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VOL. XXII. NO. 123.
GOVERNOR OFFERS
NEW EVIDENCE OF
■1 CORRUPTION FUND
Senator Reed Cross-Ques
tions Republican Treasur
er Upham and Uncovers
Huge ‘Loan’ of Committee
COLUMBUS, 0., Aug. 31.—Gov
ernor Cox, Democratic presidential
candidate, in a statement today de
clared as “absolutely untrue and
false” statements attributed to Will
H. Hays, chairman of the Republican
national committee, before the sen
ate sub-committee investigating cam
i • paign expenditures, that it was not
the policy of the Republican com
mittee to obtain contributions in ex
cess of one thousand dollars.
Governor Cox again referred to
What purported to be an official doc
ument issued by the Republican com
mittee to prove his assertion. The
document referred to by the gov
ernor is alleged to have been issued
two days after Senator Harding’s
nomination at Chicago, by Treasurer
Upham.
The document, Governor Cox said,
■howed by its preface that subscrip
tions were to be sought in excess
of $5,000, that the “quota" should
be sold, and that a minimum of
three hundred thousand dollars was
to be sought in cities the size of
St. Louis, Cleveland and Detroit.
“Contrasting this official docu
ment from the Republican national
headquarters,” Governor Cox said,
“with the statement Mr. Hays yes
terday made under oath, I cannot
believe a single word he says on the
subject. That he has been caught
in his own trap is evident.”
The governor declared that all
State chairmen should be summoned
by the committee to bring all docu
ments relating to money raising
with them. “The spotlight should
be thrown on the activities of all
political parties and it should be
kept there intensely until election
day,” he added.
“Enough is known now, through
records from Mr. Hays’ j headquar
ters. to convince the public that as
the head! of a great organization he
has deceived the public and 'at an
official hearing defied the truth.”
UPHAM DENIES “QUOTA”
CHARGES OF GOV. COX
CHICAGO. Aug. 31.—Denial under
oath that he had ever seen, heard of
or ordered made up the list of cam
paign quoias assigned to various
cities as charged by Governor Cox
in the latter’s recent speech at Pitts
burg, was made today by Fred W.
Upham, treasurer of the Republican
national committee, in testimony be
fore the senatorial committee in
vestigating campaign expenses.
Chairman Kenyon of the committee,
Called attention to the list, saying it
totalled more than $8,030,000.
“The ifrst time 1 ever saw the list
Was in the newspapers the day after
the Cox speech,” said Mr. Upham.
"Furthermore, no one in my office
made up such a list with my knowl
edge or consent.”
Mr. Upham, under cross-examina
tion by Senator Reed, admitted bor
rowing $700,000 from Congressional
Committees, which was additional to
the budget estimated yesterday by
Chairman Will Hays.
Mr. Upham denied flatly that the
Official bulletins issued from his of
fice to field workers engaged in rais
j Ing the Tiepublican campaign fund.
Were secret' or conselled secrecy.
He pointed out that the only pro
hibition in that respect referred to
publishing lists of contributors in
local newspapers.
“Such a list was publishde in one
City,” he said, “and several persons
objected to seeing their names in
print.”
College Park and
Hapeville Censuses
Announced by Bureau
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. —The
•tate- of Maryland has $1,4 49,610, an
increase of 154,204 or 11.9 per cent,
* the census bureau today reported.
Other figures:
State of Massachusetts 3,851,615,
increase 485,199, or 14.4 per cent.
Suffolk county. Mass., conta'ining
Boston, 835,522, incease 104,134, or
*14.2 per cent.
Bexar county, ' Tex., containing
San Antonio, 202,096, increase 82,420,
or 68.9 per cent.
Winnsboro, S. C., 1,822; Tunica,
Hiss., 955; Collierville, Tenn., 989.
Georgia places: Lavonia, 1,644;
Royston, 1,681; College Park, 3,622;
Hapeville, 1,631; Greensboro, 2,128;
Union Point, 1,126; Hartwell, 2.323;
Mancha;,T7 - Barnesville, 3,-
059; Riciiunt, 1,529; Lumpkin, 934.
San Antonio, Tex. (revised), 161,-
879. Previously announced, 161,308.
? Bcsiop, 'Mass. (revised), 748,060.
