I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your telegram in regard to the Suffrage Amendment. While the telegram does not seem to call for a reply, I deem it proper to say that on March 15th, of this year, I gave to the press a statement that while I was not personally impressed with either the wisdom of or the necessity for Woman Suffrage in North Carolina, I recognized its coming as inevitable, and would advise the Special Session of our General Assembly that the sensible and graceful thing to do would be to accept the inevitable and promptly ratify the amendment. This is still my purpose.