1914 June 28 Atlanta Constitution 56 Pages Georgia

1914 June 28 Atlanta Constitution 56 Pages Georgia

Author: Atlanta Constitution

Year: 1914

PDF PAGE 49, COLUMN 1 Mrs. Elliot Cheatham Replies To Mrs. Lamar’s Article, Stating Reasons for Anti-Suffrage League (In last Sunday’s Constitution, there appeared an article by Mrs. Walter Douglas Lamar, of Macon, Ga., a member of the Anti-Suffrage association, of Macon, in which she sets for the purposes and objects of that organization and expresses her opinion thereon. Today, Mrs. Elliot Cheatham, of Atlanta, a member of the Equal Suffrage Party of Georgia, replies to Mrs. Lamar’s article of last Sunday, taking very opposite views.) AN ANSWER TO MRS. LA- MAR’S REASONS By Mrs. Elliott Cheatham. Mrs. Walter B. Lamar, of Macon, a distinguished member of the Anti-Suffrage league, of Macon, has set forth the reasons for the formation of the Georgia association opposed to equal Suffrage. As a representative of the equal Suffrage party, I shall not here attempt to State my reasons for believing in women’s Suffrage, but only to answer Mrs. Lamar’s reasons for opposing it. I. Mrs. Lamar says that women have not helped in the great civic and moral problems of the day. Can such be the case when the most advanced social and humanitarian legislation in the United States has been enacted in