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Show BALLOT 15 DENIED WDMEHJF EAST SUFFRAGE PROPOSAL DEFEATED IN MASSACHUSETTS, NEW YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA. Ohio Refuses to Close Up Saloons, While Virginia Elects State Legislature Leg-islature Pledged to Enact Prohibition Pro-hibition Measure. New York. The voters of the Em pire state gave suffrage emphatic denial de-nial in the voting on Tuesday. A majority ma-jority of well over 200,000 New Yorkers voted against the proposed amendment to the state constitution to this end. At the same time they defeated de-feated even more unequivocally the proposal to adopt a new state constitution. consti-tution. Republicans retained their majority in the assembly, naming 98 of the 130 members. They also won all of the congressional elections, made necessary by deaths in three districts, the Twenty-sixth, Thirty-first and Thirty-sixth. The voters of Massachusetts denied women the right to vote by a majority major-ity of over 100,000. Samuel W. Mc-Call Mc-Call (Republican) defeated Governor David I. Walsh (Democrat) in the race for the governorship. Republicans also elected the whole of the state ticket below governor. The Republicans, Republi-cans, furthermore, gained twelve seats in the legislature. The Progressive vote in the state was almost negligible. neg-ligible. Pennsylvania administered another severe defeat in the aspirations of women to exercise the suffrage. The majority against this measure was estimated es-timated at 100,000. The Republicans elected a mayor of Philadelphia, Thomas B. Smith. Republicans made gains in four states. They added a governor in Massachusetts, made general gains in New Jersey and Kentucky and won an additional congressman in New York. . Maryland returns indicated that the Democrats had gained a governor. Prohibition measures were voted upon in Ohio and Virginia. The returns re-turns from the first state showed the defeat of the measure by a majority of about 40,000, while Virginia elected a state legislature pledged to enact measures in 1916 prohibiting the sale of intoxicants. In New Jersey the next house of the assembly will have 37 Republican and 23 Democratic members. The Republicans Re-publicans gained two state senators in Tuesday's contest and the next senate will be Republicans, 13; Democrats, 8. |