The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-08-23
ANTI INSULTS
BURNS MOTHER
Mrs. Pleasant, Louisiana, Has
to Be Asked to Leave
Harry Burns Home.
ANTS GROW DESPERATE

Niota, Aug. 23.--The absoIute
desperation Of the antisuffrags
leaders was shown here when Mrs.
Ruffin G. Peasants, an anti, wife
OF former Gov. Peasants, cf
louisiana, came here to insult
Mrs. }. r. Burn, mother Of the
man whose vote snfranehised the
women Of the nation.
1t had been letter from Mrs. Burn
to her son, In which she told him To-
"be a good boy. and help Mrs. Gait
put the rat in ratification" which
had caused Burn TO vote aye in the
Tennessee house Wednesday after.
room and give the majority,
Mrs. Pleasant, who had recently re
covered from severe nervous all
ment In northern sanitarium, broke
down again Wednesday In Nashville
after the vote. She was in Mysteries
for three hours Friday. Saturday She
came to Niota. Between and s.
o'clock in the morning she called DILL
the mother OF the Alvin York OF sui
frage and made a strenuous effort ~
get her to force her son TO change his
vote.
Mrs. Pleasant. stayed with Mrs.
Burn three hours, insisting that the
lnttor force her son 10 change, In tie
hitter part, according TO the repre-
sentative's mother she BECAME Insult.
Ing and had TO be asked to leave the
Burn home.
Wires Mrs. Milton.
Mrs, Rurn Immediately dispatched N
telegram to Mrs. George r. Milton.
chairman OF the Tennessee League or
Women Voters. In Nashville, telling OF
the Incident. The telegram follows:
"A woman was here today who
Chains TO be the wife OF the governor
Of Louisiana and secured an interview
wdh me. She tried by every mennx#
TO get me TO refute and say that the
letter sent to my son was false. This
letter Is authentic and was written
by me.
You can refnte any statesmen
TINT any party clnlms to have secured
from me. stand squarely behind
and requested my Hon "a
'stisk with suffrage until the end. This
woman was very insuitlng 10 me in
my home. and had n very hard fImr
10 get rid OF her
MRS. j. T.. BURN"
Mrs, Pleasant arrived AZ the Burn
home In Niota early Saturday morn.
.ng, I'm fact, before we had had break.
last, said Representative Burns
mother 1T was between and
o'clock. She began immediately 10 teil
me that u ! knew what nredicaments
my son was IN IN Nashville. I w0uiA
urge him 20 change"his vote and vote
against ratification.
"She said no mother would stand bv
her son N she knew that he had broken
his Pledge, continued Mrs. Rufn. II
t9ld her that knew nothing Of thn
I" 'po you know his signatureg' ahe
nsen asked me. and showed me q iIst
I don't know anything about an the
cgal part % this matter / told her.
but I do know that my son has voted
Iis honest conviction. and I know ne
elieves IN mo and IN my rights an hl~
mother aud as a woman
she then wished mo 10 call him up
! Nashville and ask him TO change hls
Was In Haste.
AIRS, Pleasant was in apparent
aste, and she urged me 70 cofnmuni-
ate with my son before the house al
was called to order
aturday morning al 1880, In order
nat II would not be too late for him
, vote with the antis. This | refused
, do, and the lady left. saying she was
ding all around Niota 10 stir up SEN
ment against my son.
Had No Card.
II asked hcr for her card but Nha
nd she had none with her nndery
God she told some people In NlotM
rat she was from New York She was
my house between three and four
lura"
Are YOU sure II was Mrs, Pleasant
no called on your asked The News
porter,
'''fhe lady said that was her namer
piled Mrs Burn, hut she did not act
Ie the meaning OF the word, for she
~ not In pleasant mood when she
~ here.
she wen, to Athens from Meta. I
deFstand."