The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1920-09-03
ELIZABETH CITY WOMEN
MAY GO INTO POLITICS
Just What The Women Will Do With The Ballot
Now They Have 1t IssWorrving The
Heads Of Politicians

Madam, how are you going to
vote?
That is the question which is
perplexing the politicians these
days since equal suffrage is a
fact and women will be expect
ed to take an active part in pol
itics.
|, It is too late of course for
North Carolina women to have
a voice in the selection of party
nominees for the November cleo
ton and they will have to vote
I for such males as the conven-
tions and primaries have already
nominated.
But hardly will the bets be settled
on the November election when here in
Elizabeth City folk will begin to talk
about the municipal election which takes
place in May, 1921. That is the election
in which Elizabeth City women are go
ing to take an active and enthusiastic
interest because the average Elizabeth
City woman has long entertained an idea
that women could run this town better
than the men.
i 1t is probable that there will be many
women candidates for city Offices es-
pecially for the Board of Aldermen. 1t
is easy to pick the prospective candi-
dates in most wards
The suffrage> amendment is now safe
beyond all reasonable expectation of le-
gal attack.
This opinion was secured from high
legal authorities by Offices of the Nat.
ional Woman's Party, who devoted their
efforts after the signing of the ratifi-
) cation proclamation to discover Awhat
further steps if any would be necessary
to protect the amendment.
Pending Injunction cases were auto
matically thrown out of court by the
signing of the proclamation according
to the concensus of legal opinion.
The only possible legal attack is now
through a tax payers suit to prevent
the women in all individual states from
voting.
National headquarters of the Woman's S
Party will be maintained. A national
convention of its members will be call
, ed to decide upon the party's future
policy. Alice Paul will go to New York
probably on Saturday to call a meeting
of the Executive Committee to discuss
plans and a date for the convention,
Chief Justice Walter Clark of the n.
G. Supreme Court was one of the first
to congratulate the,(Woman's Paarty on
the signing of the proclamation in a let
ter to Miss Alice Paul.
Judge Clark said:
F; when in the days of your persecu-
T ton and when you and your followers
were under illegal sentence to NOccouuan
t jail, L wrote an article for the press of
/ this state, stating what you were doing
: for the cause of humanity and predict
p ed that the day would come when you
o would stand in monumental bronze in
the city where you were prosecuted in
n the capital of the nation.
Il see now that that day will not be
distant and I trust that your statue will
II be placed somewher near the spot where
/ on the sidewalk, at the Presidents house
l. at the head of your intrepid few, 1. saw
e you stand with your banner with the lie
u gend, .Mr. President, How Long Mus
IL Women Wait for Liberty?" The monu
e ment should carry to later ages that ban
l. ner with that inscription.
THE Baud which you led and the step
l. which you took, were not always agree
~ able to the other and larger organiza
lg ton which stood for the enfranchise
At ment of women, but history will recog
& nize that but for you and your follow
'e ers, success, final success, would stil
T. be many years in the future.
''Your place in the history of the grea
y movements for humanity is assured, an,
D. your fame will last throughout the ages