The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-07-29
WILSON IS SCORED
BY SENATOR FLYNT
CHAIRMAN OF STATE COMMIT
TEE ATTACKS PRESIDENTS
POLICY OF INTERFERING.

ATLANTA, Ga,-Bitterly attack
ing the ratification of the Susan b.
Anthony suffrage amendment by
Georgia Senator J. ]. Flynt, who is
chairman Of the state democratic eX-
ecutive committee, sought to bring
about the defeat of the resolution at
an early moment. He took the floor
after Senator George Glynn had fin
ished a plea for ratification conduct
ed four days by Senators Elders,
Doris, Pittman and lastly Glynn.
In speaking against the ratification
Mr.. Flynt declared that the majority
of the senate would stand like
stone wall against the argument adj
vanced by the suffrage faction and
kill the resolution. He made strong
attack against the policy of Presl-
dent Wilson in sending the tele-
gram to the legislature urging rat
ifcation in Georgia, denouncing
President wilson's suffrage policy.
at is not a question of suffrage
which moves the majority Of the
senate to stand like a rock wall deaf
to the pleas for ratification" Sena-
tor Flynt declared. at is for the pro-
lection of our mothers, sisters and
daughters that we make this stand. /
Violates State Rights.
owe are not willing to have
rammed down our throat this amend
ment to the constitution, which vlo-
lates that sacred principle of states
rights and the spirit of which IS IN
direct opposition to every principle
for which the democratic party
stands"
In answering the point raised by
his opponents-that in killing the
amendment Georgia was giving the
democratic party a stab in the back /
he declared: eff the life of the
democratic party depends on the
massage of this bill it is time for the .
party to die, because this bill works
in direct opposition to the funda-
mental principles Of our party" /
He then turned to attack Wilson's /
nolicv in advocating the ratification
in Georgia by a telegram which ne
declared to be "dlctatorlal' ana
personal message to the governor
which he said should not have been
read in the senate. when W0odroW
Wilson refused to advocate the Su-
san B. Anthony amendment IN the
fight w9ged on it in congress, stat
inc that it was a question upon
which the states should act separate
". I thought him to be a great man
and was willing to follow him.
Tramples on Constitution.
"But now, when he sends US this
advice. he is trampling the constltu-
tional rights of the states to earth
and we should turn away from his
wartime leadership. When the whole
country was following him during
the war times it was imperative that
we should follow, but now that the
war is over and when he attacks
state rights we should turn aside ana
look for a new leader" =,
In attacking the ''buttlng m OF
Wilson. he asked: "Where was the
president when the cotton market
was dead a few years ago when ne
could with one blast of his trumpet
have saved the south? He simply told
the southern representatives that
thoir cotton problem was one which
had to be solved by the individual
states. Why does he not adopt that
policy now? I tell you he IS neon
sistent and we should not follow HIM
on this matter" Senator Flynt also
said Wilson "moves in a mysterious
wav his blunders to perform"
He further declared that the en-
actment of the Susan B. Anthony
amendment would create n race peril
in the southern states. He declared
"the amendment was mothered by
Susan B. Ar+ho0v and her kind OF
northern women who were close as
sociates Of Thad Stevens and Ste
phen Douglas and who sought to put
the black heel on the white neck and
place the southern negro in power.
The light of the north star IS es-
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