We Only Demanded That Illiterate Women's Votes Be Thrown Out, Nov. 8, 1920

By the Associated Press, Asheville, Nov. 8--Representative residents of Sylva and Jackson county are very much incenses over the report that htey were attempting to intimidate the election board there and prevent the correct counting of votes, according to a number of them who came to Asheville today to protest. That the trouble which caused a message to be sent to Governor Bickett to send troops to protect the board was not caused by citizens having a hostile attitude towards the board was the assertion of the men. An attorney who went to Jackson county, the delegation charged, made uncomplimentary remarks about women voting and demanded that votes cast by illiterate women be thrown out. This, the delegation said, caused the trouble. The delegation was headed by Sheriff G.M. Cole, J.M. Warren, C.J. Harris, J.b. Ensley and others. They protested to the Asheville Times, asking correction to stories carried in other papers in tis section. They will seek an audience with Governor Bickett when he arrives today, believing that he has been misinformed. (From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, Nov. 8, 1920)