From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, August 18, 1920
News Received Here With Interest
News of the ratification of the woman's suffrage amendment by the Tennessee house reached the Record over a leased wire shortly after a minute after the vote was announced. the information was conveyed to a number of interested persons and to some it was good news. Others did not like it. Evferybody felt that the North Carolina general assembly missed a good opportunity.
One had no idea the number of suffragists until he conveyed the biggest piece of news in a year. there were smiles on all faces--except one.
The women in North Carolina, according to a statement by the attorney general sometime ago, will be permitted to register in time for the regular election and they will be able to cast their ballots in the general election in November. They will also be able to vote in special elections.
There are several women candidatesw in North Carolina, the most conspicuous being Mrs. Mary Settle Sharp of Greensboro, Republican candate for state superintendent of public instruction. Buncombe county had a woman on the Democratic legislative ticket.
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