WOMEN VOTERS IN AMERICA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 29, 26 May 1914, Page 4

WOMEN VOTERS IN AMERICA.

If one may rely to any extent on the stories of election incidents m America the little bickerings which occur 'at stressful times in our own country are really not worth considering by comparison. For instance in Chicago and other towns in the State of Illinois, a few weeks ago, one hundred thousand newly enfranchised women voted for the first time They braved the rain and Arctic wind to reach the poll* in ™nv pjacfcß, but their efforts failed to defeat "Bathhouse John," the notorious political despot of Chicago who has described himself as being 'm public life for my private pocket. Batnhouse John's" adherents, framed to the minute like a lot of performing monkeys, voted as solidly a-- r.Mial for their boss, and Miss Marion Drake the apostle of reform, was beaten bv four to one. In many distracts the women voters succeeded in suppressing nulls, as thev are called in America-but at Springfield, which was the theatre of the fiercest battle on temperance issues, 450| women voted to retain the saloons, and 4300 against. In one of "Bathhouse Johns districts revolvers were ived to intimidate the women, but a large force ot police soon arrived and restored oraer. John Haegle, of Aurora, was arrested on a charge of killing his wife because she did not want to go to the polls with him and vote as he directed One Chicago man complained to the Election Board of .the action of his wife, who was one nf v ti-e election judges in his voting district, but ho secured no redress.