The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-24
NO WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE
MR. CRAIG HAS ABANDONED
 THE PROPOSITION.
He Says the Convention Will Not Consider It Seriousiy-A Teie- gram Received Yesterday
 from Senator Morgan.

Notwithstanding he has received an earnest appeal from Senator Morgan to press the proposition. Hon. B. Ii. Craig. one of the delegates to the Con- stitutional Convention from Dallas County, said yesterday that he would not undertake to amend the Suffrage Article so as to extend the privilege or franchise to the white women of Ala banla.
 Ut would be useless said MT. Craig in discussing the matter with rep resentative of The Advertiser The Convention Is not in hdmor to con- sider the proposition seriously anu there is no necessity for consuming US time in futile endeavor to get the proposition considered"
 The Dallas delegate then seated himself at hls desk and wrote the fol- lowing statement:
 Tn answer to your question l will say I shall not take up the time Of the Convention by the introduction or any amendment to the Committee report on Suffrage permitting women to vote, for the reasons:
 "First-Because it Is evident that the Convention is opposed to woman suffrage in any form and for any purpose whatever, and would vote down any such amendment.
 "Second-Because l believe the ordi- nance reported by the Committee will be adopted, and if so its provisions will practically eliminate the negro as a voter. That being done, the giving of the right to women to vote general ly Is not necessary to preserve white supremacy in this State, though l
 &t. fo ct ana right to give women that right, espec- tally in the matters affecting their property rights, and on matters of tax alton. and also for the purpose of puri- flying the ballot, and because l believe the time will come sooner or later when the election franchise will be conferred upon them. In my opinion. the sooner the better
 MT. Craig is one of the most earnest and thoughtful men in the Convention. He did not introduce the ordinance pro- vidins for woman's suffrage to gain notoriety. He saw a way to white su- premacy by extending the ballot to the white women of the State. Moreover, Mir. Craig enlisted the support of Sem ator Morgan in the movement. The se- nior Senator has urged woman's suf- frage on the delegates to the Conven- tion, but there has never been time when the proposition could have se-- cured a respectable minority vote Of the Convention.
 Although Mir. Craig has given up the fight. Senator Morgan is still zealous. Yesterday Mir. Craig received lengthy telegram from the Senior Senator, who is in Warm Springs, Va, urging him to present an amendment to the Con- stitution. The Dallas delegate declined to make public the contents of the tele- gram. but 1t is known that it warmly endorsed woman's suffrage and sug- gested an amendment empowering the Legislature by a two-thirds vote. to etxend the privilege of the franchise to the white women of the State, or to submit the question to a vote of the people. The Senator declared that 1t might be fatally wrong to absolutely prohibit white women from voting.
 The ladies who visit the galleries in the hope that their champion, MT. Craig of Dallas. will present a suffrage amendment. will be disappointed. MT Craig has abandoned the proposition