TENNESSEANS TRY TO BLOCK WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On the evening of September 13, 1920, New York's "Evening World" reported in a front-page story that a Tennessee delegation was on its way from Nashville to the Nation's Capital to persuade Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby to rescind his recent ratification proclamation of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution giving women the vote.
The delegation, headed by Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives Seth W. Walker, planned to "assert that ratification was never completed in the first instance." If this tactic did not succeed, the delegates, joined by other "Antis" in the Washington area, would take their case to the courts in hopes of blocking voting by women in the November 1920 election.
SOURCE
"Tennesseeans Try To Block Suffrage," The Evening World, New York City, September 13, 1920, www.loc.gov/
The Evening World
May 12, 1917
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