Previous. ,r announced, 747.923.
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Forrest Adair Replies
To Governor Dorsey on
His Hospital I 7 eto
En Route to New York.
EDITOR of The Journal: I notice Governor Dorsey is using
my name in his speeches and says I “dug up ’against him”
the veto of the bill relieving the Home for the Friendless,
Home for the Incurables and Hospital for Crippled Children from
inheritance tax on the Albert Steiner legacies.
I “admit digging it up” and it was pretty low.
lie vetoed the bill before the legislature adjourned, but it
was almost a week after adjournment before the public knew of it.
He stated he had an opinion of the attorney general that the’
bill was unconstitutional. Why doesn’t he publish that opinion
with citations of authorities.
The best lawyers in Georgia say it is constitutional, and cite
supreme court decisions to prove it.
If there was any honest doubt in his mind, why did he
usurp the prerogative of the supreme court? Why didn’t he
give the court a chance to pass on its constitutionality?
•Why veto this bill which takes money from the
“Friendless,” “Incurables” and “Cripples?”
Another thing, in passing, ask him if any lawyer or firm of
lawyers in Atlanta appointed by his administration will claim or
be paid by the state a fee or commission (a la Tobacco Tax) for
collecting the tax from these Friendless, Incurables and Cripples.
If he answers “Yes,” please ask him to give the name of
this lawyer or firm.
The United States Congress amended its inheritance bill and
made it retroactive.
The policy has always been to encourage men who are chari
tably inclined to leave legacies to such institutions, not to penal
ize them.
Respectfully,
FORREST ADAIR.
Hoke Smith Headquarters
Riddles Constitution Clainr
Os Dorsey’s Press Support
Several of “Dorsey Papers’’
Are Supporting the Sena
tor, at Least 18 Are’ Neu
tral and Only 46 Respond
'ed to Recent “Poll’’
Hoke Smith headquarters was
greatly amused Tuesday over the
publication in the Atlanta Constitu
tion of a newspaper directory of
Georgia papers claiming that 107
papers were supporting Governor
Dorsey.
Attention was called to the fact
that although the Constitution claims
107 papers for Governor Dorsey, in
its newspaper poll on the senate race
published Monday, it .was only able
to quote from forty-six newspapers
and of these six were supporting
Senator Smith. It was also inter
esting to note that three of the, pa
pers’ listed Tuesday morning by the
Constitution as supporters of Gover
nor Dorsey are actively supporting
Senator Smith. These papers are
the Walton News, the Sylavania Tele
phone and the Jesup Sentinel. The
views of the Sylvania Telephone are
set forth in an editorial in another
column of The Journal today.
It was also an interesting fact
that one paper listed a ssupporting
Governor Dorsey suspended publica
tion before the governor entered the
race. This paper is the Cordele Sen
tinel.
Papers Wrongly Classified
Wednesday also brought a deulge
of proof that the Constitution’s list
of Dorsey papers had misrepresented
the attitude of the Georgia press on
the senatorial race.
Prominent among the editors who
flatly denied that they belonged in
the Dorsey column were Jow Law
rence of the Wiregress Farmer; R.
B. Moore, of the Union Recorder, of
Milledgeville, and Johnny Jones, of
the LaGrange Reporter. Editor Law
rence telegraphed that his paper is
ooth and nail” for Hoke Smith.
Editor Moore used the long-distance
telephone to say his paper had taken
no stand whatever, but that he was
personally supporting the senator.
The LaGrange Reporter on its front
page Tuesday declared that it was
supporting no camfidate in any race,
not even its own editor, who is run
ning for the legislature.
Iloke Smith headquarters further
cited the case of other prominent
Georgia papers that the Constitution
claimed for Dorsey, but which are
strongly urging the re-election of
Senator Smith.
Since the publication of twenty
nine daily and weekly papers sup
porting the senator, the following
newspapers have been added to the
list of Hoke Smith supporters: Elbert
County Times, Sylvania Telephone,
Crawfordville Advocate - Democrat,
the Ashburn Wiregrass Farmer, the
Doerun Courier and the Campbell
News. Doubtless there are- many
others that will be heard from, but
no paper is counted for Senator
Smith until a copy of the paper is
received with an editorial urging the
senator’s re-election, ,
The Carroll County Times tVas
listed by the Constitution as sup
porting Governor Dorsey, but Tues
day morning Editor J, J. Thomas
son told The Journal over the long
distance phone that the claim was
false and that the Carroll County
Times was not supporting the gov
ernor.
