The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1918-03-04
"STRANGLE THE
SOLID SOUTH
Animus of the Appeal Made by Mrs.
Gould for the Woman Suf-
frage Amendment

w HI hcLicuys SpSCldl SOTIGSpOIl-
dent)
Washington, March 2.-The appeal
made by Mrs. Howard Gould in New
York to "band together for the black
women of the south" and to "Strangle
the Solid South" will go far, in the
opinion of Representative Frank Clark
of the Second Florida District, to
awaken the South to a great menace
that would be foistered on Florida and
the entire south if the federal suffrage
amendment passes congress and is
ratified by the states:
Congressman Clark is very certain
that Florida will never ratify this con-
stitutional amendment if the PROPOSE
ton is fairly presented to the voters
of the state. He feels that this speech
by Mrs. Gould who recently toured
Florida, discloses in a forceful way
that nothing else could a sinister pur-
pose behind the proposed federal con-
stitutional amendment. In a strong
statement throwing light on the ap-
peal that suffrage advocates are MAX
ing to the negro voters, Congressman
Clark calls upon the women of the
south and particularly of Florida to
maintain her "proud heritage of hon
or, chivalry and glory. He said:
"Have / read the report of the
speech of Mrs. Howard Gould deliver
ed at negro meeting in New York a
few nights ago? Well, should say
/ have. How a supposedly educated
and cultivated white woman can get
her own consent to attend and address
such a meeting at all is beyond my
ken, but when she gets right down
on terms of social equality with a
bunch of negroes who composed her
audience, and urges them to pursue
the course which she is reported to
have done, she certainly goes the full
limit.
"But, / am not at all surprised.
The northern leaders of the woman
suffrage movement are firmly hitched
up politically, and it would appear
socially, with both the socialist and
the negro.
"Mrs. Howard Gould is one of the
shining lights among the leaders of
this movement, and only recently tour
ed some of the southern states, of
which Florida was one, preaching this
doctrine and appealing to southern
women for assistance. / wonder what
the few good women of Florida and
the south, who have been misled by
the alluring literature and honeyed
sophistry of this propaganda will think
of these late declarations of Leader
Gould.
81 have eontended all along that
whenever the right to vote was con-
ferred on women, it would be the OPP
ening of a 'Pandora's Box out of
which would come ills to the southern
people which would plague our chill
dren for many generations yet un-
born. / shudder for my people and
my country when / think of the count
less troubles which must follow in the
wake of universal woman suffrage.
"Mrs. Gould has simply disclosed
the purpose of those fostering this
movement a little earlier than was in
tended. She has let the cat out OF
the bag, so to speak, and given US the
real object in view. She says: I'VE
call people blacks and whites now
but some day we'll call them United
States Americans She speaks of at
r0cities committed on black men, and
appeals to the negro women of the
north who can now vote to band to-
gether for the black women of the
south, and tells them they must
strangle the solid SOUTH
"This language means nothing
more nor less than an effort to in
| flame the passions of the negro, tc
nurture race antagonism and hate
and eventually to plunge our fair sec
ton into race wars. She holds out tc
the negro the hope of social equality
which in the providence of God he viii
not reach in the south, but encouraged
to struggle for it, by such persons as
this Mrs. Gould, apostle of Suffragism
Feminism, Socialism and Negroism
he is liable to create conditions which
can only result in ultimate disaster
to him.
al have too much faith in the gooC
women of the south, with their glo
rious ancestry and traditions, to be
lieve for one moment that they vii
ever follow such leadership. notice
too, that Mrs. Gould is reported II
have referred during her address
"more than once" to her alleged south
ern origin. God forbid,-I can't be
lieve that any real southern woman
(God bless them) could ever so ia
forget the proud heritage of honor
chivalry and glory, bequeathed to her
as to place herself in such surround
ings, and give expression to such sen
timents as are attributed TO Mrs
Gould"