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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1915
Page
8
The Supreme Court voids Oklahoma and Maryland grandfather clause provisions that tied voting rights to literacy and registration dates. Justices rule the standards inherently discriminate by race and color, undermining the Fifteenth Amendment.
The article discusses Amendment rationale for basing voting qualification on pre Fifteenth Amendment periods. It notes the court’s stance on abolishing grand father clause exemptions and the related literacy tests. It cites Maryland’s 1908 municipal law allowing voters who could prove pre 1865 federal voting rights and male descendants of those eligible before 1868.
Socialists filled Cooper Union for a large antiwar gathering denouncing militarism. Meyer London and Morris Hillquit urged peace at any price while criticizing arms traffic and questioning Wilson’s courage. They warned against provoking militarism and warned that war would threaten liberty and democracy.
Special dispatches from Florida Tennessee New York Raleigh and Georgia report the Supreme Court decision on the grandfather clause will not change political affairs. Australian ballot laws in Florida and other states reduce illiterate or restricted votes. Georgia Senator Hoke Smith remarks that constitutional amendment actions remain unaffected.
Brown, the millionaire candidate, says he will carry his challenge to Congress if the Secretary of State certifies Hicks as winner in the First District. He cites about 150 void ballots and argues some counted for Hicks might be void, potentially flipping the result. Hicks leads Brown by fewer than five votes in the recount.
Italian tenor from the Metropolitan Opera House Edoardo Ferrari-Fontana arrived aboard the liner Duca d Aosta after visiting relatives in Udine province. He served one week at the front with the Eleventh Cavalry before government release, and said Europe believed the United States would avoid war with Germany. He was met at the pier by his wife Mme Marienauer contralto of the Met Opera.
Louis Fournier, said to work in the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary drug department, was shot twice in the leg by Detective Frank Czuminsky as he fled the West Thirtieth Street station. He claimed a friend urged him to sell narcotics from the hospital. police recovered seventy boxes of cocaine powder and tablets and a bottle resembling heroin. Fournier, age 50, was treated at Bellevue Hospital and charged with resisting an officer.
Frank T. Thompson recently arrested in Atlantic City on wiretapping charges faces a second arrest for failing to pay alimony to his former wife. In a Supreme Court affidavit, Mrs. Thompson alleges he stayed at a millionaire’s summer home in Atlantic City and could pay if he chose. Justice Goff signed the arrest order, handed to two deputy sheriffs for execution.
Richmond report notes the Supreme Court decision did not disturb Virginia’s new Constitution which took effect in June. It provides for veteran registration and their sons, then voter qualifications. Wise argued against the educational clause on behalf of Black residents barred by it, but the constitution was sustained by the courts.
Former employee at Morris Arkin’s waist factory testifies he struck a girl demanding two days of wages. The woman alleges Arkin forced her out and his son Irving joined in the dispute as onlookers heard screams. Arkin denies the assault. Magistrate Tenbiyck fines him.
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