APRIL 22, 1919: The Pennsylvania State House passed a bill—by an almost two-to-one margin—to put a suffrage referendum on the State ballot in 1921.
“Votes for Women” advocates never gave up after the 1915 suffrage referendum went down to defeat along with referenda in three other big Eastern States that fall. They have been hard at work ever since, and have greatly increased the public’s support for equal suffrage in Pennsylvania, so once the State Senate has passed the bill and the Governor has signed it, the referendum is expected to easily pass if nationwide suffrage has not been won by then.
Though only partial victories, in that women do not have full voting rights in these newly-won States, the fact that women can now vote for President in 27 of the 48 States, which have a combined total of 302 Electoral Votes out of the 531 which will be cast, means that regardless of whether the Susan B. Anthony Amendment is passed and ratified before the 1920 elections, women’s votes will be critical to Presidential candidates in the next—and all future—elections.
The members of the new Congress will represent 15 States in which women vote on the same basis as men, 12 in which they have Presidential suffrage, and 29 states in which women have some sort of local suffrage and two States in which women can vote in party primaries. The West has only one State—New Mexico—where women cannot vote for President, and even the “Solid South” cracked a bit five days ago, as Tennessee’s Governor Roberts signed a bill lifting the ban on women voting in municipal and Presidential elections.
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