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FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 3, 1920
FLYNT SCORES
SUFFRAGE MOYE
Declares Barrett With
out Authority—Com
mittee Meets Tonight
ATLANTA, Sept. 3—A majority of
the sub-committee of the state dem
ocratic executive committee have
notifed Senator Fermor Barrett, of
Toccoa that they will be present at
a meeting of that body to be held
at the Kimball house at 8 o’clock to- ,
night to decide whether women shall
be permitted to vote in the primary
■next Wednesday and on what terms
if any, they may qualify for the bal
lot.
It is understood that the meeting
will be open and as many members
of the whole executive committee of
the state as desire to be present as
may find it possible to attend. The
membership of the sub-committee is
as follows: Fermor Barrett. Toccoa;
J. Herman Milner, Eastman; H. H..
Dean, Gainesville, Miller S. Bell, Mil
ledgeville; H. H. Elders, Reidsville;
ex-officio members, J. J. Flynt. Grif
fin, and Hiram L. Gardner, Eaton
ton, chairman and secretary of the
state executive committee, respec
tively.
Judge Flynt declared Thursday
that he did not know whether he
would be able to attend the meeting
or not, as his attendance depended
•on the condition of his little son who
has been seriously ill. If he attended
he said, it would be only as a spec
tiatoi!, as he denied the right of
Senator Barrett to call the commit
tee together.
Further ellucidating his position
on the whole matter, he said:
“Barrett Not Chairman”
“Mr. Barrett is not the chairman
of the sub-committee. I am the chair
man and have acted as chairman at
eveiy meeting. He has not; acted
as chairman at a single meeting. He
had no authority to -call a meeting of
the sub-committee.
“I do not believe a majority of the
sub-committee are willing to partici
pate in a course of action which
would jeopardize, if not render null
the result of the primary.
“I am astonished that Mr. Barrett
should assume authority which he
does not belong to him and should
undertake a course of action which
endangers white supremacy in Geor
gia.
“If the absurd ruling of Attorney
General Denny, which I have not
heard a single lawyer endorse, should
be carried out to its logical conclu
sion, we would wind up in a position
of utter political chaos in Georgia.
“If unregistered females can vote
in the primary, as contended by Col
onel Denny, then unregistered .males
can vote in the primary. And if un
registered males and females of the
white race can vote in the white
primary, then unregistered males
and females of all races can vote in,
the general election in November.
“In other words, the ruling of Col
onel Denny, if it means anything,
means that the primary is to be a
nullity and the general election is to
be a nullity. If the laws of the state
governing registration of voters are
to be set aside by an opinion of the
attorney general, then we lose every
safeguard we have built around the
white ballot box in many long years
of Anglo-Saxon effort.
“We have laws governing the qual
ifications of voters in Georgia. One
of those qualifications is the quali
fication of sex. It is knocked out by
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! THE BOOK OF DEBORAH.
1 Wonder Why Women Can’t Love
When They Choose.
Peace prevailed under our roof
'next day, according to Bob’s wish.
It was a truce, rather, without re
conciliation. After breakfast, to
take my mind from my own woes,
I went to see Deborah Burns. I
didn’t want to |ell my sorrows to her,
but I did want to get my mind onto
a subject which was at least as in
teresting to myself—as myself!
1 My dear father, when he could
take time from his duties as the pres
ident of a small country college
town, had given me many wise and
sage advjcel. He had recognized,
perhaps, a certain taint of hysteria
in me, inherited from my tempera
mental mother, or perhaps from all
my female ancestresses back to Eve.
My father had insisted, when I was
still a young child, that
it is pure selfishness to brood over
one’s troubles. Whenever I felt sor
ry for myself, I was told to get busy
at something useful, preferably in
,in the company of another person!
| To this day, I find my father’s
i theory workable. And so I went to
■see Deborah, knowing well that rhe
had a few woes of her own which
she had some chance of forgetting
in my company.
Deb already had excellent com
pany, I found. Teddy Moore was
with her. They were coming from
the links when I arrived at Deb’s
home. What any girl could want
finer and nicer than Teddy. I could
not imagine, fie was surpassed only
by Bob and Jim. Since Deb couldn’t
have Jim, why didn’t she take Teddy,
I wondered as I saw them coming
crosslots from the country club.
Deborah’s possible husbands had
interested the mothers of eligible
sons ever since the girl had come
home from France. Deb was decid
edly ungrateful to the mothers, but
she had been properly polite to the
sons, and nothing more. Some of the
gossips said that Deb had had an
unfortunate love affair overseas;
some averred that she had seen too
the ratification of the suffrage
amendment. But none of the others
has been knocked out. One of these
is registration. On this hinges the
whole machinery of pure elections.
The registration law requires the reg- j
istration lists to colse six months ;
prior to the date of • any election. '
It cannot be changed by the dem- ■
ocratic state executive committee,l
or by the sub-committee on rules of
that committee, and certainly not by
a county committee.
Should Wait Further.