Marvin M. Dickinson, owner of the
LaGrange Graphic, another paper
claimed by the Constitution as a
Dorsey supporter, telephoned to
Hoke Smith headquarters that the
Graphic was, in favor of Senator
Smith.
C. B. Ayers, editor of the Daniels
ville Monitor, stated to The Journal
on Tuesday morning over the long
distance telephone that the position
of his paper had been misrepresent
ed by the Atlanta Constitution with
reference to the senatorial race. He
declared that the Danielsville Moni
tor has maintained and still main
tains an absolutely neutral position
and has made no expression of opin
ion in support of or in opposition
to any candidate in the contest.
But the most interesting feature
of the Constitution’s claim is that at
least seventeen newspapers listed as
supporters of Governor Dorsey have
had no editorial expression qn the
senatorial campaign whatever. If
they are supporting Governor Dor
sey, they certainly have concealed it
from their readers. These papers
that have remained neutral in the
campaign thus far, but claimed by
the Constitution as supporting Gov
ernor Dorsey are:
Bainbridge Post-Searchlight, Cuth
bert Leader, Dawson New?-, Butler
Herald, Ashburn Wiregras* Farmer,
LaGrange Reporter, Henry County
Weekly, Covington News, Decatur
New Era, Cartersville News-Tribune,
Chatsworth Times, Marietta Journal,
Eatonton Messenger, Hartwell Sun,
Lavonia Times and Gauge, Telfair
Enterprise, Rome News.
Comrnorca Hews’ “Support.”
One of the papers listed by The
Constitution as supporting Governor
Dorsey is the Comnjeree News. This
may. be correct, but the latest ex-
(Continued on Page 6, Column 3)
simmiM
UECOfIISIOEUED BV
TEffSSEE HOUSE
Conflicting Views Are Held
)
by Leaders as to
Probable Effect of Action
Tuesday
HARTFORD, Conn., Sept. 1. —The
Connecticut legislature, ,on special
call of Governor Holcomb, will con
vene here September 14.
The call originally was intended
to consider measures for handling
registration and balloting of women
voters, but if ratification of the suf
frage amendment by Tennessee still
is undetermined at that time, it was
believed suffragists would endeavor
to make the first action of the legis
lature ratification so as to place the
amendment beyond any legal en
tanglement.
TENNESSEE RECONSIDERS
ITS ACTION ON SUFFRAGE
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. I.
Conflicting views were held today by
leaders in the Tennessee legislature
as to the probable effect of the
house’s action yesterday in expung
ing from its journal all record of rat
ification of the federal amendment
and voting not to concur with the
senate in ratifying the amendment
A number of the members of the
legislature and state officials ex
pressed the opinion that legality of
Tennessee ratification would be de
cided not on the action taken by the
house yesterday but on the record
certified by Governor Roberts to
Washington. Governor Roberts de
clined to comment on the situation
while State’s Attorney General
Thompson expressed the belief tha*
reconsideration pf the ratification
resolution was impossible since it
had been adopted by both the house
and .seriate and their action already
had been certified to Secretary of
State Colby.
Anti-suffragists refuse to say
whether an attempt would be made
to have the senate reconsider its rat
ification vote also.
After voting to expunge record of
ratification from the journal the
house voted 47 to 24 to non-cor.cur
with the senate’s action in approving
the amendment. Twenty house mem
bers did not vote.
Early this morning qhe leading op
ponents of ratification of the suf
frage resolution by the extra session
of-'the Tennessee legislature had not
held a conference to discuss the ac
tion of the house Tuesday.
Judge Joseph Higgins, presi
dent of the Tennessee Constitutional
league, said this morning that the
effect of the house’s action was to
reject the suffrage amendment, as
it was the contention of the anti
ratificationists that the motion o
reconsider the house’s original ac
tion was still pending, and that when
the house finally did get down to
a vote on the resolution, it recon
sidered its former action and rejected
the ratification resolution. His ex
pectation was. however, that the
whole’proceedings would be thrown
into court, and Tuesday afternoon’s
action would be a substantiation of
the position of the opponents of rat
ification.
