California Rejects Woman Suffrage by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, Cal. · Nov 12, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 45.

California Rejects Woman Suffrage

By Editor

Woman suffrage has been defeated again in California, altho it was quite generally thought that it would win. It was a plank in the platform of the successful party, yet the party, after indorsing the amendment in state convention, voted it down at the polls. During the campaign, there was much special pleading in behalf of the measure by women speakers of national repute, by ministers, and by the press; and, moreover, there was very little said publicly against it. But a majority of the electors spoke their real sentiments in the privacy of the election booths.