Show BALLOT IS DENIED WOMEN OF EAST SUFFRAGE PROPOSAL DEFEATED IN MASSACHUSETTS NEW NEWYORK NEWYORK NEWYORK YORK AND PENNSYLVANIA Ohio Refuses to Close Up Saloons While Virginia Ele Elects ts State LegIslature LegIslature LegIslature Leg- Leg Pledged to Enact Prohibition Prohibition Pro Pro- Measure New York The The voters of the Empire Em Em- pire ph-e state gave suffrage emphatic de der nl nial l in the voting on Tues Tuesday ay A ma majority majority of well over New Yorkers voted against the proposed amendment t to the state constitution to Q this end ena At the same time they defeated defeated defeated de de- de- de even more unequivocally the proposal to adopt a new now state cons Republicans retained their majority in the assembly naming 98 of the members They also wo won wor all of the congressional elections made necessary by deaths in three thre districts the Twenty sixth Thirty-first Thirty and Thirty IThe i iThe The voters of Massachusetts denied women the right to vote by a majority majority major major- W W. McCall Me- Me IC ity of over Samuel Call Republican defeated Governor David I. I Walsh Democrat in the race for the governorship Republicans also elected the whole of the state ti ticket ket below governor The Republicans cans furthermore gained twelve twelve seats in the legislature rh The Progressive vote yole In the state was almost neg- neg neg-l neg P Pennsylvania administered another severe defeat in the aspirations ns of of women to exercise the suffrage Th The majority against this measure was e es estimated at The Republicans Republicans' el elected a mayor mayor of Philadelphia i Thomas B. B Smith I Republicans m made de gains In in four states They added a governor in in I 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 returns returns re re- re- re turns from the first state showed the defeat of the me measure sure by a majority of about while Virginia elected a state legislature pledged to enact measures in 1916 prohibiting the s sale le leof of intoxicants In New Jersey the next house of the assembly will have 37 Republican and 23 Democratic members The R Republicans Re- Re publicans publicans gained gained two state senators In Tuesdays Tuesday's contest and the next senate will be Republicans 13 Democrats 8 |