After the adoption of the suf
frage amendment by the Tennessee
legislature, Attorney General Frank
M. Thompson said: I
“First, that I think the vote of the
house was final and that said pro
posed amendment is now a part of
the federal constitution; and,
"Second, that the motion to recon
sider has, and can have, no pplica
tion to said action or effect upon the
same.
“My reasons for these positions are
as follows:
“1. The power of the legislature
of the state of Tennessee to partici
pate as one of the states of the
union in amending the federal con
stitution by ratifying this amend
ment, exists only by virtue of Ar
ticle V of the federal constitution.
“2. This power to vote either for
ratification or rejection of this
amendment is not a legislative pow
er or function, but is a political
function and duty’ imposed upon the
legislature by the federal constitu
tion and which it performs outside
of and without regard to the state
constitution.”
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1920.
DEIMTIC FID
R LIMELIGHT ST
SMTOMDBE
Chairman White and Treas
urer Marsh Are Called to
Stand Following Testimony
of Hays and Upham
CHICAGO. Sept’. I.—George White,
chairman of the Democratic national
committee, today told the senatorial
committee investigating campaign
expenditures, that he thought a $2,-
000,000 fund for national committee
purposes would provide for an ade
quate presidential campaign this
year.
The Democratic leader was careful
to impress upon the committee that
this estimate was a personal opin
ion.
“I have not yet appointed our cam
paign fund committee,” he explain
ed. “I intended to do it this week
but was delayed by the call to ap
pear at this hearing. Consequently
my estimate is made as an indi
vidual.”
The Democratic organization has
not yet made up a budget, Mr. White
said, but he added that the various
bureaus were pressing him to ap
point the campaign ’ fund committee
so that they might be informed of
their allotments. •
Senator Spencer, who presided at
the opening of today’s session in the
absence of Senator Kenyon, brought
out that national headquarters of the
committee are in the Grand Central
palace, in New York, with branches
in Chicago, San Francisco and Wash
ington.
Mr. White said the committee had
also reserved six rooms in the Mur
ray Hill hotel, in New York, in
which he had planned to install a
“foreign voters’ league.”
Speaker Wants 97,500
Senator New, head of the Repub
lican speakers’ bureau, testified yes
terday that Prof. John O. Hall, of
Williamette university, Salem, Ore.,
who had offered to work for the Re
publican campaign provided its man
agers met or raised a Democratic
offer of $7,500 for his services, was
in the Murray Hill hotel quarters as
head of the Scandinavian bureau.
Mr. White told the committee he
knew nothing personally about evi
dence showing an attempt by the
.Republican party to “corrupt the
electorate’ and said the only place
he knew where such evidence could
be obtained would be from Gover
nor Cox.
Mr.~WhYfe ’ said that he had no
evidence to sustain any one of the
charges made by Governor Cox, his
party’s presidential nominee, as to
Republican campaign funds and
quotas or the alleged desire of con
tributors "to have back of them in
industrial centers the bayonets ot
their puppets in office.”
He said that he believed the
charges were true because he had
confidence in Governor Cox, but he
had not discussed them in detail with
the nominee and brought nothing
from him to aid the committee in
sifting them.
“I talked with Governor Cox last
Sunday for a few minutes,” said Mr.
White. ,“I asked him: ‘Are you sure
of your ground?’ He said he was
and I told him: ’You are the boss
and you run it.’ ”
Senator Kenyon asked if Mr. White
did not consider it “the duty of the
men\ who have this evidence, if it
exists, to give it to us whether they
are presidential candidates or not,”
and when the witness did not reply,
the chairman said he realized the
query might be embarrassing and he
would not press it, out ot respect
to Mr. White’s relations with Gov
ernor Cox.
Mr. White, under questioning by
Senators Spencer and Kenyon, said
the only example of a “sinister in
fluence” backing the Republican
party which he Knew of persontrly
was the Republican year-book being
published by William Barnes.
