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1 THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1915. REJECT PLEA OF WOMEN TO VOTE Proposed Suffrage Amendment! Aie Defeated in New York, Masia- , . chtuetta and Pwmsy. RIPUBUCAXS MAKE GAINS WTerwneiminjr, aeieat 01 wuwau bu- j t rage, In New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania; election of a de-itioCreAlc governor In Maryland to Buncoed a republican, and a republi can governor In Massachusetts to suc ceed a democrat; a gain of one repub lican representative (from New Yortf) in congress In the filling of fiur- vacancies; ', a close contest for the governorship In Kentucky, with tTle iflfreocratlc candldnte leading on Incomplete returns, and the defeat of icohiyliion In Ohio, were outstanding fvure today of the elections In ten dates yesterday. In New York the rroposed new state constitution was rejected by a majority of approxi mately 4 00,000. .'ew.York denied woman's plea for tip ballot by a majority of approxl natelj 200.000; Massachusetts' vote rgalnst suffrage showed a majority ct -132,082. Pennsylvania's' returns vffmslow In coming In, bnt Indicated tat the majority against suffrage would be less than first figures In dicated. Estimates based on Incom Tlete returns forecast defeat of the amendment by from 60,000 to 60, C00. 'J-' Tamtnany Hall triumphed' In New York .City by the election of a dla ti let "attorney for the first time in fifteen years, the sheriff of New York rounty and a majority of the board cf aldermen " ; The democrats elected a governor In Maryland,' an entire state ticket. lesldes' a majority In the state legis lature. In Kentucky both ' parties claimed victory-In the gubernatorial contest. Incomplete returns give former Con gressman Augustus O. Stanley1, demo crat, a' substantial lead over Edwin r. Morrow, republican. Mississippi, the only other state to elect a governor, went, as usual, democratic. The only opposition to the democratic ticket, . headed t by Theodore G. Bilbo, was made by so cialist Candidates nominated by peti tion. : v In New York, former Congressman "William S. Dennett was elected In- the Twenty-third district to succeed the late democratic, congressman, Jacob Goulden. . Dennett Is a republican, republicans will' succeed republicans In the Thirty-firsts and Thirty-elxtb; congressional 'districts of New Yprk and the Twenty-fourth' district of Pennsylvania. . - Braufl W. MeCaJI. the republican who will succeed David I. Walsh, a democrat, as coventor of Massachusetts, woa by a plurality of mora than S.O00. Th repub llcana ratafnoJTfontrol of the Massachu setts legislature. . The republicans returned to power In Philadelphia, where their candidate, Thomas 13. Smith, wa elected mayor by 70,000. . In New Jersey, the republicans gulned two state senators aad two members of the assembly, and will continue In con trol of both house tt the legislature. State wide prohibition was rejected In Ohio by a majority of more than 40,000. Last year the amendment was defeated by M.1U. The republicans elected mayors In ' Cleveland and Cincinnati. Charles iSllror, a progressiva, was choaen mayor of Toledo. The city of Toledo voted against a twenty-five year atreet ear franchise and will take over aU llpea ountrolled by the Toledo Railways and Light company. ' A proposal that the city purchase the local street railways waa rejected In De troit after a bitter flsht. The election of members of the Virginia general assembly will Bend a heavy ma jority to the senate and house pledged to the enactment of prohibition legisla tion when the state goea dry by consti tutional amendment. November i. lilt. The majority agalmt woman suffrage In New York state, late returns Indicated today, will be from ltf.000 to Suo.uoo. Indications from Incomplete returns were that the final count would show that mure than 6o0,lVM ballots had been Cast for "votes for women." l:et urn from New York City, complete, and about 0 per cent of the upatate vote Indicated toduy that the majority against adoption of the new stato constitution would be epproalmatoly o0.0u0. ISOSTON, Man.. Nov. L The repub lican party renamed control of the leg. iM'.atlve department of the stale gov ernment yesterday after an Interim of . five years when Samuel W. McCall, a former congressman, waa elected gover nor by a plurality of over Governor lavld I. YVaUh, democrat. The re mainder of the republican state ticket was elected by larger pluralities and the republicans made a net gain of seven teen seats tn the legislature. The proposed amendment tn the conett tutlon granting' the rUht ef suffrage to women waa defeated by a majority. of