{"id":1414,"date":"2015-11-02T14:48:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T19:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2015-11-02T14:48:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T19:48:14","slug":"one-hundred-years-ago-today-november-2-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/?p=1414","title":{"rendered":"One Hundred Years Ago Today \u2013 November 2, 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"_DSC4033\"On the eve of Election Day we remember another election day, November 2, 1915. That day New York State voters made their feeling known about the passage of an amendment to the State\u2019s Constitution granting women the right to vote, and the news was not good. Despite years of campaigning, speaking, writing, petitioning and marching for the vote, suffragists were disappointed. Voters in New York and other eastern states defeated the measure in discouraging numbers: 553, 348 for to 748, 332 against in NY alone. Measures in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts were defeated as well.<\/p>\n

Still, the Woman\u2019s Journal and Suffrage News<\/em> optimistically reported \u201cMillion Votes Cast for Women in First Eastern Campaign. More than 500,000 vote ‘Yes’ in New York State.\u201d\u00a0New York State rolled up a vote of more than half a million for suffrage, and defeated the amendment by only about 175,000\u2026Suffrage carried seven counties in New York (including our own Nassau County). The author concluded \u201cThe election showed that the day of full enfranchisement is\u00a0not far distant.\u201d<\/p>\n

After a short period of mourning suffrage leaders regrouped, and vowed to \u201cwork harder than ever before.\u201d Since they had to wait two years for the next opportunity they used that time well, finally tasting victory in 1917.<\/p>\n

But November 2, 1915 was a sad day for all.<\/p>\n

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On the eve of Election Day we remember another election day, November 2, 1915. That day New York State voters made their feeling known about the passage of an amendment to the State\u2019s Constitution granting women the right to vote, and the news was not good. Despite years of campaigning, speaking, writing, petitioning and marching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3G1zV-mO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions\/1418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/longislandwomansuffrage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}