Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1921-03-16
Assistant Solicitor General Adj
vises Steering Clear of
Pious Demagogues
use Your Intuitions to Pick
Well Rounded Officials"
He Tells w. c. T. u.
(From Yesterdays Daily

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solicitor general of the Cordele Judi
cial Circuit, last week addressed the
local chapter of the Woman's Christ
ian Temperance Union on the state
and Its Perils." Col. Grantham di-
vided his subject into three general
divisions, Religion, Law and Politics.
Cc1 Grantham's remarks on the poiit-
ical phase of the states dangers is, in
full, as follows
Beware Pious Demagogues"
"The greatest danger that confronts
women in their new role is the lack
Of knowledge Of methods employed
by what we term politicians. Dema-
gogues, both men, and women, are
at work at this time to play upon the
voting woman by protesting great
Christian virtues and moral attributes.
My warning to you is, to go slow in Sc
lecting men and women for office, as
certain all you can as to his or her
! general fitness.
NhiSiNd PCllli%o at Liz age, Oh
twelve, SO | think | can speak with
some first hand information on poll
tics. | want to say to you that in this
day and time, there is more hypoc,
risy, more duplicity, more double
dealing and more disregard for
the reputation and character in poll
tics than any other phase of life. We
men have often mistaken the real is
sues and often mistaken the character
Of the office seeker (and here is prob
ably where that innate intuition OF
woman will be superior to men) in
engineering our politics AS stated,
the demagogue, mountebank, the pro-
moter of his or her political prestige,
is now planning to secure the votes
of women by great professions OF
piety.
Il want to say that / have known
men that have made no profession to
being paragon of virtue elected to of
flee and who made the very best of Of
ficers. The demagogue, the political
mountebank, will endeavor to convince
you that the supreme, the paramount
issue, in all politics is morals. Mark
my prediction, that in the near future
there will be few men and women
who desire to promote their own po-
iitical prestige, who will base their
candidacy for office alone upon NOR
ais, because that he knows that the ma
jority of our women in this country
are first and foremost moral and be-
lieve in them and will vote for that
kind of issue.
Consider Moral Element
"Of course, in voting we should all
take into consideration the moral ele-
ment as it forms one of the main es-
sentials Of our life, of our government.
However, there are other and more i'm
portant things to be taken thought OF
in the election of officers, such as the
business end of our government,
schools and various other departments.
There are great many men and wo?
men who are really and truly religious
and moral, who are incapable of being
| executives.
what we need in our executive of
fees is all around men and women,
conservative moral and business men
| No man or woman who can see but
one condition, one issue, one fault, can
make good officer. What l am try
ing to impress upon you is that you
as women must not lose sight, in Sc
Letting officers, of all other save the
purely moral issue.
Knowing as l do, that Southern
women have never taken real active
interest in politics, but have devoted
their attention more to the develop
ment of their children, firmly be-
lieve that for the first few years, and
until you familiarize yourself with
the conditions and the men who might
offer for office, that you should dis
cuss the various candidates and issues
which will come up with your hus-
bands, as there are few Georgia Crack
ers who have not always kept them
selves posted on politics, and who do
not know the character of the man
who may become candidate. Oil
course, there are women who have
studied politics, and who can be sure
of their ground, and who probably
know more about these matters than
their husbands, but these women are
exceptions.
"Womens are human beings and
there will never be time when they
will vote as one person. They will
vote a great deal like the men, purely
from personal preference, But for
time, believe that they, should advise
with their husbands and to some extent
take their advice
Keep Church Out of 1t
ITO sum up, Reformation must first
come from within. No man or woman
can influence or have the genuine de-
sire to do so, another, until they are
clean spiritually; no man or woman
has real religion unless he has that
overwhelming impulse in his heart and
soul to tell the world of the sublimity,
Of the grandeur of the saving grace OF