iaz.oia . . t ; . ' i The complete vote of the. state, tor goveruor and on the. suffrage amend ment Is aa follows: . Hoverncr r-mnuel W. McCajC repuo. Uiao. IU..WS. 1'avld L Walsh, rttrjwrat. ESll William fhaw. prolilWllon, ))6U. : Nelwm li. t'lafs.. progresalve; 7.U31. Kuffragu-t'or, 4i.e. against, J.tK. The reniAJnJer of the slate tickets elected, all republican. Is: Lieutenant governor, Calvin CooIIiIko; aeerelary ot stale, Albert I'. LariKtry; trtmnnr. Charles I.. Hurrlll: auditor, Atonso U Cook: attorney geueral, Henry C Attatll. ' The makeup of the new legislature tn: Senate Republicans, thirty-four; demo crats, six; a net gain of on republican. House ItepuUlcans, IDS; democrats, eventy-three; socialist, one; a net gain cf sixteen "Tepuyilcajva. This give the republic ns a majority of 120 on a Joint Fallot. ( ' One feature of the election . was the dwindling of the progressive vote to a figure wtil-.h deprives the party of legal tur.ding la the state. There year ago I7.ris 8. Lit J, progressive candidate for governor, polled I'Jt.lvt votes, and 1113 e lnorea-vd ttils to LTT.C. runuln ahead of the 'tjju! Ikj'i nociuee. IajC year ' t 1V) vote vere cjt by the pro- GENERAL DEMETRIEFF, former -.Bulgarian minister tb Russia, will probably lead the forces through Roumania to attack Bulgaria, in case Roumania joins the allies. C5 I . !v-'v. I i ' f J r ; 1 17 ,WL . a 'i ' yr-i7 n i t N VeeeeVeMM (rVcsnlvcs for governor' and "yesterday the party, so. far as Masaachuaetts la con cerned. Collapsed. Both nird and Joseph Walker, last year's progressive nominee, supported McCall and the result Indi cated, that they carried back into th republican camp the greater part of their following. ' '. The prohibition, on the other hand, at tained the status of a legal party by poll ing more than the required I per cent of the total vote. New York onstltatloa Hejeetea. NEW YORK, Nov. 1,-Woroen suf frage waa beaten by a majority ef about S 10,000 and, the revised 'state -constitution rejected by approximately 80P.OUO In the state wide election yesterday, ' returns today show. , ...... ..Tho legislature will be virtually the same ''completion aa It was thMi 'yeat. Politically, the senate, to which Only1 ono member was elected yesterday, 'remains unohanged. The ' assomMy, which con tained ninety-nine repuUllcans. this year will have ninety-eight next year. One progressive, a socialist and fifty demo crats will complete the body. It has been three years since there waa a socialist In. the assembly. A majority of the mayors elected In the state were republican. Albany, Amster dam, Kingston, Poughkeepsle and Roch ester named republicans, Troy, Utlca and Mount Vernon ' elected democrats. Thereon Akin, a former congressman, ran as an Independent in Amsterdam and was defeated by James R. Cllne. George H. Lund, former socialist mayor of Rchnectady, . waa returned to that office. Democrats generally were successful In dreaUr New Ycrk. Alfred K. Smith ami Edward Swann, democrats were elected sheriff and district attorney respectively In New York county by majorities esti mated at from eo.Ouo to 60,000. In the other four counties James Cropsey, district at-, torney of Klqgs, was the only republican elected to a high county office. Tne board of aldermen tn the city Is over, whelmlngly democratic. In republican circles the defeat of the constitution was taken philosophically. All the leaders were well pleased with the showing the party made In the as sembly race. Pennsylvania Batfs Esrini(i. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. (.-Although the constitutional amendment which would have granted the women of Penn sylvania the right to vote waa defeated at yesterday's election, the vote against It wa not nearly so large as waa Indi cated by last night's meager returns. In dictions early today were that the plu rality agalnat the amendment would be reduced to between 60,0A and eo.000. A number of counties outside of Philadel phia returned majorities for the amend ment while late returns from others were materially reduced. In Philadelphia suf frage polled 6S.6M votes, while 10G.S71 ballots were cast against It Thomas Smith, candidate for mayor, and the other members of the republican organization's ticket for city and county offices were vlctorloua by nearly 70,000 plurality over Oeorge n. Porter, the can didate of the Independents. Although President Wilson polled 64,101 democratic votes in this city, 13. Gordon Bromley, the democratic candidate for maor, received only 6.30S rotes yesterday. The complete vote for Smith was lSt,.! and for Torter M.K21. Suffragists refused to accept yeeter day results as