Anti-Woman Suffrage Circular: The Southern League for the Rejection of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, July 1920

WE SERVE THAT OUR STATE MAY LIVE; AND LIVING, PRESERVE THE UNION NORTH CAROLINA BRANCH OF The Southern League for the Rejection of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment HEADQUARTERS: HOTEL RALEIGH, RALEIGH, N. C. July 1920. [column one: PRESIDENT GENERAL MRS. JAMES S. PINCKARD PRESIDENT N. C. BRANCH MISS MARY HILLIARD HINTON, MIDWAY PLANTATION, RALEIGH TREASURER MRS. H. M. BONNER, RALEIGH SECRETARY MRS. ASHBY L. BAKER RALEIGH VICE-PRESIDENTS MRS. GEORGE LAY, BEAUFORT MRS. JOSEPH BLOUNT CHESHIRE, RALEIGH MRS. BENEHAN CAMERON, RALEIGH MRS. J. M. HILLIARD, R. F. D. 5, RALEIGH MRS. A. M. WADDELL, WILMINGTON MRS. A. W. GRAHAM, OXFORD MRS. GEORGE THOMPSON, MOREHEAD CITY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MRS. W. W. KITCHIN MRS. T. M. ASHE MRS. R. Y. McPHERSON MRS. R. S. BUSBEE MRS. JOHN LONDON MRS. MURRAY ALLEN ADVISORY BOARD JOSEPH BLOUNT CHESHIRE, RALEIGH TASKAR POLK, WARRENTON DR. RICHARD DILLARD, EDENTON W. F. EVANS, RALEIGH COLONEL WILSON G. LAMB, WILLIAMSTON R. W. WINSTON, JR., RALEIGH JUDGE GEORGE ROUNTREE WILMINGTON W. H. WILLIAMSON, RALEIGH J. CHESHIRE WEBB, HILLSBORO MURRAY ALLEN, RALEIGH] The women of North Carolina, fully alive to the danger which threatens white supremacy, have organized a branch of the Southern League for the Rejection of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. As you know, tremendous out of state pressure will be brought to bear on our Legislature at its special session, convening shortly. The Suffs say: "It's bound to come." Don't be misled by that propaganda. The Germans said they would be in Paris by Christmas, but they were mistaken. Shall North Carolina be the state to force upon Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana an amendment which the people of those states have already rejected? If North Carolina ratifies, her Representatives in Congress will have no grounds on which to join the other Southern men in opposing the three Force Bills now pending. The fight is on - the issues are clear - where do you stand? If you believe in the principle of local self government, if you think that the Old North State is still able to manage her own affairs, if you object to giving Congress at Washington the power to control local elections, then speak or write to your Senator and Representatives asking them to reject the Anthony Amendment and send us your name, and some money if you can, but your name anyway. Please show this literature to your friends and ask them to do the same. Yours sincerely, President.