October 30, 1915: The final Saturday before Election Day is traditionally a time of frenzied activity in New York, and this one is no exception.
Both staff and volunteers in suffrage offices are expressing confidence about a victory on Tuesday night, while working around the clock to attain it. From elevated stages to down in the subways, our “Votes for Women” advocates seem to be everywhere, as does the color of “suffrage yellow.”
New volunteers are still coming in to the Woman Suffrage Party’s headquarters asking for work to do on Tuesday. Since there are already enough poll watchers to staff every polling place in the city, the new recruits will be assigned electioneering duties, and stand the legally required 100 feet from the polls to answer any questions and give out sample ballots to voters.
Harriot Stanton Blatch, head of the Women’s Political Union, and daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, said: Carnegie Hall was filled again this evening, but by anti-suffragists, as they held their final big rally. James M. Beck, former Assistant Attorney General of the U.S., called woman suffrage “the most disastrous and absolutely irreparable experiment in the history of our Government” and said that if New York were to approve it on Tuesday, it would make state government such a farce that “abandon hope all ye who enter here” should be written on the portals of the State Capitol.
Irish failed to give any source for either of the percentages he used in his argument, and both figures, as well as any relationship between woman suffrage and delinquency by the children of women voters, are being disputed.
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