The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-11
TWELVE THOUSAND
URGED TO QUALIFY
Men Who Have Failed to Pay
Poll Taxes Will Be Rounded
Up by Committee.
NOT TO BOOST ANY PARTY
Young Mems Registration Com
mittee Ready to Begin Whirl-
wind Campaign.

Twelve thousand white men of vot-
Ing age who make their homes in
Richmond and who take no part in the
be asked next week to pay the poll
taxes they legally owe, and to take the
trouble to qualify themselves to take
part in coming elections. The work
was definitely mapped out at a meet
ing of the Young Mems Registration
Committee al the Business Mems Club
last night. More than $50 men were
present OF those who will take part in
the whirlwind campaign To reach every
white man of voting age in Richmond.
~ captain was named for each OF the
twenty-five precincts in the city, and
each captain is to associate with him
SELF ten or more men 10 aid in the
work. The committee has secured a
card index of the men OF Richmond
assessed FOR poll taxes who are not
qualified TO vote, and every one is
TO he called upon during next week.
AS one speaker put it last night: IF
the men of Richmond don't want to
vote. or are 100 lazy TO qualify. then
let them get out of the way and let the
women vote"
Not for Party Candidate.
Chairman Fairfax Jones explained
last nfght.ihat the movement was not
not to effect any reform, and especially
not To favor or oppose any candidate
1t is nm expression of the confidence OF
the young men OF the community in
white manhood suffrage, and of their
Willingness to leave all such issues to
be determined by the Intelligent cleo
torate, provided that electorate is
properly representative OF the whole
community
Where less than half OF the white
men of voting age in the city are quail
flied, and where less than one-third
actually do vote, the result is not taken
as by any means an expression OF the
VIII OF the people Of the community.
How IL VIII lie Done.
The full details of the campaign will
be explained at a dinner rendered the
registration committee To be given at
the jefferson Hotel next Monday
night, when it is expected that more
than 25G active workers will be pres
ent. by that time Chairman Jones and
his assistants will have compiled n
card index of the white men assessed
Tor poll taxes in each precinct, and
about l2o00 cards will be issued 10 the
various teams. The team work will
begin "Wednesday at G:3O. each cam
paign worker agreeing to give his
time from $50 to $50 each night for
three nights.
Division OF the 1000 cards between
twenty-five precinct teams will give
an average OF $40 cards to each, With
ten mon working three evenings it
means that each member must see six
teen men night. y rally will be held
the following Monday night. when the
results will BIO compiled. Each man
visited Will be asked whe ther he has
paid his poll taxes, and whether he has
registered. If he has not he will he
urged to do so before May 2. the final
day on which poll taxes can he paid
TO vote in any election, primary or
otherwise, this year.
For BROADER Electorate.
Cards showing just where and how
TO pay poll taxes. and giving the name
OF tho registrars in each ward have
hcen printed for distributions Those
conducting the campaign are especially
warned not to advocate or oppose the
election of any person. and not TO en-
ter INTO personal Views on reform
measures ON which there may bc diff
iercnces of opinion. The effort is to
get the white men of Richmond quail
lied To vote. The proposition that may
he submitted 10 their determination
may be discussed later.
q. Jcter Jones. Raleigh Phillips and
Secretary Walford, of the business
Mems Club, briefly explained the move
and tho urgent necessity for IT, after
which the entire committee $50 strong.
adjourned In n body to the Richmond
Hotel as tho guests of the Chamber OF
Commerce at It's quarterly meeting
where several strong addresses We're
made on the necessity OF securing a
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