I89 E.mi]l fit., Lexingtin, Ky.

Jen.5rd, I920,

Hrs.Bessie E.Somerville,

Montgomery, Ala.

Deer maaamzn
Your letter of Tec.29th was duly receiVed, and I have had

mailed to you a package of the literature you desires. our stock of the

fourteen Points is almost out just now, and I could not send many of file

But in a few days we will have a new supply, and I shell be glad to send

more if you desire them.

I have not a catalogue of Ky.newspapers; and I have never seen a poll

of Uiose which are opposed to suffrage or even to the fnthony ameninent.
all parties in the State are committed to woman siffrage; and I believe
it would be difficult to get matter printed opposed to it.

I cannot give advice as to the feasibility of your issociation sendigg

a representative to Frankfort. The anti—suffregists have never been

able to organize in the State; and I doubt if an organizer Guild fine
any women or men rankfort to COeoperets with her.

I have ir~ I: Eeclerauicn of irind.ples you sent with the deepest
interest. There ': little in them Which any believer in States Rights
might not heartily endorse. Then I think of what a blow to states Rights

the ratification of flie Cnerdnent will inflict, my grief is renewed
that the chief goneibility for it must rest with the southern L‘tates.
They ought to " s mHTS ago that no Democrat or Republican in the
Western states could resist woman suffrage with any more hOpe of suc=
sees than he cchuld resist Anglo}saxon dominehtbnn in the Southern
States. Yet the Southern _ =: - have been obourete in resisting the
current for women suffrage regardless of the interests of their testern

Democratic friends, until they have isoleteé themselves from notional