Raed and Kenyon Chub
Discussion of the Barnes book dis
closed that photographic copies of
pledges of ’hnoral and financial” sup
port to theNbook, signed by promi
nent eastern men including the
Rockefellers, had disappeared from
the records, in which they were in
troduced Monday. A heated clash be
tween Senator Reed and Senator Ken
yon followed when Senator Reed in
sisted on an investigation of the dis
appearance of the papers.
“Do you understand that these
pledges related only the support for
the book,” Senator Kenyon asked Mr.
White.
“They could mean anything,” the
witness answered.
Senator Reed objected to the line
of questioning and Senator Kenyon
heatedly retorted that the Missouri
Democratic senator seemed to have
“one-line of examination for a Re
publican and wants to use another
line for a Democrat.”
“Do you think the Barnes book is
a more sinister influence than the
circulation throttgh country newspa
pers of propaganda favoring th©
League of Nations, such as this
story Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge,
and having it paid for by a political
party and having the man who reads
not know that it is political propa
ganda? Which is the more sinister?”
Senator Kenyon asked when quiet
was restored.
“I don’t apologize for wanting to
circulate that story,Mr. White re
’joined. “The editor of' the paper is
responsible if he uses it. He isn’t
paid to print it.”
Senator Spencer asked the Demo
cratic chairman to produce a list of
all employes of the Democratic na
tional committee and their salaries,
which he promised to do. No speak
ers are being paid salaries, the wit
ness said, and he does not plan to
pay any. He added that he had au
thorized the expenditure of SIOO,OOO
by the speakers’ bureau so far.
"Is it true,” Senator Spencer
asked, “that you have stated you
will not place any limit on campaign
contributions?”
“I did say that. There is no limit
on the size, within the discretion of
the treasurer and myself after con
sidering both the size and the
source.”
Cox’s Special Train
Senator Kenyon then inquired
about Professor John O. Hall, head
of the Scandinavian bureau of the
Democratic national committee, who
was shown in letters read by Sen-
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Hoke Smith’s I 7 ictory Is
Certain Despite Dorsey’s
Efforts to Help H 7 at son
Governor Visits Only Those
Counties Where He Has
-No Chance, Hoping to
Switch Them to Watson
Notwithstanding the patent pur
pose and palpable efforts of Governor
Dorsey's candidacy and campaign to
weaken Senator Smith’s chances of
defeating Thomas E. Watson, every
indication now points to an over
whelming Hoke Smith triumph in
the primary next Wednesday, accord
ing to Smith headquarters at the
Piedmont hotel.
Senator Smith himself shares the
views of the men who are handling
the details of his campaign, and
awaits the verdict of the voters
with satisfaction born of confidence.
It is th< opinion of the Smith man
agers and hundreds of others with
whom they are in daily communica
t on, by wire and mail, that Gover
nor Dorsey’s method of campaign has
confirmed the charge that he was
forced into the race for no other pur
pose than to weaken the senator at
the risk of electing Mr. Watson.
In his campaign tour of the state,
the governor, it is pointed out, is
visiting only counties in which there
is a fight between Smitfi and Wat
son, with no hope for his own suc
cess. In a word, the governor is try
ing to rally enough support for his
candidacy to insure loss of the
counties to Senator Smith, and give
them to Mr. Watson.
Governor Dorsey spent yesterday,
for instance, in Meriwether,, Talbot
and Muscogee counties. He made two
speeches in Meriwether, one at
Greenville, where he was met by a
brass band and eight people, and the
other at Manchester.
I. N. Johnson, editor of the Man
chester Mercury, called the Smith
headquarters on the telephone Tues
day night, and this is what he said:
Visit to Meriwether
“Between 300 and 400 people heard
Governor Dorsey’s speech—bitter
criticism of Hoke Smith and a lot of
jokes. He admitted the collection of
illegal tobacco taxes and added that
the money would be returned when
the state was financially able to
spare it. He admitted discharging
Frank Grant, the florist at the state
capitol, and giving his job to a ne
gro.
“The governor's visit to Meriweth
er county has not changed the aspect
of things. The race is between Smith
and Watson) with the chances
strongly favoring Smith. Such votes
as Dorsey gets will contribute only
to help Watson.
“Bets of two to one are plentiful
that Dorsey runs third in Meriwether
county. He wasted a whole clay
here.”
