Nashville Banner from Nashville, Tennessee • 20

Ihe busan Anthony Amendment Will Never Be Ratified If 7V Tennessee Representatives Do Their NOW Duty i Because the People Do Not Want It A NY ate that wants Woman Suffrage can adopt it for it-v eIf popular vote without changing a word in the FEDERAL CONSTITUTION In fifteen atates woman suffrage was thus adopted in the course of the last fifty years 1 WITHOUT AFFECTING OTHER STATES The ONLY REA-i I SON why anybody asks FEDERAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE is I unnwcm iwemy-one ilAit tLLCUUro SIINCL 1IZ wom-? an suffrage was DEFEATED AT THE POLLS by 1387344 ma- FOUR TIMES the total majority FOR woman suffrage in the fifteen states which adopted it They now want to put it ri ine eaerai constitution where thirteen states can prevent itsjtEPEAL however unsatisfactory or even ruinous it may MO state constitution can be amended without the consent of the PEOPLE A STATE I 1 rr lo rwrwwK vuil and can be CMAlNUtU or REPEALED any time THE PEOPLE VOTE to do so A FED ERAL AMENDMENT CANNOT BE SUBMITTED TO POPU- a ucvjucu yjitL i oyLEui3UiUKL3 wmcn fj' may or may not represent PUBLIC OPINION If some 4000 amendment if sut IntA Ctt vr vvo iuiv WUCU Wtaici UUSlllUWUII 13 I FEDERAL BLANKET LAW OVER THE HEADS OF THF i 110000000 PEOPLE of the FORTY-EIGHT SOVEREIGN States The Federal Constitution NEVER WAS INTENDED to De usea to be 1 KAY the will of the American people but it can be ABUSED for that Durcose'and driven nvrr fS- riskt nt VDV th naAnU UM -i i r- ui a an auiuuiuuue tan ue ui i veil over a Cnllu Dy anybody wicked enough to do so st i de iff cc ce tr si t'a i -foH ViJlUo city i(ti fro it ln The Present Situation' HIRTYFIVE LEGISLATURES have passed resolutions purporting to ratify the Susan Anthony Amend ment The legality of two of these alleged ratifica and West Virginia) is being appealed to the United States Su- 1 'nrnnii Pnnrt 1 1 'i if fyi ww wo tt vi i a inc yanuiijr ui me auienumeni iiseir Another ratification would NOT necessarily comolete th don Federal Suffrage Not ''Inevitable" NO Federal amendment HAS EVER BEEN RATIFIED after its rejection in EIGHT STATES Tennessee and North Carolina will make TEN and THIRTEEN REJECTIONS will nail down the coffin of the Susan Anthony Amendment People who say it is "bound to come" are either uninformed or trying to mislead you Some persons said Germany was "bound to win" and a suffrage leader (Mrs Lucretia Blanken-burg) said "the anti-suffragists are just like little Belgium" Perhaps they are It was at the hardest period of the war with Ludendorff almost at the gates of Paris that Clemenceau of' France said: "In all wars he is a conqueror who can believe a quarter of an hour longer than his adversary that he is not beaten We 'shall continue the war to the last quarter of an hour for the last quarter of an hour will be ours" That is the spirit tHat broke all the machine-made calculations of the great German "drive" of 1918 as Ludendorff himself admits in his book The "Card Index" Pressure System ADVOCATES of FEDERALIZED suffrage in addition to the parrot-talk of "bound to come" by which THEY HOPE TO WEAKEN YOUR MORALE employ a CARD-INDEX PRESSURE SYSTEM OF POLITICAL BLACKMAIL extreme than men-ver dreamed of" New York Times) to control the people's sworn representatives The character religion politics record relatives and FINANCIAL BACKERS of legislators are put down on a series of TWENTY-TWO CARDS FOR EACH MAN This SECRET CARD-INDEX SYSTEM is then used either to CONTROL THE MAN'S VOTE or to get "men higher up" to control OTHER MEN'S VOTES We have absolute and convincing PROOF of the existence of this system and the SIGNED CONFESSIONS of suffrage leaders ADMITTING IT "This is what Gov Clement meant when he said "I refuse to indorse political blackmail in any -(New York Times July 18 1920) A Peril to the South FEDERAL Suffrage which gives Congress complete power (under the 14th 16th and 19th amendments) of ENFORCEMENT means control of state elections by FED-ERAL FORCE BILLS This