Sentence examples for suffrage referendum from inspiring English sources

It wasn't unusual for saloons to display anti-suffrage posters and keep a pile of leaflets on the bar; the promise of a free beer in exchange for a no vote on a suffrage referendum was common practice.

When a 1912 suffrage referendum was defeated in Michigan, the governor angrily denounced the role played by the liquor industry: "The question seems to be largely one as to whether the liquor interests own and control and run Michigan," he lamented.

Whenever woman suffrage legislation appeared on the docket or a suffrage referendum was on a state ballot (and only men could vote to decide whether women should have the same right) the alliance of brewers, bottlers, distributors, saloonkeepers, hotels and liquor stores (even druggists) was marshaled to insure defeat.

In Liechtenstein, women were given the right to vote by the women's suffrage referendum of 1984.

In that year Kansas, a Republican state, voted down two separate referenda granting suffrage to blacks and women, respectively.

Their objective is to spark a special election that they want to use as a referendum on universal suffrage for the next elections in 2012.

This map appeared in the magazine Puck during the Empire State Campaign, a hard-fought referendum on a suffrage amendment to the New York State constitution|the referendum failed in 1915, but was successful two years later.

Votes are being counted in Hong Kong after an unofficial referendum on universal suffrage in the Chinese territory.

Although no seats at Congress were directly at stake, voters in Ohio both defeated a referendum on black suffrage and elected the Democrats to the majority in the legislature, meaning that Wade, whose term was due to expire in 1869, would not be reelected.

The rally, on the Lower East Side, supports voting yes in a 1915 referendum on women's suffrage.

With a referendum on women's suffrage approaching, she starts to wonder whether exercising her "feminine influence" behind the scenes is a good enough substitute for, you know, democracy.