June 25, 1920.

Mr. E. H. Crump,
County Trustee,
Memphis, Tenn.

My dear Sir:-

Replying to your letter of recent date I beg to advise that the exact date for convening the Special Session of the Legislature in this state has not as yet been fixed by the Governor. He thinks now that he will be able to call it either the last week in July or the first week in August for a term of twenty days. I am sure that the session will not convene later than August 3rd, and not earlier than July 20th.

At present I seriously doubt that the Legislature will ratify the Woman Suffrage Amendment. Since I wrote you before we have had a strenuous campaign and primary election in North Carolina. As you no doubt know Senator Overman, who is against ratification of the Suffrage Amendment, had as his opponent in the Primary one of the ablest and cleanest men in the State who championed Equal Suffrage. Overman beat him more than 60,000.

We have also had a primary for the nomination of a Democratic candidate for Governor. This was held on June 5th. There were three contestants, but neither received a majority. However, the candidate in that race who is outspoken against Woman Suffrage led his two opponents by a slight plurality, and it is generally believed that he will be nominated in the second primary on July 3rd.

For these reasons I am afraid that our Legislature will fail to ratify. However, those of us who want to see the amendment put over have not lost hope and shall not give up until the vote is cast. Both Governor Bickett and Senator Simmons are still advocating ratification, and we expect them to engineer the fight for Equal Suffrage when the legislature convenes.

Very truly yours,

Private Secretary.

M-G