The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-01-23
DUTY TO REJECT
ANTHONY MEASURE
Correspondent Says South Carolina
Legislators Should Say NO
Promptly and Positively.

Promptly and Positively.
The State.
How resolutely the advocates of
the Susan B. Anthony amendment
ignore the interests and the rights of
the South. With what insulting inn
pudence they call upon our legisla-
tors to disregard their oaths to pre-
serve support and defend the consti-
tuition Of the state!
Is it possible that any of those
advocates are so blind as not to see
that that amendment, if ratified, will
make the negro women legally quail
fed to vote? And are they so obsti-
nately needless as not to expect that
the enfranchisement of the negro
women will be followed by like
qualifying of the negro men, by the
enforcement of the 18th amendment,
which is still in the constitution of the
United States? And can they not
read and understand the plain pro-
vision of each of the amendments that
the congress of the United States
shall have power to enforce such en-
franchisement? And can they not see
this power of congress deprives every
state of its power to regulate voting?
And are they so stupidity obtuse as
to disregard our terrible troubles
during Reconstruction caused by the
negro vote in the South? Or do they
not know what in South Carolina and
in one other state the negroes out
number the white population, and
that in states where the majority in
the whole states is white, the negroes
are in the majority in certain coun-
ties? And can't they see the danger
that, even in counties having ma
jority of whites, factions of white
men may combine with negroes
sharing Offices with them, Of course
and thus overcome the decent white
vote and give the negroes the balance
of power just as the populists of
North Carolina did with the Republi-
cans years ago and beat the Demo-
cratic party of that state?
I have heard Of white women,
otherwise sane, who, when reminded
of the danger of the negro vote, have
hippantly tossed the matter aside by
saying, ooh, our white men will take
care of that!'', How? BY force? Or
by fraud? If those people are as
wise as they wish US to think them,
they should tell us how to keep the
negros from voting. They are work
ing to force medicine upon US; it is
their business, not ours, to find how
to prevent evil consequences from it.
AS it is, they are trying to turn the
devil loose upon US and then leave it
to us to manage him. Oh, foolish
faith! Oh, crazy credulity! That,
however, is about as wise as the
assumption of late senator from
South Carolina, that congress would
make laws to suit us.
And now that crowd are after
every member of our legislature, to
fatter, tempt or scare him into voting
for ratification of the amendment.
And among them comes their man,
Homer S. Summings, who happens
to be chairman of the Democratic ma
tional committee, who tells our legis-
lators that the success of the Demo-
cratic party this year depends upon
their ratifying the Susan B. Anthony
amendment What is at the bottom
of this? Why, it means that our leg
islators shall surrender the rights
and safety of our people in order to
carry favor with the women of states
where women already vote.
The plain duty of our legislators
is to reject this amendment, promptly
and in positive terms. They will
thereby stand true to their oath of
Office, to preserve, support and de-
fend the constitution of their safe and
render that state a worthy cause.
J. F. J. Caldwell.
Nou,harr1,