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OXFORD PUBLIC LEDGER TUESDAY, MAY 18. 1920 t'a it ri 'V? 1 1) fs'S i 'I THE PUBLIC LEDGER AND OXFORDBANNER PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY DAN A. COBLE Editor and Manager C. EDWARDS COBLE Advertising Manager MORRISON AGAINST WOMAN SUFFRAGE HEAD THE FOLLOWING REPLY OP F. W. EVANS, OF WAKE COUN TY, TO SENATOR LINDSAY WARREN ON THIS SUBJECT. KEEP THE RECORD STRAIGHT SUBSCRIPTIONS One Year $2.00 Six Mouths 100 Three Months 60 Correspondence on all matters of in terest news items notes or sugges tions for better methods of f rm or in dustrial developments, improvement of roads, schools, etc. is earnestly so licited. AOr!ELIVF.U OF VUItLIC LEDGER PWsp notify us of railure to eet the Public Ledger at any time. We use me f,re;nc.M caution possible in mail out and wish to know of failures in delivery. OHITUARY NOTICES Brief news items of deaths, immed iately after decease, of twenty to thirty words without cost. Liite Life sketches (obituaries) at rate of l-'2c per word. To get prompt atten tion count the words in copy and send cash, stamps or check with the copy. Lindsay Warren, Gardner man. Chairman Platform Commitee at State Con vention, Attacks Morrison on Suffrage. Starting revelations! Says he felt absolutely sure at time convention would not sustain the plat form reported by him. Invited Morrison to saciifice, while he de serted Ms own work. "It holds like another case of 'ever sent someone riming with the hare and hunting with the hounds", says Sen ator Lindsay Warren, of Washing ton, N. C, in Monday's News and ui v. w oviii. uui muiu KiTCl UHV atl in. vitation to his self-appointed feast' In hunting for aid on his report as the Senator claims, it mnv hJ, Entered at the Post Office at Oxford. North Carolina, as second-class mat ter. THERE IS HOPE FOR MEXICO Anyone who imagines that Mexi co is a land populated exclusively by barbarians and brigands, without intelligence and a guiding purpose, can not understand what is happen ing below the border or formulate safe opinions relative to the future policy of the United States Govern ment in the new emergency. lttliterate the vast majority o: j the Mexican people are, and irre sponsible. But their ignorance has been forced upon them and they have had troubles of the sort that can be understood and felt without the ability to read and write. The masses in Mexico, scattered as they are, have one common cause. They are and have been for generations a unit against the land barons, who maintain in the country a state of oppressive feudalism unknown else where. Until very recently, it was not difficult to fiind in Mexico "ranches" of 100,000 acres owned by men who lived abroad and left the care of their estates to overseers. Such land was parceled out by earlj invaders, cr distributed among the j favorites ef succeeding dictators. j Under the system devised by Diaz j the great landholders came to de-; pend largely on forced labor. Tc ! insure the continuance of small j standing armies of workers, the con- j tract system of labor was developed! i with the assistance and co-operation of tyrannical state governors. Freedom of the land has been the hope and aim of every good-sized revaluation in Mexico. Revolution ists have been betrayed or they have hoped too greatly or they blundered in the wake of men who deliberately misled them. But they return in evitably to a struggle which is in spired by a desire to relieve the poor and propertyless multitudes from a truly brutal system of exploitation that continued almost unchanged from the days of Cortez to the days of Madero. Reforms that began when Diaz was overthrown have progressed rapidly under succeeding presi dents. Changes in labor laws, in governmental policy, in the methods of civil administration everywhere have been forced by the younger generations of educated Mexicans ! who returned to their own country after observation and study in the United States and Europe, where they received the inspiration that made them powerful factors in the affairs of their own people. The public educational system has been widely extended in recent years. Re ligious interference in the scheme of governmnt has almost ceased. Land laws are being slowly revised and the rigors of the contract labor system have been considerably les sened. The aim of the public spir ited Mexican of today is to bring peace and prosperity to Mexico by education and the application of I democratic rule. iiwlcu wna tM&iiuiciuice imic ne nev er though of his candidate for gov ernor the Hon. O. Max Gardener, v We have no record of the inside workings of things at the? conven tion, but the facts bear out certain clear-cut conclusions. Mr. Garden er, Senator Warren's candidate for Governor, had endorsed woman suff rage at least as early as February 10, 1919, when he sent a telegram to both Senators Simmons and Over man urging them to vote in favor of the Anthony Amendment in the United States Senate. In alsoeeoh j delivered last May before the con- Observer, in an effort to imstraight en Cam Morrison's position on Wom an Suffrage. But to those who have read the article and know the facts, this concluding paragraph of his writing most aptly describes the Senator himself seeing him as oth ers see him. It is well known that long before the primaries were held and the convention met, the manager of the Gardener forces did that which was not attempted for any other candi date he set a plan and made a call to his helpers to pack the conven tion witn uaraener delegates. The i vention of Federated Woman's Clubs Gardener forces were the first in the j at Asheville, Mr. Gardener announ state to organize Mr. Morrison noticed himself in favor of Woman Snff- even having a manager until one day before the cenvention met and the job