The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1920-08-03
ANTE.SUFFRAGE women
OF SOUTH APPEAL TO COX
CHARGE FEDERAL PATRONAGE
AND PARTY PRESSURE ON
TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE.
DESTROYS STATE RIGHTS
Declare If Amendment Is Ratified
Republicans Will Pass Force Bill
and South Need Expect No Mercy.
Plead for Local Self-Government.

Plead for Local Self-Government.
NASHVILLE, Tenn.-Governor
Cox was requested today to grant a
hearing to the women of the south on
questions of estate rights and party
honor" in telegram sent to the
democratic presidential nominee by
the Southern Women's League for
Rejection of the Susan B. Anthony
Amendment. 1t was signed by Mrs.
James S. Pickard of Montgomery,
Ala, president general of the league.
The message declared that the
''home-loving women of the south,
who do not picket, card-index or
blackmail candidates, appeal to you
as the leader of the democratic
party to grant us hearing, not on
woman suffrage, which any state can
adopt for itself without changing a
comma of the federal constitution,
but on two fundamental principles,
state rights and party honor"
Political Consumption"
The appeal was made. the message
continued, because it was proposed to
bring "about the political conscrip-
ton of our womanhood and the de-
struction of southern civilization by
using federal patronage and party
pressure to coerce the legislators OF
Tennessee into violating their solemn
oaths of office and their state constl'
tuition"
Suffragists were Boosting, the ap
peal said. that Governor Cox haC
sent secret agents into Tennessee
mot only to destroy state rights bu
to urge legislators to dishonor thell
oaths of office"
The suffrage plank in the demo
cratic platform was declared to con
denim the women of the south ant
the majority of the women of tn
country without hearing and wa
characterized as Studied insult t.
the women of the south implying
| desire to "read out" of the democrat
! ic party the entire south because
| opposed ratification of the suffrag
amendment.
ais the south to understand tina
the democratic party, whose very eS
| istence is due to the loyalty of tn
SOUTH now intends to treat wit
utter contempt those who have LITE
it to power?" the appeal questioned
Force Bill Threatened.
Declaring that the south was "full
aware that it can expect no mercy j
this amendment is ratified" the mes
sage said that the republican part,
would pass a force bill, but continue,
that the democratic party, "judgin,
from its ruthless verdict against tn
south at San francisco, equally in
dorses complete federal control O.
every southern voting booth"
Declaring that the league wa
pledged to perpetuate the memory o.
the ''men who died for states right
and to fight for local self-govern
ment. the appeal to Governor Cox~de
clared that if against solemn protest
and earnest petitions we are forced
to become the political conscripts O.
federalist empire we are fully de
termined to use the very weapon o.
the ballot that is thrust into oul
hands to drive from public office al
those who are guilty of the destruc
ton of sovereign states"
Governor Cox was entreated to ex
tend to southern women seeking
neither votes nor offices" fair con
sideration before casting his lot with
"small group of pickets whose
chosen symbol is a badge represent
ing their Jail terms for prosecuting 6
democratic president"