a defeat and planned to celebrate their "victory" by holding a big Jubilee meeting here tonight Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, president of the Na tional Woman Buffiige association, and other leaders In the movement were on the program for addresses. . At this mooting plans will be laid to continue the work for the enfranchisement of women. Although It will te at least three years before the question can be submitted to a. vote of the people suffragist leaders announced their Intention of beginning an Immediate campaign to secure the pas sage of another amendment by the next state legislature, which meets In 1917, and also the general assembly of 1919. Whitlock Explains His Recent Actions WINONA, Minn.. Nov. t Special Tel lock, American minister to Belgium, haa transmitted a lengthy report to the United States government reviewing In detail the step taken by him and the members of his legation staff In connec tion with th execution by the Oerman military authorities of Mine Edith Cave II, a British nurse. The minister declares that the reports made by him on the aubjnrt constituted merely a recital of fact without expres sion of opinion, and that he had sub mitted them to Ambassador Page at Lon don for hla Information, but not for pub lication. The British foreign office, made them public. Publication of the letters, Mr. Whit lock says, greatly - embarrassed him In Brussels with the Oerman authorities, al though he add that th latter now seem satisfied with his explanation, and there la no Indication of further difficulty. Stop That Con m h Now, When you catch cold or begin to cough take Dr. Bell's Plne-Tar-Honey. It penetrates the throat and lungs. All druggists. Advertisement. Rirhnise Plan Completed. LONDON. Nov. 8. It is understood that a committee of bankers and others working on the Amerlean exchange problem haa nearly completed a plan which. In their opinion, should consider ably stabilise the exchange rat on a higher basis than that now ruling. DETROIT DECLINES TO BD!CAR LIKE Voters Reject Proposal to Acquire Street Railway Linei and Prop erty in One-Fare Zone. MAJORITY AGAINST PURCHASE DETROIT, Nov. 3. Detroit voters yesterday rejected the proposllon to purchase from the Detroit United railway the atreet car lines and prop erty within the one-fare eone. The plan, which, to he successful, re quired a two-thirds majority, received less than BO per cent of the votes cast, according to figures available late tonight. The official count from 180 pre cincts was: 18,570 for, and 18,967 against. ayraense Repa bllrana Win. SYRACUSE, N. T., Nov. I W. R. Stone, rcpubllran and progressive elected mayor ovrr Wills (democrat), S.M4. BUFFALO, N. T., Nov. 1-Arthur R. Krelnherder, Charles M. Heald. Charles B. Hill and John F. Malone were elected city commissioner under the commission form of government In effect January 1, Of the four candidates, two are re publicans and two democrats. Tbe commissioners with Mayor Louis P. Fuhrmann, will control the affairs of the city, the mayor's continuance In office having been provided for In the commission charter bill. Th feature of th election was the over throw of Colonel Fran eta O. Ward, who haa held tho office of commissioner of publlo works for fourteen years. NEW YORK. Nov. 2. Returns from eighteen of the larger cities In the state show twelve republicans, five democratic and one socialist mayor elected. Oeorge R. Lnnn. former mayor of Schenectady, Vs the socialist NORFOLK, Va.. Nov. (.Fusion In Norfolk county, which for years has con trolled municipal affairs, met defeat to day. The democrats elected their candi dates for state officers, and four of the six supervisors. TOLEDO, O.. Nov. $. With but a few precincts yet to hear from, the twenty- five-year street car franchise of th To ledo Railway A Light company, con trolled by the Doherty Interest of Nw Tork, waa defeated tn the election her today by at least $.000 majority. Pt'BBLO, Colo., Nov. I. Pueblo today voted to retain single tax by a com fortable majority, according to returns from fifteen out of thirty-flv precincts of the city. CINCINNATI, O.. Oeorge Puchta, re publican, wa elected mayor of Cincin nati by a plurality of about U.OOO. Use The Bee' "Swapper" column. Shin Order to Americans. CHRIST! A NI A, Nov. J Vla London.) Norwegian ship brokers are unable to tnke more orders and now have been forced to allow American companies to handle all orders for new ships. Four motor ships of 6.000 tons en oh for the oil trarle already have been ordered at Amer ican shipyards, deliverable two In May end two In October. 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