Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1918 — Do Women of Voting Age Really Outnumber Men of Similar Ages? [ARTICLE]

Do Women of Voting Age Really Outnumber Men of Similar Ages?

By GEORGE B. GLOVER,

New York

Is the day drawing pear when American women will hold the principal offices and no longer figuratively but literally rule the nation? Now that the feminine citizens of the Empire state are to join with their sisters in many other states of the Union as voters at the polls, the question has been propounded, What will the feminine voting strength of equal suffrage states be and how will the feminine vote affect the aggregate vote of’the nation? The question has Received various answers from friends and enemies of equal rights among practical politicians and political theorists, but the first emphatic response, so far as New York concerned at least, will come when the citizenesses first march to the polls with fathers, husbands and brothers. And some surprises will come tb many “antis” as well as “pros” when the women first do undergo that long-fought-for experience of dropping their ballote into the ballot box, and one of those surprises will be found in the voting strength of the feminine sale of severa! prominent families. , • In, the statewide ialkfest which helped to bring about the great event of November 6, 1917, in New York state, a feminine spellbinder was heard to say tn a crowd of curious but very attentive men at Broadway and Forty-fourth street: “Do ybu know that statistics show there are more women than men in the United States? Look out! Oh, you short-sighted men!” ‘ ’ Perhaps the cartoonist who pictured recently the mere men party leadhats in hand, presenting their compliments to the idealized feminine vote in a most obsequious manner heard that warning. At any rate, a mere man did, and he said to himself, “Right-o!” as he called to mind several leading families which can turn in a much larger feminine than masculine vote. ' n Do women of voting age really outnumber men of similar ages all over America ? Will they aome day unite their vote to seize all the offices and national control f