Women Cannot Vote In New Jersey
The snprerne ccrart has just decided that womeu cannot vote in New Jersey, even at elections to choose school trustees. Judge Dixon read the opinión, holding that "school trustees are officers within article 2, paragraph 1, of the constitution; tliat iL they are made elective by the people only males may vote for them. " The decisión was in the case that came up from Vineland. Last spring Chief Justice Beasley decided in a road overseers' election case that came down from Bergen county that women cannot vote for road offlcers. Afterward Attorney General Stockton instructed State School Superintendent Polund that the decisión did not affect the law authorizing women to vote at school elections, and the attorney geaeral's opinión was used in a Vineland school case, where women were refused the right to vote at an election in July. Superintendent Poland declared the election illegal and set it aside, and the connty collector refused to recognize or pay moneys to the board of trustees appointed by the superintendent. A mandamus was asked for, and the supreme court has refused the writ and denied
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