issue concern REPUBLICANS as well as DEMOCRATS for what would it profit the REPUBLICANS to double a vote within their ranks that would TURN OVER THER OWN PARTY in many sections of the South to the control of another race? Northern FEDERALISTS it seems don't care WHO controls the Republican party in the so long as it votes the National but good Southern Republicans KNOW that their party must remain in control of Anglo-Saxons here for the sake of LOCAL conditions that politically ambitious FEDERALISTS never seem to consider Some Republicans in Oregon or Maine may favor another Southern reconstruction but NOT the real men of the Republican party in the South The Constitution vs Platform IN 1916 both the Democratic and Republican parties indorsed and recognized "the right of each state to settle this question for itself" That right is a CONSTITUTIONAL right hitherto guarded in both Federal and State Constitutions A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT reserved to the states or the people cannot be abolished by the say-so of any committee convention or party that happens to change its mind If it was a right in 1916 it must still be a right in 1920 No party can command a man to violate a constitution he has sworn to support or to betray fundamental principles of the American people's government When a party under the influence it may be of one or two men on a Resolutions Committee goes beyond its legitimate authority as a party and declares in effect that it is now "expedient" to rob the people of rights they have reserved since 1776 it merely cancels its claim upon those who hold the American form of government unalterable by such methods If there were such things as State Rights Majority -Rule or Local Self-Government in America in 1916 they were beyond the power of any party to change by self-contradiction in four years! VICTORY is mostly a question of MANHOOD arj MORALE The Federal Suffrage "Drive" is a PROOF that the PEOPLE are against woman suffrage for wherever the people WANT woman suffrage they can have it WITHOUT FEDERAL AMENDMENT This desperate drive to FORCE FEDERALIZE SUFFRAGE on states and people because they do not want it deserves the answer that Clemenceau gave Ludendorff and that Gov Clement! gave the suffragists You can stop ANYTHING but death and taxes if enough REAL MEN say "it shall not pass" The Acid Test of Experience BLACKMAILERS always work by inspiring FEAR No person can be blackmailed who is unafraid The suffragists have never defeated ANYBODY who had the COURAGE to face their "blacklist" In 1914 they "blacklisted" eighteen member of Congress Every one was re-elected Senator Underwood one of the blacklisted going to the Senate In 1916 they blacklisted President Wilson toured the country against him and he carried TEN out of ELEVEN suffrage states against Judge Hughes who said "I want the support of the women of the country" and lost both the women's vote and the election In 1918 Gov Whitman of New York the "suffrage governor" with women voting and with the active support of Mrs Catt Company lost the election to a man had voted spoken and worked against woman suffrage and polled 15-CC0 FEWER VOTES in New York City with women voting and suffrage "support" than he received from the MEN ALONE in 1916 In 1918 EVERY NEW YORK CONGRESSMAN who had voted AGAINST Federal suffrage was re-elected by an INCREASED majority Representative Gould anti-suffragist polling the largest congressional majority ever given in New York in 1918 Senator Borah of Idaho blacklisted by suffragists because he opposed FEDERALIZED suffrage won by 30000 majority with women voting In 1919 Speaker Sweet of New York blacklisted by the suffragists who ran a WOMAN candidate against him polled the largest majority ever given a legislator in New York In 1920 Senator Overman of North Carolina opposed by a Federal suffragist (Brooks) won by 90000 majority In the same state Cameron Morrison on an anti-ratica-tion platform has won the Democratic nomination for governor by 9000 majority over