138 HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE indignant protest went up from the anti-suffragists. Mrs. Bruce Carr Jones, secretary of the State Federation, sent in her resigna- tion. Mrs. Walter D. Lamar and Mrs. Thomas Moore went before the women's clubs of the city and urged that they with- draw from the federation. The Macon Telegraph devoted much space to denouncing it as a most dishonest trick and approved heartily the efforts of these women to dismember the federation. Through their influence six clubs resigned. Sixty-nine new clubs joined the federation in the twelve months following its endorsement of the Federal Amendment. 1 The white women of Atlanta were given the vote in the city Primaries in May, 1919. For several years all the suffrage forces in the city had been working to secure this privilege from the Democratic Executive Committee, but without success. In 1919, however, the personnel of the committee had changed to such an extent that it was decided to make another effort. The chairman, E. C. Buchanan, was a good friend and with his help Mrs. A. G. Helmer, Mrs. Charles Goodman and Mrs. McDougald had the opportunity of making a personal canvass of each of its forty-four members. When the chairman called a meeting for May 3, to consider, he said, the request of the Equal Suffrage Party, there was every reason to believe they would make a favor- able report. A resolution written by Mrs. McDougald was adopted by a vote of 24 to i. On the roll call each man stood up and in a few gracious words expressed his pleasure in being able to show his confidence in the helpful co-operation of women in city government by granting them this suffrage. A mass meet- ing of women was called at once to name a central committee to take charge of the task of getting the women registered imme- diately as a city election was near at hand. Miss Eleanore Raoul was made chairman, and with her able co-workers in every ward 3 The only organized antagonism to woman suffrage came from a very small hut very vindictive association in Macon, vigorously abetted and encouraged by the TcJcgrnph. the only paper in the State which fought suffrage and suffragists. Every week a cnlumn or more, edited by James P. Callaway, was filled with abuse of suffrage leaders and every slanderous statement in regard to them which could be found. Miss Caroline Patterson of Macon was always president of this association and Mrs. Lamar, Mrs. Jones. Mrs. Moore and a few other women, all of Macon, were ardent co-workers and leaders and frequent contributors to Mr. Callaway's column. The association still holds together and the members are pledged not to vote but to give their time and money to any effort made in the courts to invalidate ratification of the Federal Amendment (1920).
