The fact is always suppressed that there are never less
than 132 men to every 100 women in the city and that women
therefore should properly be only forty-three per cent. of the
total number of voting adults. At the last mayoralty election
the women unquestionably re-elected the incumbent as against
Eugene Schmitz of graft-prosecution fame, who tried to 'come
back.' In this election women constituted thirty-seven per
cent. of the total registered vote and the women of the best
residence districts voted in the proportion of forty-two
to forty-four per cent. of the total vote cast in those
precincts; while in the downtown, tenderloin and dance-hall
districts women constituted only twenty-seven per cent. of
the registration and negligible portion of the vote. These
proportions have been substantially maintained in minor
elections since, and were slightly increased in the National
election of November, 1916, when they comprised thirty-nine
per cent.
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