PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16876, 25 October 1920, Page 3

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

HOW WILL WOMEN VOTE,

- LARGE NUMBERS REGISTERING. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received Oct. 25 9.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 23. How the women will vote at the Presidential election continues to he an enigma. Prominent women are conducting campaigns for hath parties. It is known that women have been busily organising throughout the nation. The leaders of tho Republican and Democratic parties declare that women are silently but effectively cramming and estimating the situation, but how the women will vote is an unknown quantity. Mr. Cox has been making a special appeal to women on the ground that the League of Nations will prevent future wars. Mr. Harding is stressing a claim that the league will cause ware. Women everywhere have registered in large numbers. Georgia, which has not passed a law enabling women to register under the suffrage amendment, Trill not have any women voting at this election. What a powerful part women will play in the election can be seen from the following figures. It is estimated that approximately 550,000 men and ('50,000 have registered in Chicago, 2.325.000 women and 2,839,000 men in Pennsylvania, 25,000 women and 56,000 men in New Orleans, 129,000 men and 68.000 women in Boston, 100,000 women and 150,000 men in Detroit, 127,000 women and 185,000 men in St. Louis, 600.000 women and 750,000 men in California. None can vote without having registered.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn, DANGER OF ISOLATION. NEW YORK, Oct. 22. * In a speech at Trenton (New Jersey), Mr. J. M. Cox (Democrat nominee) said that for the United States to isolate herself from the world would mean that cne-third of her factories would closo, and one-third of her farms would be unfilled. He added: “We would have to bring down our production to our consumption, and we must sell our surplus to Europe, or business will slump.” —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.