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Show WOMAN SUFFRAGE GAINS SINCE '90 Women Now Have Full Vote in Eleven States and Partial Vote in Twenty-Two. Chicago. N'ov 5 Women now have full suffrage in eleven states and in the territory of Alaska, according to Iatesf returns tonight from Tuesday s election, which apparently gave the franchise to women In Nevada and Montana. Late tabulation of the vote on equal suffrage in Nevada and Montana Monta-na did not upset the lead previously recorded in favor of the women, but rural and mountainous counties had not reported. In addition to the ten states now listed as granting full franchise to .vrmien tho rpy hava thp rifhf fri I vote for certain offices in twenty-two other states In Illinois, one of the 22, women may vote for all statutory offices, including prpsidenlial electors. elect-ors. The eleven suffrage states with the time of granting the franchise; are 1 Wyoming. 1S90. 2 Colorado, 1893. .1 Utah. 1896. 4 Idaho. 1896. 5 Washington. 1910. 6 California. 1912. 7Avlzona, 1912. 8 Kansas, 1912 9 -Oregon, 1912 10 Nevada, 1914 11 Montana, 1914. Partial Vote in 22 States. The twenty two states allowing partial par-tial suffrage to women are. Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Iowa. Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan Massachusetts, Minnesota Mississippi, Nebraska (defeated full suffrage Tuesday). New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico. New York North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio (defeated (de-feated full suffrage In 1912 and on Tuesday), South Dakota. Vermont and Wisconsin. Despite the claims of woman suffrage suf-frage loaders that they won the vote in some of the other of the seven states which voted on the subject Tuesday, late returns bear out early Indications that the franchise was denied de-nied women In Ohio, Missouri, Nebraska, Ne-braska, North Dakota and South Dakota. Da-kota. Officers of the National Woman Suffrage association tonight began to recapitulate tbe results of female votes in the various states in which thr-v balloted on Tuesday They contend con-tend that the women were instrument-al instrument-al in California in passing the laws j that drive out pugilism and eegrega i ted vice quarters and failed in driving driv-ing out saloons only because of the too drastic provisions of the amend-ment. amend-ment. " Women's Power at Polls. . The suffragist leaders also assert that women showed their power at thp polls In Chicago by electing as judge of the municipal court Charles L Billings who introduced in th Illinois legislature the bill that gave g.rt women the right to vote for many ;)J offices in Illinois. Pollings would have been defeated by the men s vote, but was carried to victory by the women's ballots. u The leaders also declare that women wom-en aided materially in voting prohibi-tion prohibi-tion on Tuesday for Washington, Ore- u gon and Colorado. The vote on tho ousting of saloons is still in doubt in Colorado, however. Tabulation of the women's rote In o Chicago shows that they cast 104 611 ballots on Tuesday The total reg- ea istration of women in the city is nearly 170,000 The percentage of women w ho stayed at home was much 2 X larger than that of men In Chi- Ave cago the Democrats received about 43 j per cent of the women's ballots, the HO' Republicans 34 per cent and the Progressives Pro-gressives 23 per cent anl rw I |