Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-09-04
APATHY IS MANIFEST IN
REGISTRATION Of WOMEN
but OS Add Names to Roster Hcstef-
day-Expcctcd Increase Fails
to MatcrinliZc.

Women OF the Equal Suffrage
League will meet the City Demo
cratic Committee at the meeting TO
be held by the committee Tuesday
night The invitation was announced
at league headquarters yesterday al
tcrnoon. ,
CITY Central Registrar William S,
Woodson added the names OF SIXTY,
eight white. women and one c0lorcG
woman 10 the qualified voting list oi
Richmond yesterday. The expected
increase over the registration or the
preceding day did not materialiHe.
The rate of progression was not sus-
tanned.
ON the first day of registration for
women. last Tuesday. nfty-onc paid
their poll taxes and were enrolled us
voters. Wednesdays record was SIX
ty-scven and Thursday the number
was 10. The total for the four days
is 29I Only one colored woman APP
piled to the registrar yesterday. The
at the close Of Office hours yestcr-
day was eleven.
| The meeting OF the Equal Suffrage
League Of Richmond, which was
president. for 1880 o'clock yester-
day morning. WAS largely attended.
the conference room ut headquarters.
Fourth and Franklin. being comfor
tably filled At the close of the
meeting Mrs. Edith Clark Cowles,
secretary, met inQuiring newspaper
men.
Merely Busincss Meeting.
This was merely II business meet
ing ut which nothing was done that
Will interest the public" she said.
We discussed the situation in i gen
eral way. No action was taken with
reference TO the coming Democratic
primary. This is no; u partisan po-
litical organization ana we are not
advising women TO go in or stay out
of the primary. Political questions
OF the day will be considered when
the state organization meets next
week i'll the Capitol building"
later In the. dag it was deemed eN-
ped!cnt to make Il report on the pro-
concerned; especially the women who
are eligible TO vote. Mr's. Cow!cs
was accordingly instructed 10 pre-
parn the report which follows:
Suffrage League of Richmond was
primarily for the transaction OF bus
mess not TO be made public. there
We're two items OF interest which
was made at the meeting OF an in
vitation extending members of the
league by the City Democratic Com
miiiee asking them 10 he present:
10 hear the discussion of the pledge
attaEhed TO the primary for the NOM
nation OF city treasurer. II MAS
would take formal action on the mat :
ter of the pledge, and the spokesman
Tor the City Democratic Committee
asked that before such action be con-
S!unrcd. the members would hear the
deliberations OF the committee
In order to allay the Unnecessary
Tears OF persons who were puzzled by
The game OF hidc-tnd- seek PLAYED by
he opposition in Tennessee, and who
for TINS reason We're pos,poning reg
iStration. word WAS read from the
National Suffrage Association to the
effect that the Tennessee House could
no more withdraw its ratification of
the Federal suffrage amendment than
II could amend the Federal Constitu-
ton itself. The members Of the Ten
nrsSce House. who struck against
their duty to their State and their
constituents and fled 10 Alabama re-
turned and by less than Il constitu-
tional majority attempted to over
throw the action previously taken
ny that body. Such action would he
such a blow ut popular government.
We're 1t permitted. as would make a
farce OF Legislative action"
Prominent leaders of the ratifica
ton forces in Tennessee have wired
that the legal authorities in Tenncs-
see do not take the action of the
Legislature seriously and that their
only regret is the light in which
their state is thus placed before the
country.