before them was fairly easy. They came to the convention in numbers, loaded the galaries with friends, and finally wound the plan by a torch-light precession of the boys of the A. and E. College. Gar dener's friends claimed it to be a Gardener convention, and so the stage was set. The brother-in-law of Gardener presided and made the key-note speech, and Senator Lind say Warm, a Gardener man, was made chairman of the Platform Committee. senator warren says. as one who was sincerely opposed to North Carolina ratifying a Federal amend ment, solely on the grounds that it would deprive the state of control over surtrage, l believe it will be generally admitteed .that 1 was one of those who fought and died for my views, FEELING ABSOLUTELY SURE AT THE TIME THAT THE CONVENTION WOULD NOT SUS TAIN US." When Senator Warren says that he was absolutely SURE at the time that his views would not be sustain ed, he gives away some convention history not heretofore written. It is a startling statement coining from the chairman of the platform com jiiittte, and in view of the events that folowed, clears up some of the things not before understood. Under the rules of the convention and according to parliamentary pro cedure, the chairman of the commit tee reporting the recommendation to reject the suffrage amendment had the privilege and duty of open ing and closing the debate. The Senator read his leport, and no sooner ended, than it was the sub ject of the most vigorous debate and vicious attack.. Did the Senator de fend the creature of his mind, and uphold it? He did not so much as give it a complimentary introduction 10 the convention, and from that hour to this his voice has never lift-, ed in its defense! Such a thing, I dare say, never before happened at a state convention. In contrast thereto, two years previous the same question was be fore the convention and Cam Morri son was chairman of that same com mittee, in thundreous tones and matchless eloquence he fought the suffrage resolution, ' closed the de bate as was his duty, secured its de feat, and has never since 'borne the brunt of suilragist opposition! The Senator says he fought and died, for his views those views that he "felt absolutely sure at the time the convention would not sustain." If he fought, it was an invisible fight of the conscience not out in the open where one could see. That he died, we all admit, and that right rage and pledged his support to the cause his only record upon a pub lic question on which there is a di vision of opinion which he has taken a stand. Morrison was known to be against suffrage; even Senator Warren's sub-conscious mind knew that when he was looking for "aid" for his platform report. Thus the condition of things when the convention met. Senator Warren says he felt sure that his views against woman suff rage would not be sustained by the convention; yet he, a Gardener chairman in what he claims was a Gerdener convention, put the plank in the platform, deserted it himself, and with a guilty knowledge of what was to nappen, sent Morrison word to come to his aid. Now, Sen ator, what could have been your mo tives? Was it because you desired to see him defeated in his efforts, howled down by your delegates, and the defeat proclaimed everywhere as a Morrison defeat? The trouble with you is, that the people the great Democratic mass who were too busy to go to the pri maries and tod numerous to attend the convention, are being heard from. You-even have the gall to say that Mecklenburg county's vote was the straw that broke the camel's back! Mecklenburg's vote on the Hobgood resolution was 13 yeas and 16 noes. Cleveland county's vote, the home of; Gardner, was 15 yeas and three noes. True to Gardner form, Cleveland i held back until the result was ap-j parent before it voted. Your own county, with you as delegate and anti-suffrage leader (?) voted yeas, I six, ana noes, seven. The suggestion that Mr. Morrison is trying to manitain an uncertain position on any live public question is laughable; that he has dodged on suffrage, is ludicrous; and Senator Warren's attack upon him can have been prompted by no other consider ation than that Morrison's well known views on suffrage are cut ting into the Gardner support in what Senator Warren calls the Gar dner countie in the east! It is state-wide knowledge that Mr. Mor rison has consistently opposed wom an suffrage, and greatly on account of the danger to those eastern North Carolina counties from the votes of negro women, and in his speeches in Raleigh and elsewhere he advocates the policy of throwing every possible restriction around the exercise of this privilege by negro women if the Anthony Amendment it ratified. Morrison, at the convention, voted "no" on the Hobgood resolution. True to his nature, he was not afraid to be present and vote. Being a candidate for Governor it was hard ly proper for him to have taken the olatform to thrust his views on the convention. At all other times when not a candidate he has expressed himself and even now has no hesi- last gasping breath,, he invited Cam tancv in publicly stating where he Morrison to come forward and face stands on woman suffrage. What that "Gardener" convention, and say you as to your candidate, and perform the duty that he himself what says Mr. Gardner on the negro shirked. No friend of a suicide pact women and the ballot? When Mr. Morrison, made his great Democratic speech in the court house in Oxf ordon , Satiirday, May 1st, he was asked how he stood on woman suffrage arid those "who heard him will recall what, a tremendous applaus he received when he said he was NOW AND HAD ALWAYS BEEN OPPOSED TO WOMAN SUFFRAGE. . (Policital Advertising) ' Another Royal Suggestion PIES an From the New Royal Cook Book GHEER up! 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