The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-02
KING VIGOROUS IN
HIS OPPOSITION TO
WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE
Never Used Words Attrib-
uted to Him by One OF
Suffragette Leaders
HUDDLESTON IDEA
is ENTIRELY WRONG
King Thinks White Women of Alp
bama Do Not Want to Go to
Polls Alongside Negro
Women

Jere c. King, candidate for Congress
from the Ninth district, has not the slight
est hesitancy in expressing his disapproval
of woman suffrage in Alabama lie talked
straight to the point yesterday in reply
ing TO a charge made by Miss Ethel
Armes of the Alabama Equal Suffrage
association that Mr. King had favored
woman suffrage several months ago He
was In good humor about 1t, but wanted
no mistake made about his attitude
Il have read Miss Armes' statement i'll
The Age Herald, said Mr. King. u do
not wish to get into any controversy with
Miss Armes or any other woman, as this
political campaign Is a mans affair. This
is a fight between men. ! never used the
quotations or expressed the sentiments
charged by Miss Armes. | suspect there
are a few men hiding behind Miss Armes'
skirts who are putting her UP to this at
tack, If so, let them come out into the
open and will gladly give them and
woman's suffrage proper attention" 4
Refers to Huddleston
Mr.. King was asked about Mr.. Hud-
deston's last card in which 1t was said
the woman's suffrage question is not an
issue. Mr. King replied;
Il was rather amused at Mr.. Hud-
dleston hiding behind states rights the
DRY. 1t is no answer to say that woman
suffrage should not come up in Congress,
Tor 1t is true that the question will likely
arise there. Another question that is
highly important in Alabama Is the one
of sending a man to Congress from tho
Ninth district of Alabama who favors
giving suffrage to negro men and negro
women. The people of Alabama have bat
tied for 40 years to get rid of the negro in
politics in this state. They have not for
gotten federal bayonets and United States I
marshals around the polls when democ-E
racy was fighting to overthrow carpetJf
baggers and negro rule in Alabama. WisV
men In all parties have reached the gu
clnsion that the worst thing that could
have happened to the negro was giving
him the franchise. He has never shown
that he was qualified to vote. The ques-
ton arises Shall the Ninth district send
a man to Congress who favors extending
the right of suffrage not only to negro
men but to negro women, as advocated
gomery before the State Bar association
on July II, 1922
Not Practical in Alabama
woman suffrage would not be prseti-
cal in Alabama. The federal constitution
says that the right OF the citizens of tho
United States to vote shall not be de-
MED or abridged by the United States. or
by any state, on account of race or color.
There are hundreds OF negro men who
now vote In the city of Birmingham. II
you qualify women to vote, then there
will be hundreds of negro women voting
in Birmingham. The federal constitution
is supreme and controls both the statutes
of the state and the state constitution.
The question is a serious one, and do
not believe that our white women want
to face negro women at the polls. | am
opposd to this condition of affairs In
Alabama. Color and race questions have
not arisen in the states that have adopted
woman suffrage. We have 100000 ne
groes in Alabama, and this new doctrine
with race questions involved is repellant
to the people of the SOUTH"