State Supreme Court Hearing Arguments About Constitutionality of Absentee Ballots, October 1920

Raleigh--Argument before the supreme court was completed today by attorneys for the Republican suit started by J.J. Jenkins, Republican candidate for the state treasurer, to test the constitutionality of the absentee voters' law as it is now being administered. Judge R.C. Strudwick, Democrat of Greensboro, led in presenting the plaintiff's side of the argument. There were a number of Republican state leaders in the city yesterday and today, including Marion Butler of Sampson County, although they declared that their visit to the capital had no connection with the suit. Attorney General J.S. Manning represented the state board of elections, the state treasurer and the state auditor, who are named defendants in the action. (From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, Oct. 6, 1920)