental
country to grant women the right to vote.
Tho women voted -105,472 to 10,177 j in a plebiscite, the Commonwealth I Interior Department reported, after, tabulating the bulk of returns. Only) 300,000 votes were necessary for a constitutional provision assuring feminine enfranchisement. The only cloud was ;t charge of fraud, against which Commonwealth j officials warned before the. election.: ,1. N. Bello reported from south-} eastern Luzon that many minors voted' there. ' All lint two of the 41) pro\ im-c:- and IV;U el tile s : x cities re ported al b.':r;t ' I'arlml ret urns. Il will be a week lx lure the einirc vote is counted, but. Josn Vargas, secretary to President} Suezou, said further returns could not' change the report. ! Women voted only once previously, in the closing days of the territorial
status of tho Philippines before the islands became a commonwealth. The Legislature, deciding women weren’t : -ufliciently interested, took the vote away from them, and later decided to let them regain suffrage if enough of them wanted it.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 June 1937, Page 9
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