The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1928-06-15
MRS. FEARING
GOT WHAT SHE
WANTED, sure!
This Elizabeth City Woman
Puts One Over On Her
Town, Her County and
Her District

How Mrs. James q. Fearing
OF Elizabeth City over rode the
opposition of her citv. her
county and her Congressional
District and got herself ap-
pointed a delegate to the
Democrats National Conven-
tion in spite Of the devil is one
OF the most interesting tales oi
the week.
Mrs Fearing went into the COM
" convention ~ Pa-quotHnk on
Saturday. June @. aud was defeat
Il for plac" ON the PaSquotank dete-
cation to the state Convention. The
men didn't want her and there We're
only two w'msm DELEGATES in the
convent, To support her.
Mrs. Fearing stormel out of
the County Convention. br,,mtsd the
delegates; aS '' reeking with liquor
and laid her plans to gct II H"uS-
ton anyway.
10 Raleigh went Mrs. Fearing
early Monday morning and laid her
troubles before party leaders. She
heSeechPd Mrs. Palmer Jerman. she
le<eechcd Jo$ephu> Daniels. she he
see,.hed Senator FurnifOld VI sim
mons himself. and many another.
She told Biz JOSephuS and Big
Chief Simmons that she had been
punished ny the Liquor Dicks III
PaSuuptank for her brave fight for
Hull and Helliani Sm. simmons ami
Prohibition: her fighting h!o"d was
ND: IN effort had been made to
wound and humiliate her because II
hcr releutleS., war on Rum. Roman
ism and Smith. Althu her only
activity in the recent campaign was
observed in the county convention
last Saturday. The leaders must
saye her: she must he vindicatei.
II WAS arranged that Th"S. ;.
White. the Simmons lieutenant from
PcruuimanS should try to put Mrs.
Fearin. over aS a delegate from
tha First Congressional District III
tha District Convention which met
in Raleigh Tuesday morning.
. Sure enough. when time came fer
the nomination Of delegates III the
First District Convention. MIS-
Feorinr's name wa> placed in nomi-
; n,tiou bv Mr.. White. She got Only
| 3e first District votes. PaSuuo-
torLrrS voted <Ulidly against her
she had said they were 'reeNihS
with liuuor". Jerome Flora. I. o.
RnhinSon. DIR. 4. l.. Pendleton. w
III WpatheIly. ST.. J. h. Wilson. l.
F Tn. mpSon AMI ctherS on th't
DELEGATION didn't feel very kindly TO
wnrd Mrs. Fearing after what SIZE
had said about them.
Thprn were 1DI votes in the Fir|l
District convention: II of them were
npppSed 10 Mrs Fearing. lh'
Eeaufort delegation voted S'!ldIH
,r,:u.t her. The convention ave
it, vr,p to J. Roy Parker OF hrft'
ford G unity.
Eut WIS Mrs. James G. Fearing
Irc,teny not "n your life: this Eii%'
= oLrth t'itv woman never gives up
the Salvation Army has II hlo'I'
"a Man May Pc Down But II" Il
\n,rr ont they .. the idea from
Mr>. Fearing.
T-fl.,;S!v DEF in hcr "iS'
trirt. Mrs. Fearin" went StraiSht u
! the high comrt of Simmons ana li"'
i,uiSm ON the ro$trum ot the S'a't
Convention. And the urhane MI
D,ri,l. and the practical Senate!
Simmr nc> saw to it that her ltai''
went I'M thc slate of delegates Ill
l,r"r \ Hull majority in the S'a''
:, Convention put her thru with th'
: rr,r If the SLATE rrtlcr tn" Label "'
= Simmons.
.; A,d - Mrs. James G.. Fearing I"
II,...huh rity ,,nyr.'i trini'l'i""
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