The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-18
PREDICT BIG VOTE
IN JUNE ELECTION
Young Mems Registration Com
mittee Closes It's Canvass
for Voters.
SHOWING RESULTS ALREADY
Voters Must Pay 1918 Poll Taxes
Before Lists Close Oh
December 9.

If half the promises made 10 can
vassers for tho Young Mems KeSistra-
non Committee, In the campaign which
closed Inst night. are kept the number
OF voters in Richmond will be nearly
doubled Exact figures have not Vet
been compiled from the blank forms
turned III. but every block In the city
has been visited, ana the whito mon OF
voting age have been urged Ia pay their
pol taxes. register and take part in
the elections Of the officials who con
/ duet RichmondS affairs
i only the odds and ends were left to
he cleaned up last night. ON three
+, nlGht5 last week, members of the com, :
mittee worked hard in getting over the
territory assigned them. Block by
block the canvasscrs went. until every
house in the white sections of the city
had been accounted for.
Must Pay by December g.
The citizens approached have until
December TO pay their 1913 poll taxes,
! in order 10 qualify TO vote in the juno
election For Mayor and members OF tho
! city Council. In tho recent general
I election. only 3,31o votes were cast
I This by no means. indicates the voting
strength of Richmond, however, as in
I the primary OF June -. 1856 ballot :
J were cast. The members OF the regis
tration committee say there is no rea-
son why fully 1900 white men should
! not take part In the election OF city Of
hcials by qualifying.
IN many cases the omission is pure
negligence. as wherever there is tax
/ able property assessed, the poll taxes
arc also assessed and frequently paid
/ Al too late date to qualify the payer
/ to vote. Payment must be made for
The three preceding years at least six
months before the duke OF the general
! election.
! Tho Young Mems Registration Com
+ ha an In lnrt F,A
until the lists close on the night OF
! December ., to SEQ that those who have
promised to qualify do not go back on
their promises
4 NOnpartlsan ,Iovemcnt.
| The movement is entirely nonpartl-
/ san. The workers do not attempt to
influence the voter for whom he shall
cast his ballot. In fact at this time il
has not been indicated who the candi-
oates VIII be. The movement is de-
signed as nearly as possible 10 add
every reputable white man in the city
not now voter to the registration
lists, so that future elections may be
| in fact an expression OF the will OF the
peoplc--not merely an expression OF
the desires of q fraction Of the people
who take the trouble TO vote ONLY by
| having every man in the city do his
'art. IL Is claimed. can the government
be truly representative, and only IN
I - N"' 'tlt IScuiftHl inchace OF
control OF municipal elections by city
employees nc obviatcd
General Chairman Fairfax Jones said
I last night that he had only praise for
the faithful work Of many who had
taken part in the registration cam
raign. Already the rush to make nav
/ Ments is making itself felt at the office
OF CITY treasurer James Il. Pace, and
IL Is the nope OF those connected with
the movement that tho spring election
ana IN" primary before IL Will sec the
largest vote cast In Richmond sine.
inc new Constitution restricted the
voting lists