The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1920-08-05
SOUTHERN WOMEN
YOICINC PROTEST
OPPOSE CONSCRIPTION IN SlF-
FRAGE RANKS.
Appealing to Cox
IF Forced to Vote, Will Use Ballot to
Clear Out PrO-Amendment
Leaders.

Washington, July 30.-Making one
of the most earnest pleas which has
ever come before a public man for
consideration and begging that he
heed their appeal, Southern women
have asked Governor Cox, Of Ohlo,
Democratic candidate for the presl-
dency, to protect state rights, which
they say, are about to swept out OF
existence by woman suffrage.
The southern women's league for
the rejection of the Susan B. Anthony
amendment, has opened it's headquar-
ters in Tennessee. In the appear
which they have just sent to Governor
Cox the league leaders say:
"The home loving women OF the
South. who do not picket, card index
nor 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 Democratic
principles, states rights and party
honor
I'VE make this appeal to you be-
cause it is boldly proposed, regard
less of the unalterable opposition of
the women to bring about the politl-
cal conscription of our womanhood
and the destruction of Southern civil
ization by using federal patronage
and party pressure to coerce the leg
islators of Tennessee into violating
their solemn oaths and their state
constitution.
"At San Francisco men and women
were denied hearing on state rights,
while negroes, suffragists, H1ndus'
Koreans, Filipinos, Puerto Ricans and
others were granted courteous hear
ings for two days.
''The very safety of southern civill-
zation. is involved in this amendment,
for no less than three force bills pro-
viding for he enforcement OF the
74th, 18th and 18th amendments,
we're introduced in the last congress,
awaiting only ratification OF this
amendment for adoption.
"Therefore, the vital issue to the
South is not to save the Democratic
candidate from suffrage picketlng,but
to save the soul of the Democratic
party and the white civilization OF IL
Democratic states.
1.-THE South is fully aware that 1t
can expect no mercy if this amend
ment is ratified. The Republican
party would pass at it's earliest op-
portunity, disastrous force bill. The
Democratic party, Judging from its
ruthless verdict against the South
without a hearing at San Francisco,
equally indorses complete federal con-
troll of every southern voting booth.
THE men who died for state rights
still live in the hearts of their sons
and daughters of the South. Our
monuments to their memory are not
alone of stone and bronze but of flesh
and blood. We can not dishonor
them. and the Southern Woman's
league for the rejection Of the Susan
B. Anthony amendment has firmly re-
solved in convention to carry on the
fight for the principle of local self
government, whatever the future may
bring to the last quarter of the
hour.'''
The state rights women further say
that if against their solemn protests
they are forced to become the political
conscripts of what they term a feder-
alist empire, they are fully determin-
ed to use the very weapon of the bal
lot that is thrust into their hands to
drive from public Office all those who
are guilty of the destruction of SOW
ereign states.
They further say that they want no
office, but only the salvation of the
states in comparison with group of
pickets whose chosen symbol is a
badge representing their jail terms
for prosecuting a Democratic presi-
dent.