Lieutenant-Governor Gardner who advocated ratification IN WEST VIRGINIA EVERY MAN WHO VOTED FOR RATIFICATION in March who ran for re-election WAS DEFEATED IN THE PRIMARIES IN MAY (See Pittsburg Dis-patch and Charleston Mail( June 1 1920) IN MAINE Parkhurst anti-suffragist has over- whelmingly defeated Gov Milliken Federal suffrage advocate in the primaries IN IOWA men Vho OPPOSED Federal suffrage have led the field IN NEW YORK the headquarters of Federal suffrage agi-tation Senator Wadsworth who has been attacked constantly by the suffragists was nominated in convention two weeks ago bv 988 to 97 scattering votes In the suffrage leader's district (Westchester county) there were 48 votes and ALL went to WADSWORTH A man CANNOT LOSE by sticking to his own conscience and the solemn convictions of the AMERICAN PEOPLE on this issue Gov Clement of Vermont has won the admiration and applause of the whole country for his MANLINESS in refusing to "tear up the Constitution" for Mrs Catt Company So will it be in Tennessee The men who vote FOR RATIFICATION will find it a LOSSr rather than a GAIN to them for the American people are not going to have MEASURES they oppose put over by men they elect to represent them without showing their deep and just resentment at the polls The people cannot vote on a Federal amendment but they can ALWAYS VOTE against the man who betrays them The men who vote AGAINST RATIFICATION will go down in American history as the SAVIORS OF OUR FORM OF GOVERNMENT and the true DEFENDERS of Womanhood Motherhood the Family and the State tion of the Amendment but it would throw the coming presi- i- dential election into the courts and create another den conest EIGHT Alabama Georgia Vir ginia South Carolina Maryland Mississippi Delaware and LouisianaHAVE REJECTED THE AMENDMENT three of them Alabama Maryland and Louisiana DENYING THE VALIDITY of the amendment and calling on their sister states to REJECT IT SI i Only Five States Yet to Act npsENNESSEE North Carolina Florida Connecticut and Ver- I mont are the ONLY states yet to act North Carolina IS NOW IN SESSION and will REJECT Florida cut and Vermont legislatures WILL NOT MEET UNTIL 1921 i ALL THREE STATES ARE AGAINST THE FEDERAL AMENDMENT and will be more against jt after the PRESENT i ELECTION because those states WILL ELECT NEW LEGIS- LATURES ON THIS ISSUE and their people are now fully AROUSED 1 i it n4 I tural hfr A Tennessee's Opportunity ELIHU ROOT says: "If you enable some sections of the country to coeroe other sections by use of national power you will ultimately break up the Union That is precisely what this Federal Suffrage Amendment under i i to ao BUT TENNESSEE CAN SAVE THE STATES! lt an ctr-up i-io pa ni" fi trt erli A' 1 nui uiiijr aic viio iiicbcu laiiui-auuiii ui TTCSl Virginia ana a Missouri being appealed to-the Supreme Court but POLITICAL riMDiiriuc i 1 i nrcnun ii bniui i-vivtiij us jurcsuy uiiurr way 10 iciiil railncailOn in other West Virginia Maine Wisconsin etc The Federal Suffrage "Drive" is Dead if Tennessee will answerlhe call of her own constitution her own people and that of 'her sister Southern states In Texas with women1 voting in the primaries former Sen-k ator 'Joseph Weldon Bailey who spoke against woman suffrage Cin tvenr aaires8M'nas just Deen nominated tor governor with I the suffragists as well as state and national party machinery against him His -election means that Texas which defeated woman suffrage tin 1919 at the polls and was betrayed three weeks later by a xard-indexed legislature can RESCIND that action if Tennesseerwill give her the chance II A Cl This isthe opening argument in a great campaign to save the States from destruction If YOU believe in the right of the people of each State to control their own elections we ask your active support SOUTHERN WOMEN'S LEAGUE FOR REJECTION OF THE SUSAN ANTHONY AMENDMENT Headquarters and Exhibition Mezzanine Floor Hermitage Hotel Sec Have You Seen the liree Fo re'e Bi 1 Is Don94 Fail to Visit the -Exhibition 99 66The -Wbman's Bible 0t IJiin.