Show I Letters to Editor NEW YORK GIVES WOMEN THE VOTE Editor Telegram The empire state of the Union conI containing containing con con- I the empire city of the nation has reversed its overwhelming decision decision decision de de- de- de again woman suffrage of two years ago and has given the women the vote voto by a comfortable majority The overturn was not confined to any anyone anyone anyone one locality The cause of the women was not only heavily supported in New York City but in many of the counties of the state All of of the old elements of opposition op opposition opposition op- op position were busy the busy the reactionaries the and gambling conI contingents con con- I I con con- contingents the crooked politicians But ButI there was powerful support on the theother theother I other side President Wilson on and andl l many of his cabinet officers de declared lared r for suffrage Many of the prominent Republicans of the state favored it Every candidate for lor the mayoralty of New York City voted for it The result was a splendid response on the part of the electorate to an Intelligent earnest never ceasing campaign on the part of the women They never knew when they were I beaten The day after atter their last defeat defeat defeat de de- de- de feat they started right in on a fresh tresh campaign Nightly on street corners on crowded Broadway they set forth their case to New Yorkers They canvassed the state from end to end I It was sheer honest persistence in a great cause that won The results will not bring about a I millennium in the state but they are I likely to bring about effects that are arc I far reaching Woman more interested InterI interested inter Inter- I ested in the home in the safeguardIng safeguard- safeguard Ing of ot childhood and young womanhood womanhood womanhood woman woman- hood in everything that makes the humane appeal will be sure to make her Influence and her vote ote felt She will make a fight tight against white slavery ag against poor factory regula reuta- regulations I against the exploiters of ot human beings She will make it harder for lor Tammany to come back in the fuI fu- fu iture I unless ture-unless unless Tammany reforms She will have small patience with officials who protect vice who permit preying upon girls girl who wink their eyo eye at atall atall all the violations of laws whose object object object ob ob- ob- ob is to protect workers worker The cause of human progress throughout the nation is apt to be a I gainer because of the womans woman's victory In New York A A B n. B. B |