“I cannot believe that Mr. Bar
rett is serious in his efforts to throw
our election, both primary and gen
eral, into utter chaos. Espe
cially should we wait until the
Tennessee controversy has been final
ly settled before we have such sus
picious haste to act.
“Although in the past I have been,
opposed to suffrage by federal
amendment, I bow to the will of the
majority as exercised by the consti
tutional process, and shall not in the
future interpose an objection to the
enactment enabling them to vote in
our state.
“But we must remember that
white supremacy is vastly more im-
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much counterfeit sentiment while
she was abroad and that she was ut
terly disgusted with romance; some
insisted that she was afraid a man
would marry her for her for
ttune! As if any man coijld fail
to be charmed by Deb’s quota of
character, accomplishments and beau
ty.
“Why can’t people love when they
choose and hate when they ought;
to?” I asked myself, as Teddy Moore
and Deborah came toward me across
the lawn. I felt awfully sorry for
Teddy. His mother was an Inger
soll, and so Ted is allied to one of •
the pioneer families, but he is as.
poor as the well-known church mouse, I
though that isn’t why I felt sorry
for him. .
I wanted to warn him not to fall |
in love with Deb, but that would
of course, have been almost uncon
ventional, and anyway, it was too late.
It seemed such a pity to have a nice
boy like Ted add another link to
the chain of hopeless love. It seem-;
ed a pity that mankind hadn’t de-;
veloped the least bit of sense in all
its sentiment.
Why couldn’t Deb say to herself,
“I will love Jim Lorimer,” and then
forget him-
Whv couldn’t she promise hersqjf,
“I will love Ted Moore,” and then
marry him and make him happy and
be happy herself ever afterward?
Lately I have been reading a lot
of modern wisdom about love, de
veloped by the wisest thinkers of
the time. The theories are new to
the world, some of them have been
discussed scarcely a decade, and most
of them are so unwelcome, in some
ways, that it will be centuries, per
haps, before they benefit anybody
According to one of the new philos
ophies, the more a girl like Deb corks
up her emotions, the more wretched
she is fated to be. I decided that
I ought to look after Deb. She is
almost too young to realize, what a
lift-long tragedy she is letting her
self in for.
(To be continued.)
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hundred or a few thousand women,
whom designing politicians are at
tempting to drag into this primary
in violation of the law. Our whole
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upon years of tedious effort will be'
instantly destroyed if we set aside
the registration law. Democratic
white women of Georgia are more
vitally concerned 'in my judgment
in the maintenance of white suprem
acy than they are in the satisfaction,
of voting in this primary.
“My friends, Fermor Barrett, is
usually sane and level-headed. I havel
heretofore regarded him as one of
out conservative Democrats. I can
note comprehend his position in thisj
matter. As a lawyer and a Demo
crat he surely must know that chaos
will be visited upon our primary and
upon our general election if our reg
istration laws are set aside. His'
suggestion that the ballots of the wo-|
men should be kept separate is an;
admission of a doubt in. his mind of
the legality and advisability of their
voting at all. His urgent request
for the entire state committee to at
tend the meeting of the sub-commit
tee, which he has called without au
thority, is an admission that he wish
es the whole state committee to
weigh and consider the consequences
of his proposed course of action.
Started Conflagration.
“He has started a conflagration
that may destroy him and destroy
the primary. The fact that Richmond
county is attempting to register the
women before they vote, and that
Ware county is proposing to let them
vote without registration, and that
one precinct in Hall county invited
them to vote before Colonel Denny’s
opinion was announced, plainly indi
cates the chaotic turmoil into which
Mr. Ban-ett and Mr. Dean are
threatening to throw our primary.
“The Georgia registration law pro
hibits any manager of a voting pre
cinct from allowing an unregistered
person to cast a ballot. Wherever
election managers allow women to
vote in violation of this law they will
be subject to prosecution.
“Further than this, the result in
every county where women are ab
lowed to vote will be subject to con
test by dissatisfied candidates, and
the courts undoubtedly would uphold
such contests.
“I have today sent to Hon. Joseph
Ganahi, chairman of the Richmond
county Democratic executive commit
tee, the following telegram in reply
to one received from him informing
me that the Richmond county com
mittee would follow the constiution
of the United States in preference
to my advice:
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chairman of a Democratic county
committee, have absolutely no au
thority in the conduct of a state
primary. Your authority in a state
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primary is limited strictly to the rules
and regulations made by the Demo
cratic state executive committee.
The authority of the state committee
to make rules and regulations is lim
ited strictly to the law of Georgia,
which you as a lawyer ought to know
and understand. If you allow women
to vote in Richmond county, your
election managers will be subject to
prosecution, and the result in your
county will be subject to contest by
every dissatisfied candidate. If ev
ery county committee qfeould under
take, as you undertake, to regulate
the primary 7 on its own account, you
are obliged to admit that chaos would
ensue. As a Democrat who believes
in white supremacy, I urge you to
weigh the consequences of your
threatened course of action.’ ”
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