As a positive factor in the cam
paign, Governor Dorsey’s candidacy
has collapsed, according to the ad
vices received by the Smith men.
He is admittedly, however, a nega
tive quantity, whose efforts, here
and there, are meeting w*th some
measure of success in splitting the
vote that otherwise would be cast
solidly against Watson.
“But Governor Dorsey is serving,
and serving as well as he can, the
object for which he was forced into
the race,” say the Smith men. “He
is not making an aggressive cam
paign in behalf of his own candi
dacy, but is confining his energies to
localities where it is recognized he
is a poor third in the race and that
such votes as he gets are votes that
in other circumstances would be
cast for Smith against Watson.”
Hoke Smith headquarters assert
that the methods of the governor,
(Continued on Page 6, Column 4)
THE CAMOUFLEURS!
KING NOT TO ACT
TO SAVE DYING
MAYOR OF CORK
LONDON, Sept. 1. —Terence Mac-
Swiney, lord mayor of Cork, who has
been on a hunger strike since August
12, in protest against his arrest by
the British authorities, suffered a
change for the worse last night in
Brixton prison, this city, where he
is confined. Late morning editions
of London newspapers say he is sink
ing rapidlj’’. A complete numbness
pf the limbs has developed and Mac-
Swiney can no longer speak because
of weakness, it is said.
Lord Stamfordham, private secre
tary to King George, has replied to
a letter from Horatio William Bot
tomley, member of parliament, urg
ing the release of MacSwiney. He
told Mr. Bottomley that even if the
king favored the release of the mayor
of Cork, it could be affected only
by the sovereign’s personal action in
the face of advice of his ministers,
with the presumable result that they
would resign. He declared also
there was the further risk that the
“country at large might regard the
price paid too high for the object
attained and blame the king for creat
ing a grave political crisis at a
time of special national stress and
anxiety.”
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DISAPPROVAL OF
PLAN OF PACKERS
VOICED BY COLVER
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. —The pro
posal of big meat packers to sell
their control in principal stock yards
to a $30,000,000 holding company,
met with disapproval by Federal
Trade Commissioner Colver and the
League of Women Voters today.
- At ,>rte department' of justice if
was indicated the plan will not be
accepted although final decision will
be up to Attorney General Palmer.
The packers agreed with Mr. Pal
mer to divest themselves of stock
yards and so-called unrelated side
lines' and the proposal filed In court
is part of the carrying out of that
agreement.
Under the proposal packer hold
ings in fifteen yards and terminal
railroads would be sold to a holding
company organized by F. H. Prince
& Co., of Boston, the packers to have
something less than a 50 per cent
interest in the company.
Mr. Colver, who headed the federal
trade investigation of the packers
and recommended regulatory legisla
tion, said of the proposal:
“The most interesting part of this
proposed adjustment to me ia the
reappearance of Mr. Prince upon the
stage. It was Mr. Prince who, with
Armour, su 3eeded in absolutely
concealing the ownership of the Chi
cag ostock yards so that nobody on
earth has been able to know who
the owners were or are. This was
accomplished by the use of the bear
er warrants, a thing which can de
feat all income tax laws, all Anti
trust laws and any court decree.
“This bearer warant and its use
are fully described by me in chap
ter five of part three of the federal
trade commission’s report on the
meat packing industry and I have
enjoyed the opportunity of explain
ing it in detail to several congress
men all of which may be found in at
least four public documents.”
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JUDGE FUMES
WOMEN CIN'T WEE
I STATE PRIMAHY
OAairman cf Slata Commit
tee Takes Issue With A*-
torney General, Who Sai-’j
Women Are Eiigroie
Judge James J. Flynt. .of Griffin,
chairman of the Democratic state
executive committee of Georgia,
takes issue with the ruling by At
torney General R. A. Denny that the
women can vote in the Democratic
statXprimary to be held on> Septem
ber 8.
The ruling was rendered to Gov
ernor Dorsey on Monday afternoon.
In the ruling, which ’covered five
typewritten pages, Colonel Denny
holds that the ratification of the suf
frage amendment to the federal con
stitution entitles the women of
Georgia to vote in the forthcoming
state primary, as well as in apy or
all other elections, without register-!
ing or otherwise complying with the
suffrage laws of Georgia.
