The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-12
BEGIN WH|RLW|ND
FIGHT FOR VOTERS
Young Mems Registration Com
mittec Opens Thrce-Day
Campaign Tonight.
TEAM IN EVERY PRECINCT
Nonpartisan Organization Wants
TEAM IN EVERY PRECINCT
Nonpartisan Organization Wants
Name Of All Eligible White
Men on Rolls.

| Undcr tho leadership OF Fairfax C.
| Jones, 400 young men Will begin to-
| night u whirlwind campaign to add
fully 5000 voters to tho registration
lists OF Richmond The work is to
be done in three days. workers having
been assigned to each of the twenty
two precincts in the city with view
of approaching every white man OF
voting age not now on the list OF
eligible voters by Friday hight.
| State poll taxes for tho year 1913
of City Trcasurer James i. Pace. IL
not paid by December l q penalty is
added.
the city OF Richmond will elect q
Mayor and both branches OF the City
Council. In order to vote In that cleo
ton, and in the Democratic primary
which will precede 1t, n voter must
have paid his poll tax for the proceed
Ing three years at leaRt six months
previous to the date OF tho election,
that is on or before December 8.
Committee Is Nonpnrtisnn.
II is to remind many of the negli-
gent of this necessary payment, and
who have never taken the trouble even
! to register, that the campaign has
been innugurated by the Young Mems
Registration Committee, OF which Mr..
Jones IS general chairman.
The committee is nonpartisan. Itn
workers advocate no party and no
candidate. They do not seek to guide
the voter; they merely seek his prom.
iss that lie viii qualify and vote. About
1 =
fact that In the usual primary cleo
ton with from 5000 to G.oOo votes
cast, the army OF city employees held
the balance OF power. This did not
mean any Giscredit 10 The city ON
ployes, who had been moro careful
than others In registering aud paying
poll taxes, hut when IN Administers
tive Board was created, II seemed ell
anomaly TO have the employees OF that
! board say which members should and
which should not be re-electod: and
still more go 10 have city employees
hold The balance OF power In the mat
ter of recollection OF members of n
Council Finance Committee. which
had to pass on applications for salary
increases.
Had Great Success Lust Spring.
! The Young Mems Registration Com
mittee got in its first work last spring
| her general election, and was 40 suo-
| ccssful In securing registrations and
| poll tax payments that in thu sum
mer primary, whom Richmond nomi-
mated n City Sergeant and other local
officers, and it's delegation in the
House of Delegates. $3.50 votes were
caSt-the largest number cast In any
election In RicEfrond since the new
Constitution took effect in 1902.
Chairman Jones has assigned the fol-
lowing lieutcnauts. each with a squad
of men, 10 the work In the separate
precincts.
| First Clay, Logan walford: Second
j. c. Adar; Fourth Clay, G. letter
Jones; Fifth Clay. Or. w. n Street:
First Jefferson, Allen Savillc; Second
Jefferson. John c. Goode; Third JEFF
ferson. f. H. Rowe: Fourth jefferson.
Lewis Meadow: Fifth Jefferson, c. T..
| Walford, Jr.; Sixth Jefferson, r. r.
I Phillips; First Lee, J. 3. Plnder; Sec
ond Lee, A. p. SHIELD; Third Lee, James
g. Pollard: Fourth Lee, q. III. Bates;
Fifth Lee, J. II. Kicks; First Madison,
II. Crawford; Third Madison. Thomas
a. Williams; Fourth Madison. Charles
+. Ford; Fifth Madison, T.. 7. Sampson:
Sixth Madison. Earle Lutz.
Instructions for Voters.
The workers for voters are distribut-
ing Il printed card which gives full
| instructions for registering ana pay
ment or poll taxes. it quotes sect ion
20 OF the Constitution, providing that
| the voter must pay three years poll
| tax six months prior TO the election in
order to vote. Every voter Is re
| CURED TO have been IN tho State two
years, In the city one year, and in the
! precinct thirty days prior TO tho date
! or the election. Instructions arc given
! for getting transfers from tho clerk
! or tho city or county OF former resi-
J dencc, in case OF recent removal to
| Richmond. Those who become twenty
| one years OF ago before tho general
election to be held June ~. 1914 can
| vote Ia tho primary before that cleo
tion, and win only have to pay 1914
| poll taxes AT Room log. City Hall, to
}. f. Pace, City Treasurer.
Poll taxes for 1913 are paid to Mr.
Pace ut Room 100, city Hall. Poll
| taxes for 1911 and 1912 are paid 10
the clerk OF the iIus.ngs Court, Room
22i, City Hall. II the voter has never
been assessed he should call on the
! commi ssioncr OF the I;cvcnuc. Henry II.
! Tresnon. Room los, city Hall, and
get his tax bills take them 10 tho
! Treasurer and pay them.
1 December tx the last day for pay
ment OF poll taxes for 1918 in order to
vote in tho June election for Mayor
I and Councilmen. For special informa-
ton any prospective voter in doubt as
how TO proceed IL invited 10 call Chair
man Fairfax {. Jones, Telephone Madi-
son 1871.