00:00Beaver's War on Vice is lauded by women. The Atlanta Georgian Thursday, July 10, 1913.
00:05Georgia suffragists adopt resolution endorsing chief's course in Atlanta.
00:10Chief of Police. Beaver's fight against vice was enthusiastically endorsed at the Thursday
00:15morning session of the Convention of the Georgia Woman Suffrage Association. The following resolution,
00:21introduced by Mrs. Margaret T. McWhorter, was adopted. The Georgia Woman Suffrage Association
00:27realizes the high civic ideals which actuate Chief of Police James L. Beavers of Atlanta,
00:32and we wish to place ourselves on record as endorsing every move which he has taken for good
00:37government and clean morals, and especially do we commend his action in the matter of recommending
00:42the appointment of women probation officers for Atlanta. Therefore, be it resolved that we convey
00:48to him our hearty congratulations and pledge to him the support and cooperation of the Association
00:53in securing the appointment of these women officers, and also pledge our cooperation in
00:59any movement toward bettering civic conditions of Atlanta, which mean better civic conditions for
01:05the whole state, and be it further resolved that the Atlanta Georgian, the Atlanta Constitution,
01:11and the Atlanta Journal be requested to publish these resolutions.
01:15Mrs. McWhorter's resolution invoked tremendous enthusiasm among the delegates to the Convention,
01:20and the endorsement of the Association was given to Chief Beavers without a dissenting vote.
01:26The Georgian's editorial praised. The Association also gave its unofficial endorsement to an editorial
01:32appearing in Thursday's Georgian, which was read from the President's platform by Mrs. Susan
01:37Cunningham of Decatur, formerly Vice President of the Alabama Equal Suffrage Association.
01:42The editorial comments on the action of the Georgia Senate in refusing to allow the suffragists
01:48to meet in the Senate chamber, and congratulates the House for allowing the women to meet in its
01:53chamber. Mrs. Cunningham referred to the editorial as inspiring and wonderful, and declared that it
01:59embodied the thoughts of the members of the Association. The recommendation of the committee
02:05that the Association work for a constitutional amendment striking out the word male from the state
02:11constitution was adopted. Contrary to expectations, no members of the Atlanta Civic League appeared to
02:18fight for the control of the state organization. Mrs. Mary L. McClendon, state president, made but a brief
02:24reference to the trouble with the League members, headed by Mrs. Frances Whiteside. She declared that
02:30the members of the Civic League had outlawed themselves from the state suffrage association because of non-payment
02:36of dues. She declared that the contention of the leaguers that the state association had ceased to exist
02:42because no convention was held in 1912, was not borne out by the provisions of the Constitution,
02:49which declare that the holding of a convention shall be at the discretion of the executive committee.
02:54The routine committees of the convention were appointed by the President, and probably will report at the
03:00Thursday afternoon session.
03:01Leader predicts success. Several of the members of the Association delivered short talks at this morning's
03:08session. Mrs. Samuel Cunningham of Decatur, head of the DeKalb County branch, declared that woman's
03:14suffrage is coming just as surely as all good things are bound to come. She drew a round of applause
03:19when
03:19she declared that despite the assertions of opponents of the cause, the first thought of the true suffragist
03:25is of her home, and that the granting of the vote to woman would not impair her work as a
03:29wife and
03:30mother. Mrs. H. Augusta Howard, who organized the state association and was its president for six
03:36years, told a pathetic story of the persecution she was forced to undergo during the first few years
03:42of the movement in Georgia. Members of her family, she declared, took sides against her, and because of
03:48her loyalty to the cause, her two little children were taken from her. She declared her belief in the
03:53ultimate triumph of womanhood over the narrowness and bigotry of man, and asserted that the weak will never
03:59be adequately protected until woman has a hand in the making of the laws. Addresses also were made by
04:05Mrs. J. P. Scott of Harrington, Kansas, who has voted and served as a judge of election, Mrs. Marielle
04:12McClendon, Mrs. Margaret McWhorter, and others. The final session of the convention will be held in the
04:17House of Representatives Thursday night. It will be featured by an address by Mrs. William A. Felton of
04:23Cartersville, one of Georgia's most noted women, who will make her first public appearance as a
04:28suffragist.
