The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1950-02-15

states, and Mrs. Waring replied
hat even Georgia has more fresh
air and light, and Mississippi and
South Carolina are the weakest
inks in the chain"
Mrs. Craig asked Mrs. Warning
# she were a New Englander. and
the judges wife said she was from
Detroit but that my first ancestor
was in Ipswich. Massachusetts,
before Charleston was founded"
Mrs. Craig asked. DO. you feel
III. your cause ?"
fhe fact you are a New Highlander
Mrs. Warning replied, 1T is not
ny cause. It the Negro cause"
Lautier asked Mrs. Waring
What Is the effect of your hus-
lands decision ?"
She replied. ut has resulted in
ment of trying to buy the Negroes
an interesting case of appease-
ment of trying to buy the negroes
IN with handouts be kind To AMI
mails week. In Columbia. South
Carolina a few Negroes have been
put in public office. By the next
election, we expect two or three
hundred thousand Negroes to be
registered"
In answer to another question.
as to the effect of her husbands
decision on their lives. Mrs. Waring
cited several of his court decis-
ions and said that "a very little
teeny group in Charleston wanted
to hold us hack on account of our
divorce. The entire state has ostra-
cized us. No white person dared
to put their foot in our front door.
Time magazine called the judge
call him the man they're afraid
the man they love to hate but
not to hate"
Mrs. Cottrell dug out two recent
columns of the Southern editor,
Holding Carter of GreenvilIe
Miss. who is syndicated nation
ally and who last Sunday attrib-
uted much of Mrs. Warnings course
TO what an cunts to case of So
eial sour grapes because of the
divorce situation in her family.
Carter had referred to Mrs. War
ing's civil rights campaign as Bill
boism in reverse. Mrs Waring
condemned Carter for his smear"
writings and also condemned
Southern parlor liberals" who she
said- were dangerous. The white
supremacy advocates were, she
said, ruthless and immoral and
he liberals immoral" as to their
course in the Negro question.
Mrs. Cottrell asked, Are you
and the judge getting encourage
ment from fellow Charlestonians ?"
Mrs. Waring said. 81 think we've
accomplished a great deal
They have done ne the greatest
kind of favor she said. referring
to her opponents. She compared
herself to the suffragettes Of New
England in 1914 who were sent to
the jails for their fight for the
vote for women and read the Bible
in a Jail.
Mrs. Cottrell took occasion at
this point to cite the fact~-that
Mrs Waring had "quite a bit of
influence over her husband"
Mr.. Jameson stumped Mrs. War
ing with questions as to Judge
Warnings support Of the late SEN
ator Cotton Ed Smith for re-
election in the 1888 South Carolina
Democratic primary. Mra. Waring
said her husband had been quite
helpful in getting Senator Burnet
r. Maybank elected. Jameson
asked some further questions on
this point, adding that he under
stood white supremacy was an
issue in 1888. Mrs. Waring said
she did not know about that car
paign.
1t was in response to questions
from Mrs. Craig that Mrs Wark.s
came out for intern arriage b&
tween the races for equal clti-
zens," for no segregation
Mrs Waring said she Ind enter
tanned Negroes in her home ana
visited them in their homes