The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-18
Surprising interest Of New
Citizens Shown in Heavy
Registration in All Large
Residence Wards.
TEN THOUSAND WHITE
WOMEN ARE QUALIFIED
More Than Ten Thousand
Names Added in Supple
mental RegiStration-TotaI
Well Above 10000.

ne votes Of the white women OF
Memphis VIII swing the tide in the city
election Nov. 6, More than 10000
women are registered. The question as
to which ticket they will support is one
mat VIII be answered later.
ne registration which closed Friday
.ight IS the heaviest ever recorded in
MehphlS before a city election. The
DOCKS mad not been sen8 in at noon Sat
urday and the exact figures were not
hhoMh, but close estimates are that
not less than 10000 additional names
IL 1000 50"
m The August registration was 2l.577.
therefore, there are now not less than
d0,o0O qualified voters. At least ~, V,UOu
OF them are white women, and probably
there are 1900 negro men and women
with the negro women in the majority,
owing to the work of the police
department IN forcing thousands Of
vicious negro women to register.
with 10000 qualified voters. there
should be vote on Nov. 6 of at least
$4,000 to 10000 Probably there may be
more In other elections, where men
ony voted, estimates that only so per
cent of the registered voters actually
went to the polls on election day, were
usually correct But this year, the
women viii vote, and it is a safe esti-
mate that nearly every woman VINO
registered intends to vote and will
vote That viii meaa tatts 4 large
proportion thah usuHl Of thesTa9istered
vote will be cast next month
Certificates Run Out.
In eight or ten precincts Friday. the
supply of registration certificates was
used up early in the day. Most Of those
precincts were in strong Paine wards
The registrars reported to Judge D. f.
Puryear, chairman Of the election COM
mission, who instructed them to regis
ter all voters, and that certificates
would be mailed them later. In few
precincts extra books of certificates
were delivered before the registration
closed.
Judge Puryear said Saturday that all
voters registered viii be supplied with
certificates by the commissioners and
that any voter whose name is on the
registration book is entitled to vote.
even If he was unable to obtain a Ger
tificate from the registrars.
Some surprising facts showing the
great interest women are taking In the
coming election is shown by the regis
tratiOn.
In the Twenty first ward. for in.
stance, where the normal vote has in
the past been only from 500 to 500 the
registration is over 1000,
In the Seventeenth ward the total
registration is more than $500
In the Sixteenth ward. where both
Mr.. Paine and Mir. Williams live, more
than 1900 voters are registered,
The Ninth ward always considered a
stronghold OF any city administration
that happens to be in power, as hun
dreds Of city employees live there, has
a total registration of l,477, A vote of
500 in that ward used to be called a
big one.
in the two precincts Cf the Eleventh
ward, three fourths Of them negroes
although a few old families who have
lived there for years, still have their
homes there.
Thirteenth Ward Light.
The Thirteenth, the big railroad ward
for some reason. did not show the gain
in registration that many other white
residence wards did. Fewer white
women in proportion seem to have reg
istered there than in any other white
residence ward The total figures
given by phone, in the three precincts
are l,4Sl, not much more than the nor
NAL vote of that ward in past elections
There Is not much change in the Old
downtown wards, in spite of the work
of the police in rounding up the negro
women there,
The old Third ward. once strong
hold Of the gambling fraternity, which
has cast sometimes nearly LOCO votes
whether legal or illegal is matter
for conference.-the registration is only
S7l. Similar conditions are found in
the First and Second wards. Even the
Fifth and Sixth. where the police CEN
tered their efforts to corral every negro
woman duJing the past three days and
nights, the registration is small, as