His argument is that the women
form a new and separate class of
voters who are not touched at all by
the suffrage laws of Georgia, be-/
cause these laws apply to males
only.
“With all due respect to Colonel
Denny,” said Judge Flynt on long
distance telephone, “I cannot see
how he. can possibly come to the
conclusion that the mere ratification
of a federal constitutional amend
ment upsets all the laws of this or
any other state with regard to suf
frage. It is absolutely impossible,
as I see it, for the women to vote
until the legislature of Georgia en
acts a law providing the machinery
for the qualification of female
voters. No such legislation has yet
been pasesd, and they cannot vote.
1 Effect of the Baling •;
"If the women can vote without
registering, as contended by Colonel
Denny, what is to prevent a woman
from voting as many times as she
wants to vote in one day? Suppose
a woman presents herself at a vot
ing precinct, tells the managers her
name is Mi's.. Jones, and so on and
so forth, and they take her bailor
and put it in the box, how are they
going to notify all the other elec
tion managers in the county, or in
other counties, that she has voted?
What is to prevent her from coming
•back to that precinct and voting
again, or going to all the other pre
cincts in that county, or going co
as many precincts in adjoining coun
ties as she can cover in the course
of a day? What Is to prevent wom
en who are not residents of the staio
from vdting in the primary? What 13
to prevent a swarm o£ women from
coming into the state on that day to
vote in the primary?
“The law of Georgia makes it a
crime for any election manager,? in
any election, whether primary or
general, to allow an unregistered
person to vote. My opinion is that
every election manager who allow®
a woman to vote in the September
primary will be subject to prosecu
tion for violating this law.
"It does not make any dlerence
what action the Democratic state
committee may take or refuse to
take. The committee has no power
to change the laws of the state. The
laws are written by the legislature,
and nobody can change them but the
legislature. The state committee can
hold a primary within the law, but
it cannot go outside of the law, or
change the law.
“If the registration law and other
laws arc abrogated by the suffrage
amendment where females con
cerned, then necessarily they are abro
gated where males are concerned,
and any unregistered man could vote
in the primary. V
Keen Interest In Controversy
Chairman Flynt’s refusal to call
the state committee to make provi
sion for the women to vote in the
September primary will be met by
a petition from members of the
committee requesting him to call a
meeting.
He said Monday that he was not
certain Whether a meeting of the
committee could be held without a
call from the chairman. He did not
have the rules of the committee be
fore him when he was discussing
the matter over the long., distance
telephone.
Mrs. Mary L. McLendon, president
of the Georgia Woman’s Suffrage as
sociation, announces that the women
“will leave no stone unturned to se
cure their full rights to the ballot,
and If the worst comes the women
of Fulton county Intend to go be
fore the tax collector and publicly
demand the right that the federal
government has declared to be
theirs."
The Georgia registration law re
quires the registration list to be
closed six months prior to the date
of an election This period expired
on the September primary before
the Tennessee legislature ratified the
suffrage amendment, and likewise
expired on the general state election,
November 3, and the presidential
election on the same day. But wom
en can vote without registering at
all, according to Colonel Denny.
WOMEN ARE REGISTERED
IN ALABAMA COUNTIES
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. 31.
Available reports early today fnom
four counties in Alabama showed
1,105 women have registered since
the suffrage amendment became part
of the federal constitution.
Jefferson county, which includes
the city of Birmingham, led the list
with 775 registrants, Mobile was
next with 190 and Montgomery third
with 140. Lauderdale has had no
women registrants, according t~ the
books at Florence, Cite cotni ” . s»‘-at.
Under the state law registration
books will be closed in this state
September 2. Worpen’s clubs and
civic organizations in several of the
larger communities are encouraging
women to obtain the right of voting
for president.
BOOKS IN MISSISSIPPI
ARE OPENED TO WOMEN
HATTIFSBUJRG. s’'«i ”-t
Although wdmen of Mississippi are
barred from voting in the November
election by a state law, which closed
the polling books August t 2, clerks
of circuit courts in several counties
have opened the lists to them and a
few have givfe>» in tneir names.
Such action has been taken in For
est and Harrison counties, where the '
“registration” is reported very light.
Governor Russell is expected to
call a special session of the legis-
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